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Finally, the revenge has started. Taylor got fired and publicly humiliated, employees are leaving for better offers, and Grayson was forced to sell the family business to Ariana. The family isn’t truly hurting yet, but the cracks are showing. What keeps me invested is that Grayson isn’t fighting the consequences—he’s taking every hit because he knows he was wrong. But I need to see MORE!!

📖 42% Update

168 pages in and I’m starting to get impatient. This book promised betrayal, revenge, and a heroine returning with fire in her heart… but so far it’s mostly setup. I’m ready for less plotting and more consequences. If the revenge doesn’t start showing up soon, this is heading toward a sub 3-star read for me. It feels like we should be wrapping up, but it’s not even 1/2 done…

Page 50 and we finally got a list of real slights from the girl best friend when Savannah meets with her sister Meg to talk. Meg suggests she talks to her husband to get it out there and Savannah blows it off like maybe it’ll fix itself. What?!? I’m really irritated with Savannah at this point. It literally said she “categorized the advice as theoretical rather than applicable.”

Page 48: I’m wondering why she married him. Not because he’s doing anything wrong, but because she seems to expect him to be someone he is not. The slights are not really slights. His best friend is a woman and she talks about things they’ve done like trips, and school, and growing up. The wife doesn’t like that the conversation is about the past. She also never participates.

OK, my thoughts are we need to take Jake to the hospital to get his blood tested for roofies because Chloe is a liar but for some reason we’re not trusting Jake. But if we take Jake to the hospital, the book is over. So I guess let’s just keep reading and trust Chloe for now… Because for the first time in her life, she’s probably telling the truth.

This book made me very sad but now I’m feeling so so happy. This is probably up there with June.

I’m not even halfway through this book yet and honestly???
I’m rooting for the billionaire.

Not even because he bought a date with a married woman for five million dollars. At this point he’s just winning by the radical act of speaking to her like she matters.

Meanwhile the husband is out here running a masterclass in manipulation and lying more consistently than he sees his kids awake.

Troy… you dumb.

I apparently missed the “first kiss”…

I really appreciate seeing his progress. From talking to his friends. Defending himself, then truly seeing himself, and now in therapy. I want to see Charlie in therapy too. She deserves to really gain more strength and to finally stand up to her parents hopefully.

Where did Madison disappear to? She goes from texting and calling daily to just gone? Maybe she really did die in surgery….

The timeline is so off. Ethan says he gave away his mate 6 years ago, but it doesn’t add up…
She left pregnant so 9 months plus 730 days. Then 6 months until he found her. Thats a total of 3 years so far. Are we to believe he stayed there for 3 years trying to win her back? But no, Alaric even said he was only gone 6 months.

He says that they took Ash on day 692, but that’s not true because she only started counting after she gave birth. And he took Ash when he was only 4 days old. She left a week or 2 after day 730. Day 730 was the last she could keep record of before they chained her up.

The baker needed a healer… and suddenly she has healer magic that’s been there since she was a child?! WTH?

If you’re going to move the book from an app that’s one chapter at a time onto Kindle, why not edit the inconsistencies… the complete flip between chapter 8 & 9 is nuts.

They’ve only been gone 6 months and supposedly Ethan, Elijah’s twin, looks like the man who was Ash’s father. But there’s not a hint of recognition? It would be a good way for Ember to be afraid of Ethan as well… Elijah did hurt her mother many times after all.

End of Ch 4 - he’s staying to grovel, but what about your wife? Are we going to hear anything about Lady Seraphina or is she just gone now?

I’m confused why no one noticed Ash was gone…
Confused why Ash went with her when he was scared of her.

Please do not forgive Ethan. She keeps wanting him to rescue her and it feels like she still has faith in this horrible mate. He is just as bad and deserves none of her forgiveness.

Why do they always go back? And cheating? Now she’s just as flawed as he is. I guess Jamie is the hero? I need his happy ending.

Some of it is repetitive and some inconsistent. She had an at home birth, not a C-section. So why does she suddenly have a scar? Book is good until you make changes but don’t go back to edit them into the story for continuity.

Where are her parents? Why haven’t we seen them yet? Why isn’t she asking about them at all? It seemed like they loved her when they were defending her and crying with her at the rejection. Now they’re just MIA.

The story is somewhat interesting, but it is repetitive as it moves back and forth through the POVs. The chapter changes are a bit odd. It would make more sense to change POV with a new chapter. The book could use an edit. I wish they explained the fight exams better, why did Alora have to fight Darian twice?

How is it that none of these couples know they are true mates? It hasn’t been revealed yet, but it seems obvious.

Thank goodness the MMC is finally not calling her baby.

It feels like the men are written without any true male perspective. Either very stereotypically male or very much how this woman idealizes this man to be but not based much in reality.

She’s suddenly calling herself a sex kitten? Complete 180. Whiplash