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388 pages, Kindle Edition
First published October 13, 2020
↬ marriage of convenience and fake relationship
↬ H is the boss and h is his personal assisstant
↬ slowburn // and when i mean slowburn- i really do mean SLOW-fuckin'-BURN
↬ chaotic family AND ex drama, many people trying to break them up
↬ connecting over trauma ✨
↬ cold grumpy H, sunshine h // this dude was cold af lemme tell you
↬ sexual tension (??)
"I'd tried to make use of every room in the oversized house-even the gym, though I had a genuine allergy to exercise."
"Never think I'm a man who ever settles for anything less than exactly what he wants. I never have, I never will. I know how to get what I want, and I know how to keep it."
"That's it, baby girl, stay nice and quiet while I fuck you."
- i felt every sexual tension and chemistry. love that
• Vienna was such a smart, badass, sarcastic, and wise heroine. Finally i found a heroine that didn’t react impulsively through her emotions and took some time to think rationally and try to see reason 👏🏻 She was also an emotionally relatable character to me and i love her for that.
“In general, I struggled to lower my guard around people. I was too wary, too distrustful. It didn’t matter how nice a guy was, I always seemed to be waiting for him to mess up. I hated that about myself; hated that I expected people to hurt me. It wasn’t fair to them.”
• I especially admired how she’d just head-on bulldoze anything that was thrown at her way and that she refused to sugarcoat shit! 👏🏻 She wasn’t easily pushed around either and was super direct but not in an irritating kind of way. And for those reasons,
“She’d knocked me around, forced dog food in my mouth, bit me hard enough to mark, and pulled a knife on me several times. That wasn’t even the worst of it.”
“They’d also cracked down hard on Heather. Their punishments hadn’t been physical, but they’d been highly effective.”
“I’m not so easily lured,” I said.
“But I would have managed it,” he assured me, pitching his voice low. “Because what do I always get?”
“What you want.”
“Exactly, baby girl.”
“He snarled, his eyes cold and flinty. “If I go upstairs with you now, I’ll fuck you. Hard. But it wouldn’t be for you, it would be for me. I wouldn’t care whether or not you liked it, whether or not you came, whether or not it hurt you. All I’d care about is making my head go quiet for a while. I don’t want to use you like that. So no, Vienna, I’m not going with you.” He roughly released my hair. “Now go to fucking bed.”
“Ever notice how women always get the blame for men being dicks? Their mom didn’t hug them enough, the girls at school made fun of them, their adult ex-girlfriends jilted them, their ex-wives used to nag at them. And if you reject a guy, it can’t possibly mean you simply don’t like him—no, it means you’re stuck up or a frigid bitch or something.”
First time reading Suzanne Wright and I was not disappointed.
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“Not yours,” Dane finished. “They’re my rings on her finger. It’s my name she’s taken. It’s my bed she shares. She is mine. So whether you care for her or not isn’t fucking relevant.”
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