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Propositioned in Paradise: A Second Chance Billionaire Boss Contemporary Romance
Re-read this classic romance by New York Times bestselling author Penny Jordan, previously published as Exorcism in 1985
Looking back, Christy realized that Simon hadn't fallen in love with her six years ago--while she'd had no other choice. Caught up in their addictive desire, naively she'd planned their future together. Until Simon broke her heart, accusing her of trying to trap him into marriage.
But now, Simon demands she accompany him to the Caribbean to assist him with his new book. Surrounded by the magic of paradise, can they finally put the past behind them?
Looking back, Christy realized that Simon hadn't fallen in love with her six years ago--while she'd had no other choice. Caught up in their addictive desire, naively she'd planned their future together. Until Simon broke her heart, accusing her of trying to trap him into marriage.
But now, Simon demands she accompany him to the Caribbean to assist him with his new book. Surrounded by the magic of paradise, can they finally put the past behind them?
160 pages, Kindle Edition
First published August 9, 1985
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Penny Jordan
1,131 books672 followersPenelope Jones Halsall
aka Caroline Courtney, Annie Groves, Lydia Hitchcock, Melinda Wright
Penelope "Penny" Jones was born on November 24, 1946 at about seven pounds in a nursing home in Preston, Lancashire, England. She was the first child of Anthony Winn Jones, an engineer, who died at 85, and his wife Margaret Louise Groves Jones. She has a brother, Anthony, and a sister, Prudence "Pru".
She had been a keen reader from the childhood - her mother used to leave her in the children's section of their local library whilst she changed her father's library books. She was a storyteller long before she began to write romantic fiction. At the age of eight, she was creating serialized bedtime stories, featuring make-believe adventures, for her younger sister Prue, who was always the heroine. At eleven, she fell in love with Mills & Boon, and with their heroes. In those days the books could only be obtained via private lending libraries, and she quickly became a devoted fan; she was thrilled to bits when the books went on full sale in shops and she could have them for keeps.
Penny left grammar school in Rochdale with O-Levels in English Language, English Literature and Geography. She first discovered Mills & Boon books, via a girl she worked with. She married Steve Halsall, an accountant and a "lovely man", who smoked and drank too heavily, and suffered oral cancer with bravery and dignity. Her husband bought her the small electric typewriter on which she typed her first novels, at a time when he could ill afford it. He died at the beginning of 21st century.
She earned a living as a writer since the 1970s when, as a shorthand typist, she entered a competition run by the Romantic Novelists' Association. Although she didn't win, Penny found an agent who was looking for a new Georgette Heyer. She published four regency novels as Caroline Courtney, before changing her nom de plume to Melinda Wright for three air-hostess romps and then she wrote two thrillers as Lydia Hitchcock. Soon after that, Mills and Boon accepted her first novel for them, Falcon's Prey as Penny Jordan. However, for her more historical romance novels, she adopted her mother's maiden-name to become Annie Groves. Almost 70 of her 167 Mills and Boon novels have been sold worldwide.
Penny Halsall lived in a neo-Georgian house in Nantwich, Cheshire, with her Alsatian Sheba and cat Posh. She worked from home, in her kitchen, surrounded by her pets, and welcomed interruptions from her friends and family.
aka Caroline Courtney, Annie Groves, Lydia Hitchcock, Melinda Wright
Penelope "Penny" Jones was born on November 24, 1946 at about seven pounds in a nursing home in Preston, Lancashire, England. She was the first child of Anthony Winn Jones, an engineer, who died at 85, and his wife Margaret Louise Groves Jones. She has a brother, Anthony, and a sister, Prudence "Pru".
She had been a keen reader from the childhood - her mother used to leave her in the children's section of their local library whilst she changed her father's library books. She was a storyteller long before she began to write romantic fiction. At the age of eight, she was creating serialized bedtime stories, featuring make-believe adventures, for her younger sister Prue, who was always the heroine. At eleven, she fell in love with Mills & Boon, and with their heroes. In those days the books could only be obtained via private lending libraries, and she quickly became a devoted fan; she was thrilled to bits when the books went on full sale in shops and she could have them for keeps.
Penny left grammar school in Rochdale with O-Levels in English Language, English Literature and Geography. She first discovered Mills & Boon books, via a girl she worked with. She married Steve Halsall, an accountant and a "lovely man", who smoked and drank too heavily, and suffered oral cancer with bravery and dignity. Her husband bought her the small electric typewriter on which she typed her first novels, at a time when he could ill afford it. He died at the beginning of 21st century.
She earned a living as a writer since the 1970s when, as a shorthand typist, she entered a competition run by the Romantic Novelists' Association. Although she didn't win, Penny found an agent who was looking for a new Georgette Heyer. She published four regency novels as Caroline Courtney, before changing her nom de plume to Melinda Wright for three air-hostess romps and then she wrote two thrillers as Lydia Hitchcock. Soon after that, Mills and Boon accepted her first novel for them, Falcon's Prey as Penny Jordan. However, for her more historical romance novels, she adopted her mother's maiden-name to become Annie Groves. Almost 70 of her 167 Mills and Boon novels have been sold worldwide.
Penny Halsall lived in a neo-Georgian house in Nantwich, Cheshire, with her Alsatian Sheba and cat Posh. She worked from home, in her kitchen, surrounded by her pets, and welcomed interruptions from her friends and family.
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February 11, 2017
In my next life, I want to come back as a book illustrator living in PennyJordanLandia because apparently that job entitles you to glamorous, free, scuba diving vacations in the Carribeans with a hot guy. Seriously, I can't get enough of these HPlandia plot contrivances, they are absolutely superb.
The hero here was rather besotted, jealous, and sweet, behind the standofishness and typical allergy to marriage, which took him "only" 6 years after meeting the heroine to finally get cured of. lol
But my problem was that there was really nothing to trigger his return into the heroine's life other than jealousy over her supposedly dating some other guy. One of those cases of I don't want her, but nobody else can have her either. How exactly was he expecting to keep her on ice while he was sowing his wild oats around the globe, I'll never know, and that is a big, big minus in my book.
Still, the whole sea adventure bit was really fun and things only got rather boring when they went back to the mainland. I would have liked it better if the whole thing got resolved in the Carribean setting. That would have worked a lot more for me.
The hero here was rather besotted, jealous, and sweet, behind the standofishness and typical allergy to marriage, which took him "only" 6 years after meeting the heroine to finally get cured of. lol
But my problem was that there was really nothing to trigger his return into the heroine's life other than jealousy over her supposedly dating some other guy. One of those cases of I don't want her, but nobody else can have her either. How exactly was he expecting to keep her on ice while he was sowing his wild oats around the globe, I'll never know, and that is a big, big minus in my book.
Still, the whole sea adventure bit was really fun and things only got rather boring when they went back to the mainland. I would have liked it better if the whole thing got resolved in the Carribean setting. That would have worked a lot more for me.
February 7, 2016
Re Exorcism - sadly there was no pea-soup in this one and the h's head doesn't revolve 360 degrees, nor the does the H meet an unfortunate end by throwing himself out a window.
PJ gives us the prerequisite 24 year old virgin h who lives with her widowed mum. Lest we think there is anything wrong with this arrangement, PJ lets us know that mum is a world famous author who doesn't lack for discreet lovers and has raised her illustrator daughter with the idea of individual privacy and independence. The two ladies live together in a big house, but don't interfere in each other's lives. Well, the mum doesn't unless it is for her daughter's own good.
The h, in addition to being a sought after illustrator, is an ace secretary and personal assistant who also happens to scuba dive, these multiple talents allowed her to trek to India a few months prior to the start of the story with another famous author.
No romance bloomed on the trip as the h had callously had her heart broken 6 years prior and has kept her emotions turned off ever since. (Not that the India author was inclined towards the ladies anyway, he would have been a monk if that had been a viable career choice.)
The h's mum has been off to London when the story starts, and on her return we find out that the man who broke the h's heart earlier is back from his wanderings and womanizing and wants the h to be his research assistant and diver on his next book. A novel set in the Caribbean about a pirate. (Is there any other type of book set in the Caribbean, I wonder?)
The h is adamant she is over him and equally adamant that she doesn't want to go. The mum does mum pressure and tells the h she should do it, it would be a free holiday. The h expresses serious doubts about this but the mum tells her the H is coming to the house to convince her and that their mutual editor thinks it is a good idear.
( I love how secondary characters in PJ's books are totally willing to throw the h to the wolves, just cause they think more heartache and pain is totally character building - then again, for an h in HPlandia, it probably is. Story building at any rate.)
The h unhappily goes to bed and reminisces about her and the H's time together. Her mum introduced them when he came to stay with the editor and the H was the usual devastatingly handsome man with more sex appeal than Cary Grant, (but judging by the cover, nowhere near his looks.)
The H starts a flirtation with the h and she falls head over heels in love. She is thinking marriage, he is thinking hot babe on a stick and never the twain shall meet when he accuses her of using her virginity to trade for a wedding ring. He is callous in his dumping - he romances her on one hand and then tells her off for being promiscuously tempting on the other. The h feels utterly rejected and has hidden her heart ever since.
The H shows up and as we all know, the h winds up agreeing to work for him. They fly off to his pirate island, sadly no Captain Sparrow or Captain Morgan was there to greet them. The H grabs the h and uses her as a kissing shield against another amorous young lady, and it soon becomes clear to the reader, if not the h, that the H is wondering what he passed up.
They start diving for the ship with the H taking every opportunity to lurve up the h, including a nude beach tanning scene where the H is rubbing oil on her naked backside but gets interrupted by a phone call, and the h is back in love. She is miserable with it though, as the H admits he has been in love and in typical PJ fashion, the h assumes it isn't her.
There is some diving and an octopus attack and the h finds a way into what is probably the coral crusted ship's hull. She brings out some objects buried in the sand and the H decides they have to leave for London to get them analysed immediately. He is still putting the angry lover moves on the h and back at his London apartment, after the h returns from a dinner date with the author who trekked to India, the passion erupts into punishing kisses that cause the h to lose her control and wind up in bed with the H.
She then runs away in the middle of the night, straight to the India author. He asks her to a country estate party given by his agent. The h agrees to go as his companion and things are going swimmingly until the H shows up, looking to track her down. They have an angry scene where he demands she return to him and accuses her of trying to seduce the other author into marriage, she tells him off and refuses his advances cause she wants love, not just passion.
The h winds up in her room with a headache and the H sneaks in. He tells the h she can't have the other author cause she wants him, the H, and when the other author comes in to check on her, the H kicks him out. The h is nude in bed, (apparently nudity is a headache cure,) and the passionate lurve clubbing starts.
The H demands that the h marry him, cause he always really loved her, even while going through women like a Hummer burns through fuel. Apparently the h's mum was in the know on the H's passionate love, and that is why she allowed the H to persuade the h to work for him. The h is ecstatic she is getting her wish and avows eternal love as they celebrate their union with more of the love club and the H's assertion that every man really does want to be the only man that ever touched his h.
Even though he taunted her about her trading her virginity for a marriage ring in the past, he is more than happy to make that bargain now, as not only does she draw, cook, clean, dive and personally assist, the h is a wonder in the bedroom and a man can't ask for more than that. Well maybe some cake on the side, but this h is so naive, she probably won't even question and surreptitious cake eating .
This was not a bad PJ adventure, the h was a bit less neurotic than usual and was really going strong in holding out on the H, until the sudden love hit to the brain. There is minor angst and some interesting octopodes-- who were just feeling the h up really, and a decent HEA with the H begging for a chance to wear the h's ring.
It was a good day's visit in HPlandia and the h did prove the ship belonged to the pirate captain in the end, one of the items she brought up was an inscribed drinking vessel dedicated to the pirate by his kidnapped bride - I couldn't help speculating that the pirate story might have proved to be more fun to read, but alas PJ doesn't do ravishing pirates in HPlandia, I have to go hunt up her Caroline Courtney alter ego for that.
PJ gives us the prerequisite 24 year old virgin h who lives with her widowed mum. Lest we think there is anything wrong with this arrangement, PJ lets us know that mum is a world famous author who doesn't lack for discreet lovers and has raised her illustrator daughter with the idea of individual privacy and independence. The two ladies live together in a big house, but don't interfere in each other's lives. Well, the mum doesn't unless it is for her daughter's own good.
The h, in addition to being a sought after illustrator, is an ace secretary and personal assistant who also happens to scuba dive, these multiple talents allowed her to trek to India a few months prior to the start of the story with another famous author.
No romance bloomed on the trip as the h had callously had her heart broken 6 years prior and has kept her emotions turned off ever since. (Not that the India author was inclined towards the ladies anyway, he would have been a monk if that had been a viable career choice.)
The h's mum has been off to London when the story starts, and on her return we find out that the man who broke the h's heart earlier is back from his wanderings and womanizing and wants the h to be his research assistant and diver on his next book. A novel set in the Caribbean about a pirate. (Is there any other type of book set in the Caribbean, I wonder?)
The h is adamant she is over him and equally adamant that she doesn't want to go. The mum does mum pressure and tells the h she should do it, it would be a free holiday. The h expresses serious doubts about this but the mum tells her the H is coming to the house to convince her and that their mutual editor thinks it is a good idear.
( I love how secondary characters in PJ's books are totally willing to throw the h to the wolves, just cause they think more heartache and pain is totally character building - then again, for an h in HPlandia, it probably is. Story building at any rate.)
The h unhappily goes to bed and reminisces about her and the H's time together. Her mum introduced them when he came to stay with the editor and the H was the usual devastatingly handsome man with more sex appeal than Cary Grant, (but judging by the cover, nowhere near his looks.)
The H starts a flirtation with the h and she falls head over heels in love. She is thinking marriage, he is thinking hot babe on a stick and never the twain shall meet when he accuses her of using her virginity to trade for a wedding ring. He is callous in his dumping - he romances her on one hand and then tells her off for being promiscuously tempting on the other. The h feels utterly rejected and has hidden her heart ever since.
The H shows up and as we all know, the h winds up agreeing to work for him. They fly off to his pirate island, sadly no Captain Sparrow or Captain Morgan was there to greet them. The H grabs the h and uses her as a kissing shield against another amorous young lady, and it soon becomes clear to the reader, if not the h, that the H is wondering what he passed up.
They start diving for the ship with the H taking every opportunity to lurve up the h, including a nude beach tanning scene where the H is rubbing oil on her naked backside but gets interrupted by a phone call, and the h is back in love. She is miserable with it though, as the H admits he has been in love and in typical PJ fashion, the h assumes it isn't her.
There is some diving and an octopus attack and the h finds a way into what is probably the coral crusted ship's hull. She brings out some objects buried in the sand and the H decides they have to leave for London to get them analysed immediately. He is still putting the angry lover moves on the h and back at his London apartment, after the h returns from a dinner date with the author who trekked to India, the passion erupts into punishing kisses that cause the h to lose her control and wind up in bed with the H.
She then runs away in the middle of the night, straight to the India author. He asks her to a country estate party given by his agent. The h agrees to go as his companion and things are going swimmingly until the H shows up, looking to track her down. They have an angry scene where he demands she return to him and accuses her of trying to seduce the other author into marriage, she tells him off and refuses his advances cause she wants love, not just passion.
The h winds up in her room with a headache and the H sneaks in. He tells the h she can't have the other author cause she wants him, the H, and when the other author comes in to check on her, the H kicks him out. The h is nude in bed, (apparently nudity is a headache cure,) and the passionate lurve clubbing starts.
The H demands that the h marry him, cause he always really loved her, even while going through women like a Hummer burns through fuel. Apparently the h's mum was in the know on the H's passionate love, and that is why she allowed the H to persuade the h to work for him. The h is ecstatic she is getting her wish and avows eternal love as they celebrate their union with more of the love club and the H's assertion that every man really does want to be the only man that ever touched his h.
Even though he taunted her about her trading her virginity for a marriage ring in the past, he is more than happy to make that bargain now, as not only does she draw, cook, clean, dive and personally assist, the h is a wonder in the bedroom and a man can't ask for more than that. Well maybe some cake on the side, but this h is so naive, she probably won't even question and surreptitious cake eating .
This was not a bad PJ adventure, the h was a bit less neurotic than usual and was really going strong in holding out on the H, until the sudden love hit to the brain. There is minor angst and some interesting octopodes-- who were just feeling the h up really, and a decent HEA with the H begging for a chance to wear the h's ring.
It was a good day's visit in HPlandia and the h did prove the ship belonged to the pirate captain in the end, one of the items she brought up was an inscribed drinking vessel dedicated to the pirate by his kidnapped bride - I couldn't help speculating that the pirate story might have proved to be more fun to read, but alas PJ doesn't do ravishing pirates in HPlandia, I have to go hunt up her Caroline Courtney alter ego for that.
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November 5, 2023
This PJ wasn’t too bad - I liked the different plot with the shipwreck and scuba diving and even the octopus attack. I read so many of these that I liked the little flair of personality.
This might have been 4 stars if the OW drama had been a little more fleshed out but it’s just really a device to have them kiss. Which was fine but I was hoping for more than that.
The other thing keeping this from being a winner for me was the explanation at the end for why the H rejected the h and broke her 18-year old heart 6 years prior…. Basically he kinda loved her too back then but he wasn’t done sowing his oats and didn’t think she’d be able to deal with the kind of marriage he would have been able to offer her at the time. He couches it in “she was too immature and needed time to grow up”… and he also makes it vaguely about his career and traveling… but it was obvious to me that he was saying he couldn’t be faithful back then so he decided to break her heart and come back in a few years to see if she was still game. The way he broke her heart (being derisive over her v-card) seemed to be aimed directly at making her go out and get rid of her innocence at the first possible opportunity. Which I hated. When he’s back 6 years later he seems convinced she’s been sleeping around. He’s not happy about it… which doesn’t make sense considering how her left her. And then when he finally discovers she IS still a v, he’s ecstatic…. Which is odd since he went out of his way to make sure she wasnt a v when he got around to coming back for her. This whole thing rubbed me wrong. After his explanation I wasn’t even sure he’d be faithful now, just that he thought she was mature enough to handle his lack of fidelity. He made it clear that he now thinks she’s mature enough to be married to him but he doesn’t make it clear that he’s done womanizing …. So that didn’t feel like a super happy HEA. 🥴
This might have been 4 stars if the OW drama had been a little more fleshed out but it’s just really a device to have them kiss. Which was fine but I was hoping for more than that.
The other thing keeping this from being a winner for me was the explanation at the end for why the H rejected the h and broke her 18-year old heart 6 years prior…. Basically he kinda loved her too back then but he wasn’t done sowing his oats and didn’t think she’d be able to deal with the kind of marriage he would have been able to offer her at the time. He couches it in “she was too immature and needed time to grow up”… and he also makes it vaguely about his career and traveling… but it was obvious to me that he was saying he couldn’t be faithful back then so he decided to break her heart and come back in a few years to see if she was still game. The way he broke her heart (being derisive over her v-card) seemed to be aimed directly at making her go out and get rid of her innocence at the first possible opportunity. Which I hated. When he’s back 6 years later he seems convinced she’s been sleeping around. He’s not happy about it… which doesn’t make sense considering how her left her. And then when he finally discovers she IS still a v, he’s ecstatic…. Which is odd since he went out of his way to make sure she wasnt a v when he got around to coming back for her. This whole thing rubbed me wrong. After his explanation I wasn’t even sure he’d be faithful now, just that he thought she was mature enough to handle his lack of fidelity. He made it clear that he now thinks she’s mature enough to be married to him but he doesn’t make it clear that he’s done womanizing …. So that didn’t feel like a super happy HEA. 🥴
April 14, 2017
Not the best PJ book for sure. Too much talk about diving and octopuses! Lol
January 22, 2019
I’m not sure whether H or h was the more stupid one: H, for being away for 6 years or h, for being clueless about H’s love while he was blazing with it. 🤔
April 13, 2017
Love when a heroine doesn't bow down to a hero. She made him confess first. It was lovely.
June 9, 2021
For six years Christy had denied that she felt anything for the man who had rejected her so cruelly. But, as she and Simon explored the Caribbean sea-bed together, she had to admit that she was as strongly attracted to him now, as a mature and passionate woman, as she had been as an innocent adolescent. But Simon had not changed. He still wanted pleasure without commitment. So Christy had to fight him, as well as herself
December 6, 2020
Rather sweet story that could have used more hot loving!
July 4, 2013
This is another classic romance from Penny Jordan from the 1990s. It has a nostalgic feel to it - but it also has the feel of a romance which has been churned out to meet a deadline. This one concerns Simon (a man, who if the cover illustration is anything to go by, is a bit funny looking) and Gypsy, the dark, wild-haired daughter of a successful children's novelist). Gypsy has forged a career for herself out of her mother's by doing a bit of illustrating, a bit of typing, a bit of PA work, and (bizarrely) a bit of diving for authors. Enter Simon, a man she had a previous relationship with (via her mother again) who sweeps her off to the Carribean to do a bit of work for him in the illustrating/typing/PA-ing/diving line while he works on the distinctly dodgy sounding historical romance he is penning. Obviously, it's a Mills and Boon, so the end is a foregone conclusion, even if Gypsy does just about everything in her power to sabotage her burgeoning relationship (including running off with another author dressed like a tart and nearly getting eaten by an Octopus) but this is a strange one. One has to think that if Gypsy hadn't got together with Simon in the end how on earth would she sustain herself? She's very dependent on her mother (up to the point where she hasn't even got a key to the house she lives in with her Mum) and there can't be that many jobs out there that call for the skills of a secretary-cum-artist-cum-scuba diver. Fortunately, Simon does sweep her off her feet and Gypsy can live safe in the knowledge that she can live off him (instead of her mother) for the foreseeable future.
There are some nice touches in this. I loved the part where Simon eventually reveals his love to Gypsy (see if you can spot the irony here): "I love you, Christy, I always have. Not perhaps after the fashion of a knight on a white charger; not like the hero of a romance, but very deeply for all that; far too much to trap you in a marriage I felt sure you'd be regretting within twelve months." And there is all the usual Jordan-esque sensuality and easy readability to it - all in all, I would recommend this - it's bizarre and funny and has a nicely nostalgic feel to it for fans of Romance in the 80s and 90s - my edition also had an advert at the end calling all budding romance writers to get in touch with Mills and Boon immediately. Hey, I could have a go - how hard can it be??
There are some nice touches in this. I loved the part where Simon eventually reveals his love to Gypsy (see if you can spot the irony here): "I love you, Christy, I always have. Not perhaps after the fashion of a knight on a white charger; not like the hero of a romance, but very deeply for all that; far too much to trap you in a marriage I felt sure you'd be regretting within twelve months." And there is all the usual Jordan-esque sensuality and easy readability to it - all in all, I would recommend this - it's bizarre and funny and has a nicely nostalgic feel to it for fans of Romance in the 80s and 90s - my edition also had an advert at the end calling all budding romance writers to get in touch with Mills and Boon immediately. Hey, I could have a go - how hard can it be??
May 17, 2020
This story is about a lady who doesn't listen. Christy is in love with Simon; they sleep together; he tells her it was wonderful and makes it clear he wants to do this again and again. Somehow Christy gets it in her head that Simon doesn't really want her.
Oh my. I think the author needs to come up with better heroines. Otherwise it's a decent read.
Oh my. I think the author needs to come up with better heroines. Otherwise it's a decent read.
July 4, 2023
The below is a direct quote from the book. Enough said.
“...they were three men who would have lived in the West Indies when they played an extremely important role in the economy of the world—sugar; slaves; the sheer stubborn determination it took to be a European in the West Indies.”
...And found another gem a few sentences after (speaking about the West Indies):
“Don’t forget we’re talking about a corner of the world notorious for its superstition and ignorance.”
If I could give this book 0 stars, I would.
“...they were three men who would have lived in the West Indies when they played an extremely important role in the economy of the world—sugar; slaves; the sheer stubborn determination it took to be a European in the West Indies.”
...And found another gem a few sentences after (speaking about the West Indies):
“Don’t forget we’re talking about a corner of the world notorious for its superstition and ignorance.”
If I could give this book 0 stars, I would.
January 18, 2024
Penny keeps hyping her intimate scenes by starting and stopping which frustrates me because it's almost in every book. This was the same old tragic story where the hero was cruel to be kind. It's sort of wearing but ok read anyway.
August 27, 2019
Hot author has been waiting 6 years for his chance at love.
July 11, 2025
I enjoyed the angst, but the heroine was tstl at times, and the majority or the story hinges on her inability to articulate a full sentence.
August 15, 2014
3.5 stars. Standard Penny Jordan romance, with a less likable hero than usual.
October 14, 2025
Simon is such a tool. I wish Christy had slept with someone else just so he’d suffer.
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