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His Secretly Pregnant Cinderella
An off-limits tryst leads to her carrying his twin heirs in this accidental pregnancy romance by Millie Adams.
Shockingly pregnant…
With the wrong brother’s babies!
When Greek billionaire Constantine Kamaras’s brother brings home waitress Morgan Stanfield to meet their family, Constantine is instantly suspicious. The only thing stronger than his suspicion is the unwelcome attraction he feels for this mysterious Cinderella.
Ice-cold Constantine is the last person innocent Morgan wants to see after witnessing his brother commit the ultimate betrayal—until their undeniable chemistry explodes into the hottest of encounters. Now she’s carrying twin consequences of that night. And her baby bump will soon be too big to deny!
Shockingly pregnant…
With the wrong brother’s babies!
When Greek billionaire Constantine Kamaras’s brother brings home waitress Morgan Stanfield to meet their family, Constantine is instantly suspicious. The only thing stronger than his suspicion is the unwelcome attraction he feels for this mysterious Cinderella.
Ice-cold Constantine is the last person innocent Morgan wants to see after witnessing his brother commit the ultimate betrayal—until their undeniable chemistry explodes into the hottest of encounters. Now she’s carrying twin consequences of that night. And her baby bump will soon be too big to deny!
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First published January 1, 2022
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January 11, 2022
The Near Double Dipping, Dirty Laundry Drama of The Dick, Dickmina and The Dead Dicktim...
Cast:
▪️ The Dick: Hero
▪️ Dickmina: Heroine
▪️ The Dicktim: the OM, who died in an accident. He's a cheating dick who ended up a victim; hence his nickname.
This could've been a solid 4 star novel, due to Millie Adams' talent for dramatic, trainwrecky storytelling and her skill at crafting good dialogue. Kudos to her for that and for being brave enough to explore a trope (Keeping it in the Family) that hasn't seen much popularity, since the days of the late Anne Mather.
But there were certain plot related, and issues related to the heroine's character development, that annoyed me:
🔸The heroine's name is Morgan Stansfield, but I prefer to call her Dickmina Desperada. The opening scene, while very dramatic and erotic, made a heroine seem like a tacky, sex hungry, slutty virgin whose brain rests right between her clitoris and her labia. There are lots of heroines, in modern HPlandia, suffering from that most annoying illness aka Treacherous Body Syndrome, but Dickmina is the Queen of them all.
🔸Dickmina decided to seduce her boyfriend, Alex, because he didn’t seem eager to consummate their relationship. Since he ends up dying at the end of chapter, we'll call him The Dicktim (a dick who's also a victim). Dickmina sees the Dicktim seducing a hot blonde, runs away, ends up in his older brother's room and decides to bang him. Why? Because she's always had the secret hots for him.
🔸Which brings me to the question: why was she going through the motions of dating the Dicktim, when she knows that it's his brother who sets her drawers on fire? Well, the answer to that question is that Dickmina also experienced sexy shivers of desperation when the Dicktim looked at her with his gorgeous dark eyes. At this revelation, I wondered why the author didn't just pull a Lora Leigh plot twist and write a vomity menage story, with Dickmina as the meat in the brotherly hamburger bun 🙄.
🔸Dickmina didn't even play coy or resist just a tiny bit. Literally, about half an hour after seeing her boyfriend with another woman, she decides to bang his older brother. Even Brooke Logan Forrester, from The Bold and the Beautiful soap opera, would've waited longer than half an hour, before jumping from one man to his brother! And it's not even a real rebound bang or a revenge bang, because Dickmina wasn't even emotionally traumatised by the Dicktim's cheating ways. It's a bang of sheer, panting desperation. Now I know sex positivity is supposed to be the politically correct thing these days, so some people will criticise me for judging Dickmina merely because she's satisfying her sexual urges. But I don't march to the beat of other people's drums, so I have no qualms about calling out Dickmina's scurrilous, Slutty Virgin Syndrome™️ behaviour.
🔸It would've been classier and sexier if the author had just brought the MC's to the brink of sex but allowed the heroine the good taste to stop at the last minute. This would've gradually accelerated the sexual tension between the MCs and given the reader something to anticipate. The first sex scene should've happened after the Dicktim's funeral. Since the MCs ended up having an impromptu marathon sexfest session, after the funeral, the reader wouldn't have had to wait long and, most importantly, the author would've still been able to use the unexpected pregnancy trope, while endowing Dickmina with a modicum of ladylike decency.
🔸As soon as the first sex scene was over, the Dick treated Dicktima as if she was a call girl. He got dressed quickly, found her some clothing, called a taxi for her and sent her on her way. What was even more hilarious, in a pitifully sexy manner, was the fact that the Dick basically told Dicktima his low opinion of her, before they had sex, and she slept with him five minutes afterwards...
“Darling,” he said. “Do not lie. It insults us both. You have wanted me from the very moment you first set foot in my parents’ house. And the more cruel I am to you, the more you seem to want it.”
Most HPlandia heroines would have run off or objected at that point, even if they know that the hero was speaking the truth, because Pride would've taken precedence over the Pussy. But that's not the case with Dickmima Desperada.
🔸Dickmina claims to be an independent, morally upstanding young lady, who strives to be the opposite of her man-eating mother, but yet she had no problems accepting thousands of dollars and free clothing, from the Dicktim, after a mere few months of dating. This is 💯 an OW trait. Aren't heroines supposed to have lots of pride? A Lynne Graham/Sharon Kendrick waitress heroine wouldn't accept thousands of dollars from an OM, to pay off all her student loans and purchase expensive clothing, because she'll know that it's tacky and classless. I couldn't understand why author included this. It just made Dickmina seem more pathetic and desperate than she already was.
Now some of you will be wondering why I'm judging Dickmina so harshly, while I've said little about the H's part in all of this. After all, she's his brother's girlfriend. Well, the H (lets call him The Dick), never set himself up as a paragon of moral virtue... Unlike another person in the novel.
Anyway, the storyline took an even more trainwrecky twist when the H assumes that the pregnant heroine is carrying the dead Dicktim's baby, because he didn't realise that she had been a virgin when he'd slept with her.
The dumbest part of the story is the H's determination to believe that his brother is the father of her unborn babies. And, even though the thought makes him jealous, he still finds it preferable to the reality that he might possibly be the dad.
He's got all this emo angst brewing about the fact that he holds himself responsible for his twin sister's death, even though kidnappers are to blame etc. So, he thinks that it's better that he doesn't become a father, since he feels can't protect anyone.
But...
And this is where the emo angst gets ridiculous: he runs off and leaves the heroine alone on his island, in order to protect her and keep her safe after she tells him she loves him.
Somehow the writing started to become contrived and gimmicky, towards the end of novel, especially when the author pulled out this Deus ex Machina and brought the H's dead twin sister Athena, back to life in the most obvious attempt to sweeten this convenient HEA 🙄. It was so laughably OTT, that I wouldn't have been surprised if the author had dipped into her magic box of tricks and pulled out a Plot MacGuffin too!
The better thing would've been to leave her dead and write a beautiful, endearing epilogue showing that the H was well on his way to overcoming his self inflicted guilt over her death. This plot device just came out of left field and I was literally laughing, because it was just thrown in there, with scant logical explanation.
One minute the author is describing the MCs relationship and the next, she's literally plopped Athena into the conversation. 🙄🙄🙄
And the epilogue, while being cute and fluffy, wasn't anywhere near the best epilogues I've ever enjoyed in HPlandia.
Yeah, this was an interesting little modern day HPlandia trainwreck, but it falls far short of yester year's angsty trainwrecks and the MCs connection seemed more sexual than emotional.
I'm not a fan of storytelling that depends on gratuitous sex, cheap thrills and gimmicky use of plot devices...
Finally, and at the risk of repeating myself: I seriously am not fond of sex starved, desperate heroines, who throw themselves repeatedly at their heroes. This girl literally claimed to have been truly in love with the Dicktim:
“Whether you believe it or not,” she said, looking up at him. “I loved your brother a great deal.”
“I do believe it. Now.”
Well, I didn't believe it...
She didn't act like a woman who'd truly loved the OM. It seemed more like infatuation and gratitude, because the OM was good looking, paid her attention and paid off all her debts.
Once again, we have an author who's guilty of doing more telling and less showing.
Safety: No OW, a dead OM (the H's younger brother who had been in a relationship with the heroine. The heroine didn't have sex with the OM but they must've gotten around to second base, at the very least. It's unclear whether the H is celibate during the first 5 month separation but he's celibate during the few weeks of the second separation. The heroine is celibate during both separations.
Cast:
▪️ The Dick: Hero
▪️ Dickmina: Heroine
▪️ The Dicktim: the OM, who died in an accident. He's a cheating dick who ended up a victim; hence his nickname.
This could've been a solid 4 star novel, due to Millie Adams' talent for dramatic, trainwrecky storytelling and her skill at crafting good dialogue. Kudos to her for that and for being brave enough to explore a trope (Keeping it in the Family) that hasn't seen much popularity, since the days of the late Anne Mather.
But there were certain plot related, and issues related to the heroine's character development, that annoyed me:
🔸The heroine's name is Morgan Stansfield, but I prefer to call her Dickmina Desperada. The opening scene, while very dramatic and erotic, made a heroine seem like a tacky, sex hungry, slutty virgin whose brain rests right between her clitoris and her labia. There are lots of heroines, in modern HPlandia, suffering from that most annoying illness aka Treacherous Body Syndrome, but Dickmina is the Queen of them all.
🔸Dickmina decided to seduce her boyfriend, Alex, because he didn’t seem eager to consummate their relationship. Since he ends up dying at the end of chapter, we'll call him The Dicktim (a dick who's also a victim). Dickmina sees the Dicktim seducing a hot blonde, runs away, ends up in his older brother's room and decides to bang him. Why? Because she's always had the secret hots for him.
🔸Which brings me to the question: why was she going through the motions of dating the Dicktim, when she knows that it's his brother who sets her drawers on fire? Well, the answer to that question is that Dickmina also experienced sexy shivers of desperation when the Dicktim looked at her with his gorgeous dark eyes. At this revelation, I wondered why the author didn't just pull a Lora Leigh plot twist and write a vomity menage story, with Dickmina as the meat in the brotherly hamburger bun 🙄.
🔸Dickmina didn't even play coy or resist just a tiny bit. Literally, about half an hour after seeing her boyfriend with another woman, she decides to bang his older brother. Even Brooke Logan Forrester, from The Bold and the Beautiful soap opera, would've waited longer than half an hour, before jumping from one man to his brother! And it's not even a real rebound bang or a revenge bang, because Dickmina wasn't even emotionally traumatised by the Dicktim's cheating ways. It's a bang of sheer, panting desperation. Now I know sex positivity is supposed to be the politically correct thing these days, so some people will criticise me for judging Dickmina merely because she's satisfying her sexual urges. But I don't march to the beat of other people's drums, so I have no qualms about calling out Dickmina's scurrilous, Slutty Virgin Syndrome™️ behaviour.
🔸It would've been classier and sexier if the author had just brought the MC's to the brink of sex but allowed the heroine the good taste to stop at the last minute. This would've gradually accelerated the sexual tension between the MCs and given the reader something to anticipate. The first sex scene should've happened after the Dicktim's funeral. Since the MCs ended up having an impromptu marathon sexfest session, after the funeral, the reader wouldn't have had to wait long and, most importantly, the author would've still been able to use the unexpected pregnancy trope, while endowing Dickmina with a modicum of ladylike decency.
🔸As soon as the first sex scene was over, the Dick treated Dicktima as if she was a call girl. He got dressed quickly, found her some clothing, called a taxi for her and sent her on her way. What was even more hilarious, in a pitifully sexy manner, was the fact that the Dick basically told Dicktima his low opinion of her, before they had sex, and she slept with him five minutes afterwards...
“Darling,” he said. “Do not lie. It insults us both. You have wanted me from the very moment you first set foot in my parents’ house. And the more cruel I am to you, the more you seem to want it.”
Most HPlandia heroines would have run off or objected at that point, even if they know that the hero was speaking the truth, because Pride would've taken precedence over the Pussy. But that's not the case with Dickmima Desperada.
🔸Dickmina claims to be an independent, morally upstanding young lady, who strives to be the opposite of her man-eating mother, but yet she had no problems accepting thousands of dollars and free clothing, from the Dicktim, after a mere few months of dating. This is 💯 an OW trait. Aren't heroines supposed to have lots of pride? A Lynne Graham/Sharon Kendrick waitress heroine wouldn't accept thousands of dollars from an OM, to pay off all her student loans and purchase expensive clothing, because she'll know that it's tacky and classless. I couldn't understand why author included this. It just made Dickmina seem more pathetic and desperate than she already was.
Now some of you will be wondering why I'm judging Dickmina so harshly, while I've said little about the H's part in all of this. After all, she's his brother's girlfriend. Well, the H (lets call him The Dick), never set himself up as a paragon of moral virtue... Unlike another person in the novel.
Anyway, the storyline took an even more trainwrecky twist when the H assumes that the pregnant heroine is carrying the dead Dicktim's baby, because he didn't realise that she had been a virgin when he'd slept with her.
The dumbest part of the story is the H's determination to believe that his brother is the father of her unborn babies. And, even though the thought makes him jealous, he still finds it preferable to the reality that he might possibly be the dad.
He's got all this emo angst brewing about the fact that he holds himself responsible for his twin sister's death, even though kidnappers are to blame etc. So, he thinks that it's better that he doesn't become a father, since he feels can't protect anyone.
But...
And this is where the emo angst gets ridiculous: he runs off and leaves the heroine alone on his island, in order to protect her and keep her safe after she tells him she loves him.
Somehow the writing started to become contrived and gimmicky, towards the end of novel, especially when the author pulled out this Deus ex Machina and brought the H's dead twin sister Athena, back to life in the most obvious attempt to sweeten this convenient HEA 🙄. It was so laughably OTT, that I wouldn't have been surprised if the author had dipped into her magic box of tricks and pulled out a Plot MacGuffin too!
The better thing would've been to leave her dead and write a beautiful, endearing epilogue showing that the H was well on his way to overcoming his self inflicted guilt over her death. This plot device just came out of left field and I was literally laughing, because it was just thrown in there, with scant logical explanation.
One minute the author is describing the MCs relationship and the next, she's literally plopped Athena into the conversation. 🙄🙄🙄
And the epilogue, while being cute and fluffy, wasn't anywhere near the best epilogues I've ever enjoyed in HPlandia.
Yeah, this was an interesting little modern day HPlandia trainwreck, but it falls far short of yester year's angsty trainwrecks and the MCs connection seemed more sexual than emotional.
I'm not a fan of storytelling that depends on gratuitous sex, cheap thrills and gimmicky use of plot devices...
Finally, and at the risk of repeating myself: I seriously am not fond of sex starved, desperate heroines, who throw themselves repeatedly at their heroes. This girl literally claimed to have been truly in love with the Dicktim:
“Whether you believe it or not,” she said, looking up at him. “I loved your brother a great deal.”
“I do believe it. Now.”
Well, I didn't believe it...
She didn't act like a woman who'd truly loved the OM. It seemed more like infatuation and gratitude, because the OM was good looking, paid her attention and paid off all her debts.
Once again, we have an author who's guilty of doing more telling and less showing.
Safety: No OW, a dead OM (the H's younger brother who had been in a relationship with the heroine. The heroine didn't have sex with the OM but they must've gotten around to second base, at the very least. It's unclear whether the H is celibate during the first 5 month separation but he's celibate during the few weeks of the second separation. The heroine is celibate during both separations.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
August 30, 2022
1.5-star **SPOILERS**
DNF @ 46% (then skimmed/skipped pages until 74%). Not romantic. Unlikable characters. Strange writing style. Sex scenes were hot though.
Strange writing style
Writing was sometimes hard to follow coz sometimes read like a simple fairy-tale narrative and other times more complicated philosophical phrases that didn't make sense to me. Dialogue followed this mix of simple & esoteric talk that wasn't helped by frequent unfinished sentences/phrases that we as readers were supposed to understand. For example,
“An acknowledgment of the truth doesn’t have to be bending. It can just look like acceptance. Or so I am learning.”
He paused for a long moment. “I am well aware of the fact fantasy serves no purpose. I am a believer in reality. I...thought. You are right. The force of my...”
“You can say it’s denial.”
“I don’t want to.”
“Oh. Well. Denial about your denial—that really is something.”
Huh? I re-read this conversation between H&h 3x and I'm still scratching my head. A confusing & emotionally-distant read. Since this is my 1st Adams book, I'll read another 1 of hers to see if this book may have been a 1-off.
Un-likable characters
None were endearing to me. All major characters (H/h/H's younger bro/H's parents/h's mom) were selfish/liked to be in massive denial/enabling of another's dysfunction/needlessly complicated things to get certain results.
h was stupid. She reminded me of the breathy dumb-blonde character Marilyn Monroe played in “Gentleman Prefers Blondes”. She lacked insight and often contradicted herself in her POV. She was ridiculous so I kept laughing initially coz she was so dumb and somewhat clueless about it. For example, she viewed herself as cautious with people & responsible. Then a couple sentences later, she admitted to lacking insight with people. She also let her BF pay off her loans and give her money and she stopped working after his death and lived off the money he gave her. She stopped being funny as it became clear that the way her character was portrayed was either inconsistent or she seriously was written to be fickle and weak. I didn't buy her excuse re: her lonely upbringing. She was easily defeated and influenced. She did show some improvement later. After 50% she finally told H the truth about him being the father of her instead of her game-playing comments about it. @62%, she asked H to not resent the kids as her mom did with her. But she was still too insecure. And this book still unromantic.
H was a resentful martyr who sacrificed for his family by overworking & indulging their partying lifestyles as an atonement for his perceived self-blame for his twin sister's death years ago. He heaped more on after his brother's death. @70%, he agreed with his dad to keep the fact that he was the father of h's babies and not his deceased brother a secret to his mom & the public. Just like H, he was a weak character that bent too easily to others' pressures.
Sexual History:
22yo virgin h was with her rich & charming player BF (H's younger bro) of 6 months but had never smexxed him coz he didn't push it at all and she wasn't ready until the night she caught him with another woman in his bedroom. She had changed into her lacy bodysuit in another bedroom before she went into BF's bedroom, when she saw her BF with another woman. She snuck out without either of them seeing her into another room in her BF's parents' mansion, which ended up being the library where her BF's older bro, 30s H, was. H suggested that she shouldn't waste her sexy lingerie so she should smex him since he knew she wanted him and vice versa from their 1st meeting. She agreed since she finally let herself honestly acknowledge that she'd wanted H all this time, even though she told herself she didn't like him coz he always glowered at her & viewed her as a gold-digger. He de-virginized h in the next few minutes without him clueing in that she was a virgin and she didn't say anything about it either. After he orgasmed, he told her to put on her clothes ASAP & ordered her ride to her apartment. Basically, h cheated on her BF with his older bro H since she hadn't broken up with her BF yet. And after his death/funeral, she said that she still loved her BF. If her BF forgave her for sleeping with H since he cheated on her first anyway, h would very likely still be with her BF.
Next time they see each other is at his bro's funeral a few days later since that fateful night his bro/her BF was killed in a car accident allegedly driving his lover home. Second time they smex was after the funeral, when H drives h back home. Just like the 1st time, they smex bareback but this 2nd time they smex multiple times that night. Next time they see each other was 5 months later, when H confronts h about her pregnancy he & his parents found out about from a gossip magazine.
No info whether H had ever had a serious GF but only that he preferred sophisticated women. He had casual lovers. He promised himself to never marry or have kids as a self-punishment for his twin sister's death when they were both kidnapped @ age 8 for 2 months and then added his younger bro's recent death to it. He also promised to abstain from sex with h as part of his secret punishment but he didn't promise abstinence from all sex but only with her. In fact, H & he agreed that they wouldn't have sex with each other during their MOC marriage but can take other lovers. But when h told him the truth re: being her only lover after their wedding ceremony, their no-sex threats went out the window & they smexxed soon after. No info whether H was celibate during their 5 months apart before he found out she was preggo.
DNF @ 46% (then skimmed/skipped pages until 74%). Not romantic. Unlikable characters. Strange writing style. Sex scenes were hot though.
Strange writing style
Writing was sometimes hard to follow coz sometimes read like a simple fairy-tale narrative and other times more complicated philosophical phrases that didn't make sense to me. Dialogue followed this mix of simple & esoteric talk that wasn't helped by frequent unfinished sentences/phrases that we as readers were supposed to understand. For example,
“An acknowledgment of the truth doesn’t have to be bending. It can just look like acceptance. Or so I am learning.”
He paused for a long moment. “I am well aware of the fact fantasy serves no purpose. I am a believer in reality. I...thought. You are right. The force of my...”
“You can say it’s denial.”
“I don’t want to.”
“Oh. Well. Denial about your denial—that really is something.”
Huh? I re-read this conversation between H&h 3x and I'm still scratching my head. A confusing & emotionally-distant read. Since this is my 1st Adams book, I'll read another 1 of hers to see if this book may have been a 1-off.
Un-likable characters
None were endearing to me. All major characters (H/h/H's younger bro/H's parents/h's mom) were selfish/liked to be in massive denial/enabling of another's dysfunction/needlessly complicated things to get certain results.
h was stupid. She reminded me of the breathy dumb-blonde character Marilyn Monroe played in “Gentleman Prefers Blondes”. She lacked insight and often contradicted herself in her POV. She was ridiculous so I kept laughing initially coz she was so dumb and somewhat clueless about it. For example, she viewed herself as cautious with people & responsible. Then a couple sentences later, she admitted to lacking insight with people. She also let her BF pay off her loans and give her money and she stopped working after his death and lived off the money he gave her. She stopped being funny as it became clear that the way her character was portrayed was either inconsistent or she seriously was written to be fickle and weak. I didn't buy her excuse re: her lonely upbringing. She was easily defeated and influenced. She did show some improvement later. After 50% she finally told H the truth about him being the father of her instead of her game-playing comments about it. @62%, she asked H to not resent the kids as her mom did with her. But she was still too insecure. And this book still unromantic.
H was a resentful martyr who sacrificed for his family by overworking & indulging their partying lifestyles as an atonement for his perceived self-blame for his twin sister's death years ago. He heaped more on after his brother's death. @70%, he agreed with his dad to keep the fact that he was the father of h's babies and not his deceased brother a secret to his mom & the public. Just like H, he was a weak character that bent too easily to others' pressures.
Sexual History:
22yo virgin h was with her rich & charming player BF (H's younger bro) of 6 months but had never smexxed him coz he didn't push it at all and she wasn't ready until the night she caught him with another woman in his bedroom. She had changed into her lacy bodysuit in another bedroom before she went into BF's bedroom, when she saw her BF with another woman. She snuck out without either of them seeing her into another room in her BF's parents' mansion, which ended up being the library where her BF's older bro, 30s H, was. H suggested that she shouldn't waste her sexy lingerie so she should smex him since he knew she wanted him and vice versa from their 1st meeting. She agreed since she finally let herself honestly acknowledge that she'd wanted H all this time, even though she told herself she didn't like him coz he always glowered at her & viewed her as a gold-digger. He de-virginized h in the next few minutes without him clueing in that she was a virgin and she didn't say anything about it either. After he orgasmed, he told her to put on her clothes ASAP & ordered her ride to her apartment. Basically, h cheated on her BF with his older bro H since she hadn't broken up with her BF yet. And after his death/funeral, she said that she still loved her BF. If her BF forgave her for sleeping with H since he cheated on her first anyway, h would very likely still be with her BF.
Next time they see each other is at his bro's funeral a few days later since that fateful night his bro/her BF was killed in a car accident allegedly driving his lover home. Second time they smex was after the funeral, when H drives h back home. Just like the 1st time, they smex bareback but this 2nd time they smex multiple times that night. Next time they see each other was 5 months later, when H confronts h about her pregnancy he & his parents found out about from a gossip magazine.
No info whether H had ever had a serious GF but only that he preferred sophisticated women. He had casual lovers. He promised himself to never marry or have kids as a self-punishment for his twin sister's death when they were both kidnapped @ age 8 for 2 months and then added his younger bro's recent death to it. He also promised to abstain from sex with h as part of his secret punishment but he didn't promise abstinence from all sex but only with her. In fact, H & he agreed that they wouldn't have sex with each other during their MOC marriage but can take other lovers. But when h told him the truth re: being her only lover after their wedding ceremony, their no-sex threats went out the window & they smexxed soon after. No info whether H was celibate during their 5 months apart before he found out she was preggo.
January 2, 2022
Wow finally a harlequin presents that gave me vintage feelings! The pure innocent waitress heroine who falls in love with her boyfriend’s brooding older brother, the billionaire tortured hero with a private island, the unexpected pregnancy one of my favourite tropes. And a sweet heartwarming HEA! What’s not to love? Promising new Harlequin Presents author!
January 9, 2022
First time author
Okaaay
I liked this alot and enjoyed it too the author has the potential (she can write difficult tropes ) but ... i didn't LIKE that the h was so ready to sleep with the younger brother!!! And after minutes...😑 she was in the H's bed ( he is the older brother) !!!!!! Like Seriously????
Hope her next books will be much better
As i said she has the potential
Okaaay
I liked this alot and enjoyed it too the author has the potential (she can write difficult tropes ) but ... i didn't LIKE that the h was so ready to sleep with the younger brother!!! And after minutes...😑 she was in the H's bed ( he is the older brother) !!!!!! Like Seriously????
Hope her next books will be much better
As i said she has the potential
January 3, 2022
I was told there was an angst but not felt it!
April 26, 2022
I’ve never read this author before and it was a nice surprise.
Her style is a mix between Caitlin Crew’s dark streaks and inner monologues and Lucy Monroe’s long dialogues between characters.
There’s something of a cheating here so you’re warned here.
The heroine is a waitress and has been dating the hero’s younger brother for some months. He’s from a rich and noble Greek family, while she’s as poor as a church mouse.
The hero has always been nasty and scornful to her thinking she’s a gold digger, but she’s not.
She’s infatuated with his brother who’s a charming and nice young man, but she’s still a virgin. His parents love her.
One evening while she’s a guest at his family house she decides it’s time to consummate their relationship and so she turns up in his bedroom half naked. The man does not even realize because he’s having sex with another woman.
The poor heroine tries to go out of the bedroom unnoticed and slips into the hero’s bedroom.
Even if he’s always been nasty he’s of course very attracted to her so he seduces her then and there, and she, who nurtured a similar passion for him, let herself be seduced.
The morning after younger brother dies in a car accident, the heroine goes to his funeral and has another night of sex with the hero.
When she wakes up, he’s already gone, the gentleman.
Hit and run is his motto.
Five months later the heroine is very pregnant even if she’s not yet gone to see a doctor (how stupid is she), because her mother was a single mum who was abandoned by her lover and resented her daughter ever since.
When she’s out she’s photographed and some days later the hero sees her pregnant picture on a magazine.
His parents thinks, by the dimension of her baby bump, that it’s their late son’s child, they are so happy and they ask the hero to get her and take her to their house, where she will live in comfort with her child.
The hero thinks it’s his brother’s child too and the heroine doesn’t have the courage to disappoint everyone telling the child it’s the hero’s.
He is fiercely attracted to her but he feels guilty because he shagged his dead bro’s girlfriend, even if the man was no saint, and the heroine wanted to break up with him after she found him in bed with ow.
He also feels guilty because when he was a child he and his twin were kidnapped and while he survived his twin was never found and he thinks it’s his fault.
So a very tortured man we have here.
Who suffers from the survivors guilt and for having helped himself with his lil bro girlfriend just the same night he killed himself.
He doesn’t think it’s his child but has some doubts when they finds out she’s having twins and she’s about five months, just about the time they had sex.
So he proposes and the heroine accepts, only a MOC of course.
Really?
Thank god these two can’t take their hands and mouths off each other for more than two minutes at the time and so we have some really nice moments where they go at it like rabbits then stop just in time.
Please, don’t. Just don’t. You only hurt yourself.
After the wedding the heroine confess that she was a virgin and the twins are his, and the hero has a sudden and irresistible attack of lust so he throws her over his shoulders and goes home where he will finally have their wedding night.
I just cringed thinking about those poor babies squashed on their father’s shoulder… ouch!
All seems fine but the hero is suddenly afraid that his children could be kidnapped and maybe it would be better if he stayed away from his wife and kept her prisoner in his island.
Yes, just like that, to be safe. Better safe thanks sorry or so they say.
So he leaves her for some weeks and then he realizes he can’t keep her prisoner, he’ll have to let her go, that is he has to dump her. Not very stable this man.
Eventually he will come to his senses but mine, what a tortuous mind he has!
I liked this book especially the first part, they are both really taken with each other and the chemistry is good.
They both have their baggage of pain and hurt and I liked especially that:
- the hero didn’t slut shame the heroine, never treated her cruelly and always trusted her.
- they had a good communication, their problems were their childhood experiences not lack of communication.
- the heroine was strong and not a victim, she accepts money from her late fiancé without feeling guilty, and yes she had sex with the hero while she was still with his brother but she was going to break up because she had seen him with ow and because she had understood she was in love with his brother.
Some inconsistencies here, we don’t know why younger brother dated the heroine while shagging ows, maybe because she was virgin and he wanted to marry her? We won’t know.
- there’s a nice final surprise that you can guess, but I won’t tell and I shed one tear or two.
Safe because since the hero saw the heroine he was with no other woman, and she was innocent.
Her style is a mix between Caitlin Crew’s dark streaks and inner monologues and Lucy Monroe’s long dialogues between characters.
There’s something of a cheating here so you’re warned here.
The heroine is a waitress and has been dating the hero’s younger brother for some months. He’s from a rich and noble Greek family, while she’s as poor as a church mouse.
The hero has always been nasty and scornful to her thinking she’s a gold digger, but she’s not.
She’s infatuated with his brother who’s a charming and nice young man, but she’s still a virgin. His parents love her.
One evening while she’s a guest at his family house she decides it’s time to consummate their relationship and so she turns up in his bedroom half naked. The man does not even realize because he’s having sex with another woman.
The poor heroine tries to go out of the bedroom unnoticed and slips into the hero’s bedroom.
Even if he’s always been nasty he’s of course very attracted to her so he seduces her then and there, and she, who nurtured a similar passion for him, let herself be seduced.
The morning after younger brother dies in a car accident, the heroine goes to his funeral and has another night of sex with the hero.
When she wakes up, he’s already gone, the gentleman.
Hit and run is his motto.
Five months later the heroine is very pregnant even if she’s not yet gone to see a doctor (how stupid is she), because her mother was a single mum who was abandoned by her lover and resented her daughter ever since.
When she’s out she’s photographed and some days later the hero sees her pregnant picture on a magazine.
His parents thinks, by the dimension of her baby bump, that it’s their late son’s child, they are so happy and they ask the hero to get her and take her to their house, where she will live in comfort with her child.
The hero thinks it’s his brother’s child too and the heroine doesn’t have the courage to disappoint everyone telling the child it’s the hero’s.
He is fiercely attracted to her but he feels guilty because he shagged his dead bro’s girlfriend, even if the man was no saint, and the heroine wanted to break up with him after she found him in bed with ow.
He also feels guilty because when he was a child he and his twin were kidnapped and while he survived his twin was never found and he thinks it’s his fault.
So a very tortured man we have here.
Who suffers from the survivors guilt and for having helped himself with his lil bro girlfriend just the same night he killed himself.
He doesn’t think it’s his child but has some doubts when they finds out she’s having twins and she’s about five months, just about the time they had sex.
So he proposes and the heroine accepts, only a MOC of course.
Really?
Thank god these two can’t take their hands and mouths off each other for more than two minutes at the time and so we have some really nice moments where they go at it like rabbits then stop just in time.
Please, don’t. Just don’t. You only hurt yourself.
After the wedding the heroine confess that she was a virgin and the twins are his, and the hero has a sudden and irresistible attack of lust so he throws her over his shoulders and goes home where he will finally have their wedding night.
I just cringed thinking about those poor babies squashed on their father’s shoulder… ouch!
All seems fine but the hero is suddenly afraid that his children could be kidnapped and maybe it would be better if he stayed away from his wife and kept her prisoner in his island.
Yes, just like that, to be safe. Better safe thanks sorry or so they say.
So he leaves her for some weeks and then he realizes he can’t keep her prisoner, he’ll have to let her go, that is he has to dump her. Not very stable this man.
Eventually he will come to his senses but mine, what a tortuous mind he has!
I liked this book especially the first part, they are both really taken with each other and the chemistry is good.
They both have their baggage of pain and hurt and I liked especially that:
- the hero didn’t slut shame the heroine, never treated her cruelly and always trusted her.
- they had a good communication, their problems were their childhood experiences not lack of communication.
- the heroine was strong and not a victim, she accepts money from her late fiancé without feeling guilty, and yes she had sex with the hero while she was still with his brother but she was going to break up because she had seen him with ow and because she had understood she was in love with his brother.
Some inconsistencies here, we don’t know why younger brother dated the heroine while shagging ows, maybe because she was virgin and he wanted to marry her? We won’t know.
- there’s a nice final surprise that you can guess, but I won’t tell and I shed one tear or two.
Safe because since the hero saw the heroine he was with no other woman, and she was innocent.
November 16, 2024
He felt like she had come into his life, his world, perfectly ordered and controlled, always, and upended it. And he wanted to rage at her as if she was an uncaring goddess in the sky and ask her what the hell she wanted from him. Why she had the audacity.
I liked the dedication for this one—a toast/thank you to HQN for such shameless escapism—because those who read these books will understand the hidden message, i.e., to be utterly unapologetic for the appeal of flamboyant heroes & everywomen heroines, & the joy the author gets from reading (& writing) them. Unfortunately, tho Constantine is delightfully possessive & an alpha throwback compared to most recent HP heroes (excepting perhaps Caitlin Crews’ cruel males 😇), Ms Adams missed an opportunity to go all-in with the tropey homage—there’s no OW here to provide lolzy drama, & the OM is killed so early in the book that we-the-audience feel very little of Morgan’s twinging conscience or conflicted feelz because we aren’t attached to his lovable, carefree playboy self. The sex was fine—no quibbles there 😈—but I must repeat what I warble in so many harley reviews: MORE PLOT, PLZ. 😶
…That said, it does raise some excellent points about the current fetishization of victimization—that is, acknowledging your victimhood is fine & dandy, but not to the point where endless self-martyrdom won’t let you release the past & live in this moment. Because ultimately, the message behind the MC’s turbulent early couplehood seems to be that yes, people are unfairly victimized by cruel reality & the imperfect people who live in it, but at some point you must release that anger into the ether & move on, otherwise you’re simply victimizing yourself on an endless loop.
So. I liked it, but it wasn’t a fave. Unplanned pregnancy is one of my least-favorite tropes, period, but at least these MCs had legit reasons for being so emotionally skittish. And I really liked Constantine, so there you go. (He’s a lot like Hugh in The Duke’s Forbidden Ward, but minus the kink. Maybe HP editors wouldn’t let Ms Adams go there like the Historicals editors did. 😬)
I liked the dedication for this one—a toast/thank you to HQN for such shameless escapism—because those who read these books will understand the hidden message, i.e., to be utterly unapologetic for the appeal of flamboyant heroes & everywomen heroines, & the joy the author gets from reading (& writing) them. Unfortunately, tho Constantine is delightfully possessive & an alpha throwback compared to most recent HP heroes (excepting perhaps Caitlin Crews’ cruel males 😇), Ms Adams missed an opportunity to go all-in with the tropey homage—there’s no OW here to provide lolzy drama, & the OM is killed so early in the book that we-the-audience feel very little of Morgan’s twinging conscience or conflicted feelz because we aren’t attached to his lovable, carefree playboy self. The sex was fine—no quibbles there 😈—but I must repeat what I warble in so many harley reviews: MORE PLOT, PLZ. 😶
…That said, it does raise some excellent points about the current fetishization of victimization—that is, acknowledging your victimhood is fine & dandy, but not to the point where endless self-martyrdom won’t let you release the past & live in this moment. Because ultimately, the message behind the MC’s turbulent early couplehood seems to be that yes, people are unfairly victimized by cruel reality & the imperfect people who live in it, but at some point you must release that anger into the ether & move on, otherwise you’re simply victimizing yourself on an endless loop.
So. I liked it, but it wasn’t a fave. Unplanned pregnancy is one of my least-favorite tropes, period, but at least these MCs had legit reasons for being so emotionally skittish. And I really liked Constantine, so there you go. (He’s a lot like Hugh in The Duke’s Forbidden Ward, but minus the kink. Maybe HP editors wouldn’t let Ms Adams go there like the Historicals editors did. 😬)
January 9, 2022
2.5. So close to 3 but it went SO fast really going to 0-100 in two pages
April 19, 2023
I started this buddy read with Nenia being pleasantly surprised. It took some of my most disliked or avoided tropes and made me not hate them: instalust, surprise pregnancy, billionaire love interest. The writing, however, was kinda bad. Like, Millie Adams has a gift for conveying emotion in her books, but the dialogue in this was just whack. There were hardly any contractions and a ton of archaic language. It felt like Adams was writing a historical, except this wasn't that by any means. I love natural-sounding dialogue, so reading this was like nails on a chalkboard. But still, the emotion was there.
I did get bored part of the way through, and in the end I found these characters rather forgettable. Still, I do plan to read more by this author.
2.5 stars
I did get bored part of the way through, and in the end I found these characters rather forgettable. Still, I do plan to read more by this author.
2.5 stars
July 19, 2023
Nice story.
January 1, 2024
Other interesting romance has read in Spanish as my practice
January 6, 2022
Shockingly pregnant…
With the wrong brother’s babies!
When Greek billionaire Constantine Kamaras’s brother brings home waitress Morgan Stanfield to meet their family, Constantine is instantly suspicious. The only thing stronger than his suspicion is the unwelcome attraction he feels for this mysterious Cinderella.
Ice-cold Constantine is the last person innocent Morgan wants to see after witnessing his brother commit the ultimate betrayal—until their undeniable chemistry explodes into the hottest of encounters. Now she’s carrying twin consequences of that night. And her baby bump will soon be too big to deny!
With the wrong brother’s babies!
When Greek billionaire Constantine Kamaras’s brother brings home waitress Morgan Stanfield to meet their family, Constantine is instantly suspicious. The only thing stronger than his suspicion is the unwelcome attraction he feels for this mysterious Cinderella.
Ice-cold Constantine is the last person innocent Morgan wants to see after witnessing his brother commit the ultimate betrayal—until their undeniable chemistry explodes into the hottest of encounters. Now she’s carrying twin consequences of that night. And her baby bump will soon be too big to deny!
March 2, 2022
Wonderful read loved it
I couldn't put it down ! It was great from start to finish hope to read more of her books
I couldn't put it down ! It was great from start to finish hope to read more of her books
August 27, 2022
Sorry but this was clunky, unreal and ponderous. Some good ideas but poor characterisation and unreal dialogue spoiled it, I suspect this writer will get better so I’ll keep my eye out for her work!
February 12, 2023
Disappointing. Infidelity and fear.
February 29, 2024
One of the many tasks you do when you work in a public library is go through books that are donated to the library to either be added to the collection or go in a book sale. Recently, someone donated to my library an absolutely incredible number of Harlequin romance books–there must have been at least 100. While a coworker and I were transferring them to the intake cart for the Friends of the Library to shelve in the bookstore, we decided that, as neither of us had ever read a Harlequin romance book before, we would each buy a dollar worth of books (aka four books, as each paperback costs $0.25), read them, and report back on if Harlequins deserve all of the rancor they get. Of the four I selected, His Secretly Pregnant Cinderella ended up being the first I read. (Also “secretly pregnant” and “Cinderella” are surprisingly common in Harlequin romance titles. 1. How often do people have secret pregnancies? 2. I doubt any of these are actually Cinderella stories–I know this one wasn’t. It was just a love story about a rich guy and not rich girl. That’s not what a Cinderella story is.) Based only on this book, I can honestly say that Harlequin romances don’t deserve the hate... Read the full review here
July 25, 2022
I sense a second book coming.. this book wasn’t listed as book one.. but I feel the sister Athena story coming! Book two😄
April 22, 2023
I kinda liked it. It was well-written and fun to laugh at. Only thing is I felt all the tension leave once they were married and the mmc knew the children were his, which occurred around 50%.
January 6, 2022
The idea for the story is brilliant. The heroine being introduced to the family of her boyfriend and falling in lust with the elder brother.
The beginning half was quite nice. It lagged somewhat in the middle. Picked up at the end.
The story is more about feelings. About how upbringing and childhood hurts can take away people’s capacity to love and trust.
I really loved the visual of the heroine as a child buying a gift for a birthday party and waiting for her mother to turn up and take her there. She never goes to the party. The mother comes home and rants at her. Was very poignant.
The heroine is really sweet. And brave. And good.
Hero is tortured. Blames himself for things that are not his fault.
The only flaw? Enough doesn’t happen in the story. It gets humdrum after a certain point.
More like a fable or a fairy tale. Distanced from every day life and happenings.
That’s what I felt.
Still it was quite good. Better than many of the older authors who sometimes turn out such meaningless drivel.
The beginning half was quite nice. It lagged somewhat in the middle. Picked up at the end.
The story is more about feelings. About how upbringing and childhood hurts can take away people’s capacity to love and trust.
I really loved the visual of the heroine as a child buying a gift for a birthday party and waiting for her mother to turn up and take her there. She never goes to the party. The mother comes home and rants at her. Was very poignant.
The heroine is really sweet. And brave. And good.
Hero is tortured. Blames himself for things that are not his fault.
The only flaw? Enough doesn’t happen in the story. It gets humdrum after a certain point.
More like a fable or a fairy tale. Distanced from every day life and happenings.
That’s what I felt.
Still it was quite good. Better than many of the older authors who sometimes turn out such meaningless drivel.
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December 7, 2023
Una serie de decisiones desafortunadas o equivocadas con final feliz??
Libro cliché por donde se lo mire y que trata de ser correcto pero es cringe en general.
Lectura rápida, rapidísima asegurada, casi que no te das ni cuenta de lo que va sucediendo porque ya pasó.
Para responder si es bueno el libro, la verdad que no, si está bien contado, no, la historia se sostiene y no hay errores tampoco, pero que entretiene eso creo que si, principalmente gracias a su corta extensión.
Sirvió para el motivo que lo leí, adelantar el reto de libros y tener un audiolibro tranqui que me permitiera realizar otras tareas.
Libro cliché por donde se lo mire y que trata de ser correcto pero es cringe en general.
Lectura rápida, rapidísima asegurada, casi que no te das ni cuenta de lo que va sucediendo porque ya pasó.
Para responder si es bueno el libro, la verdad que no, si está bien contado, no, la historia se sostiene y no hay errores tampoco, pero que entretiene eso creo que si, principalmente gracias a su corta extensión.
Sirvió para el motivo que lo leí, adelantar el reto de libros y tener un audiolibro tranqui que me permitiera realizar otras tareas.
February 1, 2022
A decent book
The h was the girlfriend to the brother of the H. The brother was caught cheating so the h went to the H, they were attracted to each other. The h had never slept with the brother, she was still a virgin. An unexpected pregnancy caused an uproar in the family because everyone thought the babies were his brother’s. There was a lot of angst and sorrow, the H had a lot of trust issues from his childhood. They were able to find their way back to each other. Epilogue could have been longer.
The h was the girlfriend to the brother of the H. The brother was caught cheating so the h went to the H, they were attracted to each other. The h had never slept with the brother, she was still a virgin. An unexpected pregnancy caused an uproar in the family because everyone thought the babies were his brother’s. There was a lot of angst and sorrow, the H had a lot of trust issues from his childhood. They were able to find their way back to each other. Epilogue could have been longer.
August 7, 2022
It was ok, but I wouldn't want to re-read. By the end hero had way too much inner conflict with himself and struggling with his fears, I felt like there was way too many pages saying the same thing. I did like that hero never slept with another woman after setting eyes on heroine and that heroine never slept with his brother (although if he hadn't been cheating on her she would have slept with him in the room right next to the hero). The connection felt very real and I liked that the hero was so into heroine. P.
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March 20, 2022
started out good
I really liked the beginning of the book. I actually think the end might have been better to be the whole premises of the book. The author repeated the whole mother deal with Morgan several times. It was very repetitive. He seemed very alpha and then all of sudden he was kind of annoying. I wasn’t sure about the brother either. Was I supposed to hate him or just forgive him! Just thought it started out strong and was boring at the end.
I really liked the beginning of the book. I actually think the end might have been better to be the whole premises of the book. The author repeated the whole mother deal with Morgan several times. It was very repetitive. He seemed very alpha and then all of sudden he was kind of annoying. I wasn’t sure about the brother either. Was I supposed to hate him or just forgive him! Just thought it started out strong and was boring at the end.
March 1, 2022
This was a nice read. A pleasant 2 hour distraction. I hope there is another book for Athena. To those with less than stellar reviews, this is fiction, pure fantasy - not reality. The characters belong to Ms. Adams and they were good characters. Did they move fast? Yes, but don't all HQ stories? So, thank you Ms. Adams for this entertainment.
January 31, 2022
Totally impressed with this one. Nice twist in the end
January 5, 2022
This is good, kinda funny, and I like that there were some cursing words here cause you know HP never does that, I love that the hero said "fuck" lmao. The hero was very attracted to his brother's girlfriend. When she climbed to his room because he needed to escape from her boyfriend's room while he was cheating on her, they just did it you know. Then she fell pregnant and he married her thinking it was his brother's, very frustrating here.
October 5, 2024
2.5 stars that could have been a 4
This was my first Millie Adams, and it had lots of interesting moments and broke lots of HP conventions, tho maybe not always for the best.
It starts with the h jumping from her boyfriend's balcony, trying to escape the sight of him having sex with another women. She's all lingeried up and ready to let Alex have sex with her for the first time, so the timing is not good. She ends up in his brother's bedroom, and before you know it, they are naked and on the bed. So, technically, she is cheating with her potential brother-in-law and he is having sex with his brother's fiance. And then, news comes that the brother, Alex, has been killed in a car crash in the early hours, still oblivious to the shenanigans next door.
Now, this is how it starts. We find out subsequently that Constantine and Millie have been magnetically drawn to each other for months. He's been dubious about her motives and she's been fearful of letting her darker desires surface (her mum resented her and she felt unloved). After the funeral, their passions get the best of them again. At no point does either of them think of contraception, so you'd think it wouldn't be a surprise when the H sees a photo of Millie with a big bump. The family assumes that the baby is Alex's, and the family is delighted, so Constantine proposes so that the baby will be protected and grow up a Kamaras.
Some of the language is a bit overwrought, some of it very good. The author writes historical fiction and you can tell.
“Darling,” he said. “Do not lie. It insults us both. You have wanted me from the very moment you first set foot in my parents’ house. And the more cruel I am to you, the more you seem to want it.”
“And you must know,” he said. “How I have wanted you.”
Constantine is tortured, and unlike so many HPHs, with good reason. He and his twin sister were kidnapped at the age of 8 - he was held hostage for two months, his sister disappeared. He blames himself, and has clung on to mental control for years through work, work, work while his parents and brother enjoyed the gazillions his labours brought them.
When the h, newly confident in her emotions and determined to be a good mother to her twins, admits she loves him - he panics and leaves her on an island for 3 weeks!
As other reveiwers have pointed out, if there had been some better plotting - earlier descriptions of them first meeting, first sex after the funeral, ending not so rushed- this would maybe be a more conventional HP. And there was some bad editing - the h admits she didnt love the brother, then she loved him a bit, then she loved him very much, all within the same chapter! But it was interesting, the MCs had good chemistry, and I'll look out for this author again.
This was my first Millie Adams, and it had lots of interesting moments and broke lots of HP conventions, tho maybe not always for the best.
It starts with the h jumping from her boyfriend's balcony, trying to escape the sight of him having sex with another women. She's all lingeried up and ready to let Alex have sex with her for the first time, so the timing is not good. She ends up in his brother's bedroom, and before you know it, they are naked and on the bed. So, technically, she is cheating with her potential brother-in-law and he is having sex with his brother's fiance. And then, news comes that the brother, Alex, has been killed in a car crash in the early hours, still oblivious to the shenanigans next door.
Now, this is how it starts. We find out subsequently that Constantine and Millie have been magnetically drawn to each other for months. He's been dubious about her motives and she's been fearful of letting her darker desires surface (her mum resented her and she felt unloved). After the funeral, their passions get the best of them again. At no point does either of them think of contraception, so you'd think it wouldn't be a surprise when the H sees a photo of Millie with a big bump. The family assumes that the baby is Alex's, and the family is delighted, so Constantine proposes so that the baby will be protected and grow up a Kamaras.
Some of the language is a bit overwrought, some of it very good. The author writes historical fiction and you can tell.
“Darling,” he said. “Do not lie. It insults us both. You have wanted me from the very moment you first set foot in my parents’ house. And the more cruel I am to you, the more you seem to want it.”
“And you must know,” he said. “How I have wanted you.”
Constantine is tortured, and unlike so many HPHs, with good reason. He and his twin sister were kidnapped at the age of 8 - he was held hostage for two months, his sister disappeared. He blames himself, and has clung on to mental control for years through work, work, work while his parents and brother enjoyed the gazillions his labours brought them.
When the h, newly confident in her emotions and determined to be a good mother to her twins, admits she loves him - he panics and leaves her on an island for 3 weeks!
As other reveiwers have pointed out, if there had been some better plotting - earlier descriptions of them first meeting, first sex after the funeral, ending not so rushed- this would maybe be a more conventional HP. And there was some bad editing - the h admits she didnt love the brother, then she loved him a bit, then she loved him very much, all within the same chapter! But it was interesting, the MCs had good chemistry, and I'll look out for this author again.
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