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Forbid her from contacting anyone so she wouldn’t compromise her safety?
That's psychopathic. Gregory wouldn't know if she called her mom, who is half a country away. Ugh.
the towel slipped. Yummy. Berries.
Berries???
“It’s always sad when a man gets shackled to a ball and chain. Next thing you know, you’ll be taking ballroom fucking dancing, calling everything ‘ours’, losing your closet to shoes, and having to watch romantic comedies instead of going to the bar with the boys.”
Uuuuuggggghhh.
the one with split ends replied with a sage nod of her head, which was at odds with the piercing in her nose and left eyebrow.
How is that at odds? Do you just not like people with piercings?
Did you know she thinks I should cut my hair short? And dye it brown!” His cousin practically choked on the last word. “She has to be stopped.” A nerve in his jaw ticked. He bit his inner cheek. His lip twitched. It didn’t help. He laughed. Nexxie stomped her combat-boot-clad foot. “This isn’t funny! That hairdresser wants to make me look respectable and pretty. It’s just wrong!”
God I hate this.
harangued
This word feels to literate for this book.
“Prisoner implies a cell and hardship.
No.
But because he was cute, and insistent, I kept dating him.” “I never date. I take.”
So far, Arik doesn't seem a whole lot better than Gregory.
I am an avid lacrosse player. Love the color gray.
Could he be anymore cis, white, and boring? I guess so!
fate. And that is what we are, mouse. Fated. True mates, destined to belong together until the end of our time. We are the human equivalent of soul mates.”
Okay but... Why? They have no chemistry. It'd be cool if that was a plot point, or acknowledged at all. If their relationship (sexual or not) grew to overcome that, you might have a story.
hadn’t she thought the eyes freakily similar to Arik’s?
*that their eyes were
would flow better.
She really should seek some professional help.
For once, I agree.
Kira gasped as the truth hit her. “Oh hell, don’t tell me you’re one of those guys who likes dressing up in those big teddy bear costumes? Do you have some fuzzy Leo the lion costume that you like to wear and then get it on? You’d better not be because, I’ll tell you right now, I don’t swing that way.”
Ah, the ever-popular "oh god are you a furry?" Get some new material. Besides, I hear their sex is WILD
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He truly believed he was a lion. Which meant he was working with a few loose screws, which, in turn, meant he could be dangerous.
"Fuck therians too, ig," is what I would say if Arik hadn't already shown that he is, in fact, unstable.
no matter what Arik’s fetish, she didn’t get the impression he was a violent man.
HE TOLD YOU HE HAS KILLED BEFORE AND WILL KILL AGAIN.
not kinbaku level stuff—which, for the uninformed, was a Japanese style of BDSM rope bondage, something she’d learned from an ex-boyfriend who’d expressed an interest in educating her. She politely declined.
It would have been better without the explination.
he was a handsome devil with ebony hair that flopped boyishly over his eyes,
Didn't he shave it of earlier to evade detection?
“Do you know I had a plan? I was going to make you watch as I fucked her.” He licked her, and Kira shuddered, unable to hide her repugnance.
See, a villain being unabashedly a villain is hot. A protagoist with shit behavior whose every action is justified is not.
“Not quite yet, so get that sweet ass back over here.”
This would be more appropriate if you hadn't just given her more PTSD.
“Or what, you’ll kill me, too?” “Maybe kill you with pleasure.”
Shut UP.
“Mouse, you’re being stubborn again. We both know you want a hug.”
This is so fucked up. Not fun-dark-romance fucked up, either.
but only long enough to drag her pants down and strip off her top.
Drag her pants... down?
As he seesawed in and out of her sheath, the cream of her desire coated him and eased his passage.
Seesawed is not a sexy word. Please be more vugar, you are writing PORN.
finally allowing himself to truly believe she’d escaped unscathed.
"...allowing himself," yeah because even he knows he's fucking traumatized her.
Rawr.
Stop, you sound like everyone from 2009.
A few weeks as a matter of fact and much had changed since her initial shocking immersion into his life—and his secret. For one thing, he wasn’t the control freak she’d first accused him of being. Well, he was, just not in the way she initially expected.
Please god just lean IN to him being awful and stop justifying his EVERY ACTION.
Kira enjoyed testing them, leaving smudges in odd places and putting dirty dishes under the bed, in the vanity drawer. She even balled up some underwear and stuffed it with other dirty laundry in the freezer.
That's not quirky, it reads like a desperate cry for control.
The quirky part was he enjoyed napping as a man, in the nude.
Before you implied he slept on it in lion form. I am begging for consistency.
she had to tolerate a bodyguard shadowing her movements when she left the condo. It was a small price to pay for the utter happiness life with Arik brought her.
I can't stress enough how fucked-up sexy this would be if it wasn't painted as "Arik can do no wrong."
This whole epilogue is just "Arik is great actually! Everything he does is good and right."
A whispered, “I love you,” vibrated against her lips, his softly growled admission fueling her passion.
How is this NOT the last line od the book? It's over. Stop.
It should have been impossible. Arik was a lion, and yet he was— “Purring?” Indeed, he was. And when an alpha purrs, pleasure is sure to follow.
Why can he purr as a hu-- forget it.
