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Harry is crossing a line, especially if he's attracted to her and the comfort becomes one iota more. This made me uncomfortable about Harry.
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I agree that there was something uncomfortable about it. I'm not sure I would consider it crossing the line because it wasn't officially Harry's case AND Cal and Sylvia were separated.
...but still married, legally. I would have expected Harry to think about that. Of course, if the guy was truly dead, Sylvia wasn't married. I'm still twisted on this point. Harry should have kept all but his hands to himself!
At this point, both Sylvia and Harry thought she was a widow and the fact that she separated from Cal before then made her a free agent in my eyes. I didn't have a problem with their relationship in this regard. My issue with them is more one of personal incompatibility
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It felt like crossing a line to me too. Sylvia was separated from Cal, true, but there were still feelings there, even if only of the what-might-have-been variety. And I definitely think that the two of them sleeping in Cal's bed was bad form. But it seems clear to me that Harry has a definite "type"; he seems drawn to women who seem broken or have an air of sadness about them - a mirror of himself perhaps. He muses in this book that he has an emptiness inside of him that he thinks maybe Sylvia can fill (slow down Harry, her husband isn't even in the ground yet!) but he's never going to find that in women who have their own holes to fill. He and Sylvia were a bad idea from the beginning. If I were her, another cop would be the last person I would look at for potential romance.
Veronica, I think you have a very good insight into Harry's attraction to women who are broken, which will never fill his need for a partner/mate. Interesting idea to carry through to future books in this series.
Harry suffers from Damsel in Distress syndrome - if she's broken, he will be attracted to her. He needs to find someone healthy!
