Zakiya Daniel > Recent Status Updates

What an exciting and nerve-wracking experience it is to witness the birth of your first child! 🩷 Such a sweet recollection of those moments. (Now I wanna ask my parents how they felt when I was born).

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“Anything can happen.” That’s what I think of when it comes to pregnancy. Although there’s a fair amount of successful pregnancies and births, what I’ve read so far reminds me that pregnancy complications, infant mortality, and maternal mortality are still very real risks for many women, and it can literally be no fault of their own. It’s kinda scary, IMO.

Almost there! Literally SO CLOSE!

I’m SCREAMING!!!

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How much discernment does a person need to NOT get played?! 😵‍💫

Question to think about: Why can’t we tell when the stranger in front of us is lying tour face? 🤔

*ANGRY SCREAMING* 😤🤬😫

So much has happened!

ALSO, the witty banter is *chef’s kiss* and Orion and Rosalind are EVERYTHING! ❤️ He is so charismatic, and such a smooth-talker too! If Orion so much as gave me a smoldering side-eye, I’d have melted like ice cream. 🤣🍦

I can’t believe what’s happening. 😭

So the ghosts of the past do exist! 😵‍💫 These last couple of chapters FLEW by. But closure is nice. For everyone.

THAT. WAS. INTENSE. 😖🤯😱

These last few chapters have really been treading in some morally gray waters lately. 🥲 I wonder how things will all play out!

“People can be capable of terrible things and still hold love in their hearts at the same time.” (p. 102)

So cleverly written! “That’s something to remember about men: the trickiest ones know how to hide their temper, so one should never assume the absence of anger equates kindness.” (p. 60) 🫢

Make a plan. Stick to the plan. Hopefully deliver.

One on the run. One in lockdown. One held prisoner. We’re off to a GREAT start, everyone. 😭

I CANNOT BELIEVE THIS!!!!!! HOW is this even POSSIBLE?! 🫨😱😭😫 *screams of anguish* 😫😫😫😫

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A literal emotional rollercoaster!

Where do I even begin?! That FIRST bombshell felt like getting my heart ripped out. That SECOND one had me reeling. The THIRD big reveal had me spiraling. I love surprises, but DANG, these last few plot twists got me GOOD. #Sucker
This book was *chef’s kiss* and I literally CANNOT WAIT to read the sequel!!

Still picking my jaw up off the floor because this book keeps dropping bombshell after bombshell and I’m trying to hold on. 🥲

First of all, HE KNOWS!! It sucks that he found out this way, but DANG!! And second of all, OMG WHAAAAAAAT JUST HAPPENED?!?!?! 🫣 I just stopped on a cliffhanger because I have to go to sleep, and I CANNOT believe I had the actual audacity to do this to myself!! 😫 Now I won’t be able to sleep until I know what happens!!

That escape was SO NARROW! 🤧 One step closer to the end, are we? Now that the pieces are starting to come together, I wanna know WHO is behind all this?!

First of all, Orion and Rosalind’s dynamic is *chef’s kiss* and I love seeing how their characters develop. There’s so much that I don’t know about them and that they don’t know about each other—this is gonna be a learning experience for ALL of us. Also, WHAT IS HAPPENING AND WHO THE HECK IS BEHIND ALL OF THIS?!?! 😭

WHEW CHILE! These last few chapters had my heart RACING! I can barely keep up. I thought I was vigilant and expecting the unexpected, but DANG, they are catching EVERYONE off guard—including ME! 😳 Three words: WHAT. IS. HAPPENING?! 😫