Rai (is hard to please)’s Reviews > Witches Get Stitches > Status Update

“I hate to be the bearer of bad news, wolfie, but that wasn’t a perfect limerick.”
“Doesn’t matter.” He lifted my hand, our fingers laced, and pressed a kiss to the back of my hand. “My girl’s perfect.”
I didn’t correct him because we both knew that I wasn’t perfect. But our love was. We were perfect for each other.

“I could’ve been more understanding the first time Shane came to me. Not that he gave me much reason since he was being a total ass that day, but all of this stems from something greater. An intolerance that needs to be eradicated.”

Third-act conflict:
miscommunication… diplomacy edition

“Tomorrow morning, you’ll call Sean—that’s this guy over there—at the shop and set up appointments for this week so I can tattoo the rest of your pack.”

YES. LIKE CIVILIZED INDIVIDUALS.

“Maybe. But I don’t regret it. I got what I wanted. Plus she was really pretty to look at when she was giving me that tattoo.”

Shane, bud. Dumbfuck. Read the room.

“My anger over being abducted and wounded by these asshats melted behind a need to help them. They were like Nico. Like Mateo. In need of something, peace and healing, that I could possibly give them.
Holding Shane’s hostile gaze, his jaw clenching, I set my glass of water aside on the table and stood. ‘Okay.’”

… that’s it? FFS AT LEAST MAKE HIM SAY PLEASE. BETTER YET, HAVE HIM SCHEDULE AN APPOINTMENT

“She’s a lady?”
“Compliant, agreeable.” Another long, hard lick. “Easy to please.”

As a lady and someone with a vagina… inaccurate on all counts.

“You don’t think he might want a more masculine color?”
“Real men wear pink, Nico. Haven’t you heard?”
This woman. She was half crazy. And I loved it.
“Must’ve missed the memo.”

“I’d given his little brother a job here as a favor to Devraj who’d asked on Henry’s behalf for some reason. I was pretty sure it was paying back the favor for Henry’s help in that whole blood trafficking ring debacle.”

18% in:
“We’d hired him as a favor to Ruben who’d asked on behalf of his brother, Henry Blackwater, a grim who worked for him.”