I clicked with her from the very first page. Shen did a phenomenal job with character development, that you don’t just read what they’re feeling, you feel it. She wants to hate Vicious and he surely gives her plenty of reason to…and yet, he’s like a magnet drawing her in. They say the line is thin between love and hate and that’s definitely the case here. But I promised myself I’d crack it, break it, and unleash pure hatred in its place before he got to me.Įmilia was a heroine you can’t help but like. It was too bad that my hate for him was dipped in a thin shell of something that felt like love. And the target for the brunt of his anger is Emilia, his classmate and daughter of the hired help living at his father’s mansion. He’s a coldblooded asshole that practice bubbles over with barely surprised rage.

It doesn’t matter that women are more disposable to them than a pair of socks, they’ll gladly give up their dignity for a night…or a few hours in their bed. All the guys want to hang out with them and all the girls want to sleep with them. This guy is going to break my heart if I let him. How else could the woman possibly crawl inside my mind and create a story that seriously felt custom written for me?Ī heroine that’s the perfect blend of innocent but with a steel backbone? Check!Īn enemies to lovers story that left me practically salivating? CHECK!Ī sexual chemistry and a burn so good it makes you want to slap yo mama? CHECK!Īn addicting, obsessive read from cover to cover? ABSOLUTELY FREAKING CHECK!!! That should deter me from chasing her, but it doesn’t. The woman who knows my darkest secret, and the daughter of the cheap Help we hired to take care of our estate. Ten years ago, she barged into my life unannounced and turned everything upside down.Įmilia LeBlanc is completely off-limits, my best friend’s ex-girlfriend. Now, he came for me in New York, and he isn’t leaving until he takes me with him. Ten years ago, he made me run away from the small town where we lived.

The man who comes to me in my dreams also haunts me in my nightmares.Ī bully and a savior, a monster and a lover. They say love and hate are the same feelings experienced under different circumstances, and it’s true.

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