Review: Legacy

Legacy by Natasha Thomas

My rating: 3 of 5 stars






UPDATE: 2018
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One of the heroes does not want to have children. Our heroine came from a horrible home and her biggest dream is to have a family.
Another hero has fucked everything that breathes and has a hole while waiting for the heroine to reach the right age.
Another hero is a complete asshole who likes to play pranks on our heroine and humiliate her publicly. In addition he took her virginity and soon after left her alone in a remote place. She had to ask for a ride to a stranger to return home.
Another hero is in love with our heroine, but he still gets a woman and decides to marry her. She, despite being his best friend, learns through a telephone call. He still takes another woman to meet his family and everything.
All heroes are big assholes and all heroines are weak and doormats.

Watching Kell with more women than I could poke a stick at hurt. No, I lie, it burned.

I’m humiliated that I’d forgotten he was in here with a woman not seconds before I walked in, and I’m disappointed he’d think I’d be okay with that. Some of my mortification starts to subside when I glance up at him.

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“We’re going to get married soon, baby, but when we do I don’t want kids. I don’t ever want kids, Emma. If you’re good with that then we can get started planning, okay?”

Amalia saw him a Rough Shod several times with various women,...

There was only one dark spot in our reunion, and that was when Kane confessed he had indeed slept with three other women.

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I gave Bryce Adams my virginity and he took it without reservation. That night was amazing, more than I could have dreamed of, and I’d dreamed about doing this with Bryce a lot in the years that preceded it.

Within seconds of withdrawing himself from me, literally, he fucked it all up (no pun intended).

Bryce got dressed, tied off the end of the spent condom, one he unceremoniously dropped down beside me, and walked away. He didn’t check if I was okay or offer to take me home, nothing. What made matters worse was he drove us to the stream, which is four miles from his house and six from mine so I had no way to get home. Bryce couldn’t even take a second to help me up from my prone position before he ran off in the direction of his truck not looking back. He did do something though, he broke my heart. It was the first time I’d had my heart shattered but it wouldn’t be the last, and each and every time that followed it would be him who did it.

Reaper and Ade didn’t judge or disparage me, they treated me with care and consideration something I wasn’t used to.

“Are you gonna say anything about that comment, brother because if you don’t, I fucking will,” Tank growls at my Dad.

If you saw Arrow with his wife and son you’d think he was a standup guy. One who loved with his whole heart and had dedicated himself to making sure he gave them the perfect life they both deserved. Watch him with Amalia for less than a minute though and you’ll be educated in all the ways he’s a grade A prick and you can screw up as a parent.

“Trust you,” she scoffs in distaste. “I trust you about as much as I’d trust the Cubs to win the World Series, which to give it some extra perspective is about as much as I trust my Dad.”

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“I met someone, Kota, and she’s fucking amazing.” At his choice of word the knife he’s wielding slices through my flesh. “She’s funny. She’s out there. She’s a fucking nut but in a good way. A way I like a whole hell of a lot.” That was him shoving a live grenade into the wound.

“I asked her to move in with me, Kota.”

“We’re getting married, babe. Next month probably. Nothing big, just a small ceremony, a justice of the peace if I can get her to agree to it. I wanna make this quick. I wanna make her mine.

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Shit, I fucked around so much my friends and brothers called me Don Juan for fucks sake. To be honest I don’t blame them, I did sleep with more women than my fair share, but I’d also done it knowing that after it was all said and done, after all my time waiting I’d have my prize.

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He doesn’t know this, but I haven’t been with a man other than him. As in, no one. Not ever.

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“It’s no secret Dad and I don’t get on, or that we never have. We didn’t have the kind of relationship your sister has with your Dad, but it wasn’t only my condition that made it that way. Sure, it didn’t help, but it was more than that. It was almost as if he hadn’t wanted another child to begin with, but gave in under the pressure Mom put on him. I learned to deal with the fact we weren’t close and wouldn’t ever be, or I thought I had. I mean, I missed not having a close bond with him and I hated that he always saw me as a disappointment, but eventually I came to just accept that was the way it was between us and it wasn’t going to change.”

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Dad had forged my signature on the forms and submitted them without ever showing them to me. It wasn’t until we were in the room, I was strapped down, and she was about to administer the anaesthetic that she asked me to confirm it was my signature on the papers.”
I mean, who else do you know that has a Dad who would sign them up, unwittingly mind you, for three electroconvulsive therapy sessions a week, for however long it was going to take, and without asking them? Without talking to them about it? No one, that’s who.”

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It probably makes me a bad person, but I kind of hold the whole thing against my Mom too. Even though she wasn’t there and doesn’t know what he’d done, I still think she should have done something to stop him treating me like shit all the years before and after,” I admit sadly.

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Maybe I could have just told you she was so desperate to get back on your cock that she thought it was a good idea to make it known, hospital wide mind you, how good you are in bed, and how stupid I am for letting you go.

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Cody dumped the horrid woman on his parents’ front porch, but all that was too little, too late for me. Hearing it, that he was getting married, from Cody over the phone was a very different thing to hearing it in person from woman you’ve never met before. An intimidating, beautiful, cold woman at that. A woman I’d never have put together with Cody. A woman I was glad was gone from his life, but not even that could life my spirits.

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You found your person, and I thought I’d found mine until it turned out all I had found was a colossal dick playing dress-up in a nice guy costume.”

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“You dated. You took women home. You fucked around, and I heard all about it. We were friends, Cody. You came over to watch movies and told me about your dates. We went out to eat, and you told me who you were seeing after we were done and you dropped me off at home. And in that time, not once did you say they were fillers, or that it was me you wanted. If anything you went out of your way to prove just the opposite.”

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