Review: DEX: Castle Ink #1

DEX: Castle Ink #1 by Amy Davies

My rating: 2 of 5 stars

The hero is a big asshole.
Our heroine is a fool who serves as a doormat for the hero to step on.
He still loves his dead wife and became a womanizer after her death.
He rubs the women in the face of the heroine and humiliates her constantly.
She is a poor second choice ever, a replacement. She lives in the house of the deceased wife and even names her daughter with the name of the ex.
I found it hard to swallow his sudden passion for her. I was not convinced. He always despised the love of our heroine and made other choices.
She's always been left behind.
But we have an HEA.

I just buried my heart.

There will never be another woman for me. No other woman will own my heart.

But with me being with Fiona, I couldn’t admit that I stopped seeing her as a little sister when she was around fourteen; I was eighteen at the time.

She told me that she couldn’t be around me and Fiona living happily together. It hurt her heart.

Addy gives in to fighting me as I rip her clothes off and I remove my boxers. We make love right there on the sofa, in front on the blazing fire. After I feel her third orgasm pulsing through her body, I finally let go.

“It should never have happened, Ads.” She flinches at my nickname for her.

I push her away but it hurts me to be close to her, I always feel as if I am cheating on Fiona; even after three years.

“I needed to forget and you were there. Easy.”

I think of my love for Fiona as well. I know that she is gone but she will always be with me.

The family I wanted with Fiona.

Addison has always loved you and was always there for you. But you brushed aside her feelings for Fiona.

...but you enjoyed rubbing it in my face that you were fucking every other girl but me, to what? Hide your feelings for me? That was a shitty way to do it.

...my stomach is churning at the amount of women Dex has been with since Fiona died. He used to flaunt them in front of me all the time. He knew how much he was hurting me but being the dick that he is, he ignored my feelings.

I have wanted but I had always pictured my future with Fiona.

She made it very clear that living in Fiona’s house didn’t bother her.

“I want to name her Phoebe Fiona Castle.”

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Review: The Fourth Child

The Fourth Child by C.J. Carmichael

My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Re-read in December 2017 = added highlighs and my feelings...
Re-read in March 2015 = Added one more star

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A very well written story that engages the reader from beginning to end.
But I would not take the cheater back, he was a son of a bitch.
And Janice was a bitch who knew the man was married.
He was loving the attention of a younger woman who fed his ego.
While the two had dates and dinners while pretending to work late, he did not remember his wife taking care of her three daughters at home alone.
And he spoke openly in the face of his wife who was in love with another woman and did not even remember her feelings or how his attitude would affect her daughters.
And he admitted that he kissed Janice and she even left a lipstick on the glove compartment of his car. Real evidence of the cheating left by Janice for his wife to find out.
Saying that he did not have sex with Janice did not convince me, I got the impression that something more intimate happened between them.

Already the place had the hollow, muted atmosphere he associated with afterhours and weekends.
And Janice.

Occasional lunches became more frequent; open meetings evolved into secret rendezvous. At what point had he known he was falling in love? Kirk still wasn't sure. But he did know the time had come to do something about it. Last week at dinner, Janice had told him she wanted more. He couldn't pretend not to understand what she meant.

"What about here, Kirk? What about now? The place is deserted. I've locked the door."

He groaned. God, he couldn't believe it. She was offering him his ultimate fantasy. How many nights had he lain awake thinking of something just like this? Now he swallowed, his gaze automatically settling on the hint of cleavage between the parted layers of silky blouse.

"If I kiss you, this time I won't be able to stop there."

"But that's okay," Janice said, leaning in toward him. "That's what I've been trying to tell you."

"The thing is, Claire, I've fallen in love with someone else."

Kirk always worked long hours, and lately they'd been even longer than usual. Had there been other signs she'd missed? They'd been making love less frequently. And saying I love you even less.

Regardless of whether Kirk had slept with Janice, he'd broken his wedding vow to Claire. He was in love with the other woman, and how could Claire compete? She was ten years older, overweight— and pregnant on top of everything!

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