While we are talking about fighting and making up, we see Jared and Tate a lot in this book… and that’s pretty much all they did in the background. These two were doing one of two things, fighting or making up. One thing is for certain though, there is a lot more sex in this one. While the majority of their romance is a push and pull of sorts, I didn’t find any one characters to be outright horrible.

He didn’t terrorize Fallon, he didn’t belittle her and make her life a living hell, he didn’t even have contact with her until she showed up out of the blue. I will say that Rival was a lot easier to swallow than Bully and Until You and that’s mainly because I found Madoc to be redeemable. So, it’s no surprise that she not only wants nothing to do with Madoc but she also wants to get her revenge. Hearing about what she went through was really sad. She’s left to fend for herself at a boarding school for her last two years of education with no contact from back home. She sneaks back home to find the guy she thought loved her, hooking up with someone else, and all at once her world crumbles.

She lands in this mansion, falls in love with her step-brother, and then is ripped out of her home in the middle of the night and shipped off to boarding school. I mean, she has a really crappy, gold-digging mother who just jumps from husband to husband. It isn’t until he’s reunited with Fallon that you start to see life come back to him.įallon…. However, his affair with Fallon really messed him up and put him in a downward spiral. I’m not excusing his questionable behavior though, he is a total creeper and should’ve been brought up on sexual harassment charges a long time ago. I was really hoping that Rival would give me a better understanding of him and it definitely did. I mean, I already wasn’t his biggest fan in the previous books because he was a big of a sleezeball who just joked everything away. So, if that’s a hard limit for you then you may want to move on to something else. However, the twist that Rival has is the fact that this love-hate relationship is between step-siblings. Rival sort of has the same feel as Bully in the sense that it’s two people who hate each other, try to hurt each other, but secretly love each other. That’s what he wants, right? As long as I keep my guard up, he’ll never know how much he affects me…. Two years and I can tell he still wants me, even if he acts like he’s better than me.īut I won’t be scared away. I was stupid then, but now I’m ready to beat her at her own game… Back when we lived in the same house, she used to cut me down during the day and then leave her door open for me at night. Two estranged teenagers playing games that push the boundaries between love and war…įor the two years she’s been away at boarding school, there was no word from her.

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