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 Fayeth, you can follow this link to Sylvia's main site to see each of the 22 chapter snapshots (and read all of the snippets too, along with Entwined Chapter 1 and part of Chapter 2.) All of the material is linked to this one page: http://www.sylviaday.com/category/snippet/

 That's a GREAT idea!!!Â

 Isn't it ironic -- in a good way -- that the one place specifically set as the alternative to Facebook and Twitter, the spot where it's permissible to discuss spoiler material, is a place where there's been a voluntary consensus to avoid that very thing prior to the actual release date.  I've yet to see a spoiler here -- unlike what I heard about Goodreads. Those of us lucky enough to somehow have gotten copies a few days early are being extra careful.

From Sylvia's Facebook page: Â

 The snapshot started out as the elevators, switched to the flowers, then switched back to the original elevators.

 It was a snapshot, and don't worry that you're going crazy because you can't find it .... because it's gone.  It was Snapshot #12 -- that started out as the elevators, mysteriously changed to that vase of roses with the card, then changed back to the original picture of the elevators.

Given Sylvia's dismay about the embargo not holding 100%, I feel a bit guilty now that I managed to acquire a copy before Tuesday. She's got to be even more frustrated than ever with her publisher.  But all along, I planned -- and I still will keep to this -- to abide by my own personal embargo against discussing spoilers. Not until the morning after the U.K. release am I going to start discussing any of the Entwined chapters.  The only things I will say before then is I very much loved the book, and that Sylvia really delivered on those nightclub snippets that gave us a little foreplay into some sexy time between Gideon and Eva.

 Yes, I will post the final Reflected chapter update tomorrow. The re-read project has us all on Chapter 19 today - the cliffhanger ending. It'll go up on schedule tomorrow early morning U.S. Eastern Time.

     PURELY HYPOTHETICAL FROM REFLECTED ... imaging something inside Gideon's head from Reflected, him desperately clinging to the hope the cops cannot prove he had motive. How could they argue he had motive when he's "done" with Eva and "back with Corrine."  NOT spoiler info. I would never post Entwined spoiler info.  Yeesh, I gotta be careful about putting opinions/thoughts in quotes. False alarm, my friends. Whenever I put an actual Crossfire quote in a post, I usually include the page number.

OK. done. Â Loved, loved, loved it. On a scale of one to ten, a twelve. Â I am NOT answering any questions though, not before Friday when the lovely ladies in parts of Europe have had a late night Thursday to catch up with we U.S. ladies who will all finally have had their shot at reading on Tuesday. Â Except -- NON SPOILER, DON'T WORRY -- the lighthearted question I had for another poster, Mrs. Crossfire, who also was fortunate enough to get the novel early. We knew from the snippets that Sylvia gave us a long time ago the nightclub scene was setting up for serious sexy time. So I asked on a scale of one to ten how hot it turned out. Â My own opinion - on a scale of one to ten, it was thirteen. Lucky thirteen for B.O.B., who is getting lucky this evening -- Yes, I went there - HAH Â In the immortal words of Eva in Bared to You page 51 " .... I've got to go. I have a date with my v*******"

SUCCESS!!!!!! SQUEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!  Ladies, I have some reading to do.  You all should go shopping today. Obviously, many stores have gotten shipments, and some already are stocking their shelves.  After I'm done, all I'll tell you is just how much I loved it. I'm not sayin' nuttin' about content, though, until 9 a.m. U.S. Eastern Time on Friday, so don't even ask.

 In his defense though, he's got to be hurting 100% worse than Eva. For her, the overwhelming feeling is that of loss, of loving someone who (she believed) didn't love her enough in return.  He's racked with: Being without Eva (pain and longing and loneliness) Terrible guilt (look at how Corrine had made him feel somewhat guilty -- how much worse his guilt over Eva must be) Shame (she believes he's a coward and a cheater -- maybe his own insecurities have him believing the coward part is true, at least when it comes to being capable of being in a loving relationship.) Fear (She still sexually desires Brett. Her nagging insecurity alone caused half-consciously act on that desire. Once he started seeing Corrine again, her jealousy made her very deliberately see Brett again. Now she believes he's f****** Corrine, probably had been since the day after Corrine came back to town. What's to stop her from getting even by hopping into the back of a limo with Brett, banging him until he can hardly walk, then making sure the paparazzi gets pictures of the pair of them looking freshly f******. I'm sure a scenario like that -- her f****** Brett and making d*** sure he (Gideon) publicly sees proof of it -- is his very worst nightmare.)

Mind you, I think that when Gideon started manipulating Eva, his goal was simply to make her unsure whether or not his feelings for Corrine were past history. He never meant for her to honestly believe he's now too disgusted, because of his own sexual hang-ups, to  continue their relationship any longer. He never meant for her to know Nathan had even seen him -- much less learn about the existence of those photos and the fact Nathan showed them to him.  But now that the worst has happened, he hasn't denied it to Eva. He can't -- how can he deny he'd left her for Corrine without telling Eva the truth? His hands are tied -- and so his lips are sealed. (Well, they had been until Graves opened her big mouth.)  Personally, I think the cruelest thing of all Gideon did was to NOT call Eva back later after he left the police station. Not sneaked in to her apartment to see her after her father went back to California. Not somehow maneuvered things to secretly talk to her somewhere in the Crossfire.  He completely cut her off after that -- far worse than what he'd done when he'd just been distancing her. How could she not believe he was feeling just like he had years ago when Corrine had walked -- now relieved beyond belief Eva had walked. He'd lacked the b.a.l.l.s. to break his engagement back then, and years later he still was a coward about being the one to end things. He just waited for Eva to do it herself. And now that she had, at last he was free, having now changed his mind about Corrine, the woman he never got over, the only woman he wanted for a wife.

 Most definitely. The whole reason he cut off Eva (and still has her cut off as-of the end of Entwined) is for plausible deniability -- a fancy way of saying lack of evidence.  It is true he had motive to kill (his love for Eva resulting in him taking extreme measures to protect her) -- what's more, it is true he committed the crime he's suspected of.  But the cops (and ultimately a prosecutor) would have to prove he had motive. Right now, they're not there. He's going around acting like he jumped at the second shot Corrine gave him back when Nathan was very much alive. And Eva is going around acting like a woman scorned, convinced that in the end, it was only her body Gideon had wanted -- something he doesn't really want anymore, thanks to Nathan's photos.  Because of the way he's manipulated the media into spreading the Corrine lie like it's gospel truth and manipulated Eva into having everyone around her believe what she herself believes -- he didn't love her, or at least didn't love her enough that he'd kill for her -- is his way of essentially challenging the investigators "You think I actually had motive? Well -- prove it. You can't prove it, can you?Because there's all this evidence to the contrary. So it's entirely plausible I never had motive to begin with. I don't have to lift a finger to deny your suspicions -- you can't prove yours. That's denial enough."

And c'mon, how can this rush to acquire copies a few days early NOT benefit Sylvia's growing popularity as a leading best-selling author and NOT benefit Penguin books. Â Fans (mostly women) running around this weekend and early next week going SQUEEEEEEE!!! Creating such buzz that it creates new fans, readers who have heard of Crossfire before but haven't yet checked out the series? This same sort of "viral" buzz is what launched erotic romance as a hot new genre again. Â If each enthusiastic current fan tempted just one new reader to decide to check out Crossfire, well the fan base would continue to grow like crazy. Â Ladies, we are on a mission --- to be real world "brand evangelists" (that's a marketing term) by whipping things up into a frenzy.

I've got a couple of Walmarts within an hour's driving time, plus I am blessed with having several vibrant indie bookstores within two hours' driving time. Â Road trip!!!!!

P.S. Not to disrespect the book release embargo .... but the fact that obviously books have been slipping through the cracks, and quotes are appearing on social media makes me want to be .... as Eva would say "a bad girl." Â I'm NOT going to start discussing book content until the 7th -- but I am not going to sit around waiting until the release date itself for my own copy, not if there's a chance I can get it this weekend. Â During the height of the Harry Potter craze, the series' publisher went to extraordinary means to try to enforce the release embargo, and thus few copies managed to escape early. I'm now learning that's not necessarily the case with other new best-sellers. Â One more thing I've learned -- it's still worthwhile to be visiting actual bookstores. Yes, getting books vial the biggest online retailers is a good thing -- it practically guarantees avoiding the heartbreak of "sorry, sold out." And e-books are an even better guarantee of that -- no late delivery. Â But there is still something to be said for walking into a bookstore, picking up an actual book from a real shelf, and purchasing the book at a register.

I plan to start hitting bookstores today in case I get lucky.

 It wouldn't likely be enough to get her fired, but it would definitely be a serious black mark against her record as a detective.  Cops, like anyone else, do screw up sometimes. Nearly all instances of criminal cases in the United States where key evidence gets tossed out forever are instances in which the police cross the line of violating the rights afforded people under the "Bill of Rights" -- the first ten amendments to the United States Constitution.  Another mini history lesson: The main body of the Constitution itself set up the U.S. government as a democracy instead of a monarchy (monarchy being the very system the colonies had just rejected when the colonies broke off from the British empire.) The constitution set up the three branches of government: Congress (that makes laws) the Presidency (that runs the country according to the laws) and the Supreme Court (that interprets the laws).  The first ten Amendments to the Constitution were added in one fell swoop, spelling out fundamental rights all citizens have to protect themselves against possible abuse of power by the government. At the time (late 1700s) the Bill of Rights was meant to block the government from resorting to the sorts of control a monarchy might use to undermine the democratic process. Centuries later, it still is meant to block the sorts of things that would steer the government toward dictatorship.  Among the fundamental things the Bill of Rights guarantee are freedom of speech, of religion, of the press. Several of the amendments govern the rules by which the government (in the form of the police and the courts) must abide by when investigating citizens suspected of crimes, arrest suspects, and bring suspects to criminal trial.  So with that background, when police and/or prosecutors cross the line on any of these rules/rights, they're not allowed to use anything gathered illegally to ultimately seek to imprison someone. The two most common ways cops screw up is to cross the line in the way they gather physical/forensic evidence (illegal search/seizure) or gather potential testimony/confessions (questioning people without lawyers in cases where the people indicate they want one present and/or tricking people into incriminating themselves despite the fact people clearly invoke their "right to silence" to refuse to talk to the police.)

OK, ladies, the advice around the globe is this .... Â It would appear that some stores are being lazy about holding their deliveries of Entwined in their stockrooms, going through proper procedure to put the books out on the shelves Monday night after the stores close (in the U.S.) and Wednesday night after the stores close in the U.K. Â So get thee to bookstores today .... and if you see a copy, grab it, stay cool and casual, go the register and don't do anything that would draw attention to yourself. Â In fact, if there's self-checkout, GO FOR IT. If not, try to get a male cashier -- there's too much of a chance a female cashier might be a fan who would know the book ought not to be on the shelf yet. Â Pay for your novel then get the h.e.l.l. out of there before someone figures out there's an embargo date.

 At that point, Graves definitely had gone rogue -- was breaking from her methodical investigation of piece-by-piece and was pulling a very high risk stunt. Obviously, Graves has developed some serious agenda. She's leading Eva to believe that agenda is to back off from pursuing Gideon as a suspect any more. I suspect she'd trying to trap him though, using Eva as bait by trying to get Eva to get back together with Gideon.

Today's Re-Read is the final chapter of Reflected in You - though at this point, increasing numbers of lucky ladies have managed to score copies of Entwined with You.  Guide to yesterday's chapter  Chapter 18 of Reflected in You - The Readers Guide   This chapter starts Monday (day 42 of the story - five weeks to the day since they met and two weeks to the day since Gideon began cutting Eva out of his life) and continued through Tuesday (day 43).  Key plot developments On Tuesday, for the second time in as many days, Gideon and Eva had face to face contact. This time, they had an important conversation that turns convinced Eva things between them aren't over forever after all. Just prior to seeing Gideon again, Eva had two more show downs with people connected to Gideon, continuing a trend that began Saturday night with Eva going after Gideon's mother. In order: Corrine - Eva, still believing it's possible Gideon is f****** Corrine, decided once and for all to confront the matter instead of allowing her insecurities to continue to consume her. Dr. Lucas - Eva, now believing that Lucas somehow was involved in the cover-up of Gideon's childhood sexual abuse, confronted him.  New characters None in this chapter  A turning point Gideon chased after Eva on Tuesday morning - and the conversation they had, with him finally lowering his shield to let her inside himself, gave her hope that the real dealbreaker - his being closed off - might not be insurmountable after all. He still wouldn't tell her the reason why he'd put her through a two-week rollercoaster ride from h.e.l.l. -- the best he would do there was to promise he would return to her once he'd worked out whatever his mysterious issue was. At last, though, she agreed to wait. Even more than that, for the first time, she indicated to him she'd like to get married some day. He'd already hinted weeks earlier marriage was on his mind too - when he first gave her the promise ring, he noted she wasn't yet ready for "that ring" (meaning engagement.) What changed that morning? Despite how much she missed him, she told him point blank she wasn't waiting anymore for things to maybe get better. "I've already left. Don't you see that? I'm living my life and you're not in it ..... you've given me your body and I've been greedy with it, because that's the only way you're really open to me. And now I don't have that, and when I look at what I do have, it's just promises. It's not enough for me. In the absence of you, all I have is a pile of things you won't tell me .... I need more. If I can't have you on the outside, I need to have you on the inside, but you've never let me in." (pages 318-319) So in one of the most important turning points in their relationship, Gideon immediately let her in to a secret place inside himself.  Gideon lets Eva inside Dawning on him that Eva did mean it -- his refusal to let her in is what's really going to lose her forever this time -- prompted him to finally start talking about what's behind his violent nightmares. How the back story unfolded: Gideon had a hard time dealing with his father's suicide at age 5. Once the Ponzi scheme had come to light, his parents happy marriage turned into daily yelling and screaming fights. After Geoffrey killed himself, Elizabeth married Vidal right away and moved out of New York City along with her son. The move wasn't far enough away though. Gideon got bullied at school -- not only by other kids but by their parents too, and even some teachers. It turned him into an angry kid who threw violent tantrums. The birth of his half-brother, Christopher, escalated the anger problem. By the time Gideon was around age 11 and Christopher was old enough (age 5) to start imitating his brother, Christopher too started throwing physical tantrums. By then, Elizabeth was expected her third child (Ireland) and the stress of the two out-of-control boys was making an already difficult pregnancy even harder. The Vidals decided it was time to get Gideon professional help. They hired a shrink, a woman, willing to treat Gideon at home instead of in an office. In tow with the therapist was an assistant, a man working on his Ph.D. The doctoral candidate turned out to be a pedophile. The shrink was for Gideon, but increasingly Elizabeth herself took up the therapist's time, and Gideon got shunted off to the therapist's assistant - who increasingly spent time alone with the child. That's when the sexual abuse began. The abuser manipulated Gideon into thinking raging hormones were his (Gideon's) problem, and master***** would solve the issue. Convincing Gideon he hadn't been doing it right, he began giving the child hand jobs, ostensibly to teach Gideon how to do it "right." Further manipulating his victim, the pedophile forced Gideon to climax every single encounter - a means of shaming him into thinking he (Gideon) was some sort of willing partner, was the instigator of the sexual situation. Gideon may have continued to keep going with the story, but Eva had already heard enough to understand. "You were a child in the hands of an adult who knew all the right buttons to push. They want to make it our fault so they have no culpability in their crime, but it's not true ... I love you. And I believe you. And none of this was your fault." (page 321). "Don't leave me," Gideon begged ... and then he said something even more important for Eva to hear. "I love you." (page 321). He promised that as soon as he felt he could, he would get back together with her. She agreed to his condition of blindly trusting it would happen and so she would wait.  Eva goes after Corrine The events leading up to Gideon chasing Eva on Tuesday morning, taking her off alone together in his Mercedes, began late Monday afternoon, hours after Gideon had given Eva back her ring. For the second time, Eva caught Corrine leaving the Crossfire. This time, there was no doubt whatsoever Gideon had let Corrine see him -- he was escorting her out of the building, one hand at the small of her back in an intimate gesture as he led her to his car and began to climb in with her, obviously taking her somewhere after work. Then he spotted Eva standing stock still and shocked nearby on the sidewalk. And got from her the same reaction the first time she'd spotted Corrine coming out of his skyscraper weeks earlier - anger. She flipped him and then turned her back on him. The next morning, Eva decided once and for all to confront her twin demons of insecurity and jealousy. For the first time in well over a week, she accepted a ride from Angus, who still had been tailing her daily despite the fact she'd left Gideon. Eva told him to drive her to Corrine's apartment. Corrine, caught off guard by word Eva was in her (Corrine's) lobby looking to see her, again resorted to the sort of dirty trick that thus far had driven Eva crazy. She kept Eva waiting 20 minutes and when she finally let her come up, answered her door looking freshly f***** and refusing to let Eva come in. The ruse was to convince Eva that she and Gideon had just wrapped up some morning sex and he'd sent Corrine to get rid of Eva, still too much of a coward to tell Eva herself he was back with Corrine. It came within a hair's breath of working, but then Eva's heart told her that Gideon was in love with her (Eva) and therefore would not be sleeping with Corrine, would not hurt Corrine the way he had before with a dead-end relationship. Getting Corrine worked up and on the defensive gave Eva the confirmation Eva needed as the truth flashed across Corrine's face. But then Corrine fought back by pointing out truthfully Gideon wasn't with Eva at all anymore -- Corrine knew this for a fact because Gideon was spending his free time with her (Corrine). The fight ended with Eva telling Corrine she pitied her and Corrine angrily telling Eva to save her pity for herself.  Eva goes after Dr. Lucas Next up on Eva's list was confronting Dr. Lucas - to whose office she had Angus drive her immediately after Corrine's apartment. She'd been able to piece together enough to suspect the pediatrician was one of the two responsible for covering up the abuse by convincing Gideon's mother her son was lying. Lucas denied it was true, but Eva wasn't buying it. "I'm going to figure it out. I just needed to see your face. I had to know if I was right ....What happened to him as a child was a crime and how you contributed to that is a travesty." (page 314). Eva then stormed out of Lucas' office - and straight into Gideon, who through GPS tracking of the Bentley had by then figured out where Eva was instead of being at her office on time for work. He'd known there was a stop at Corrine's address before then, and he'd also somehow heard Eva had gone after his mother over the weekend.  Two more important things - these from Monday evening. As Gideon's car containing him and Corrine drove away and Eva stood there on the sidewalk, something fell into place for her -- how weeks earlier, her mother had stood rooted on the sidewalk outside the Crossfire. Intuition told her that maybe it had been Nathan, by then in New York and lurking near where Eva works, that Monica had spotted. A quick phone call to her mother confirmed this was true. Eva worked out the timeline, and thus was able to figure out that whatever had driven Gideon away, it couldn't have been the rape photos. She'd assumed Nathan had shown up the same week Gideon cut her out of his life, but now she realized it had to have been much earlier than that -- it happened while Gideon very much still wanted Eva. Someone else still wanted Eva, she discovered upon getting home from work Monday - Brett. Over the weekend (while still out on concert tour) he'd given a radio station interview confirming the Eva mentioned in the hit single "Golden" really does exist, that he had found her again as hoped in the song, and that he wanted to get her back.

Question is .... after I read that nightclub scene, am I going to have to ask B.O.B. for a date night? Â LOL LOL LOL LOL LOLÂ Â Yes, I went there -- sassy Saturday, and I'm climbing the walls, the novel is so close now.

OK, it's really late today (normally it would have been posted 12 hours ago) but here's the summary of yesterday's re-read chapter.  Chapter 17 of Reflected in You - The Readers Guide  This chapter starts Saturday morning (day 33: sixth day of their estrangement and the day on which Eva actually ended things.) It continues through the weekend. Then, because the story timeline revolves around Gideon and Eva being together, this chapter quickly moves through more than a week of utter estrangement. It ends on a Monday (day 42 of the story and two weeks to the day since Gideon began cutting Eva out of his life.)  Key plot developments Gideon had absolutely no contact whatsoever with Eva from the Saturday morning she dumped him until a week from the following Monday, when he finally broke down and approached her at the Crossfire. After she ended things with Gideon, Eva spent the remainder of the weekend distracting herself by showing her Dad around New York. Talking with him, she learned some more about her parents' history. The following weekend, she ran into Gideon's family -- and confronted his mother for her role in Gideon being so damaged that Eva now believed he couldn't handle being loved.  New characters Will, new administrative assistant in Eva's office  More confusion from Gideon Chapter 17 ended with Eva hanging up on Gideon, after she'd said all she needed to: calling him a cheating coward, telling him he'd broken her heart, beating herself up as being damaged goods, crying as she struggled to try to wish he'd find happiness - then unable to do so, telling him good-bye. Only much later would she learn he'd been at the police station that Saturday morning. Now that the murder investigation was in full swing, he didn't dare contact her in any way. Not that day, not that weekend, not even the following week. All it did was reinforce her false belief he was relieved she'd dumped him because he couldn't work up the courage to do it himself. And Eva quit torturing herself by following news of Gideon online. After the pictures and stories of him and Corrine that week, she didn't need to know anything more. But two weeks to the day after Gideon began cutting Eva out of his life, and more than a week after she'd left him for good, he broke down and approached her at the Crossfire. He boarded a crowded elevator with her and her coworkers coming back from lunch on Monday. He convinced her to stay on the elevator. When they were finally the last two occupants, he stopped the elevator and pined her against the wall - to talk. Another low point for Eva, she figured he was just looking for sex. Bitterly, she invited him to go ahead and use her then and there, an angry reaction that made him hiss in pain and tell her "don't" (as in don't say things like that.) He was still wearing his promise ring, which sent a mixed message to her. Then confusing her even further, he placed her promise ring back onto her hand -- the ring she had returned, along with his apartment key. That had been Thursday evening, when normally they would have been together in Dr. Petersen's office, trying to make their relationship work. Eva let Dr. Petersen know they'd no longer be seeing him. Then she had Clancy swing by Gideon's apartment building, where she left the ring and key in an envelope at the downstairs desk. No note included -- none was needed. Giving the ring back was the sign of the promises being broken, and returning the key made it clear never again would she enter his home. When Gideon placed the ring back on her hand, he said one final thing "wait" -- then he left the elevator. Wait - for what? Is what an even more confused than ever Eva wondered (page 304).  Eva and Elizabeth Vidal go at it One week to the day that Eva ended things with Gideon, she ran into his mother - and picked a fight. That was Saturday night at a dinner club where Elizabeth, her husband and Christopher Jr. were checking out singers. Eva, Cary, Monica and Stanton happened to be there -- a night out on the town. It was the first day (and evening) that Eva had finally come out of a self-imposed shell consisting of work, Krav Maga classes, and staying in every night, crying herself to sleep. She'd gotten a make-over that day: had her long blond hair cut into a sophisticated style, swapping a simple make-up look for something sexy. The change in appearance was so dramatic that at first Christopher Jr. didn't recognize her. True to form, he asked her to dance -- and through him, she learned his parents were there. Eva cornered Elizabeth near the ladies room and lit into her. Eva's side of the confrontation From the nightmares Eva has witnessed, in which Gideon begs for mercy, Eva knows beyond all doubt Gideon had been sexually abused. Eva, knowing that Gideon's mother had been told somehow but didn't believe him, told Elizabeth she holds her responsible for everything that happened past the point she'd been informed. "Your son is seriously damaged by what happened to him, and your refusal to believe him made it a million times worse ... he's broken and hurting and doesn't think he's worth loving." (pages 298 and 299) Elizabeth's side of the confrontation: She'd looked into Gideon's claims, but got no proof. She'd had two pediatricians examine him for signs of physical trauma, told there was no proof. Christopher (only 5 years old at the time when asked) claimed nothing happened. "Gideon was a troubled boy, struggling through therapy over his father's death, and desperate for attention. You don't know what he was like then." (page 299) The fight ended with each woman angry at the other -- Eva furious because an abused child shouldn't have had to provide any proof, and Elizabeth outraged that Eva was making baseless claims about a situation Eva had no clue about.  Victor talks to Eva about her mother Once Victor had shown Eva proof about Gideon being with Corrine, and Eva had disappeared into her room to make a phone call that Victor guessed (correctly) was to Gideon, the pair of them avoided talking any more about her now-destroyed relationship. Instead, she distracted herself the rest of the weekend taking her Dad sightseeing on his first visit to her newly-adopted home city. During the father-daughter time, Eva got to know a little more about her own parents' short-lived love affair, a conversation sparked by Victor obviously still having feelings for Monica, having seen her briefly at Eva's, the first time either had laid eyes on one another in years, perhaps decades. He'd been a mechanic at a garage where he sports car had been towed. Years ago, Victor resented the fact Monica chose money over love. He still resents the fact Monica gave Eva her own last name, Trammell, instead of Victor's last name, Reyes. But he's no longer angry about the money, because he'd seen the financial advantages in life Eva had received growing up in an upper class setting. "I'm not too proud to appreciate that your life is better because of her choices." (page 288)

Scale of one to ten, the nightclub sex is a ten ....  Oooooo  just the thought of it ....  Kinda like Gideon that first week he chased Eva around the Crossfire, how sexually frustrated he was that she was just beyond reach ....  ..... that's how I'm feeling about the book this weekend.