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Since Cary got out of the hospital, Eva has been home every single night. And after Cary's first night home (when Gideon sneaked in and out of her bedroom) Eva has been free to devote every night to her roommate. The first night of Entwined, Gideon will spend the night in Eva's bedroom. However, Entwined chapter one makes clear Eva has decided she has to keep the truth a secret even from Cary. Thus, I believe that moving forward, whatever nights Eva does spend with Gideon will be somewhere other than her place - either his apartment and/or a love nest. It's too dangerous to continue to see one another at her place. Left alone for increasing amounts of time without Eva to watch over him, the drug abuse might start. When the crisis comes -- perhaps accidental overdose from combining medication with drinking -- Cary will land in the hospital, and Eva/Gideon will feel horrible that Cary still is a Nathan casualty. Not only because of his injuries but because the pair of them had to avoid Cary, leaving him alone at a vulnerable period.

 Agree  The only character we know who had a history of drug problems is Cary We know Cary is taking narcotics -- and is nervous about having to do so Last we saw of Cary, in Reflected, Eva had to remind him he's not supposed to be drinking because he's on medication It might make sense that if that last mention in Reflected was our first red flag of something that will become crisis a third of a way into Entwined.

 I Googled oxycodone images (brand name is Oxycontin) -- a highly addictive pain medication among the most serious of the narcotics abused by drug addicts.

I think the relapse becomes a problem starting in Chapter 8 (the snapshot involving pills) I think the resolution comes in Chapter 21 -- maybe Cary entering rehab? The countdown pictures have included an ambulance and what looks like a hospital corridor.

And Gideon coming full circle realizing that sometimes, he has to step back from being Eva's first priority. Â From Bared Chapter 21, Eva curled up crying in her shower, upset with Cary for the orgy-in-progress that resulted in some drugged up male participant propositioning her -- and even more upset with Gideon for how he'd (mis)treated her in front of Corrine. Eva ordered Gideon to go home. Â Eva to Gideon .... "I can't deal with him and you at the same time." Gideon: "Then you'll just deal with me." Eva: "Oh, I'm supposed to make you the priority?" Gideon: "I was under the impression we were both each other's priorities." Eva: "Yeah, I thought that too. Until tonight."

 Oxycodone pills  I think the snapshot points to Cary coming out the other side, in Chapter 21, of a descent back into active drug addiction triggered by having to take narcotics for his injuries.

Tuesday - which means we're getting a snapshot today, probably at 9 a.m. U.S. Eastern Time based on when all the other ones thus far have hit the Internet. Â Today will be a glimpse into Chapter 21. Recap of the snapshots of chapters 1-20: Â 1. The word "Press" over a fuzzy shot of a newspaper page, and a fancy pen in the foreground. 2. Unwrapped Christmas present boxes 3. The word "Business" next to a cup of coffee 4. A microphone on a stand 5. A pile of neatly-folded white terrycloth towels, wrapped in a red ribbon. 6. A bathtub in a modern-style bathroom 7. An open bottle of red wine, nearly full, and in front of it, one wine glass holding some wine. Near it is a small vase holding four red roses. 8. Two different types of pills in blister packs plus a bottle of some sort of liquid medication. The meds are on a glass coffee table in front of a white couch. 9. Fuzzy shot of a crowded dance floor. One woman in the center of the shot is in semi-focus. 10. A diamond and gold women's watch. 11. An Aston Martin sports car 12. A vase of white roses with a card that says "Happy" (can't see what) and signed xoxoxoxo. 13. Pieces of women's clothing scattered at the foot of a bed. 14. An NYPD detective shield (badge). 15. A man's hand grasping a bed sheet 16. A set of stairs or spectator seats (in Times Square?) 17. A man's hand holding a French passport 18. A private jet parked at an airport. 19. A single red rose on a beach 20. A cell phone in a man's hand, the screen indicating an incoming email or text message

 OMG, it is Tuesday. It feels like Monday to me, because here in the States, we had a major holiday yesterday.  I'm heading over to the New Clues thread to post the cheat sheet of snapshots # 1-20. We're due to get #21 in a few minutes from now.

 The New Year's teaser, the only look we've had inside Gideon's head, reveals he would kill again to protect her -- but I believe he would never again manipulate her love for him.  He was now willing to release her forever instead of selfishly continuing to try to bind her to him, even though it would kill him to live his life without her and watch her live her life with someone else someday. Because he did not want her to live her life in fear anymore. He'd killed Nathan to save her from a life of fear.  She convinced him, in chapter one of Entwined, she does not fear physical harm from him -- he's literally got blood on his hands, but he'd never be violent to her. But he "gets" it that emotionally, she does fear him now. With good reason. So I think he gets it that  if he has a shot at keeping her in his life, instead of losing her forever, he cannot ever again do anything to deliberately manipulate her. To attempt to control her.  The only control he gets -- willingly from her -- is in the bedroom. But when she's got her clothes on, she is her own woman.

 Agree that Gideon ought not to have turned up at all. His doing so constituted a mercy f*** -- trying to let her down easy for what was going to happen next, him staging a photograph making people (i.e. the cops) think he had become intimately involved with Corrine again.  If Gideon absolutely had to go through with crafting a public lie he was seeing Corrine again, he ought to have had the courage and decency to ask Eva for a break in their relationship. Swore to Eva he had no intention of sleeping with Corrine, but he did need some time to finally work through unfinished business. But instead, he remained involved with Eva (making love to her Wednesday, meeting her father Friday) while he had resumed dating Corrine. So in Eva's eyes, he ended up a coward and a cheater.

 Gideon deserved that in the anguished email Eva sent him -- but still it had to have been shattering to read it.  Of the things he later said to her in bed, one that jumped out at me, perhaps my own "favorite" (if favorite is the right word -- we're now in the very dark part of their journey) is:  "I'm hurting too, Eva. It's killing me, too. Can't you see that?" (page 250).  Um, no Gideon, she can't see that, not even literally, because you're making love to her in the total dark, probably because you cannot bear the sight of the pain and tears in her eyes. She's going to end up assuming though it was proof you no longer can bear the sight of her body, due to the pictures Nathan showed you. And the last two times she's seen you with her eyes was the day before, figuratively and literally -- seen you cozy with Corrine in pictures of dinner for two, and seen you near the elevators of your office, angry and in her face -- and flinching when she tried to touch you.

 1. Cary was firmly convinced -- and told Eva as much -- that the stress her roller-coaster relationship with Gideon was causing her was directly responsible for the return of her own rape nightmares. She'd gone for two years without any Nathan nightmares -- but now they were back. My guess is the very same was true for Gideon -- the stress of having gone way out of his rigid comfort zone was triggering his own nightmares. He had a mild one the first night he had Eva over and a more serious one two nights later, also in his bed. Both of those nightmares involved him as victim. The next two even more serious nightmares, in which his role switches from victim to aggressor, both happened in Eva's bed. I wonder whether the stress of being in a bed completely out of his comfort zone (i.e. not his own bed nor his hotel room) were factors in why the nightmares escalated to sexual parasomnia.  2. Gideon most definitely did not expect Corrine to be there. Corrine ambushed him as well as Eva. Re: Magdalene has known Gideon a long time and their families (the Vidals and the Perezes) know one another -- Gideon's mother and Magdalene's mothers are best friends. Recent spoiler information revealed that Corrine's family knew Gideon's as well (it makes perfect sense, given that Gideon and Corrine were engaged for an entire year.) So all three families moved in the same social circles, and it makes sense Magdalene got to know Corrine back in the day when Corrine had been Gideon's girlfriend and then fiancee. I'll bet that catty b**** Corrine latched onto Magdalene the night of the fundraiser to try to ply her for inside information about Gideon and Eva, knowing that Magdalene was a longtime friend of Gideon's and probably was jealous of Eva -- all too willing to maybe become Corrine's ally. HAH!!! Magdalene sided with Gideon and Eva.

Re-Read a Chapter a Day -- Today is Chapter 14 of Reflected in You  This chapter covers Wednesday (day 30 since they met and day three of their estrangement) and continues to sometime before dawn Thursday (day 31).  Key plot developments Dr. Lucas ran into Eva at the hospital -- and took the opportunity to poison her mind against Gideon. Eva sent Gideon an anguished email about how much it hurts her he's stopped spending time with her and is now spending it with Corrine. In the middle of the night, Gideon let himself into her room and comforted her by making love to her for hours -- but wouldn't stay until morning.  Favorite quote or paragraph needed from each of us, for Sylvia, after we've re-read the chapter.

Chapter 13 of Reflected in You - The Readers Guide  This chapter covers Tuesday (day 29 since they met and day 2 of their estrangement)  Key plot developments: This was the first day that Eva realized Gideon changed from Dr. Jekyll to Mr. Hyde - Gideon had been avoiding her for nearly 24 hours, and every interaction they would have Tuesday would be angry. Eva found out Gideon took Corrine to dinner the night before. Eva immediately retaliated Tuesday by going out to lunch with Brett. Over lunch, Brett and Eva talked about why she left. They also talked about her uncertain relationship status with Gideon. Brett asked Eva for another shot -- and refused to take no for an answer.  New characters None in this chapter  Gideon's transformation The last Eva had seen of her loving boyfriend was at the hospital 24 hours earlier, before he went to work. He never returned to the hospital later, nor called, nor texted. She called him around 9 p.m. Monday, but he wouldn't interrupt whatever he was in the middle of to talk with her beyond hello-and-goodbye. So she took it upon herself Tuesday to leave the hospital for work -- and got a furious phone call from Gideon demanding to know where she was (walking to work). Angrily, he sent Angus to fetch her after Eva hung up on him. Things went downhill from there at the office, when Eva's Google alert monitoring of Gideon uncovered what he had been in the middle of - dinner with Corrine. Photos showed the pair of them sitting close together at a front table at the very same restaurant (his friend Arnoldo's place) Gideon had taken Eva on Friday. Gideon smiled in some of the photos, and in one, Corrine had a hand resting on his forearm. Accompanying headlines proclaimed Corrine's status as former fiancee. Just as Eva was contemplating storming up to Gideon's office to confront him, Eva found out that Brett was downstairs in the lobby asking for her. Vindictively, Eva forwarded the photo/story links to Gideon, went straight down to the lobby to meet Brett -- and asked him to lunch. Fast forward to Eva leaving the restaurant - Angus was waiting at the curb to fetch her back, something she found "creepy." Then Gideon had the elevator she boarded go express to the top floor, where cold as ice, he hauled her out of the elevator. The ensuing argument was short but fierce - Eva angry about Corrine, Gideon angry Eva had gotten petty in return, Eva reminding Gideon she'd previously warned him about his having contact with his ex set the precedent for Eva having the option to see her own exes. Eva ended the argument by telling Gideon he was making her hate him. He let her leave, but he ordered her to eat lunch at her desk moving forward and to wait for Angus to pick her up every morning. His insistence on needing to know where she was at all times finally made her realize -- something was wrong. She tried to get Gideon to talk about it, but he coldly refused. "I'd never been so confused. I couldn't figure out what was happening, why there was suddenly this huge gulf between us, why Gideon was so tense and angry, why he didn't seem to care that I'd had lunch with Brett. Why he didn't seem to care about anything at all." (page 234) Only weeks later would she learned he cared very much about something - he'd found out her life was in danger. He'd freaked about her walking the street to work that morning, because Nathan could have gotten her. He was furious (and scared) she left the Crossfire with another man, because it could have triggered Nathan to go postal again. When he was furiously fighting with her, he was angry his efforts to control her every move were thwarted. "Trust me, Eva," she thought she heard him say as the elevator doors shut. Later, for the second night in a row, Gideon blew off coming to her at the hospital after work. She called him at home to tell him she missed him. But he told her he couldn't talk ... and then she heard murmuring in the background, realizing he wasn't alone. When she demanded to know who was there, he ended the call. Spoiler information from Sylvia told us that he was having a meeting of his security team. Eva obviously assumed the worst, though -- he was seeing Corrine for the second night in a row, this time bringing her into his home. Returning to Cary's hospital room, Eva began sobbing.   Brett and Eva at lunch - what the conversation revealed He wrote Golden because he hasn't been able to stop thinking about Eva since the day she disappeared from his life. Six months with her had been the longest he'd ever been with a woman, and he's been trying to forge a deeper connection, ask her to stick around with him. In fact, he'd tried to make a statement by bringing her along with his band mates to a pool hall. That was the night she vanished from his life -- it turned out she'd overheard him talking about -- and laughing about -- her to the band's drummer. He was full of remorse when she told him, at lunch, about why she'd left. Moreover, he was amazed that back then, she'd been desperately hung up on him. "I want another shot with you," he told her point blank, and he brushed off the fact her boyfriend controls his record label, that she's too high maintenance for his lifestyle, that she's needy and clingy and insanely jealous. Then he refused to believe her when she told him she was in love with Gideon, especially because he'd already gotten the sense the relationship might not be serious. Brett vowed he wasn't going to give up, and when Eva told him there wasn't a chance, he challenged her "prove it." Brett later left his phone number for her at the Crossfire security desk. Cary wondered whether she was going to call Brett.

 I'm joking "don't tell me that!!!" ladies. Laughing as I do ... trying to resist the temptation. But I am delighted to know that something I've theorized about likely is right on the money.  Just don't tell me what ;) I want to find out on June 4.

Hi Andie! Â Love, love, love the charts!!! Â I've got some ideas about your connection between snapshot #18 (private plane) and the caption of countdown picture day #19 ("Can you hide a love so strong -- the picture there is of a woman in a red dress dancing with a man). Â Bear with me -- background timeline: Corrine had phoned Gideon in crisis from France, having already booked a flight to New York -- she wanted Gideon's help in getting settled. My guess is Corrine had finally decided to pull the plug on her marriage and to move back to New York. She happened to call him while he was on his first date with Eva, the night she wore that red dress. They'd already made love, he was now on his head trip, and he jumped at the chance to leave early. But when he finally was free to be able to talk to Corrine at length that night, he told he'd met someone new -- Eva. So that night was the first time Corrine learned about Eva -- and Corrine chickened out on returning to New York, even cancelling her flight. In the coming days, there were online photos and stories about Gideon and Eva - pictures of them on the red carpet the night of their first date, the kiss on the sidewalk, the kiss and make up pictures from Bryant Park. Now Gideon and Eva were very public. Corrine had to have been cyberstalking Gideon from France -- because Corrine knew all the other women he'd been photographed with before "looked like her." (Corrine). In the coming days, Gideon continued to talk about Eva to Corrine -- how special Eva was, how Eva had been getting him to open up. It took her another week or so to do it, but she worked up the courage to return to New York and go after Gideon anyway. Gideon and Eva were photographed on the red carpet entering the fundraiser where Corrine was lurking inside, ready to pounce. That night happened to be the last time Gideon allowed he and Eva to be photographed together -- because the next day was the day Nathan showed up in Gideon's office. For safety's sake, Gideon immediately removed Eva from his celebrity spotlight. So as best as anyone could tell, including Corrine, there no longer was any public proof Gideon and Eva were still a couple. Did Gideon and Corrine continue to speak on the phone? Eva asked him to cut Corrine off, and Gideon told Eva it'd be cruel to do so when Corrine was in crisis. BUT ... Corrine pulled the nooner stunt the next day, and Gideon saw the photo Eva got on her smartphone. My theory is he called up Corrine to chew her out and may have actually quit talking to her .... until Gideon needed to start using Corrine as part of the plan to eliminate Nathan. So then it became Gideon and Corrine as a public couple. We know of at least two photo opps - their dinner date and the cozy shot of them at the party. Likely there have been more, but we don't know about them because Eva quit looking after the party shot convinced Eva he'd gone back to Corrine. Gideon ended up shooting straight to the top of the suspect list, and so keeping up appearances with Corrine became more crucial than ever. We do know he was spending free time with Corrine -- and Eva accidentally caught him staging an appearance with Corrine leaving the Crossfire to go somewhere after work. Â So, tying this all together with the connection between the snapshot of the plane and the countdown picture about hiding a love so strong ..... Chapter 18 is where things end forever for Corrine. Throwing out some possibilities. By Chapter 18, she'll have learned knows Gideon has chosen Eva. She'll have been told that Eva always had been the choice and Corrine never had a shot. Corrine's grand plan to move back to New York and nuke Gideon's new relationship has failed -- so all that remains is to go back to France and decide what to do about her broken marriage -- try to reconcile or still end it anyway and build a new future, one without Gideon ever being a possibility. Â How might we get to that point in Chapter 18? How soon does Gideon start cutting back the time he spends with Corrine before the crisis point for Corrine, the knowledge he's back with Eva? Technically, as Entwined opens, Gideon still needs to use Corrine. However, now that he knows for certain the cops aren't buying the lie, the burden shifts from maintaining the cover with Corrine to keeping the secret he's back with Eva. Do the events leading up to Chapter 18 involve Gideon learning the murder case won't/can't be pursued any longer, so nothing now stands in the way of him going public with Eva again? Is it at the point where he publicly gets back together with Eva that Gideon tells Corrine -- blindsides her? Or does Corrine catch Gideon "cheating" sometime before Chapter 18, but keeps pulling desperate moves until finally by Chapter 18 Corrine realizes she's lost, and like Magdalene before her, finally throws in the towel? Â Oh the possibilities. I really hope, though, that Corrine is still in the middle of her delusion that because Gideon is "dating" her again it's only a matter of time before they become lovers again -- and that delusion is shattered by her catching him redhanded in Eva's arms. Karma can be a b**** -- like Corrine has been a catty b**** this whole time. It'd be karmic payback for walking out the Crossfire in front of Eva looking freshly f****** that Corrine catches Gideon with Eva.

 Bend over backwards - pun intended? Ooooooo .... the positions, the possibilities ..... Rawr

     Don't tell me that!!!! It makes me want to read it!!!!! And I don't want to be reading spoilers!!!!!  Some people out there have managed to get their hands on early copies (embargoes don't work 100% no matter how hard the publishers try -- every Harry Potter book release involved some copies somehow getting out there early.) I envy the people who got to read it early, but I dislike the people who then put spoilers out there.  I'm planning to sit on my hands about posting Entwined stuff until June 7, after the U.K. release.  The only thing I'll read beforehand are any formal book reviews. Reviewers are very careful about handling spoiler material.

 Caption: How hot can it get   Today's picture is too easy ... obviously Gideon and Eva. Very hawt.  Taking this picture figuratively (the pose) instead of literally (the guy is shirtless) I'd have to say this hints at that seriously hot scene we've read the foreplay for - the pair of them in the nightclub, Gideon nailing Eva against a wall. I can't wait to read what comes next (pun intended) after the part in the snippet.

 Angus did drive Eva from work to Dr. Petersen's and then from Dr. Petersen's to home. He'd have gotten her home sometime before 7:30 p.m. (the weekly appointment was 6 p.m.).  The party that was Gideon's alibi was from 6-9 p.m.  My theory is Angus started the evening off as part of Eva's alibi (all of her movements could be accounted for by witnesses, Angus included) then once she was safely at home (Cary and home nurse as her alibi) then Angus put himself into position to assist Gideon.  My guess is Raul picked up Gideon at the Crossfire, then drove to Corrine's to pick her up for her "date" with Gideon, drove the pair of them to the party, then drove Corrine home. Gideon still would need to have alibi coverage for later in the night, to be safe, so my guess is he told Eva the truth when he said he was working late -- he arranged some sort of late business meeting for after the party.

 "Revise and revisit" HAH!!! Good one!  As for "exaggerated expectations" I'm certain Entwined will "exceed ALL expectations" -- based just on what we've seen thus far, it's going to be amazing!!!!

And pant -- those Henry Cavill pictures have some of us panting.

I'm sensing a pattern here of favorite quotes: Gideon, when he's most tender and vulnerable Eva, when she's strongest

 Ah, well, yes, because the Entwined snippets, Chapter 1 and part of Chapter 2 do count .... adding to my above list:  Chapter 2, Gideon has started crying as he's making love to Eva: "Missed you so much ... need you ... have to have you ..." Oscar night snippet: "Shut up, caveman. I’m not into that ‘me Cross, you Cross little woman’ bull****" Snippet 10 - Brett, Eva and Cary all in the same vicinity. Cary just spotted Gideon. Cary to Eva: "Well, look who’s here .... And heading straight toward us. If there’s a brawl over you, I’m watching from the bleachers."