Tis the Season for Revenge by Morgan Elizabeth

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Ready? Ready. So I've

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been on social media more recently,

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and everybody's asking, like, what your favorite book of the year was.

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And my favorite book that I've been saying is Fantasma, and I really think

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it is, and I really regret giving it four stars and

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not five. Oh, no. So we can amend that from here.

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Yeah. Anybody who's listening, I would have given Fantasma five

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stars. We are going to take

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another really good look at our rating system and really refine it

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till it's. We really, I think, progress,

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not perfection. Yeah. Because before, when I'd recommend books to you guys,

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I would give every half the books a 10 out of 10. If Nicole would

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recommend that you read the book, she'd give it a five. Yeah. And now I

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gave Haunting Adeline a four, which I regret.

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Yeah. There are fives to come. I gave Riddle Obsession of five, and that's where

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I feel like I really honed in on my inner rating

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system. I think it's interesting, though, because I don't think that

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when we first started reading these books that you would have

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read Brutal Obsession or that you would have given it a five.

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No. Fantasma, I think, was, like, a turning point for you in

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the type of smut that you like. It really was. Yeah.

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Because even some things that I read in Brutal Obsession, I was like, oh,

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I don't. I don't like that. But then I was like, but I do.

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Yeah. I saw one girl

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today on TikTok maybe. Actually, I think it was an Instagram reel.

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And she was like, so these are 10 books that my husband really

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enjoyed. He didn't read them, but he enjoyed them.

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Yeah. Reaping those benefits. Wow. That took me a full

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15 seconds. Same together. Same.

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But she was really, like, aggressive about the books and really, like,

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really liking them. So did her husband. And I think that's

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so funny, because Dave has favorites, I'm sure, too.

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Oh, shit. I was reading the Never King.

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Yeah. He literally was running out of steam. It was every

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day. Oh, poor Dave. Dave. What a rough life.

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What? It's so hard to be him.

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I really like the idea of being

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with a partner that you can recreate the scenes with in,

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like, a healthy way. Why do you say that? Why do you make that face?

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You don't like that idea? No, I do like that idea.

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I can't with Dave. Oh, God, no. I can't with my husband either.

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No, no, no, no, no, no,

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no, no. Dave just can't. Sure.

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He's too sweet. He's Too nice. It's more like he'll kiss

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my throat, not choke me. Oh, honey,

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you're so loved. I know. My God, I love that for

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you. Wow. I told my husband one

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time very, very, very early on in our relationship.

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Honestly, I don't even remember what it was, but it was like, some thing

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that I wanted to try with him. And maybe

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like a week or so later, we were hanging out with,

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like, mutual friends, and one

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of the women that we were hanging out with, who is a lesbian, was like,

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oh, I. So I heard that you wanted to try this.

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No. Yeah. And so now never again. I'm not even

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gonna share what I like to do. Yeah. He lost all

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privilege. All of it. Yeah. Oh, no. I know.

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He's a very sweet man, but he is very dumb.

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We do have to talk about Carmen. We. Yeah, we do have to

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talk. Sweet, sweet, sweet Carmen. Oh, God. Such a

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tender little flower. Yeah. You and I have been talking about

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our hear me outs, and I don't even know

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how we got talking about Woody Harrelson, but Woody Harrelson

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has been my. Apparently, it's a hear me out. He's top of my list

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forever. I also hate bald men. That's how we started

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talking about it. Because you have a hard limit

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on ball. Absolutely not. And we asked Carmen if she did,

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and she was actually shocked that you would have a hard limit on being bald.

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Yeah. Then you said, well, I do have an exception

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for Woody Harrelson. And that's when we started talking about, like, that's a hear me

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out. And you didn't know that? No, I didn't think he was.

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I am right there with you. So just know I'm

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not judging you at all. And then you shared. We talked about James

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Spader. You also have your Christopher Walken,

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young Christopher Walken. If you haven't googled him,

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do yourself a favor. You gotta be real selective on

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the. Photos, though, because some of them has very.

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He has some very feminine, delicate features, and I really

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like that. So we were explaining what hear

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me out is to Carmen. Oh, yes. So we

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asked Carmen. Oh, God. Carmen. We asked Carmen

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what her hear me out would be. Yeah. And I

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think she thought about it. She took her time. She thought about it.

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And the first one was the main character

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from Anastasia, which is absolutely. In case anybody

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is listening, John Cusack voice is objectively

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attractive. 100%. And then she's like,

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well, what about the guy from Pocahontas? Oh, my God.

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And I'm pretty sure she's talking about Cocoa again,

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Objectively, that is a sexy cartoon.

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Honestly, even John Smith. Yeah. Everybody in

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that cartoon is hot. Yes. And then she just can't get

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there. No. I'm pretty sure she threw out Henry Cavill. Yeah.

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She's. Yeah. She just couldn't get. Just does not.

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And she. She's been trying so hard.

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Yeah. Well, I loved when she. Because she really.

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She talked it up. This last one she sent us, she was like, you guys.

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I'm pretty sure I have one. I need to preface by saying I

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in no way condone violence. Yes.

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And then we all know who she sent us. Yeah. The CEO assassin.

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Which Carmen there is fanfic already about

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this man. Yes. He is everywhere. Even the press

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is showing photos of him on a beach shirtless.

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Yes. Not. Hear me out. But I think like,

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Carmen is like. Well, he's a murderer. So nobody would find a

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murderer attractive. Carmen. I need her

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to read these books. Yeah. I need to read them to her.

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Yeah. I can do that. Yeah. I've done it before. I'll do

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it again. You have? We did have to do that to her. We did.

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Oh, God. Sweet, sweet Carmen. I love her so much. I know.

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I would like to just say one more time that Carmen and I would be

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incredible domestic life partners. Even though

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that makes you jealous. So nobody wants to be a domestic life partner with

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me. Except for Dave. Which is why you guys are soul mates. Yeah. I don't

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even think Pagel would want to. Oh, shoot. She'll live like

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in a house next to mine. Yeah. I would live in a house next to

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yours as well, but nobody wants to live. Not because I. I'm gonna tell you

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though, it's not because I don't want to live with you specifically.

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It's that I don't want to live with anybody.

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I would like everybody to leave me the alone all the time.

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Carmen is. She's like a little mouse. She's. Yes.

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I would never hear her. No. All she would do is hype you up

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all day. I'd be putting mascara on

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and she'd be like, oh, wow, you put mascara on in the morning.

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Like, she would be thrilled. And that's

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what I love about her. She would be. All right. Well, what book

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are we reading today? We are reading Tis the Season for Revenge by

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Morgan Elizabeth. A self declared holiday rom

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com. It is. And did it deliver it,

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sir? Did. I really

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loved this book. I was not expecting to like it.

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Re reading it the second time, I realized that maybe

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because of some of the things that we've Read. Maybe we're having a

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harder time identifying smutty books.

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Yeah. This is a smutty book. Yeah. It just

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is a very vanilla, smutty book. Exactly.

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But it's sexy. It is very sexy. The first time that I read it,

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I was like, oh, this is just a book with smut. I did, too.

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It's not. It's a smutty book. Yeah. It's written like a smutty

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book. Part of our rating system, I think, is that we're going to talk about

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kind of defining that in future episodes. But I really liked

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the book. I'm going to read the dedication. Yeah. So I do

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have some quotes. Sorry. Of course you do. The dedication of this book is

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to all the girls who knew Elle was always too good for Warner.

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And for all the girls who were told they were too much, let him go

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find less. I don't know if you know this about

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me. It shouldn't shock anybody that Legally Blonde

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would be one of my. I think that would be one of my Delta island

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movies. It aged so well. Yeah.

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Actually, that dedication made me so excited to read this book. It delivers

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like, this is very much Elle Wood's vibes,

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for sure. The content warning is actually a

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friendly little note from the author. She says,

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tis the season four revenge contains mentions of cheating,

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verbal, physical, and financial abuse.

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Please always put yourself first when reading. It's meant to be our happy place.

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I love you all with my whole being. Morgan,

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Elizabeth. And we are going to do something different starting now. We are

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not going to be saying the spice pages during the podcast,

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but you can look for them. They are live on our social media TikTok,

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Instagram. We are so in sync. That was literally

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the next thing in my notes. Look at us. Oh,

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my God. Well, you have a very specific, specific, like, way of doing things.

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So I knew that next was like getting into the book and I wanted to

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throw that in there first. Oh, my God, look at us.

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Wow. We're so cute. All right, well, we open

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with Abby. Abby is getting ready to

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meet her boyfriend Richard for Halloween.

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She is going as a bunny in a true

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callback to Legally Blonde. And we start to

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see very early on here the boyfriend red

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flags. She is video chatting with her best

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friends, Camille and Kat. And I know we don't really talk about best friends,

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but we are going to talk about them. We do need to. In this one.

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We note that her outfit

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has been selected thoughtfully in accordance with some

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feedback from Richard. She's also

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dyed her hair brown from said boyfriend and

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we learned that this guy does not come upstairs to pick her

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up. He, like, basically honks, and she,

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like, comes down from her apartment, and she. Makes so many excuses

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for him, and we've all been there where she's like, well, parking sucks.

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It's just easier. And then he texts her,

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like, hey, bitch, I'm here. Yeah. Are you coming?

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impatient. And despite all of this,

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Abby believes that Richard is the one.

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And she is certain that soon he

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will be proposing and that she will finally get an elusive

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invitation to join him at his company's

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annual holiday party held in the Rainbow Room

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in New York City. And these dreams

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are basically dashed when she heads downstairs

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and he sees her costume and breaks up with her.

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He, like, loses his. Over this costume that she even says. She describes

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it. It's not an Elle woods bunny.

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No, this is a very conservative costume with basically ears

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and a tail. Yeah. It's not.

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Chill the out, dude. Yeah. I do

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think I say this in the nicest way possible.

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First of all, it couldn't be Elle woods, babe. Elle never go brown

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for Warren. No. And also, this ex Richard

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is so, so, so much worse than Warren ever was.

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100%, if you're reading this book. Speaking of content warnings,

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he is mean. Yes, aggressively mean

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to her in this scene. He says something along the lines of like,

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do you think that I came all the way out here if I wasn't expecting

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to at least get laid at the end of the night? And you're

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dumb, but you're not that dumb. So she's surprised that

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he's breaking up with her. Like, are you kidding me? And he's like, are you

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kidding me? Yeah, it's gross. Again,

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we've probably all been there where you've been with this guy for four years.

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You have invested a lot of time. You do think that this is it.

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Just because you've lost yourself. Mm. And now your whole

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life plan comes crumbling down, and he's just such an asshole.

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But. And we'll learn a little bit more about it. But,

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yeah. They've been together for four years, and she.

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Yeah. We'll talk about it next. Do you want

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to give a physical description of. Of Abby?

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She has. As of right now, she has long brown hair.

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She is 28. She's short. She describes herself as five, four,

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and very curvy. Very, very pretty girl.

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Yeah. We meet Damien next. Damian is at

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the costume party that Richard and Abby were meant to go to together.

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So Damian is A partner at a law firm.

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And at this party, he is describing

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his boredom with these parties and with dating and

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with how surface level everything feels. And I really

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love this scene because later on, we're gonna get Abby's perspective

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where she talks about looking in the mirror and not

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being able to recognize who she is. And one of the

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ways that she describes herself is as being boring. Yeah.

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And I, like, love that these two people are so bored with their

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lives, and then they find so much color with each other. It's so great.

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He is new to dating apps. He's a very busy attorney,

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so it's sort of something that he's doing kind of on a whim.

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It's not something that he's taking very seriously, and he's not really

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enjoying them. And he,

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at the party, is approached by Richard because Richard is

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simultaneously trying to suck up to him so that he can become a partner,

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but also, like, can't stand him, because Richard is a prick,

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like anybody who is successful,

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sexy, and smart, clearly, because he also didn't like Abby.

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And really, these men could not be

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any more opposite from what. No. And I love how Damien,

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in his head, he sees Richard, and he describes him as

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a weasel. And that's how I picture Richard, too. Yes. Because Richard

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has, like, kind of thinning hair. He's not. You know what's

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so funny? Do you remember the guy that you sent me, speaking of

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Carmen and our hear me out chat, the guy that you sent me,

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and you were like, is he a hear me out? Yeah, that's what I would

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picture. Oh, yeah. No, but Wes

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Bentley. Yes. No. Yeah.

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I'm sorry. I don't see it. I just do not.

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Abby has called in reinforcements. Her friends Cam

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and Kat have come to her apartment to be with her while she processes

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the breakup. They bring drinks and food,

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and they, as women do when we're angry,

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they set up a dating app for their friend. And they

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discover that Abby has actually been acting as Richard's

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personal assistant. So she's been managing all of his appointments.

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She has been ordering this special shampoo and

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conditioner for his thinning hair. She does all of his

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tailoring for his clothes. She cleans, she cooks. She does

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his laundry. She has basically been acting as

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his employee. Yeah. It's so gross. It really

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is. Really gross. And they really start

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to shine a light on how terrible he has been to her,

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and they concoct a plan to get revenge.

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We love a good revenge. We love a good revenge because

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Abby has access to all of his Calendars and emails.

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They decide that they are going to aggressively

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approach revenge that way. But it's here,

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while Abby is sort of mindlessly scrolling the

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new dating profile that her friends created that she realizes

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Damien, Richard's boss, has matched with her.

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And she decides that she's going to date him and convince him to

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take her to the holiday party that Richard never would as

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the ultimate revenge. I love this. This is something I would

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have done. I love how much they stalked him too,

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knowing that Abby is his ideal woman.

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Yeah. Perfect type. He always has, like a curvy blonde on his arm.

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And that's Abby. So this is just such a good plan.

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Yeah. Abby has a

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sort of full blown revelation While

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they're discussing their revenge plans and discussing how terrible Richard

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has treated her. She dyes her hair back

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to blonde. Good for her. Good for her.

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She throws away all of her Richard approved

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wardrobe and she shows up for this date

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ready for battle. They've done all this preparation. She's wearing a skin

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tight pink dress with like 4 inch

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heels. And she was

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not prepared, despite all. Of this, for Damian. No, not at all. But she

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also had heard from Richard that Damian was an ass. He was awful.

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So I think she had some preconceived notions there of what she

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thought he might be like. And which is why I'm sure it

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was so easy to, like, come up with this revenge plan since

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she's just using him. Yeah. She doesn't think that there's any way

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that she would, like, fall for this guy. But it's interesting because her

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friend Kat does. Yeah, her friend Kat

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is like, you know, Richard told you that?

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So how much can you really trust that? Do you really

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think this is a good plan? And her and Cam at this point are.

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Yeah, they're all in on the plan.

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So Damien is such a gentleman.

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He has booked them a private table at a

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very posh restaurant. He pulls out her chair

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for her. When she gets there, he looks absolutely

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scrumptious. Yeah. From head to toe, the way he's described.

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Oh, my God. They end up having a great

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conversation, and Damien clarifies that

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he is not looking for anything too serious.

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And they decide to skip dessert and

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go for a walk. I have

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a couple of things so far. I have so many thoughts. Yeah. Okay. So number

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one, we read a lot of these books. A lot of these

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men are written in a very specific

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way. I love that she gave these

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two, like, unique,

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quirky, like, she calls him honey.

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Yeah. He calls her Rubia, which means

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blonde. And he does this thing where he'll

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make a statement and then he'll add a. Yeah. At the end.

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Sure. He'll be like, you always wear pink with me. Yeah.

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Like that kind of thing. And I just love that she added this extra layer

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of character. It feels very realistic. The way that they interact. Again,

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just like Neon Gods is very natural.

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Yeah. I also love in this scene how

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aware Abby is of her power as a woman,

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because she really, I think, forgot that when she was with

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Richard. And she says here that she

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gives him a smile that has gotten her jobs. Tips and

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boys Queen. I love

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that. How are you feeling so far? I. I was

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in. I. Yeah. Again, the way Damian is written, I thought he

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was so, so sexy. I could read a book about him any

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day of the week, and I did. I liked Abby as a character.

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She is very insecure, but you have. She's young,

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really, really beaten down in this relationship. Even here,

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where he says, no dessert, she's immediately like,

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yeah, that's. That's right. We. We should probably go.

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And he's like, no, I'm a gentleman. I'm an adult.

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Let's go for a walk. And then yells at her for not bringing a coat.

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Yeah, we see a lot. And I don't. Unfortunately,

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I don't do a great job of capturing it in my notes. I'm glad that

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you're here to do it for me. We see

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a lot of her insecurities from

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Richard. I wouldn't even call them insecurities. I would almost call them,

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like, trauma responses from Richard.

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In this initial date scene, he starts, like,

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she orders a glass of whiskey because they did their

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research and they know that he likes whiskey. And then before she

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takes a sip, he asks her if she's eaten. And she

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immediately starts to spiral about, like, what, being fat

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or something? And he's like, well, yeah, because I want to make sure

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that you're not going to down this whiskey and then turn into a mess,

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and I'm going to have to put you in a cab. Like, I want to

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enjoy my night with you. There's a lot of that that happens throughout the book,

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but it is really hard to capture it when I'm doing a cab, so.

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Well, again, she's young. Richard is probably her first adult relationship.

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So to her, Richard is just what men are like. He hasn't

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seen how an actual man treats a woman.

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So we see that throughout the whole book, every situation.

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She reads wrong. Yeah, she really does. We've already kind of touched

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on the description, but do you wanna give physical description for Damian?

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Yeah. So he is 42.

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He's tall. He has dark hair that's clean cut,

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but again, just a little wave. And he

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has some scruff. Dark. Tall. Dark and handsome.

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Yeah. Drink of water. He's really tall. He says

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at one point, like, how tall are you? And she's like,

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I'm 5 4. And he's like, well, I'm at

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least a foot taller than you. So he's 6 5ish,

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probably. So he's a big guy. They wander around

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New York. He gets them hot cocoa in front of

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Rockefeller Square. And I wanted

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to quote this entire book so bad. I know you just wanted to read it

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to everybody. I did. Anybody wants that, Amanda will call

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you and raise you this book. Absolutely. Just let me know. I will go through

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it line by line. It's just so sweet. The sexual

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chemistry here is already

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great. He says, like, she's in the restaurant,

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they're at the coat check. And he's like, you don't have a

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coat. And she's like, honey, have you seen this dress? You don't cover it up

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with a coat. And he said, I've seen the dress and I

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like the dress. And it's so sexy without being,

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like, gross.

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It's just like, you know that when he's looking at her, he's just appreciating

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her body, her looks, her as a woman, and she's

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eating it up. Yeah, I do have some opinions about it, but we'll get to

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it later. Of course you do. I do. I'm sorry.

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It's pretty obvious, though, that they really already like each other,

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but not in, like, a love at first sight way, which I

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fucking hate. Yeah, it's in a we like getting to know

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one another, and it's easy to do that kind of way. And I

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really, really like that because I think that this is much more

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realistic. They discuss the Rockettes

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and the Rainbow Room, and then they briefly talk

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about the party. And then he asks if he

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can. Kiss her, which I don't love.

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What? I don't love. What? A man asks to kiss me, push me

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up against the wall and just do it. You are

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a broken person. You don't love. I have been asked,

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and it just is immediately so when for me.

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So when Damian pulls her into a little nook in New

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York City with snow falling in their cups of hot cocoa and has her

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pinned against a wall and is has his forehead on

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her forehead and says softly,

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can I kiss you? That did a thing for you don't ask.

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Oh, my God. We have to remember, too. Like, when Dave and I

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got together, I didn't ask. I just went and sat

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on his lap and went for it. Sure. If I would have

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gone up and been like, hey, buddy, can I sit on your lap?

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And then have you rail me, that would have not.

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That's not. No, take it.

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Oh, my God. If anybody is wondering, don't fucking

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take it from me. Not the first couple of times. I love

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consent. I want. I want

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to talk about it. I want to agree to terms. I want a safe word.

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I don't know. I. My little note here says,

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be still my heart. Of course. I don't even like what's happening

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between us. I don't know. I don't even like romance. No.

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And you do. We're on opposite. We're.

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We're on the wrong team right now. Oh, my God. I don't understand

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what's going on. He asks her to come home with him,

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saying, we don't have to do anything, but it's cold, and I'm not

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ready for this date to end. And she does. And again,

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nothing. Nothing for you. I did. I did like that. So I

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just want to clarify something. Yeah. So natural, healthy romance.

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No. Correct. But brutal obsession.

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Absolutely. Completely obsessed with one another from first

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sight. Yes. Possessive. Yes.

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Enemies to lovers. Yep. That's interesting.

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They get back to his place, and Damien tells Abby that

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he doesn't share. He asks her to agree that

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we're not serious, but we are exclusive.

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She. She agrees, and they start making out.

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And this is where the throat grabbing starts.

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Yep. I love it so

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much. I love some throat grabbing. It's my favorite

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thing that he specifically says is that he does it to control her,

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which is the reason that I want somebody to grab my throat.

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He describes their kissing as frantic and needy.

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And he's, like, rubbing his hands up her body until he gets to her throat,

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and then he grinds himself against her and she moans.

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Yeah. This scene was hot. The scene was so hot. This is my favorite scene.

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Is it okay? Okay. My favorite scene, for sure.

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She is not prepared for this. No. She has never been

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treated like this before. She moans because she's like,

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this is fucking incredible. Yeah. She cannot

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contain herself. She literally cannot. He takes her

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to his bedroom where he directs her to remove her clothing.

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And he describes her as what dreams

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are made of. And as she takes her clothes off,

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she, like, sort of like, covers her belly with her

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arm, and he's kind of like, what are. What's she

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doing? She's got an itch or like. Yeah. And then he realizes that it's because

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she's insecure and it makes him angry. And he basically

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is like, you don't ever hide your body from me. Not ever.

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If we're gonna do this, we're all in. And she was

462
00:28:05,020 --> 00:28:08,612
like, but I have a belly. And he was like, I just don't care.

463
00:28:08,716 --> 00:28:12,452
Yeah, let me see it. Yeah. So he

464
00:28:12,476 --> 00:28:16,612
tells her if he could, he would take photos of her and use them to

465
00:28:16,636 --> 00:28:19,920
jack off every night. He couldn't be inside her.

466
00:28:20,220 --> 00:28:23,780
Oh, my God. Yeah. So yummy.

467
00:28:23,860 --> 00:28:27,032
It is. My God, I love it. If anybody needs to know how to get

468
00:28:27,056 --> 00:28:29,380
to Amanda, this is a play by play.

469
00:28:31,120 --> 00:28:35,176
Dude. Like a play by play of how to seduce me, Tell me I'm

470
00:28:35,208 --> 00:28:35,820
pretty.

471
00:28:38,400 --> 00:28:42,060
That's about it. And grab my phone, Coco, and tell me I'm pretty.

472
00:28:42,400 --> 00:28:45,928
He reinforces what's his by running his hands over her body

473
00:28:45,984 --> 00:28:49,288
and makes her tell him she understands. And then he says,

474
00:28:49,344 --> 00:28:52,420
good girl. And you love a good girl, too.

475
00:28:53,280 --> 00:28:56,840
Oh, my God. I love. How could this not be your favorite scene?

476
00:28:57,000 --> 00:29:00,328
I know what your favorite scene is. Yeah, you do. We'll get there. He tells

477
00:29:00,344 --> 00:29:04,120
her that he's gonna go down on her. And she's like, no, boys don't like

478
00:29:04,160 --> 00:29:07,288
that. And he says, boys don't, but men

479
00:29:07,344 --> 00:29:11,336
do. Then he eats her out till she almost comes.

480
00:29:11,408 --> 00:29:16,060
And then he stops and they discuss protection.

481
00:29:16,470 --> 00:29:20,446
They decide to forego it. And he fucks

482
00:29:20,478 --> 00:29:23,774
her. We talk about this every single episode.

483
00:29:23,822 --> 00:29:27,150
I don't like that. I know. I didn't love that either. Babe,

484
00:29:27,230 --> 00:29:30,878
live your life. But wear condoms. When she tries to rub

485
00:29:30,894 --> 00:29:34,302
her clit, he denies her, telling her he's going

486
00:29:34,326 --> 00:29:37,582
to make her come with his cock. And he takes her by her

487
00:29:37,606 --> 00:29:40,862
neck. And then when he releases her, she comes and

488
00:29:40,886 --> 00:29:44,088
he comes. I also have some feedback on the scene.

489
00:29:44,184 --> 00:29:47,496
Yeah, I don't like all of the screaming.

490
00:29:47,688 --> 00:29:52,024
Sure. I don't like the fucking

491
00:29:52,152 --> 00:29:55,864
shit. Oh, my God. I just feel like that.

492
00:29:56,032 --> 00:29:59,192
I. I don't know. It's just not for me. And it really took me out

493
00:29:59,216 --> 00:30:03,224
of the scene. Yeah, definitely. But it is still my favorite scene.

494
00:30:03,352 --> 00:30:07,102
I was able to get over it. Okay, that's great. I'm dad.

495
00:30:07,296 --> 00:30:10,802
It's hours later, she realizes it's late and gets up

496
00:30:10,826 --> 00:30:14,402
to go, saying, important people like him need sleep.

497
00:30:14,546 --> 00:30:18,258
And Damien clarifies, like, important people like

498
00:30:18,314 --> 00:30:21,602
me, to which she says, yeah, like doctors and

499
00:30:21,626 --> 00:30:24,546
lawyers, et cetera. And he says, what you do is important.

500
00:30:24,698 --> 00:30:28,594
You make people Feel beautiful. And if we are going to work,

501
00:30:28,762 --> 00:30:32,642
then you can't do that. Where you

502
00:30:32,666 --> 00:30:36,216
minimize, like what you do and your contribution. Yeah.

503
00:30:36,328 --> 00:30:40,312
She's a makeup artist at like a department store. And she's passionate about

504
00:30:40,336 --> 00:30:43,848
it. Very. Yeah, she loves it. And Richard hated it.

505
00:30:43,984 --> 00:30:47,608
Richard thought that it was a not serious job and that what she was doing

506
00:30:47,664 --> 00:30:51,592
was not important and really just kind of

507
00:30:51,616 --> 00:30:54,420
diminished her for doing that.

508
00:30:54,880 --> 00:30:58,184
So she saves the night, they spoon,

509
00:30:58,312 --> 00:31:02,182
they wake up together. He gets her coffee and breakfast on

510
00:31:02,206 --> 00:31:05,414
the way to drop her off, where he walks her up to her apartment

511
00:31:05,462 --> 00:31:08,694
door and has now started calling

512
00:31:08,742 --> 00:31:12,170
her his new nickname for her, which is narana,

513
00:31:12,510 --> 00:31:16,022
which means orange. Yeah. The next day, the girls are

514
00:31:16,046 --> 00:31:19,878
working on their plans for Richard. They've already put glitter in his car

515
00:31:19,934 --> 00:31:23,366
vents and now they are picking up some old

516
00:31:23,438 --> 00:31:27,388
keys and attaching his phone number to them and then leaving them

517
00:31:27,444 --> 00:31:30,492
all over New York so that people will find them and blow up

518
00:31:30,516 --> 00:31:34,572
his phone trying to return them. And Cam has also put

519
00:31:34,596 --> 00:31:38,200
his number in a Reddit post claiming it was Harry Styles leaked number.

520
00:31:38,660 --> 00:31:41,760
And this is a complete side note. Yeah,

521
00:31:42,500 --> 00:31:45,692
this works. So I think it's like the

522
00:31:45,716 --> 00:31:49,100
keys are to his cell phone and then the leak number

523
00:31:49,140 --> 00:31:52,892
is his office phone or something. Yeah. And his phone starts blowing

524
00:31:52,956 --> 00:31:57,028
up. And I just have to say, and I mean this with

525
00:31:57,084 --> 00:32:00,372
my whole chest. If you get a celebrity's leaked

526
00:32:00,436 --> 00:32:03,480
number and you call them, you're a weirdo.

527
00:32:04,540 --> 00:32:08,132
That is the weirdest. I can't imagine being in

528
00:32:08,156 --> 00:32:11,716
a subreddit and have somebody be like, this is Emma Darcy's

529
00:32:11,748 --> 00:32:14,932
number. And being like, oh, I'm gonna call them. Yeah, there would be. They're a

530
00:32:14,956 --> 00:32:18,340
stranger. Yeah. Don't know them. No, you can't just.

531
00:32:18,380 --> 00:32:21,786
What are they gonna do? Yeah. I just think it's the weirdest shit

532
00:32:21,818 --> 00:32:24,922
ever. Would you do that? No, I wouldn't. But I feel like that is a

533
00:32:24,946 --> 00:32:28,298
thing. It is a thing and it's insane. It is insane.

534
00:32:28,394 --> 00:32:32,030
I agree. But we don't judge. We don't.

535
00:32:32,450 --> 00:32:35,306
We don't judge, but we're judging. I'm. Yeah.

536
00:32:35,498 --> 00:32:39,754
Anyways, the following Thursday, they have another date.

537
00:32:39,882 --> 00:32:42,874
And Damien calls her the night before to cancel.

538
00:32:42,922 --> 00:32:46,582
And just when she's thinking to herself, like, he's just like all

539
00:32:46,606 --> 00:32:49,910
the rest of them, he explains to her that he has a

540
00:32:49,950 --> 00:32:53,654
pro bono domestic violence case that is

541
00:32:53,822 --> 00:32:57,542
in need of a time sensitive order by

542
00:32:57,566 --> 00:33:01,318
the judge. And he asks her if she would be

543
00:33:01,374 --> 00:33:05,366
willing to do his client's makeup to help her feel her best

544
00:33:05,518 --> 00:33:08,822
for the trial. And she agrees. So the

545
00:33:08,846 --> 00:33:12,592
next day, he shows up with his client. He. He meets Kat, who works with

546
00:33:12,616 --> 00:33:16,464
Abby at the department store. Abby sends him away.

547
00:33:16,632 --> 00:33:19,952
Yeah. She wants to, like, be alone. She's like, let us do our

548
00:33:19,976 --> 00:33:23,392
girl thing. And so he goes to wander around the mall,

549
00:33:23,456 --> 00:33:27,584
and Abby does this client's makeup. And she

550
00:33:27,672 --> 00:33:31,328
really kind of starts to connect with this client who has

551
00:33:31,384 --> 00:33:34,740
been married and has children and is experiencing

552
00:33:35,160 --> 00:33:38,282
some really horrific kind

553
00:33:38,306 --> 00:33:41,610
of abuse. Financial, physical, and mental abuse. They're trying to get

554
00:33:41,650 --> 00:33:45,338
a restraining order, an order of protection. Abby sort

555
00:33:45,354 --> 00:33:48,714
of starts to see herself in this client

556
00:33:48,842 --> 00:33:52,634
and sees the path that she was on with Richard. And I

557
00:33:52,642 --> 00:33:55,850
think it's a really good opportunity for her

558
00:33:55,970 --> 00:33:59,770
early on in this relationship with Damian, for her to be able to really

559
00:33:59,810 --> 00:34:03,154
clearly identify what love and patience

560
00:34:03,202 --> 00:34:06,706
is supposed to look like. She does the woman's makeup.

561
00:34:06,738 --> 00:34:09,554
She sets her up with a goodie bag and some clothes for her and the

562
00:34:09,562 --> 00:34:13,138
kids. And then, you know, she calls Damian back,

563
00:34:13,194 --> 00:34:16,146
and he brings Kat and her some coffee,

564
00:34:16,258 --> 00:34:20,466
and he kisses her in front of her friends. And it's

565
00:34:20,498 --> 00:34:23,970
all very cutesy. And as much as I loved this book,

566
00:34:24,010 --> 00:34:27,362
I hated this scene. Why do you hate the

567
00:34:27,386 --> 00:34:31,140
scene? I just feel like it feels forced. I will

568
00:34:31,180 --> 00:34:34,372
agree. I wouldn't like a guy that I've only been

569
00:34:34,396 --> 00:34:37,684
out with once coming into my work and kind of showering me

570
00:34:37,692 --> 00:34:41,960
with affection. Sure. And for me, it would feel like it's

571
00:34:42,300 --> 00:34:45,332
fake. It's like putting on an act in front of his client.

572
00:34:45,476 --> 00:34:49,268
Yeah. Seem a certain way. That's how

573
00:34:49,324 --> 00:34:52,880
I would take it if I was Abbey. Sure.

574
00:34:53,420 --> 00:34:57,728
That's so interesting. Do we think that Abby is an unreliable narrator?

575
00:34:57,924 --> 00:35:00,540
Is this, like. Is this giving Feyre.

576
00:35:01,920 --> 00:35:05,500
Wow, that's interesting.

577
00:35:06,000 --> 00:35:09,240
That's how I kind of took it. Yeah. I just

578
00:35:09,280 --> 00:35:12,440
feel like it's just a little bit too syrupy for

579
00:35:12,480 --> 00:35:16,152
me. This is a Hallmark movie. It's a way to, like, force some

580
00:35:16,176 --> 00:35:19,640
intimacy with them. Yeah. Outside of just the sex,

581
00:35:19,760 --> 00:35:22,936
because we do get some. We get a little sex next. Yeah.

582
00:35:23,048 --> 00:35:24,900
Yeah, we do. Yeah, we do.

583
00:35:26,590 --> 00:35:30,134
The next day, Damian calls her to update her on the case.

584
00:35:30,222 --> 00:35:34,038
And while they are chatting, they slowly ease

585
00:35:34,134 --> 00:35:38,038
into a phone sex conversation. She makes a joke about

586
00:35:38,094 --> 00:35:41,510
his age, and he says something about putting her over

587
00:35:41,550 --> 00:35:44,822
his knee. Oh, yeah. And then he's like, oh, shit. You would

588
00:35:44,846 --> 00:35:48,774
like that, wouldn't you? And then they sort of, like, start talking.

589
00:35:48,822 --> 00:35:52,182
And then he asks her what she's wearing, and then he tells her

590
00:35:52,206 --> 00:35:56,270
to take it off. And then she asks him if he's Also taking his

591
00:35:56,310 --> 00:35:59,902
clothes off. And he says, just to be clear, I'm going

592
00:35:59,926 --> 00:36:03,182
to talk you through making yourself calm, and I'm going to jack off while I

593
00:36:03,206 --> 00:36:06,702
listen. Yeah, this is my favorite scene.

594
00:36:06,846 --> 00:36:10,846
We don't get a lot of phone sex scenes. And I've

595
00:36:10,878 --> 00:36:14,926
always loved phone sex. Dave and I were long distance for a year or

596
00:36:14,998 --> 00:36:17,570
over, and I've always liked.

597
00:36:17,910 --> 00:36:20,772
Oh, interesting. I love that.

598
00:36:20,956 --> 00:36:23,780
I've never had phone sex. Really?

599
00:36:23,900 --> 00:36:27,972
Yeah. So I don't know. I just don't know

600
00:36:27,996 --> 00:36:30,280
if I would even really like it, to be honest.

601
00:36:30,620 --> 00:36:34,084
We've talked about this in the past. I am a big noise person.

602
00:36:34,252 --> 00:36:36,680
I don't do great with visuals,

603
00:36:37,100 --> 00:36:41,012
so something in me feels like maybe it would be challenging

604
00:36:41,076 --> 00:36:45,060
for me. Yeah. I mean, he, like, walks her through step

605
00:36:45,100 --> 00:36:48,616
by step, which I. I love and can get on board with, but he also

606
00:36:48,688 --> 00:36:52,376
is describing himself, and that would be really

607
00:36:52,448 --> 00:36:55,944
hard for me. Yeah. I wouldn't be able to visualize it.

608
00:36:56,032 --> 00:36:59,688
FaceTime. I think I could get on. I.

609
00:36:59,744 --> 00:37:02,664
I think I could get on board with FaceTiming. Yeah. Put the phone between your

610
00:37:02,672 --> 00:37:06,216
legs while you're on FaceTime. Yes. Like Jake and Rachel

611
00:37:06,248 --> 00:37:09,800
from Pecking around. Oh, yeah. Yes. I could get on board

612
00:37:09,840 --> 00:37:13,130
with something like that. I think FaceTime. I could do straight phone sex.

613
00:37:13,170 --> 00:37:16,762
I don't think I could. Sure. What about. Because I've also done the

614
00:37:16,786 --> 00:37:19,946
texting. There's one guy that we were texting after bar close,

615
00:37:20,018 --> 00:37:23,670
and, like, so good that he was like, okay, I'm outside.

616
00:37:24,450 --> 00:37:27,882
Oh, my God. And then we in his car. Love that for you.

617
00:37:28,066 --> 00:37:31,354
Oh, my God. Yes. Sexting, I'm okay with.

618
00:37:31,442 --> 00:37:34,970
Yeah. Only because if I'm sexting, I'm doing

619
00:37:35,010 --> 00:37:38,390
it, like, while I'm, like, at work. It's not like.

620
00:37:38,870 --> 00:37:41,998
Like, I'm like, I'm gonna go run this, like, tray of ranch

621
00:37:42,094 --> 00:37:45,662
and then I'll text him in between. It's not. I'm not actually participating

622
00:37:45,726 --> 00:37:49,614
in a sexting usually. No. But the worst is then when

623
00:37:49,782 --> 00:37:53,310
you're sexting and then they call you to, like, hear you finish, and it's like,

624
00:37:53,350 --> 00:37:57,150
fuck. I have not even. I'm on Google Earth right.

625
00:37:57,270 --> 00:37:59,930
Right now. I have not.

626
00:38:01,110 --> 00:38:05,172
Yes. So that is. That is the one downfall to sexual

627
00:38:05,186 --> 00:38:08,512
sexting. Yeah. Yeah. I'm not

628
00:38:08,536 --> 00:38:11,680
letting distance stop me. No, I clearly.

629
00:38:11,760 --> 00:38:14,140
No, I honestly would.

630
00:38:15,880 --> 00:38:19,536
You are like that, though. The second somebody's just out of your peripheral, you're like,

631
00:38:19,608 --> 00:38:22,832
I don't even remember Best friend. Yes, I do.

632
00:38:22,936 --> 00:38:26,336
Oh, my God. Way to just call me out in front of everybody.

633
00:38:26,448 --> 00:38:29,392
Oh, my God. We call everybody else out, so. That's true.

634
00:38:29,536 --> 00:38:32,368
I have no shame about it. Look it, if you want to be my friend,

635
00:38:32,424 --> 00:38:35,852
stay in front of me. Yeah, that's. I don't know. It's. What are you.

636
00:38:35,876 --> 00:38:39,916
What are you gonna do about it? So as Nicole has kind of already alluded

637
00:38:39,948 --> 00:38:43,452
to, he has her put him on speakerphone and then put

638
00:38:43,476 --> 00:38:47,324
the phone between her legs so that he can hear her touching herself

639
00:38:47,452 --> 00:38:50,572
through the phone. And it's so

640
00:38:50,596 --> 00:38:54,172
hot. You've talked about the noises. Yeah, I'm a big noise person.

641
00:38:54,276 --> 00:38:56,640
And yeah, yeah,

642
00:38:56,980 --> 00:39:00,284
yeah. So he walks her through touching herself

643
00:39:00,332 --> 00:39:04,468
and then fingering herself until she comes. And then he comes,

644
00:39:04,524 --> 00:39:08,180
and the entire time that they're having this conversation, he is,

645
00:39:08,220 --> 00:39:11,412
like, talking dirty to her and praising her.

646
00:39:11,596 --> 00:39:15,060
And then they finish up, and then there's aftercare.

647
00:39:15,140 --> 00:39:18,772
There is even. Even distance and long distance.

648
00:39:18,836 --> 00:39:22,052
There is still some aftercare for him. Yeah. He says, go to the bathroom and

649
00:39:22,076 --> 00:39:25,028
clean yourself up and then come back. And she's like, what do you mean?

650
00:39:25,084 --> 00:39:28,644
Like, aren't we done? And yeah. He's like, I didn't just call you

651
00:39:28,732 --> 00:39:31,876
to do this. Like, believe it or not, I actually want to talk to you.

652
00:39:31,948 --> 00:39:35,224
Yeah. It's so sweet. It is so sweet. I love him.

653
00:39:35,312 --> 00:39:37,460
Is this now your favorite scene? No.

654
00:39:38,080 --> 00:39:41,112
No. Still no. Still no. I love that

655
00:39:41,136 --> 00:39:44,872
it's your favorite scene, though. It is. And I can understand the novelty of it.

656
00:39:44,976 --> 00:39:47,960
Yeah, I. I can get on board with a phone sex scene.

657
00:39:48,040 --> 00:39:51,224
Yeah. Oh, my God. I love that for you. You're learning so much

658
00:39:51,232 --> 00:39:54,712
about myself. You're so interesting. Nobody can see me,

659
00:39:54,736 --> 00:39:57,300
but I'm literally. Like, leaning at me.

660
00:39:59,050 --> 00:40:02,630
I'm so thrilled to be learning these things. Yeah.

661
00:40:02,970 --> 00:40:06,386
They talk on the phone for about an hour, and then

662
00:40:06,538 --> 00:40:09,458
she is kind of starting to fall asleep, and he's like, are you tired?

663
00:40:09,554 --> 00:40:13,122
And she's like, no, I don't want this to stop. I'm lonely, and I like

664
00:40:13,146 --> 00:40:16,082
talking to you. And so he says, okay, well, I'll stay on the phone and

665
00:40:16,106 --> 00:40:18,770
tell you about my day while you fall asleep. And they do that, and it's

666
00:40:18,850 --> 00:40:22,018
again, super sweet. There's a thing again,

667
00:40:22,074 --> 00:40:25,770
with the unique way that they talk to each other where he'll say

668
00:40:25,810 --> 00:40:29,226
something to her like, I didn't just call you to have phone sex with you.

669
00:40:29,298 --> 00:40:32,682
And she'll say, oh. And he'll say, yeah,

670
00:40:32,746 --> 00:40:36,122
oh. And it's so cute. I just love

671
00:40:36,146 --> 00:40:39,370
it. It's just so realistic that it makes it really easy to fall into this

672
00:40:39,410 --> 00:40:43,418
Book and picture yourself in these people, because that's

673
00:40:43,434 --> 00:40:47,114
how most people would probably speak. Yeah, for sure.

674
00:40:47,282 --> 00:40:51,192
About a week later, while they're on their next date, he notices

675
00:40:51,336 --> 00:40:54,728
that Abby is distracted. Her phone is going off,

676
00:40:54,784 --> 00:40:58,536
and he's like, what's going on? And Cam

677
00:40:58,608 --> 00:41:02,664
and Kat are at their favorite childhood band's concert

678
00:41:02,792 --> 00:41:06,952
at Madison Square Garden that night, and she had not bought tickets

679
00:41:07,016 --> 00:41:10,888
because she had was still with Richard when they bought the tickets. And the last

680
00:41:10,944 --> 00:41:14,776
time that they had been to a show, Richard had just absolutely

681
00:41:14,808 --> 00:41:18,272
eviscerated her about it, and so she instead

682
00:41:18,336 --> 00:41:21,200
chose to spend the money on a new pair of Jimmy Choos,

683
00:41:21,280 --> 00:41:24,512
which. Good choice. Right. Decision made.

684
00:41:24,616 --> 00:41:27,440
It worked out in your favor. Yeah. Because you've already seen I get the.

685
00:41:27,480 --> 00:41:30,432
I get the vibe based on giving out Harry Styles phone number that this is

686
00:41:30,456 --> 00:41:33,632
One Direction. Oh, sure. And she's already

687
00:41:33,656 --> 00:41:37,056
seen them. Yeah. Jimmy choose. Yeah,

688
00:41:37,248 --> 00:41:40,736
you would say that. I know I would. I would pick the concept after telling.

689
00:41:40,768 --> 00:41:44,574
You earlier today that I would choose a trip over a $45,000 ring.

690
00:41:44,622 --> 00:41:48,330
Doesn't make any sense. Yeah. You really are.

691
00:41:48,870 --> 00:41:52,462
Oh, my God. I'm. I'm gonna know you my whole life,

692
00:41:52,486 --> 00:41:55,582
and I'm never gonna know. I don't have myself figured out.

693
00:41:55,686 --> 00:41:58,250
Oh, well, that's me.

694
00:42:00,710 --> 00:42:05,166
When Damian learns what's going on, he takes

695
00:42:05,198 --> 00:42:08,878
her to Madison Square Garden. He has her friends meet him

696
00:42:08,934 --> 00:42:12,840
out front, and. And he sets them up in the firm's box

697
00:42:12,920 --> 00:42:16,632
seats with complimentary champagne, and he hangs out

698
00:42:16,656 --> 00:42:20,296
with her and her friends all night while they sing along

699
00:42:20,368 --> 00:42:24,520
to every single song and act like little

700
00:42:24,560 --> 00:42:28,248
girls at their. And he's just loving it. He's just so.

701
00:42:28,304 --> 00:42:31,832
He likes seeing her in her element. Yeah. He says on the way home,

702
00:42:32,016 --> 00:42:35,918
like, I love seeing you happy and free. And he

703
00:42:35,974 --> 00:42:39,678
says something to her here along the lines of, like, when you're

704
00:42:39,694 --> 00:42:43,102
with me, you wear pink. Yeah. And she's like,

705
00:42:43,206 --> 00:42:46,910
okay, yeah, I guess when I'm with you, I wear pink. So I just love

706
00:42:46,950 --> 00:42:50,270
them. On the way home that night,

707
00:42:50,390 --> 00:42:54,970
he sort of starts fishing for information about

708
00:42:55,430 --> 00:42:58,942
this horrible relationship because Cam and Kat brought it

709
00:42:58,966 --> 00:43:02,300
up. Yeah. They almost even say his name. Yeah.

710
00:43:02,380 --> 00:43:05,868
Yeah. They. Cam, as committed as she is,

711
00:43:06,004 --> 00:43:09,212
almost blew their cover. She discloses that

712
00:43:09,236 --> 00:43:12,572
she was in this really horrible relationship for a really long time, and the way

713
00:43:12,596 --> 00:43:16,460
that she lost herself and just kind of some of the details of it and

714
00:43:16,580 --> 00:43:20,508
he comforts her, and they go back to

715
00:43:20,564 --> 00:43:24,236
his place, and they don't. We don't see the sex scene,

716
00:43:24,268 --> 00:43:27,556
but. Yeah, it's A fade to black inferred. That they have sex.

717
00:43:27,748 --> 00:43:32,004
And while they're laying in bed together, he starts talking about this

718
00:43:32,092 --> 00:43:35,716
twat that he works with that he cannot stand. And he's talking

719
00:43:35,748 --> 00:43:39,284
about Richard. Yep. So Natalie is like, I'm laying naked

720
00:43:39,332 --> 00:43:43,316
in bed with my ex's boss, listening to him complain

721
00:43:43,428 --> 00:43:47,332
about my ex, and he doesn't know that he's my ex.

722
00:43:47,436 --> 00:43:51,060
And yeah, I. The fact that she didn't tell

723
00:43:51,100 --> 00:43:54,250
him here, I would have. I would have told

724
00:43:54,290 --> 00:43:56,922
him for sure. I wouldn't have been able to keep that in any longer.

725
00:43:56,986 --> 00:43:59,722
I wouldn't have either. There are a lot of times where she could have told

726
00:43:59,746 --> 00:44:01,790
him the truth in this and she doesn't.

727
00:44:02,530 --> 00:44:06,746
And we also learned when she's having her little internal monologue

728
00:44:06,858 --> 00:44:10,810
that the women are still working their revenge angle. And Abby

729
00:44:10,970 --> 00:44:14,590
had Richard's tailor take in all of his suits a half an inch

730
00:44:16,210 --> 00:44:19,274
so that he wouldn't know that they had been taken in a half an inch

731
00:44:19,322 --> 00:44:22,774
and that he would just think that he was gaining weight. And he. They canceled

732
00:44:22,822 --> 00:44:25,782
his special shampoo. His hair will fall out.

733
00:44:25,966 --> 00:44:28,822
I do like the revenge. I do, too. I think it's a lot of fun.

734
00:44:28,846 --> 00:44:31,490
I think we've all wanted to get revenge on a guy like this,

735
00:44:31,870 --> 00:44:35,430
and we're just watching Abby live out our best fantasies. Well,

736
00:44:35,470 --> 00:44:38,806
and it's so genius because none of they can't really get in trouble

737
00:44:38,838 --> 00:44:42,150
for any of these things. No, I mean, like, none of these things

738
00:44:42,190 --> 00:44:45,382
are really going to come back to bite him in the ass. No. Nothing illegal,

739
00:44:45,446 --> 00:44:49,570
nothing harmful. Yeah. I love it. In their discussions,

740
00:44:49,990 --> 00:44:53,710
Abby invites Damian to come home with her for

741
00:44:53,830 --> 00:44:57,518
Thanksgiving. And he agrees on the condition that she

742
00:44:57,574 --> 00:45:00,942
comes to dinner with his family when they come up the

743
00:45:00,966 --> 00:45:05,662
week after Christmas. This is where we start to see Abby kind

744
00:45:05,686 --> 00:45:09,278
of attempting to come clean with Damien. From here on out is where

745
00:45:09,334 --> 00:45:13,038
he really is. Kind of like, I have to tell him. But she makes very

746
00:45:13,094 --> 00:45:16,492
ill timed attempts. Yeah, yeah. She's picking these

747
00:45:16,516 --> 00:45:19,932
moments of, like, pure bliss where he's like, until after the holidays, I don't want

748
00:45:19,956 --> 00:45:23,692
to know anything that could make me change my mind about you. And I

749
00:45:23,716 --> 00:45:27,292
just. There are so many other opportunities she could have taken to tell him.

750
00:45:27,396 --> 00:45:31,484
Yeah. Damian and Abby are going to drive

751
00:45:31,612 --> 00:45:34,796
to Abby's sister's place for the holidays.

752
00:45:34,988 --> 00:45:38,796
This scene again, Abby is like, well, I'll take the train.

753
00:45:38,988 --> 00:45:41,708
And Damian is like, oh, well, I'll drive. And she's like,

754
00:45:41,764 --> 00:45:45,366
okay, like, I'll meet you out there. And he's like, the Are you talking about.

755
00:45:45,438 --> 00:45:49,222
Yeah, I'm driving. Like, we're gonna drive.

756
00:45:49,286 --> 00:45:52,902
And she's like, oh, okay. Yeah. I thought you like important people. Like, you have

757
00:45:52,926 --> 00:45:56,342
to work. Like, sure, I always have work. But I'm not working on

758
00:45:56,366 --> 00:45:59,462
a holiday with you. Right, yeah, absolutely.

759
00:45:59,526 --> 00:46:03,430
And again, she just is just, I think, is so

760
00:46:03,470 --> 00:46:07,062
traumatized that she. Four years of being with

761
00:46:07,086 --> 00:46:10,950
somebody who would drive himself while she took the. Train out,

762
00:46:11,070 --> 00:46:14,470
or he'd take the train just so he could work. Yeah. And she'd sit there

763
00:46:14,590 --> 00:46:17,990
twiddling her thumb. Yeah. It's pretty wild.

764
00:46:18,410 --> 00:46:23,170
When they get to her family's house for the holidays, they end

765
00:46:23,210 --> 00:46:27,390
up in their own little guest house versus staying in the big house.

766
00:46:27,690 --> 00:46:30,770
And the first night that we get here,

767
00:46:30,810 --> 00:46:34,418
we get another scene. Yeah, we do. Oh, my. I know.

768
00:46:34,554 --> 00:46:38,034
Wow. From across the table, I could see you smiling and looking at me out

769
00:46:38,042 --> 00:46:41,186
the corner of your eye. Damian has

770
00:46:41,258 --> 00:46:44,062
Abby. You love this shit. I do.

771
00:46:44,166 --> 00:46:48,046
You do. I'm starting to see. There are some things I'm starting

772
00:46:48,078 --> 00:46:51,694
to see. You are an enigma. Yeah.

773
00:46:51,742 --> 00:46:55,550
Some of it's coming together here, babes. Damien has Abby show

774
00:46:55,590 --> 00:46:58,846
him how she touches herself when he's not

775
00:46:58,918 --> 00:47:02,302
around. And she's kind

776
00:47:02,326 --> 00:47:05,806
of showing him. And then he has her put two fingers

777
00:47:05,838 --> 00:47:09,678
inside herself while he strokes himself, which I love. Yeah.

778
00:47:09,774 --> 00:47:12,974
So the scene is versatile. Yeah. For both of

779
00:47:12,982 --> 00:47:16,382
us, girl. Then he

780
00:47:16,406 --> 00:47:19,822
has her stop, but leave her fingers inside of

781
00:47:19,846 --> 00:47:23,278
herself. And then he comes to her, he pulls her fingers out,

782
00:47:23,414 --> 00:47:27,678
sucks one clean, and then makes Abby

783
00:47:27,774 --> 00:47:31,678
suck the other one clean. And then he methodically fucks

784
00:47:31,694 --> 00:47:34,490
her while telling her who she belongs to.

785
00:47:34,800 --> 00:47:38,360
Yeah. This is also a hot scene. It really is.

786
00:47:38,480 --> 00:47:41,896
I liked the scene. This was a smutty scene.

787
00:47:42,008 --> 00:47:45,400
Yes. I agree. This is where we definitely get the smut book

788
00:47:45,440 --> 00:47:48,260
versus a book with spice. Yeah, for sure.

789
00:47:48,560 --> 00:47:52,440
Afterwards, they are laying in bed and

790
00:47:52,560 --> 00:47:56,200
they're kind of discussing really indirectly their

791
00:47:56,240 --> 00:48:00,434
future. And Damien is, at this point, all in.

792
00:48:00,552 --> 00:48:04,222
He thinks to himself that he's already met the perfect woman. I think he might

793
00:48:04,246 --> 00:48:07,790
have even said that. Yeah, he is. He is

794
00:48:07,830 --> 00:48:11,646
thinking to himself, why would I continue to approach

795
00:48:11,718 --> 00:48:15,230
this from a not serious way when this

796
00:48:15,270 --> 00:48:19,326
is serious? Like, there is nobody else that I'm gonna see myself

797
00:48:19,358 --> 00:48:22,542
with? And she's saying to herself, I can see a future with this man.

798
00:48:22,646 --> 00:48:25,934
Yeah. So they start discussing kids, and Abby

799
00:48:25,982 --> 00:48:29,830
reveals that she doesn't want them. Good for her.

800
00:48:29,950 --> 00:48:33,078
Yeah. She just wants someone to be

801
00:48:33,134 --> 00:48:36,950
completely obsessed with. And we learned that he wants the same thing.

802
00:48:37,070 --> 00:48:40,886
And I really, really love the scene because It's a very honest.

803
00:48:40,998 --> 00:48:44,806
Yes. Very open, very healthy conversation. And I

804
00:48:44,878 --> 00:48:49,090
love that Abby doesn't want to have kids because,

805
00:48:49,390 --> 00:48:52,678
like, it's not my place to, like, pass opinion on people

806
00:48:52,734 --> 00:48:56,374
who don't want kids and what their reasoning is. But I think a lot of

807
00:48:56,382 --> 00:48:59,382
the times when we hear people who are like, oh, I don't want kids,

808
00:48:59,446 --> 00:49:03,190
like, there's so much work or, like, whatever it is. And she is saying

809
00:49:03,230 --> 00:49:06,486
that here, but she's also saying, like, I know myself,

810
00:49:06,518 --> 00:49:10,342
and I know that I'm gonna lose myself in my partner, and I

811
00:49:10,366 --> 00:49:13,542
don't want to lose myself and my partner when I

812
00:49:13,566 --> 00:49:17,110
have children that are gonna need me. And it just is like.

813
00:49:17,230 --> 00:49:20,130
I don't know. I just. I love the conversation. I do.

814
00:49:20,750 --> 00:49:23,726
The next day, Thanksgiving, it's, of course,

815
00:49:23,798 --> 00:49:27,358
a massive success. Damien gives a toast,

816
00:49:27,534 --> 00:49:31,646
and everybody loves him. Everybody loves him. Hannah and Abby's

817
00:49:31,678 --> 00:49:35,102
sister can really tell that she's in

818
00:49:35,126 --> 00:49:38,926
it. That, I mean, this is. They're really falling for one another.

819
00:49:39,078 --> 00:49:42,542
And her sister doesn't know that. Right. This is revenge.

820
00:49:42,686 --> 00:49:46,670
Yeah. A week later, and Damien has asked

821
00:49:46,710 --> 00:49:50,562
Abby to meet him after work at his place.

822
00:49:50,746 --> 00:49:54,258
And old habits die hard. She gets there.

823
00:49:54,314 --> 00:49:57,794
She doesn't know what to do. He has been working a really tough

824
00:49:57,842 --> 00:50:01,202
case. So his house is not dirty, but it's like

825
00:50:01,226 --> 00:50:04,290
a little messy, little unkept.

826
00:50:04,450 --> 00:50:07,970
And so she cleans up, vacuums, does his

827
00:50:08,010 --> 00:50:11,218
laundry, and then cooks him dinner. We learn

828
00:50:11,314 --> 00:50:15,010
in, like, an earlier scene that this was something that she was doing for Richard

829
00:50:15,090 --> 00:50:18,642
all the time. Like, this was the expectation of her in

830
00:50:18,666 --> 00:50:22,770
their relationship. She quantified it as, this is

831
00:50:22,810 --> 00:50:26,482
what women of powerful men do,

832
00:50:26,666 --> 00:50:30,290
is they take care of all of these responsibilities. And I have to show him

833
00:50:30,330 --> 00:50:33,762
that I am capable of doing these things for him.

834
00:50:33,866 --> 00:50:37,106
And it's interesting because here it.

835
00:50:37,178 --> 00:50:40,594
She doesn't feel like that, but it is almost like habit.

836
00:50:40,642 --> 00:50:43,794
That's what it feels like when I agree. It was almost like, I don't know

837
00:50:43,802 --> 00:50:46,674
what to do with myself. I'm here in his apartment, and I.

838
00:50:46,842 --> 00:50:50,274
This is what I do. And. But he comes home,

839
00:50:50,442 --> 00:50:54,450
and on his way home, stopped at a bodega and picked her up

840
00:50:54,490 --> 00:50:57,730
some carnations because he was thinking of her. And,

841
00:50:57,850 --> 00:51:01,522
yeah, I love that. Because he's having a shitty day, and he stops to

842
00:51:01,546 --> 00:51:05,330
get her flowers because her being happy makes his day better.

843
00:51:05,450 --> 00:51:09,190
Exactly. I love. Love that. I do, too. And I love

844
00:51:09,230 --> 00:51:12,550
that they were shitty bodega flowers. I love that she talks about it.

845
00:51:12,590 --> 00:51:15,730
I love that she points it out. I love that she recognizes that, like,

846
00:51:16,270 --> 00:51:20,358
small little gestures like this mean just so,

847
00:51:20,414 --> 00:51:22,662
so much like he was on his way home, he was thinking about her.

848
00:51:22,686 --> 00:51:26,326
He stopped. He got the flowers, and he is so,

849
00:51:26,478 --> 00:51:30,246
so fucking grateful for everything that she's

850
00:51:30,278 --> 00:51:33,638
done for him. He was not expecting it. He makes it very clear that he

851
00:51:33,694 --> 00:51:37,628
never expects that of her. And to thank her, he spreads

852
00:51:37,644 --> 00:51:40,588
her out on his island, and he eats her out until she comes. Oh,

853
00:51:40,604 --> 00:51:43,520
my God. Yeah. Yep.

854
00:51:43,860 --> 00:51:47,596
And I. Again, I love this scene because she is like,

855
00:51:47,748 --> 00:51:51,612
oh, my God, I'm wearing leggings and a sweatshirt. Like, I should have put

856
00:51:51,636 --> 00:51:55,660
lingerie on or something. Like Damien is gonna expect me to be. And he's like,

857
00:51:55,780 --> 00:51:59,200
you fucking cooked for me. Yeah. Fucking goddess.

858
00:51:59,700 --> 00:52:02,930
I love it so much. After he's made her come,

859
00:52:02,970 --> 00:52:07,122
he turns her around, bends her over, and then he fucks her from behind

860
00:52:07,306 --> 00:52:10,482
on the island. Yeah. Yeah. After dinner,

861
00:52:10,546 --> 00:52:14,114
while laying in bed, he invites her

862
00:52:14,202 --> 00:52:17,538
to the Christmas party. And at this point,

863
00:52:17,594 --> 00:52:21,042
I've almost forgotten that the whole point of this was to get

864
00:52:21,066 --> 00:52:24,482
invited to that Christmas party because I'm so invested in them.

865
00:52:24,586 --> 00:52:27,964
This feels like a forever. Yeah, she. She's going to cancel.

866
00:52:28,092 --> 00:52:31,292
She's going to tell him everything. And she's fighting about

867
00:52:31,316 --> 00:52:35,080
it with Cam, who is like, absolutely fucking not. Don't lose focus.

868
00:52:35,620 --> 00:52:39,200
And she gets a text message from Richard.

869
00:52:39,620 --> 00:52:43,320
And the text message is basically Richard saying,

870
00:52:43,620 --> 00:52:46,680
if you have any photos of us on social media together,

871
00:52:46,980 --> 00:52:50,460
get rid of them all. And then he sends some asshole thing.

872
00:52:50,500 --> 00:52:54,270
Like, yeah, text me when you've done. Completed it, completed this task.

873
00:52:54,850 --> 00:52:58,266
I would have had the same reaction that Abby does where it's like, all right,

874
00:52:58,338 --> 00:53:01,242
back. This is back on 100%. Yeah.

875
00:53:01,306 --> 00:53:05,210
It's real easy to get there the next date that they go

876
00:53:05,250 --> 00:53:08,442
on. I don't have a lot written about it, but I think that it's an

877
00:53:08,466 --> 00:53:12,010
important date to include because it is very sweet.

878
00:53:12,090 --> 00:53:15,150
Yes. When they have been on their first date,

879
00:53:15,730 --> 00:53:18,938
they had talked about the Rockettes and how

880
00:53:18,994 --> 00:53:21,722
when she was young, she wanted to be a Rockette. And he asked her,

881
00:53:21,746 --> 00:53:24,830
have you ever been? And she said, no. Me and my sister were obsessed with.

882
00:53:24,850 --> 00:53:28,582
With them. And so Damian has set up a surprise

883
00:53:28,646 --> 00:53:32,278
visit with her sister Hannah. And Hannah's husband,

884
00:53:32,454 --> 00:53:36,214
he's brought them out to New York City. He buys them tickets to go see

885
00:53:36,302 --> 00:53:40,198
the Rockettes together. And they all go on this cute double date. And I

886
00:53:40,254 --> 00:53:43,894
am a smitten kitten. So. Well. And it's so telling on how

887
00:53:44,062 --> 00:53:46,530
we see how Damien really felt about her right away.

888
00:53:46,910 --> 00:53:50,284
She mentioned that on their first date. And he remembered that,

889
00:53:50,422 --> 00:53:53,780
yeah, 100%. The night before, the party arrives

890
00:53:54,440 --> 00:53:58,016
and Damian has won his pro bono

891
00:53:58,048 --> 00:54:01,664
case. And he calls Abby and asks if he can come over to celebrate.

892
00:54:01,792 --> 00:54:04,720
And she says, like,

893
00:54:04,760 --> 00:54:07,968
don't you have people to celebrate with? And he says, yeah, I do.

894
00:54:08,024 --> 00:54:11,792
You. And then he brings pizza and wine over to her place and they

895
00:54:11,816 --> 00:54:15,568
celebrate. And it's. Which is again, the best part of his day is Abby.

896
00:54:15,664 --> 00:54:19,154
And it's so, so sweet. So sweet.

897
00:54:19,282 --> 00:54:21,842
This is. Now that we're going through this, I feel like this is you and

898
00:54:21,866 --> 00:54:25,070
Dave. I kind of. I'm like, I could relate to all of this.

899
00:54:25,530 --> 00:54:28,578
Dave on his birthday would probably get me flowers.

900
00:54:28,674 --> 00:54:31,554
Yeah. If I tell him not to do something, he'll still do it. He'll remember

901
00:54:31,602 --> 00:54:35,122
everything I've ever told him. He's been getting up with me in the

902
00:54:35,146 --> 00:54:38,546
mornings just to open our garage door, even though he's off this week. Oh,

903
00:54:38,578 --> 00:54:41,954
my God, you guys are adorable. I know. No wonder I

904
00:54:41,962 --> 00:54:44,580
liked this book. I should have written it higher.

905
00:54:47,600 --> 00:54:50,840
The day of the party, while chatting with Kat,

906
00:54:51,000 --> 00:54:54,248
we learn that Damian's nickname for

907
00:54:54,304 --> 00:54:57,896
Abby Naraha is actually a well

908
00:54:57,968 --> 00:55:01,544
known phrase that essentially means my other half.

909
00:55:01,712 --> 00:55:05,464
And he has been calling her that since their first night together.

910
00:55:05,632 --> 00:55:09,592
So this is a big revelation for her because she realizes that Damian

911
00:55:09,656 --> 00:55:13,228
is way more in this than like,

912
00:55:13,284 --> 00:55:17,548
she thought. I also think it's really interesting and probably

913
00:55:17,724 --> 00:55:21,292
good writing that every single time that

914
00:55:21,316 --> 00:55:23,676
we have gotten Damien's perspective,

915
00:55:23,868 --> 00:55:27,708
never once have I gotten other half

916
00:55:27,764 --> 00:55:31,772
vibes from him. Right. Which is such a bad thing.

917
00:55:31,876 --> 00:55:35,244
Yep. That is men are big fucking

918
00:55:35,292 --> 00:55:39,518
dumb idiots walking around, bumping into things and they don't even know.

919
00:55:39,654 --> 00:55:42,622
No. They have. So disconnected from their feelings.

920
00:55:42,686 --> 00:55:46,558
Yeah. He's so into her, he just doesn't. Even understand

921
00:55:46,694 --> 00:55:50,510
because it's wild to me. It could never

922
00:55:50,550 --> 00:55:53,486
be me. So after she learns this,

923
00:55:53,558 --> 00:55:56,878
she is more determined than ever to tell him the truth. And that night,

924
00:55:56,934 --> 00:56:00,094
he comes to pick her up and she's feeling sick.

925
00:56:00,142 --> 00:56:04,120
Like, she's like, I'm gonna tell him before we go. And he

926
00:56:04,160 --> 00:56:07,832
comes into her apartment because he comes upstairs, he's made friends with the doorman

927
00:56:07,896 --> 00:56:11,032
because of course he has. Comes into her apartment to pick her up and he

928
00:56:11,056 --> 00:56:14,696
sees that she's wearing a serious dress and he

929
00:56:14,768 --> 00:56:19,000
forces her to change into her signature pink color.

930
00:56:19,160 --> 00:56:23,112
And while she's changing, Damien decides that they're going to

931
00:56:23,136 --> 00:56:26,920
have a little quickie. He can't even stop himself. Even stop

932
00:56:26,960 --> 00:56:30,572
himself. He doesn't even completely Undress himself. He literally is still

933
00:56:30,596 --> 00:56:34,316
in his seat. Yeah. He just unzips. Yeah. He degrades

934
00:56:34,348 --> 00:56:37,804
her and praises her in equal measure. And they both come

935
00:56:37,892 --> 00:56:41,868
and then head to the party. And I

936
00:56:42,004 --> 00:56:45,852
like this part because she notices here that he

937
00:56:45,956 --> 00:56:49,564
always looks her in the eye when she's all dolled

938
00:56:49,612 --> 00:56:53,500
up. And she says she thinks it's because

939
00:56:53,540 --> 00:56:56,610
he wants to let her know that he likes her.

940
00:56:56,730 --> 00:57:00,002
Yeah. Not the dress, which was really sweet. Well,

941
00:57:00,026 --> 00:57:03,750
I think it's sweet, too. Like, he knows Abby's personality is pink.

942
00:57:04,250 --> 00:57:07,150
He sees her wearing something that's not her,

943
00:57:07,770 --> 00:57:10,946
presumably to impress him. He's like, I want

944
00:57:11,018 --> 00:57:14,802
Abby. And then he picks out the dress that she really wanted to wear for

945
00:57:14,826 --> 00:57:18,482
the party, but she didn't think she could. And he makes her

946
00:57:18,506 --> 00:57:21,202
put that dress on, and then he just can't even keep her. His hands off

947
00:57:21,226 --> 00:57:23,968
of her and asked her real quick. Yeah.

948
00:57:24,064 --> 00:57:27,440
Get it in. It's. It is. It just. He is.

949
00:57:27,480 --> 00:57:30,460
He's. Ah. He is. I.

950
00:57:31,400 --> 00:57:34,460
I may have some personal.

951
00:57:35,080 --> 00:57:39,008
Some of my personal feelings may be bleeding over into this book, but I

952
00:57:39,064 --> 00:57:42,992
think, like, there is a little edge

953
00:57:43,056 --> 00:57:47,706
of toxicity to him. Sure. And it's

954
00:57:47,738 --> 00:57:51,546
almost like he kind of relishes the fact that she

955
00:57:51,618 --> 00:57:55,258
is damaged. Sure. And that

956
00:57:55,314 --> 00:57:58,746
he's not the one who did the damaging.

957
00:57:58,858 --> 00:58:02,602
Interesting. I did not get that vibe at all. Yeah. The second time I

958
00:58:02,626 --> 00:58:05,450
read it, I. The first time I read it, I really didn't because I think

959
00:58:05,490 --> 00:58:08,154
I was, like, so lost in it. But kind of going back to what we

960
00:58:08,162 --> 00:58:11,098
were talking about earlier, about, like, an unreliable narrator.

961
00:58:11,274 --> 00:58:14,802
Yeah. He does get a lot of, like,

962
00:58:14,906 --> 00:58:17,922
joy out of being the one to. Be, like,

963
00:58:18,106 --> 00:58:21,026
he's a white knight. He's that, like, protector.

964
00:58:21,138 --> 00:58:24,658
Yeah. Everybody before him was. He is.

965
00:58:24,794 --> 00:58:28,882
Yeah. He feels like he's her perfect man. But it serves his ego

966
00:58:29,026 --> 00:58:32,690
a lot to feel that way. And we see that with his pro bono case,

967
00:58:32,730 --> 00:58:36,306
too. He's always protecting women, for sure.

968
00:58:36,378 --> 00:58:39,682
Yeah. That's not to say that I am mad at him. No, I. Like,

969
00:58:39,706 --> 00:58:42,680
I'm not. But I do think, like,

970
00:58:42,720 --> 00:58:46,536
if we. If I was choosing between Damien and Hades, I'd pick.

971
00:58:46,608 --> 00:58:50,152
You're still picking Hades. Yeah, for sure. They get to

972
00:58:50,176 --> 00:58:52,500
the party, and it goes exactly as expected.

973
00:58:52,800 --> 00:58:55,720
Damien is showing her off. Everybody really loves her.

974
00:58:55,760 --> 00:58:59,672
They're so excited that he brought somebody and he brings her

975
00:58:59,696 --> 00:59:03,800
on stage for the company's speech. His partner is giving a speech and,

976
00:59:03,840 --> 00:59:07,690
like, calls him up, and she goes up with him, and they're having fun.

977
00:59:08,150 --> 00:59:11,598
And Richard finds out that he did not get partner.

978
00:59:11,774 --> 00:59:15,422
And he looks like shit. Yeah. He's. His hair is thinning.

979
00:59:15,566 --> 00:59:18,782
He's. She thinks he's even gained some weight, even though she also has

980
00:59:18,806 --> 00:59:22,158
clothes taken in. He looks like. She calls him greasy.

981
00:59:22,254 --> 00:59:25,486
Yep. Just a weasel. Weasel. Yeah.

982
00:59:25,678 --> 00:59:28,926
Well, Richard loses his mind. He's drunk.

983
00:59:29,038 --> 00:59:32,782
Drunk and pissed. He confronts Abby,

984
00:59:32,926 --> 00:59:36,254
and basically, he calls her a whore in front of Damien.

985
00:59:36,382 --> 00:59:40,270
Abby loses her cool and, like, lays in to

986
00:59:40,310 --> 00:59:43,130
him, which was, I think,

987
00:59:43,590 --> 00:59:47,230
so selfish. I know that the only thing where I'm like, I would

988
00:59:47,270 --> 00:59:50,750
not have done that. No. I wouldn't have either. Again, we weren't beat down

989
00:59:50,790 --> 00:59:53,934
for four years by this guy. No, I know. I. And I. Yeah.

990
00:59:53,982 --> 00:59:57,310
And in the middle of. And this is still fresh. I mean, this is only.

991
00:59:57,430 --> 01:00:00,998
Yeah, it's. It's only been two months, so it's. I understand,

992
01:00:01,134 --> 01:00:05,046
but it's just the way that Damian has to find this out is so

993
01:00:05,198 --> 01:00:08,518
awful. I would not wish it on anybody, because he puts

994
01:00:08,534 --> 01:00:12,054
it. He's a smart guy. He puts it together real fucking quick. And this

995
01:00:12,062 --> 01:00:15,094
is in front of his firm. Yeah. Oh, he's a founding partner.

996
01:00:15,142 --> 01:00:17,974
Like, yes. Yeah. Full scene.

997
01:00:18,102 --> 01:00:21,270
Yeah. He punches Richard and

998
01:00:21,310 --> 01:00:24,630
then leaves the party. And then Abby is

999
01:00:24,670 --> 01:00:27,670
like, oh, my God. I have to go after Damien.

1000
01:00:27,830 --> 01:00:32,070
And Richard grabs her by her arm.

1001
01:00:32,230 --> 01:00:35,270
And then really hard. Really hard is, like, squeezing her.

1002
01:00:35,310 --> 01:00:39,478
And again, like, just berating her. Yeah. And his

1003
01:00:39,534 --> 01:00:42,454
grandfather steps in to save her.

1004
01:00:42,622 --> 01:00:46,182
And then Abby turns around and punches him, which.

1005
01:00:46,366 --> 01:00:49,766
Well, he says something about Damien, and that's when Abby,

1006
01:00:49,798 --> 01:00:52,778
like, punches it. Yeah. She's like, don't.

1007
01:00:52,934 --> 01:00:56,722
Don't fucking talk about Damien. Yeah. She catches Damien

1008
01:00:56,786 --> 01:01:00,962
on the street, and she apologizes to him.

1009
01:01:01,146 --> 01:01:04,642
She confesses everything, and Damien

1010
01:01:04,706 --> 01:01:08,770
forgives her. But I think it's important to note that he wasn't planning on

1011
01:01:08,810 --> 01:01:12,242
not forgiving her. No. He didn't even have his coat. He was just going

1012
01:01:12,266 --> 01:01:14,882
outside to, like, cool off, and then he was gonna come back.

1013
01:01:14,986 --> 01:01:18,514
And so she's thinking, like, oh, this is over. He's leaving.

1014
01:01:18,562 --> 01:01:21,622
He's gonna go home. And she gets outside and realizes that he doesn't have a

1015
01:01:21,646 --> 01:01:25,798
coat. And he's like, babe, I just needed to walk it off. And he

1016
01:01:25,854 --> 01:01:29,798
is very understanding of the fact that we went into this as casual.

1017
01:01:29,894 --> 01:01:32,982
It wasn't meant to be anything more. Neither of us expected it for it to

1018
01:01:33,006 --> 01:01:36,182
go the way that it did. I think he's just, like, a very reasonable person,

1019
01:01:36,286 --> 01:01:40,022
and he's very understanding. He's an adult. That's a very adult thing. Like, we're having

1020
01:01:40,046 --> 01:01:42,790
a disagreement. Dave is very much like that,

1021
01:01:42,830 --> 01:01:46,006
where I'll fuck up or I'll say something. And it's very.

1022
01:01:46,078 --> 01:01:50,102
He's very cool, calm, and collected. And I'm like,

1023
01:01:50,206 --> 01:01:53,334
armageddon, this is it. Like, there's no going back.

1024
01:01:53,422 --> 01:01:57,126
I screwed up so badly. And he's like, this is a disagreement.

1025
01:01:57,318 --> 01:02:00,982
And that's. He just. He was like. You said he was never planning on not

1026
01:02:01,006 --> 01:02:04,262
forgiving her. Yeah, well. And I think I

1027
01:02:04,286 --> 01:02:07,174
got the impression that when she was bringing it up,

1028
01:02:07,262 --> 01:02:10,454
Damien didn't think that she was trying to tell him something bad.

1029
01:02:10,542 --> 01:02:14,416
I think that he thought she was trying to tell him something like, I'm falling

1030
01:02:14,448 --> 01:02:18,300
for you. I want this to be more. And Damien was like,

1031
01:02:18,600 --> 01:02:21,696
I'm not ready for that. And so I think that's not the vibe I got.

1032
01:02:21,768 --> 01:02:25,040
Yeah. I think that there was a little bit of. For me,

1033
01:02:25,080 --> 01:02:28,992
I think that he felt a little bit of personal responsibility

1034
01:02:29,056 --> 01:02:32,224
for that, because it's like, had I just listened to

1035
01:02:32,232 --> 01:02:35,440
her and let her talk, I would have known this information ahead of time.

1036
01:02:35,480 --> 01:02:38,780
But I was worried about what she was going to say. Sure. So.

1037
01:02:39,810 --> 01:02:43,498
But yeah. So they spend Christmas together with

1038
01:02:43,554 --> 01:02:47,082
family, as planned, and then they lock themselves in Abby's apartment

1039
01:02:47,146 --> 01:02:50,282
and spend three days together enjoying each other and

1040
01:02:50,386 --> 01:02:53,882
eating takeout. And he gets her a trip to

1041
01:02:53,906 --> 01:02:57,590
Bora Bora, and she rewards him

1042
01:02:57,890 --> 01:03:00,470
by giving him head.

1043
01:03:01,570 --> 01:03:04,810
That's something I would do. Yeah. She. I love this part

1044
01:03:04,850 --> 01:03:08,150
because they're, like, sitting in a pile of wrapping paper,

1045
01:03:08,230 --> 01:03:11,398
which is the least adult thing that you could possibly be doing.

1046
01:03:11,454 --> 01:03:14,390
Yeah. They're just surrounded in scraps of paper, and she,

1047
01:03:14,430 --> 01:03:17,010
like, crawls through them to get to him.

1048
01:03:18,830 --> 01:03:22,230
Such an image. He has her get on top

1049
01:03:22,350 --> 01:03:26,422
and ride him until they both come. And then they

1050
01:03:26,446 --> 01:03:29,606
each tell one another that they love each other. Yeah. That's. They made love.

1051
01:03:29,758 --> 01:03:33,142
I really, like, love it because we didn't talk about it earlier, but one

1052
01:03:33,166 --> 01:03:36,936
of the earlier scenes, when he bends her over the kitchen counter,

1053
01:03:37,128 --> 01:03:40,296
he spits on her ass, sticks his thumb in her ass,

1054
01:03:40,368 --> 01:03:43,320
and. And he's like, has anybody ever taken you here before? And she's like,

1055
01:03:43,360 --> 01:03:46,344
no. And she's never been on top before.

1056
01:03:46,432 --> 01:03:49,448
Right. I mean, all of these things are brand new to her.

1057
01:03:49,504 --> 01:03:53,096
And Damien is like, we're like,

1058
01:03:53,168 --> 01:03:56,280
babes, you're fine. Like, you couldn't do anything wrong if you wanted to,

1059
01:03:56,320 --> 01:03:59,560
you know? And it's. I don't know. I think it's just so sweet and so

1060
01:03:59,600 --> 01:04:03,628
cute, and I. I don't think it's quite as

1061
01:04:03,764 --> 01:04:07,580
love making as some of the other that we've seen. So this

1062
01:04:07,620 --> 01:04:11,404
was a holiday rom com, but it was still smutty enough to.

1063
01:04:11,492 --> 01:04:15,036
Yeah. Interested. The prologue has

1064
01:04:15,108 --> 01:04:19,500
us three years later, and they

1065
01:04:19,540 --> 01:04:23,468
have discussed with one another what their plans are. So they're gonna travel,

1066
01:04:23,564 --> 01:04:27,026
and then in four years, they'll consider talking about marriage.

1067
01:04:27,188 --> 01:04:30,534
And so for Christmas, it's exactly three years later.

1068
01:04:30,622 --> 01:04:33,170
It's the same day as the Christmas party.

1069
01:04:33,550 --> 01:04:36,982
Damian gets her a little bauble,

1070
01:04:37,126 --> 01:04:40,358
little diamond or something on a necklace. A Tiffany necklace.

1071
01:04:40,454 --> 01:04:44,550
Tiffany necklace. And he takes her to the party. And she realizes

1072
01:04:44,630 --> 01:04:47,782
at the party while she's up on stage that even though Damian has

1073
01:04:47,806 --> 01:04:50,790
never given the speech, that his partner has always given the speech, he's the one,

1074
01:04:50,830 --> 01:04:54,774
in fact giving the speech. She notices that her friends Cam and Kat are

1075
01:04:54,782 --> 01:04:58,232
there, that her sister is there. And Damien gets down on one knee in front

1076
01:04:58,256 --> 01:05:02,152
of everybody and proposes to her. And she says yes. And it's. And Richard is

1077
01:05:02,176 --> 01:05:06,456
no longer working there. Richard was let go after he harassed

1078
01:05:06,648 --> 01:05:09,688
Abby at the that Christmas party. They changed the whole

1079
01:05:09,704 --> 01:05:13,304
direction of the firm they're doing. They're being more selective with the clientele that

1080
01:05:13,312 --> 01:05:16,856
they take on. Like, all of the good things. It was a beautiful ending.

1081
01:05:16,888 --> 01:05:20,632
I really. It was. You cried. I did not cry, but I did

1082
01:05:20,656 --> 01:05:24,362
like it a lot. Look at. I am never gonna tell you

1083
01:05:24,386 --> 01:05:28,190
the next time I cry if you're gonna hold it against me. Oh, my God.

1084
01:05:28,690 --> 01:05:32,362
All right. Well, that ends our. Tis the

1085
01:05:32,386 --> 01:05:35,642
season for revenge. We want to thank Paggle. Yep.

1086
01:05:35,786 --> 01:05:38,698
Always our third musketeer.

1087
01:05:38,794 --> 01:05:41,914
Literally, we wouldn't be able to do this. Literally. Yeah.

1088
01:05:41,962 --> 01:05:45,386
Yeah. We would not be on social media. We can't do anything.

1089
01:05:45,498 --> 01:05:49,470
I also just genuinely enjoy the text message stream.

1090
01:05:50,390 --> 01:05:54,062
It's honestly, it's chaos. I. Sometimes I'll be

1091
01:05:54,086 --> 01:05:57,534
replying to a message and there will be two other conversations happening underneath the message

1092
01:05:57,582 --> 01:06:01,582
that I'm replying to. And it is so

1093
01:06:01,606 --> 01:06:06,030
great. I just. Wonderful. I really love it a lot. Morgan Elizabeth

1094
01:06:06,110 --> 01:06:09,694
is born and raised in New Jersey.

1095
01:06:09,822 --> 01:06:13,742
She lives there with her two boys, toddler daughter and mechanic

1096
01:06:13,806 --> 01:06:17,248
husband. She's addicted to ice espresso barbecue chips,

1097
01:06:17,264 --> 01:06:20,912
and starburst jelly beans. And she usually has headphones on listening to

1098
01:06:20,936 --> 01:06:25,120
some spicy audiobook or Taylor Swift. There is rarely an

1099
01:06:25,160 --> 01:06:29,344
in between. Other books by Morgan

1100
01:06:29,472 --> 01:06:32,992
include. So Shannon actually gets her own

1101
01:06:33,016 --> 01:06:36,480
book, and it's called Shannon is the pro

1102
01:06:36,520 --> 01:06:39,900
bono case. It's called Big Nick Energy.

1103
01:06:40,680 --> 01:06:43,856
What? Yep. Oh, my God. I started it. I haven't finished

1104
01:06:43,888 --> 01:06:47,390
it. But it gives the same cutesy vibes. I think

1105
01:06:47,430 --> 01:06:51,530
it's Shannon met this younger guy on a dating app or something,

1106
01:06:51,990 --> 01:06:54,610
and they don't. They click.

1107
01:06:55,030 --> 01:06:58,590
More platonic. Sure. And then they hang out, become friends,

1108
01:06:58,630 --> 01:07:02,574
and then he invites her to Christmas because his

1109
01:07:02,662 --> 01:07:03,330
dad.

1110
01:07:05,830 --> 01:07:09,214
Oh, interesting. Okay,

1111
01:07:09,262 --> 01:07:11,470
Shannon. Wow.

1112
01:07:13,970 --> 01:07:16,874
Oh. So there are actually five books in this series.

1113
01:07:16,962 --> 01:07:19,674
Okay. So the Seasons of Revenge series,

1114
01:07:19,842 --> 01:07:23,226
Passenger Princess series, Atlas Oaks Single book,

1115
01:07:23,298 --> 01:07:27,030
the Sing, The Spring Brook Hills series, which is,

1116
01:07:27,330 --> 01:07:31,530
I think, the spin off of this book.

1117
01:07:31,570 --> 01:07:35,050
So spring book Hills is where Abby's family is

1118
01:07:35,090 --> 01:07:38,648
at. Oh, sure. These are all of the people in her hometown.

1119
01:07:38,744 --> 01:07:42,488
That's that series. There's five books in that series as well.

1120
01:07:42,624 --> 01:07:45,752
The Mastermind Duet and the Ocean View series. So she

1121
01:07:45,776 --> 01:07:48,920
has a pretty good amount of books.

1122
01:07:49,000 --> 01:07:51,500
And they're cute, easy reads. Yeah.

1123
01:07:52,720 --> 01:07:56,100
Should we talk about ratings? Yeah. Okay. Spice level.

1124
01:07:56,960 --> 01:08:00,100
I am going to go with just.

1125
01:08:01,040 --> 01:08:04,422
We're just, for spice level, going to use graphic. Yes.

1126
01:08:04,486 --> 01:08:07,798
I'm just gonna use how graphic it was advanced. I'm not gonna

1127
01:08:07,814 --> 01:08:11,718
use advanced. Just graphic. I'm just gonna say graphic. This book,

1128
01:08:11,774 --> 01:08:14,534
I would give it on the graphic scale. I would give it a three.

1129
01:08:14,622 --> 01:08:18,890
Okay. I gave it a two. I don't. It was graphic,

1130
01:08:19,550 --> 01:08:22,950
but I was also going off of advanced, and I think this

1131
01:08:22,990 --> 01:08:26,678
was all pretty vanilla. Yeah. Stuff I've really all done.

1132
01:08:26,814 --> 01:08:30,000
And I'm. I'm a vanilla gal. All right,

1133
01:08:30,040 --> 01:08:33,728
spice frequency. Spice frequency. I would give this

1134
01:08:33,784 --> 01:08:38,144
a three. Okay. I gave it a four. There are, like, six, seven scenes

1135
01:08:38,192 --> 01:08:41,968
and 300 pages. Yeah. All right,

1136
01:08:42,024 --> 01:08:45,632
pros. I'm gonna give it a

1137
01:08:45,656 --> 01:08:49,728
three. Okay. I gave it a four. It was well written.

1138
01:08:49,904 --> 01:08:54,240
Everything's pretty well thought out. Yeah. You're just on the board with threes.

1139
01:08:54,400 --> 01:08:57,540
I know. Are we gonna get you any higher than a three for storyline?

1140
01:08:57,849 --> 01:09:00,929
Yes, for storyline. I'm gonna give it a four. Okay, perfect.

1141
01:09:01,009 --> 01:09:04,433
I also gave it a four. Yeah. I thought it was a really cute story.

1142
01:09:04,601 --> 01:09:07,857
And then overall. Overall, I'm gonna

1143
01:09:07,873 --> 01:09:10,673
give it a four. Okay. I gave it a three and a half.

1144
01:09:10,761 --> 01:09:13,457
I was gonna give it a three and a half. I know. I'm gonna change

1145
01:09:13,513 --> 01:09:16,945
my three and a half. It is. It is a. It's a really cute story.

1146
01:09:17,097 --> 01:09:20,481
Overall, I really liked it. I would say,

1147
01:09:20,505 --> 01:09:23,233
if it's on your tbr, Read it.

1148
01:09:23,321 --> 01:09:26,571
Yeah. I would say there are other books that I would recommend before I would

1149
01:09:26,595 --> 01:09:30,363
read this book. Yes. But however, this would be a book that I would recommend

1150
01:09:30,411 --> 01:09:34,427
to my sisters. Yes. It's a book that I'm not going to there's

1151
01:09:34,443 --> 01:09:38,491
no gun fucking or knife fucking or breath play.

1152
01:09:38,675 --> 01:09:42,123
Yeah, agreed. This book is on Kindle Unlimited.

1153
01:09:42,251 --> 01:09:45,339
That's where I read it. So any page numbers or anything you see with that,

1154
01:09:45,379 --> 01:09:48,719
it's Kindle Unlimited, but it's pretty easily accessible

1155
01:09:49,219 --> 01:09:53,025
on Amazon, Target, Barnes and Noble, and you can get an audiobook.

1156
01:09:53,137 --> 01:09:57,025
Oh, cute. And I know a lot of people now who really like audiobooks,

1157
01:09:57,057 --> 01:10:00,049
so I'm going to start making sure. I look to see if it's on audio

1158
01:10:00,209 --> 01:10:03,601
audible or. Yeah, we just talked about this

1159
01:10:03,625 --> 01:10:07,249
at Thanksgiving. I obviously the voice thing,

1160
01:10:07,289 --> 01:10:10,865
it has to be very specific for me to listen to an audiobook.

1161
01:10:11,057 --> 01:10:14,577
But I also like audiobooks. I didn't realize were so

1162
01:10:14,633 --> 01:10:17,985
long. Oh, my God, I could read a book. I mean,

1163
01:10:18,057 --> 01:10:22,174
I did the full notes on this and collective maybe

1164
01:10:22,222 --> 01:10:25,438
two hours. Yeah. Recap notes. Which is.

1165
01:10:25,574 --> 01:10:28,798
I probably read the book in an hour and a half.

1166
01:10:28,854 --> 01:10:32,190
Like it's versus an audiobook. This audiobook is probably six

1167
01:10:32,230 --> 01:10:35,502
hours long, I'm sure. You know, I remember A

1168
01:10:35,526 --> 01:10:39,022
Court of Silver flames was like 16 hours. And I

1169
01:10:39,046 --> 01:10:42,990
usually listen to my audiobooks. If I am listening, they're at

1170
01:10:43,030 --> 01:10:46,662
at least 1.8 or 2. Oh speed, which you

1171
01:10:46,686 --> 01:10:50,182
do lose. Yeah. Some dramatic effect. Yes.

1172
01:10:50,246 --> 01:10:54,198
Yeah, I can imagine. Well, you can find us on social media.

1173
01:10:54,334 --> 01:10:58,102
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1174
01:10:58,126 --> 01:11:01,462
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1175
01:11:01,486 --> 01:11:04,582
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1176
01:11:04,606 --> 01:11:08,358
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1177
01:11:08,374 --> 01:11:12,358
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1178
01:11:12,414 --> 01:11:16,162
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1179
01:11:16,266 --> 01:11:19,762
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1180
01:11:19,826 --> 01:11:23,186
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1181
01:11:23,378 --> 01:11:27,410
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1182
01:11:27,490 --> 01:11:31,554
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1183
01:11:31,682 --> 01:11:35,650
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1184
01:11:35,690 --> 01:11:38,930
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1185
01:11:38,970 --> 01:11:42,298
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1186
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