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Nov 29, 2022Liked by C.J. Stone

“If we’re going to work together, openness and honesty is key.” AHHHHHH, IT HURTS! (grabs chest and nearly faints)

I don’t think I can take much more of this. I’m not even IN her position, and somehow I’m more freaked out over it than she is. Guess your writing just has that great of an effect. Part of me genuinely thinks he doesn’t know and that everything he said in that exchange was just a coincidence, and another part of me thinks he somehow got past the “doubt aura”, already does know, and is just tearing her apart from the inside until she caves.....though I can’t imagine he’d be mean enough to do that considering he’s her lover and all. I still miss John......

Moving on, Gavin Pierce strikes me as that kind of, uhhh.....”nerd” type. Constantly plays video games, is lazy, has rarely any social contact, and is obsessed with Sapphire Angel. I wouldn’t really think much of him---not even for his Sapphire Angel fascination---if it weren’t for the fact that he couldn’t be bothered to help assist in the search for his own sibling; it’s like he doesn’t even care about where he is at the moment or what his potential captors could be doing to him. I hate to say it, but since this guy obviously has a thing for Sapphire.....our only hope of getting him to talk might be to have her go in and, umm......”satisfy” him. (throws up)

Then again, she sure acted....”decisively”.....with Conner in the previous novel, even before they became a thing---so I suppose it’s not entirely new---but every single ounce of my being is screaming at me that this is not love. What if Sapphire does go in, tries to interrogate him that way, and if things go south, Conner can just stand outside with a pistol and immediately dash in and shoot him dead before she gets violated? Not much can be accomplished without taking at least a few risks, and, well.....our leads are getting fewer and fewer by the chapter.

Not sure if that whole scenario was what the ending part of this chapter was hinting towards, but I guess we’ll see later! Keep ‘em coming.....this really has me involved!

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