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Apr 16Liked by C.J. Stone

OHHHHHH BOYYYYYYYYY!!!!!!

Yeah, baby! This is what I’m talking about! Olivia Lockheed “likes” Sapphire Angel way, WAY too much, right? I get that the narrative is trying to emphasize the fact that she’s at a crossroads: allow the Savage Gang to take down Sapphire Angel so she (Olivia Lockheed) will live, or expose the Savage Gang and their hideout to Sapphire and have HER take them all down, like she always does, but at the risk of death by the Savage Gang if Sapphire somehow fails. And considering Sapphire has already “let” Savage escape twice already……yeah, no, never mind, this decision actually isn’t as easy as it first sounds like. (cracks up) I started out sounding so confident and then it literally just deflated the further I got into this paragraph. And there’s also the matter of Sapphire likely not wanting to associate with Lockheed again after the latter’s perceived “silence” following her abduction by the Savage Gang.

I personally think Olivia Lockheed should go the “heroic” route and rat out the Savage Gang to Sapphire Angel, even if it ultimately costs her her life at the end of it. It’d be an amazing way for her to (potentially) go out on a good note for once, after everything she’s done to Sapphire over the course of these past few novels. Maybe there’s still some way for her to get Sapphire to hear her out regarding the Savage Gang’s whereabouts, but if she can’t, oh man…..it’s not gonna look good for her.

So Megan Lawlor’s so set on covering Sapphire Angel that she’d turn to the Savage Gang—the very people who abducted her and held her captive on a bridge in the middle of a snowstorm at the climax of the previous novel—in order to accomplish that goal? Jeez…..the lengths people will go to in order to have the last laugh in workplace rivalry, am I right? Though I remember you specifying that it wasn’t exactly that……wonder what her competitor Ryan Addington would have to say about this, if anything? Maybe he’ll find out that she’s now collaborating with the Savage Gang and mass-report her on it, thus soiling her name, utterly disgracing her, and leaving him as the sole credible news authority on Sapphire Angel? Dang…..can’t believe that. And with how quickly she agreed to their deal…..it’s more heartbreaking than anything else. She used to be such a valiant news reporter…..she better not be the Savage Gang’s foothold on the news networks; if she is, they could have someone on the inside to spread misleading information everywhere on television and no one would be able to do a thing about it.

Sapphire’s definitely going to discover soon that Lawlor’s thrown in her lot with the Gang and be all like, “Are you serious? I RESCUED you from them!” or something to that effect. But time will tell, I suppose!

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