Å·±¦ÓéÀÖ

***2.75 Stars***

I did enjoy this book but there were a few troubling spots that took it down for me.

It wasn't easy, this relationship between the H/h. She broke it off with him convincing him she wanted someone else because she knew if she stayed with him he would be caught in the negative fallout of her father's Bernie Madoff ways and he would look like a criminal who participated in her father's scam and it would drag him down. She was trying to save his reputation so he could still have the opportunity to fulfill his dreams. They were separated for ten years and that is just too long for me. They both dearly loved one another and the heroine was still a virgin at 28 when they reconnected with each other again. Unfortunately the H turned into a major man-whore and billionaire after she left Ugh! He was used to supermodels and high society women in his bed with just a phone call. That troubled me. The heroine had been with no one. They were waiting for their wedding night at the hero's insistence to make love but that never happened and believe me he moved on and on and on and on and on...well you get the picture.

All he thought of her was that he wanted revenge against her and her father and it happened in a very negative way. When they reconnected the heroine thought he sent for her because he realized he loved her and he thought she had contacted him and was offering up her body for money. She was not the one who sent the message. Someone else did. They get together and he takes her virgin body quite roughly. Her heart was re-broken when he kicked her to the curb, not even giving her a ride home. He told her it served her right to have to walk home in the dark in the middle of the night. He said awful, ugly things to her and I don't know how she held it together.

I felt the heroine was short-changed. All she got was used goods from the major man-whore...very used I suspect.

It was too sad for my taste really and although it was a good story it left me feeling depressed. The fighting and vengeance lasted much too long. I loved the heroine but the poor hero just had everything wrong. He had no clue after ten years why she broke it off with him and that it was to save him and his dream. His words were so cruel I was surprised she lived through it. He treated her like a prostitute and believed she was one.

I have no desire to read this again! Ever!