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<v Speaker 3>And I have a Spotify comment and this comes from

<v Speaker 3>fifty Shades of Sloan and it says, my show is

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<v Speaker 2>Did you know that you're going to be in this book?

<v Speaker 1>Mention just the name And this week we're telling Riley

<v Speaker 1>all about Leather and Lark by Brinn Weaver. And stay

<v Speaker 1>tuned to the end of the episode if you want

<v Speaker 1>to hear our ratings on it.

<v Speaker 3>Oh yeah, we're switching that up. We're not doing it

<v Speaker 3>at the beginning anymore.

<v Speaker 5>Lark is our female main character, and she is Sloane's bestie,

<v Speaker 5>and she knows all about Sloan's extra activities. And Riley,

<v Speaker 5>I know it's been a while. Sloane was the female

<v Speaker 5>serial killer of the first book.

<v Speaker 4>I read a summary good.

<v Speaker 5>But Sloan doesn't know about Lark's extra curricular activities.

<v Speaker 4>Lark, what are you doing?

<v Speaker 5>And Lark sure loves the sound of this man's bigging

<v Speaker 5>As she taunts her ex boyfriend Andrew Andrew, she looks back,

<v Speaker 5>realizing everything he did and said was a lie behind

<v Speaker 5>her back. He was cheating and talking to girls way

<v Speaker 5>too young for him, so he's got to go.

<v Speaker 3>I agree Herbert, Honestly, if I wasn't with Andrew, I

<v Speaker 3>think I'd be a Messandrist.

<v Speaker 1>Like you just hate men. Yeah, that's fair.

<v Speaker 4>Truly, Sorry, it's not any men listening.

<v Speaker 5>She's creative with getting rid of him, as she straps

<v Speaker 5>fireworks to his dick. She plays firework by Katy Perry

<v Speaker 5>and lights him off. It explodes, and once it's over

<v Speaker 5>she hears a small moan. She walks up to him

<v Speaker 5>sees that he's still alive, so she just pulls her

<v Speaker 5>gun and finishes it. We fast forward it's Halloween and

<v Speaker 5>Lark got in a small fender bender, running another Peto

<v Speaker 5>off the road. As she watches his car sink to

<v Speaker 5>the bottom of the lake, she thinks, this is a

<v Speaker 5>much bigger mess than I was anticipating. She calls her stepdad,

<v Speaker 5>telling him that all is well, but she needs a

<v Speaker 5>company to come clean up perdr mess that she's made.

<v Speaker 5>He is annoyed and unfazed, so this has clearly happened before.

<v Speaker 5>And then three hours later someone's pulling up to assist her.

<v Speaker 5>She's stumbling a bit from the blood loss. Judah a

<v Speaker 5>cut across her head from the accident, and the cleaning

<v Speaker 5>guy says she might have a concussion and will probably

<v Speaker 5>need stitches. He then chastises her for calling her daddy

<v Speaker 5>to clean up her accidental booboo since it was most

<v Speaker 5>likely a drunk driving incident because pretty girls never pay

<v Speaker 5>the price. She doesn't like his tone or his attitude

<v Speaker 5>and starts calling him the nickname budget Batman and tells

<v Speaker 5>him to mind his own business because he doesn't know

<v Speaker 5>her at all. Then his nice partner shows up and

<v Speaker 5>they work to retrieve the body, letting her know that

<v Speaker 5>they'll get the vehicle tomorrow night. Budget Batman grabs her

<v Speaker 5>and tells her it's time to go. He stuffs her

<v Speaker 5>into the trunk of his car as she pleads to

<v Speaker 5>not go in there, but how he ignores her and

<v Speaker 5>takes off. She focuses on calming herself and then uses

<v Speaker 5>her knowledge from her stepdad to open the trunk and

<v Speaker 5>roll out of the car as soon as he comes

<v Speaker 5>to a stop sign. Then she limps her way home.

<v Speaker 5>It's one year later, and Lachlin is tired of living

<v Speaker 5>this life. He only wants to be in his leather

<v Speaker 5>studio full time, but he's stuck working for Leander doing

<v Speaker 5>all the dirty cleanup and other odd mafia jobs.

<v Speaker 1>Oh leather, yeah, leather.

<v Speaker 5>As he watches Leander torture someone, and Leander tells him

<v Speaker 5>he's on another cleanup and will be for the foreseeable

<v Speaker 5>future for ruining the Caravacci contract from the stunt he

<v Speaker 5>pulled by shoving the daughter into the trunk.

<v Speaker 1>Yeah, why would you do that? Yeah, I'd be like,

<v Speaker 1>I'm not working for you.

<v Speaker 2>You assaulted my daughter.

<v Speaker 1>Sweet crushes baby Angel, who's never done anything wrong in

<v Speaker 1>her life.

<v Speaker 3>No, there's nothing wrong with killing Petos, right, that's what

<v Speaker 3>she's doing.

<v Speaker 1>Yeah, yeah, sick, Yeah.

<v Speaker 5>Lachlan says, okay, and then Leander finishes his victim, so

<v Speaker 5>Lachlan can go to Rowan's second restaurant opening. Rowan opened

<v Speaker 5>a second Butcher and Blackbird restaurant, so he's doing very well.

<v Speaker 3>Gordon Ramsey worse but worse, Yeah, but better unless Gordon

<v Speaker 3>Ramsey kills people.

<v Speaker 4>Would that make him better?

<v Speaker 1>Would that make him better? I mean he only kills

<v Speaker 1>bad people? So yeah, okay, he's just like a chef dexter.

<v Speaker 2>Yeah, he'd have like pretty like solid alibis, though he'd

<v Speaker 2>be like I was cooking, sorry, I was cooking.

<v Speaker 3>Yeah, by cooking, I mean vulcan keeling bad guys.

<v Speaker 4>Get it, like he's cooking.

<v Speaker 1>Yeah.

<v Speaker 2>Yeah.

<v Speaker 5>They're meeting it Rowan and Sloane's apartment before going to

<v Speaker 5>the new restaurant, and when Lachlan arrives, he sees the

<v Speaker 5>most beautiful woman ever. He learns it's the famous Lark

<v Speaker 5>Sloan's Bessie, and they have really cute, playful banter and

<v Speaker 5>he thinks that something about hers familiar, but he can't

<v Speaker 5>place it. After a little bit of flirting, it turns

<v Speaker 5>very sensual and she leans in and just starts kissing him.

<v Speaker 3>Ah, my tongue plunders her mouth. Lark's fist tightens in

<v Speaker 3>my shirt. I'm desperate to mold her flesh in my palms,

<v Speaker 3>but I settle for laying one hand to the side

<v Speaker 3>of her neck instead. The second my palm touches her skin,

<v Speaker 3>she whimpers with need. My erection is painful against my

<v Speaker 3>zipper as she presses her body against wine.

<v Speaker 6>Oh my god, the first time hit it off right

<v Speaker 6>off the bat. Yeah, the kiss is amazing. And he

<v Speaker 6>pulls away, muttering, and they're Irish. I'm not even gonna

<v Speaker 6>do the accent feckin Christ Jesus, and she frees.

<v Speaker 4>It Christ j I can't do it.

<v Speaker 1>Sorry, yeah, no, rost Jesus.

<v Speaker 5>Right, that's kind of crocodile dundee.

<v Speaker 3>Apologies, I got scow or is that Scottish?

<v Speaker 1>I think that's Scottish. Wait is Irish. They're after me

<v Speaker 1>lucky charms, right, luck of the Irish Jesus Christ sacking

<v Speaker 1>Jesus Christ me Lucky Charms.

<v Speaker 2>Yeah, that's great.

<v Speaker 1>Yeah, I haven't seen Ireland come up on our like

<v Speaker 1>top countries for listeners. So I'm not like too worried

<v Speaker 1>about it. Okay, good, good, good, I think we're safe.

<v Speaker 5>She asks him to repeat that, and when he does,

<v Speaker 5>she pushes him away, saying, budget Batman.

<v Speaker 2>He recognized his voice.

<v Speaker 1>Yeah, also budget.

<v Speaker 4>Batman, what a shitty nickname.

<v Speaker 1>So I think his voice is like we're oh god.

<v Speaker 5>Now he recognizes her and he calls her under Barbie

<v Speaker 5>and she's furious. He lets her know that she fucked

<v Speaker 5>up his night with the whole trunk escape, and she

<v Speaker 5>wants to fucking hit him, but calms herself. She tells

<v Speaker 5>him to fuck off. She'll be nice to him for

<v Speaker 5>Rowan and Sloane, but not to talk to her, and

<v Speaker 5>then walks away. The Phantom is in Rowan and Sloane's apartment.

<v Speaker 5>That's what we know him as the Phantom.

<v Speaker 2>Okay, a third POV.

<v Speaker 5>Yeah, he's been watching them and biting his time. He

<v Speaker 5>looks to the balcony where he watched Lark and Lochlan

<v Speaker 5>that night of the restaurant opening and knows those two

<v Speaker 5>are exactly how he'll exact revenge.

<v Speaker 2>Dun, Dun, Dun.

<v Speaker 5>Another year goes by. Lark is at her great aunt

<v Speaker 5>Ethel's mansion evesdropping on her parents and their partner Tremblay.

<v Speaker 5>She hears how their associates are being killed off one

<v Speaker 5>by one and they aren't sure who's doing it, but

<v Speaker 5>they don't want to leave any stone unturned. They think

<v Speaker 5>it might be Leander's men since they ditched him as

<v Speaker 5>part of their contract cleanup, so they want to take

<v Speaker 5>him out as well, and that includes Lachlan Caine and

<v Speaker 5>his brothers, which Rowan is one of his brothers, so

<v Speaker 5>no wanna go, gotta go, they all gotta go. Lark

<v Speaker 5>walks away, panicking because she doesn't want Sloan or Rowan

<v Speaker 5>getting hurt. She finds Ethel in her room as their

<v Speaker 5>friend Rose texts her reminding her about the dress and

<v Speaker 5>to bring the supplies for the surprise elopement. Ethel lets

<v Speaker 5>her in, gets her the dress and asks her what's wrong.

<v Speaker 5>Lark tries to play it off, but Ethel says she's

<v Speaker 5>assuming it's because of the whole Caine brother problem downstairs

<v Speaker 5>and the whole family. Writes Antie Ethel off as like

<v Speaker 5>her mind's going, she has dementia.

<v Speaker 4>Just a batty old lady.

<v Speaker 5>M hmm, she's cunning. She's like listening in on everybody's

<v Speaker 5>conversations because they're like, Ethel's fine, she's just over there

<v Speaker 5>staring out the window.

<v Speaker 4>But she's listening. She's tuning in.

<v Speaker 2>Huh yeah.

<v Speaker 5>Ethel tells her that she doesn't think it's Leviathan, which

<v Speaker 5>is Leander's business, or Lachlan doing this, and she might

<v Speaker 5>have a way to help, which in turn helps Sloan.

<v Speaker 5>She asks Lark to sit down. Lachlan is walking slowed

<v Speaker 5>down on the aisle to a blubbering Rowan. It's a

<v Speaker 5>beautiful ceremony and they are now celebrating at a tavern.

<v Speaker 5>Lachlan is more broody than normal because he promised Sloan

<v Speaker 5>he would dance with the Maid of Honor aka Lark.

<v Speaker 5>Sloan stares daggers at him because he has yet to

<v Speaker 5>do it, and then Lark taps him on the shoulder.

<v Speaker 5>They dance, so they have sarcastic banter. She asks about

<v Speaker 5>his freelance cleanup job and if he's ready to retire

<v Speaker 5>from it. He says yes, but I can't, and you're

<v Speaker 5>the reason why. She tells him that she might have

<v Speaker 5>a solution. Leander can get both the Corvaci contract back

<v Speaker 5>as well as the Montague one, which is her mom's

<v Speaker 5>side of the family. He's confused why Leander would want

<v Speaker 5>the Montague side since their business is in muffins in baking,

<v Speaker 5>and she says that's the primary. But we also have

<v Speaker 5>some weapons smuggling.

<v Speaker 1>In there, muffins and guns, you know.

<v Speaker 5>He says, what's in it for her? Since he would

<v Speaker 5>be the one getting early retirement from this job. She

<v Speaker 5>says she would need his help finding out who's killing

<v Speaker 5>her parents' business associates.

<v Speaker 4>Almost, what do you mean almost?

<v Speaker 3>There's a slight catch. Can't wait to hear this. We

<v Speaker 3>need to get married?

<v Speaker 2>Oh what? Yeah?

<v Speaker 6>Oh?

<v Speaker 4>I love these storylines where they have to get married.

<v Speaker 2>Love them?

<v Speaker 5>He says, no, absolutely not, but she tells him it's

<v Speaker 5>the only way to secure his safety and his brother's

<v Speaker 5>safety because her parents think that Lachlan is the one

<v Speaker 5>doing it and they're not afraid to take out all

<v Speaker 5>three brothers to cross their t's and dot their eyes.

<v Speaker 5>She tells him that he has until the end of

<v Speaker 5>the night to decide, and then he walks away. Lark

<v Speaker 5>is doing a diy resin coffee table. She's a crafty girl.

<v Speaker 4>Oh, but there's a little.

<v Speaker 5>Twist, Patrick is completely covered in resin Minus's face as

<v Speaker 5>he screams at her for being a psycho bitch. She

<v Speaker 5>ignores him, continues to tell him her life woes, and

<v Speaker 5>lets him in on a little secret. Her new fiance

<v Speaker 5>moves in tomorrow and she's really nervous. She figures making

<v Speaker 5>the coffee table and taking out a peedo would probably

<v Speaker 5>help common nerves, but it's not working very well. She says,

<v Speaker 5>oh well, and then finishes filling the resin until he's

<v Speaker 5>no longer screaming. So she just buried alive this man

<v Speaker 5>in a DIY coffee table.

<v Speaker 2>Yeah, that's what I was just about to ask.

<v Speaker 4>Is he in the coffee table?

<v Speaker 5>Yeah?

<v Speaker 2>I wonder if you can see him?

<v Speaker 5>No, she's smarter than that.

<v Speaker 2>Do you think it preserves him? Probably?

<v Speaker 5>She has two hours until Sloane picks her up, so

<v Speaker 5>she finishes her little project and heads upstairs to get ready.

<v Speaker 5>Sloane arrives and they head to the courthouse, but Sloane

<v Speaker 5>wants to know what the fuck is going on. Her

<v Speaker 5>and Lachlan don't like each other, but now all of

<v Speaker 5>a sudden they're getting married. But Lark just begs her

<v Speaker 5>to actually trust Lark for once and to let her

<v Speaker 5>take care of everything. She tells Sloane that she loves her,

<v Speaker 5>and then they arrive. No one is supposed to be

<v Speaker 5>here but lo and behold Auntie Ethel somehow knew about

<v Speaker 5>it and is holding onto Lachlan's arm, making him laugh.

<v Speaker 5>She steps out of the car, wondering how her aunt

<v Speaker 5>knew that this was going on. Ethel sees the look

<v Speaker 5>on her face and tells her not to worry about it.

<v Speaker 5>They get married, They tie the knot, and then her

<v Speaker 5>Auntie Ethel hands her her wedding ring from her fifty

<v Speaker 5>year marriage to her uncle cu. Lachlan moves in the

<v Speaker 5>next day, and her dog Bentley is super unsure of him.

<v Speaker 5>Lachlan watches Lark work on the coffee table, and when

<v Speaker 5>she sands down some of the resin, she pauses and

<v Speaker 5>then gasps. He rushes over to her, thinking that she

<v Speaker 5>is hurt somehow, and she covers the spot, begging him

<v Speaker 5>to go get her star shaped cake tin from the kitchen.

<v Speaker 5>The table needs a sparkly black star in this spot.

<v Speaker 5>She can't move to go get it. He's gotta go

<v Speaker 5>get it.

<v Speaker 4>Oh, can you see his dead body?

<v Speaker 5>He says okay, but then he smells something absolutely disgusting.

<v Speaker 5>Lark tells him that Bentley farted, but to please hurry up.

<v Speaker 5>She blames this decomposing body on a dog. Poor dog,

<v Speaker 5>he does this, she says, and she finishes the table.

<v Speaker 5>She tells him that they need to meet her parents soon,

<v Speaker 5>and at some point she needs to meet Leander to

<v Speaker 5>give him the contracts. He tells her that's fine, but

<v Speaker 5>when they meet his boss, the contracts need to be

<v Speaker 5>ready to go, already signed on her end like, so

<v Speaker 5>no changes are gonna be made. She says, okay, that's doable,

<v Speaker 5>and then asks for him to help her put the

<v Speaker 5>coffee table upstairs. They walk this heavy ass coffee table

<v Speaker 5>to the elevator, but she's nervous because she doesn't like

<v Speaker 5>the elevator. He tells her it's fine, and they load

<v Speaker 5>everything up. But it's not fine. The elevator stops and

<v Speaker 5>the lights go out, so now they're trapped in the elevator.

<v Speaker 5>Fuck no, She panics and falls to the floor, Huddling

<v Speaker 5>in a corner with Bentley. Lachlan knows in this moment

<v Speaker 5>that there's something super significant about this, and he remembers

<v Speaker 5>a couple years ago when he subjected her to a small,

<v Speaker 5>tight dark space aka his trunk, and he's like, wow,

<v Speaker 5>I really fuck something up with that. Clearly this girl

<v Speaker 5>has issues with small dark spaces.

<v Speaker 4>Yeah, I feel like most people would.

<v Speaker 5>Tells her that he can fix the elevator, but she

<v Speaker 5>either stays with the dog or the dog stays alone.

<v Speaker 5>She decides that she's gonna stay with Bentley and calls

<v Speaker 5>Rose to distract herself. Once he has it fixed the

<v Speaker 5>back of the apartment, she excuses herself, saying that she

<v Speaker 5>needs to be alone, and then he doesn't see her

<v Speaker 5>for the rest of the night.

<v Speaker 2>Lachlan is Hella curious about Lark's claustrophobia. He's also noticed,

<v Speaker 2>since they've now lived together for all of two days,

<v Speaker 2>that she's obviously struggling with something. He has not seen

<v Speaker 2>her sleep at all. She's been awake for like forty

<v Speaker 2>eight hours if anything. She'll take like a fifteen minute

<v Speaker 2>nap and then like wake up.

<v Speaker 1>She's on coke, Yeah, drug cooked out.

<v Speaker 4>Oh my god.

<v Speaker 3>Not being able to sleep like that is like my

<v Speaker 3>absolutely worst fear.

<v Speaker 1>Oh my on Yeah, have you heard about the fatal insomnia?

<v Speaker 4>Yeah, that is so scary.

<v Speaker 1>I'd be like, get me a gun. You just don't

<v Speaker 1>sleep until you die.

<v Speaker 2>Yeah, no fucking kill me. Mm hmm. Lachlan swallows his

<v Speaker 2>pride and reaches out to his favorite sister in laws, Loan,

<v Speaker 2>and he's like, all right, I need your help. I

<v Speaker 2>want to invite Lark out to lunch to get to

<v Speaker 2>know her, but she probably won't say yes unless you

<v Speaker 2>and Rowan are there too, And Sloan is on cloud nine.

<v Speaker 2>She's immediately like, yes, two pm, double date, let's do it.

<v Speaker 2>On the double date, Lachlan is literally like psychoanalyzing every

<v Speaker 2>single thing Lark is doing, and although she's putting up

<v Speaker 2>an amazing front, he can tell that she's absolutely run

<v Speaker 2>into the ground with exhaustion and it makes his little

<v Speaker 2>heart feel weird and tight and he's like, what's this feeling?

<v Speaker 2>Ah love. Just when he's at his max uncomfy noss,

<v Speaker 2>things get worse. Some stupid bitch named Claire comes up.

<v Speaker 2>She's hitting on Lachlan in front of everyone, even after

<v Speaker 2>he said that Lark was his wife, and she laughs

<v Speaker 2>at everyone's face and was like, damn, a lot has

<v Speaker 2>changed from Halloween two years ago, and then tells him

<v Speaker 2>that they can catch up properly in private later. Yeah,

<v Speaker 2>two years ago, you stupid bitch.

<v Speaker 3>The way I would go insane, absolutely wild.

<v Speaker 4>I'd go crazy, I'd climb the walls.

<v Speaker 2>Once Claire leaves, Lark was like, okay, well this has

<v Speaker 2>been fun. See ah bye, and Rowan and Sloan were

<v Speaker 2>both like, dude, if you don't go get your wife,

<v Speaker 2>you're gonna be bailing her out of jail because she's about.

<v Speaker 4>To kill that bitch, and rightfully so.

<v Speaker 2>But Lachlan's like, no, innocent Lark. She wouldn't hurt a fly.

<v Speaker 2>She puts glitter on everything, and Slim was like, I'm

<v Speaker 2>gonna hold your hand while I tell you this. She

<v Speaker 2>is not as innocent as she looks. She's vengeful. She'll

<v Speaker 2>put sparkles and wear a smile while she gets her revenge.

<v Speaker 2>Go get her. When Lark found out that her ex

<v Speaker 2>cheated on her with her friend, she broke into her

<v Speaker 2>friend's house and gorilla glued cheating bitch on her face

<v Speaker 2>and sequence, and then two months later killed Andrew, which

<v Speaker 2>is how the story began. Nice Lachlann literally sprints after

<v Speaker 2>her and finds her creeping through an alleyway after Claire

<v Speaker 2>and he grabs her and they do like a little

<v Speaker 2>tussle back and forth, and Locklan's like, pooky, girl, talk

<v Speaker 2>to me, like what is this about, because like you

<v Speaker 2>kind of hate me, so why are you acting like this?

<v Speaker 2>And when the book started when she called him budget batman,

<v Speaker 2>it was on Halloween, So Halloween two years ago is

<v Speaker 2>when he put her in the trunk and she's like,

<v Speaker 2>your horrible mood and why you treating me like that?

<v Speaker 2>Was because of that bitch. You were mad that you

<v Speaker 2>had to leave her, And he's like, no, I needed

<v Speaker 2>to go back there for my brother because Claire broke

<v Speaker 2>his fucking heart. They were dated for years. He proposed,

<v Speaker 2>she said no, and that Halloween party was the first

<v Speaker 2>time they saw each other, and he was like so

<v Speaker 2>fucked up, and he was just in a bad mood

<v Speaker 2>because he was worried about his brother. Claire was insinuating

<v Speaker 2>something else because she's bitch. And then she's like okay,

<v Speaker 2>and then just like slips out from his grass and

<v Speaker 2>then just like walks away. She's like glad, we clear

<v Speaker 2>that up.

<v Speaker 4>Thanks, revogeble I get it.

<v Speaker 2>I got it. As she walks away, Lachlan has a

<v Speaker 2>revelation of some sort, and he's like, wait, I really

<v Speaker 2>need to start looking into Lark Montague and who she is,

<v Speaker 2>because he should have done this when they first got engaged,

<v Speaker 2>but he didn't because he thought she was innocent. When

<v Speaker 2>Lachlan enters their apartment, he doesn't just enter it, he

<v Speaker 2>studies it. He looks through the whole house, determined to

<v Speaker 2>find something that could point out that there's something wrong

<v Speaker 2>with her. And on a line of posters on the wall,

<v Speaker 2>he looks behind each one and he finds a hole

<v Speaker 2>in the drywall, and what he finds he has no

<v Speaker 2>logical explanation for. By the time she comes home, he's like, hey,

<v Speaker 2>we really need to talk and she's like, I don't

<v Speaker 2>really want to talk about Claire. No thanks, and he's like,

<v Speaker 2>do you want to explain to me what these are?

<v Speaker 2>And he's holding piles of her serial killer trophies, a

<v Speaker 2>ring finger and a mason jar, human teeth, a coaster

<v Speaker 2>made out of human skin.

<v Speaker 5>Oh, she's a DIY girly.

<v Speaker 2>And they all have glitter on them. Yeah, all of

<v Speaker 2>the jars have glitter in them. Yeah. Oh, I love

<v Speaker 2>that He's holding the mason jar with the ring finger

<v Speaker 2>he just knew that it meant something extra special, and

<v Speaker 2>he wanted to open it up to look at the

<v Speaker 2>signet ring, but she interrupts him and she's like shake it,

<v Speaker 2>and he's like what. She's like, it's a snow globe.

<v Speaker 2>Like she's like crazy. He asked her how many people

<v Speaker 2>she's killed, and she's like eight, No, wait, definitely nine,

<v Speaker 2>but then there was that one guy who died in

<v Speaker 2>the hospital four days later, so I guess ten. Wow,

<v Speaker 2>they deserve it.

<v Speaker 5>Yeah, And she's making art so like crafts.

<v Speaker 1>Yeah.

<v Speaker 2>When he asked her why, she told him so, no one.

<v Speaker 2>She loves to do it for her ever again because

<v Speaker 2>in the first book, Sloan killed for her and she's

<v Speaker 2>like never again. Before he could asked her about the

<v Speaker 2>boarding school incident, she says, Okay, gotta go, and then

<v Speaker 2>she leaves. Lark and Lachlan kind of have like a

<v Speaker 2>vulnerable moment with each other. The next day, he takes

<v Speaker 2>her dog out while she's sleeping and to let her

<v Speaker 2>sleep some more, and he's like starting to like make

<v Speaker 2>attempts to like make her coffee and try to get

<v Speaker 2>her to open up. He's just trying to get to

<v Speaker 2>know her more. He talks to her about random things

<v Speaker 2>and they both find that they have a lot more

<v Speaker 2>in common than they initially thought. They both go to

<v Speaker 2>pick up her aunt Ethel from the assist of living

<v Speaker 2>home she's at now, and Auntie says, ready to stir

<v Speaker 2>up some shit. It's time to finally let the family

<v Speaker 2>know that you guys are married.

<v Speaker 1>Woo.

<v Speaker 2>The family was stunned and relentlessly asked questions, and then

<v Speaker 2>the questions turned to Lachlan and Lark is absorbing all

<v Speaker 2>the details she can and he's clearly uncomfortable about talking

<v Speaker 2>about his parents. Once they feel like things are safe,

<v Speaker 2>Auntie Ethel walks in and she's like, okay, time to

<v Speaker 2>address the elephant in the room, lofth and contract. She

<v Speaker 2>just like loves the tea and making drama.

<v Speaker 4>She loves like the vibe of it, and I get him.

<v Speaker 2>I love the little drama. Lark's mom says that the

<v Speaker 2>Montague contract will not be happening. She won't sign anything off,

<v Speaker 2>and Anti Ethel says, no need to sign anything because

<v Speaker 2>she has appointed Lark as chief security officer, not Lark's mom,

<v Speaker 2>because Auntie Ethel's the head hauncho, the head bitch in

<v Speaker 2>charge of everything, and she's like really sick and she's dying.

<v Speaker 2>So when she passes, they all assume that everything, like

<v Speaker 2>all the power would go to her mom, but she

<v Speaker 2>put Larkin to everything. So now the whole family thinks

<v Speaker 2>that this is like a whole ruse to get power.

<v Speaker 2>No one actually thinks that they're really married. To seal

<v Speaker 2>the deal, she drops her driver's license with her new

<v Speaker 2>last name on the table, saying that she's officially now

<v Speaker 2>Lark Kine, and for some reason this caused her whole

<v Speaker 2>family to go silent. Eventually they come to terms with it,

<v Speaker 2>and as they go to say goodbye, Lachlan shakes hands

<v Speaker 2>with her stepdad and he tells him he understands there's

<v Speaker 2>no reason to trust him, but he made a vow

<v Speaker 2>to Lark and he will protect his wife. When they

<v Speaker 2>left and got into the car to drive Auntie off,

<v Speaker 2>Lachlin was like, what was the whole deal with the

<v Speaker 2>driver's license, Like why did everyone act like that? And

<v Speaker 2>Lark never took the Covaci last name, not wanting to

<v Speaker 2>leave the last piece of her dad. So when she

<v Speaker 2>like dropped her new license saying that she changed her name,

<v Speaker 2>it was a huge thing because she always vowed that

<v Speaker 2>she would always be a Montacue. It's been ten days

<v Speaker 2>since the family introduction, and Lachlan and Lark are both

<v Speaker 2>getting under each other's skin and like tiptoeing around each

<v Speaker 2>other like there's tension. Lark meets Lachlin at his boss,

<v Speaker 2>Lander May's house for the first time, and he's obviously

<v Speaker 2>on edge because his boss is a legitimate psycho. She

<v Speaker 2>immediately clocks that he is power hungry and evil and

<v Speaker 2>she's like, oh, I don't like this guy. Anty Ethel

<v Speaker 2>made him handmade muffins especially for him this morning, and

<v Speaker 2>they start getting down to business, and even though they're

<v Speaker 2>not supposed to negotiate terms, she was like, I'm here

<v Speaker 2>to negotiate and he's like, that was not part of

<v Speaker 2>the fucking deal. They finally settle on a six hundred

<v Speaker 2>thousand dollars Montacue contract, plus she gets unlimited access to

<v Speaker 2>the Office for Investigative Resources whenever she wants, will get

<v Speaker 2>him the Kovachi contract once Lachlan is retired, And finally

<v Speaker 2>he says deal and they shake on it because she

<v Speaker 2>just wants him out from under this guy's grip because

<v Speaker 2>she can see that He just like abuses Lachlan whenever

<v Speaker 2>he wants and that's my man. When Lander gets up,

<v Speaker 2>he takes two wobbly steps and then crashes right on

<v Speaker 2>his face. He's drugged from Auntie's muffins.

<v Speaker 5>The muffins that she brought him were laced.

<v Speaker 2>Yeah, he was stoked too.

<v Speaker 1>He's like, oh my god, I love these muffins.

<v Speaker 3>Thank you.

<v Speaker 2>Power move and Lachlan was like, you just fucking drug

<v Speaker 2>my boss, and she's like aunt Ethel always gets the

<v Speaker 2>last word.

<v Speaker 4>Sorry, what can you zoo?

<v Speaker 2>What can you zoo? They get into the data room

<v Speaker 2>and they do some little FBI digging, and before they

<v Speaker 2>get started, Lark looks up the name Louis Campbell Occupation Education,

<v Speaker 2>and when Lachlan asks who that is, she gets out

<v Speaker 2>of the screen quickly and doesn't answer his question, choosing

<v Speaker 2>to change the subject instead. They get started on their

<v Speaker 2>first job, trying to hunt down who's targeting her family.

<v Speaker 2>When Lachlan picks her up from Auntie's home, they have

<v Speaker 2>a monumental breakthrough moment because he finally gives her a

<v Speaker 2>sincere apology, and it's the apology that she's been waiting

<v Speaker 2>for since he shoved her in the trunk.

<v Speaker 3>Yeah.

<v Speaker 2>He tells her he doesn't expect her to accept it,

<v Speaker 2>and he will do anything he can to earn her forgiveness.

<v Speaker 1>And then he.

<v Speaker 2>Tells her to hop in the car because he's got

<v Speaker 2>a surprise for her. While they're driving to her surprise,

<v Speaker 2>they have like such easy flowing, gapping conversations and she

<v Speaker 2>feels so carefree. And they pull into a gravel driveway

<v Speaker 2>and it's like a log cabin and she's like, where

<v Speaker 2>the fuck are we? And he took her to a

<v Speaker 2>sleep retreat. It's like a sleep therapy spot to help

<v Speaker 2>with her insomnia because she's like on the brink of exhaustion. Cute.

<v Speaker 2>Imagine a sleep retreat.

<v Speaker 1>Oh my god, don't she always like shut the fuck up?

<v Speaker 4>Imagine it.

<v Speaker 5>I literally cream pants right now.

<v Speaker 1>It's just cozy beds and white noise. Everything's all damn and.

<v Speaker 5>It's nice and toasty, and no one wakes you up.

<v Speaker 4>Snow babies.

<v Speaker 1>Ooh, just a warm glass of milk on your nightstand.

<v Speaker 5>No, you lost me.

<v Speaker 2>He tells her that he booked this for her all weekend.

<v Speaker 2>If it doesn't work, that's fine, they'll find something else

<v Speaker 2>that does. And he promises that nothing's going to happen

<v Speaker 2>while she's gone, and if anything were to come up,

<v Speaker 2>she would be the first person to know, and he'll

<v Speaker 2>be right there to get her. And she's never had

<v Speaker 2>someone care for her like this, and in her head

<v Speaker 2>she's like, fuck, this is a marriage of convenience, Like

<v Speaker 2>it's not even real, and she snaps and voices that

<v Speaker 2>He's like, baby girl, you're my wife. Shitty situation or not,

<v Speaker 2>I've made a promise and a vow to take care

<v Speaker 2>of you. I'm going to keep it, yes, sir. At

<v Speaker 2>night time, when Lark calls Lachlan before Ben, he tells

<v Speaker 2>her to come outside because he has a surprise for her.

<v Speaker 2>He can't say where they're going, but he can tell

<v Speaker 2>her this retreat is an amazing location and it's a

<v Speaker 2>perfect alibi. They pull up to a cabin thirty minutes

<v Speaker 2>later and Connor is out front waving he was there

<v Speaker 2>the first night of Like Budget Batman for Helloween, and

<v Speaker 2>before getting out of the car, Lachlan gives her a

<v Speaker 2>cute pink toolbox and he tells her she doesn't have

<v Speaker 2>to do this and she can walk away at any time.

<v Speaker 2>He heads in first and He tells her she can

<v Speaker 2>head in once he gives her the bat symbol. He

<v Speaker 2>strides in the cabin and he faces a tied up

<v Speaker 2>doctor Lewis Campbell, the head master of Ashbourne Collegiate Institute.

<v Speaker 1>That's the name she was looking up in the system.

<v Speaker 2>He interrogates him, asking him why when all different professors

<v Speaker 2>reached out to him via email with concerns about students

<v Speaker 2>being assaulted by another professor, that he did nothing. He

<v Speaker 2>goes through email after email from worried professors about all

<v Speaker 2>different students in the last two papers he has has

<v Speaker 2>his students' names of Sloan and Lark. He tells him

<v Speaker 2>Lark is his wife and Campbell failed her. Campbell's begging

<v Speaker 2>not to be hurt, and he tells Lachlan that the

<v Speaker 2>cover up conversations that he had with the Montagues were

<v Speaker 2>recorded and if he gets killed, everything's going to the FBI,

<v Speaker 2>and Lachlan's like, you mean the information in the backups

<v Speaker 2>that I now have possession of, uh huh. When he

<v Speaker 2>begs not to be hurt, Lachlan says that's not up

<v Speaker 2>to me. An in walks life with her pick toolbox.

<v Speaker 2>She tells him that her husband just bought her a

<v Speaker 2>present and she's dying to know what's inside. She opens

<v Speaker 2>the toolbox and Lark squeals and jumps up and down

<v Speaker 2>in happiness. There's glitter, gold star stickers, a needle and

<v Speaker 2>gold thread, new knives. Like, what more can a girl

<v Speaker 2>ask for? Oh?

<v Speaker 5>Nice to sleep on her actual sleeper treat, That's what

<v Speaker 5>I would ask for. Can we do this a different day?

<v Speaker 2>Shelly's like, don't interrupt the sleep.

<v Speaker 3>No.

<v Speaker 2>She decided to sew his mouth shut because sewing is

<v Speaker 2>what prompted her to tell Sloane everything. The professor that

<v Speaker 2>assaulted her tore her uniform and she needs to sew

<v Speaker 2>it back together, but her hands were shaking two bad

<v Speaker 2>so Sloane did it for her, and during that time

<v Speaker 2>she told her everything. The next day he was gone.

<v Speaker 2>After she's done stitching his mouth together and happy with

<v Speaker 2>her work, she tells him enjoy hell and tell the

<v Speaker 2>devil the Knes send their regards, and then shoots him

<v Speaker 2>point blank in the head.

<v Speaker 3>Yeah.

<v Speaker 2>Later in the early morning, once Lachlan gets back home

<v Speaker 2>from cleaning the scene, Lark still hasn't slept and she's up,

<v Speaker 2>so she gives him a call. They chit chat on

<v Speaker 2>the phone, and she asks if he could possibly read

<v Speaker 2>to her, maybe hearing a familiar voice will help her sleep,

<v Speaker 2>and he ends up reading her the script of her

<v Speaker 2>favorite movie ever, Constantine, because she's like obsessed with Keanu Reeves,

<v Speaker 2>like the whole book. She's like drooling over Keanu Reeves,

<v Speaker 2>and he like got the script for her and he

<v Speaker 2>decided to read it.

<v Speaker 4>I don't see it.

<v Speaker 5>I think Keanu Reeves is hot.

<v Speaker 4>Eh, he's fine. I don't know.

<v Speaker 3>I just anytime I think of him, I just picture

<v Speaker 3>him and John Wick and I'm like, he's so awkward.

<v Speaker 2>I don't know.

<v Speaker 5>But in point break he's hot.

<v Speaker 4>In point break I never saw that. Maybe I'll watch it.

<v Speaker 4>Maybe I'll watch it.

<v Speaker 2>As he's reading to her, Eventually she falls asleep and

<v Speaker 2>he doesn't hang up. He just keeps the phone on

<v Speaker 2>speaker in case she wakes up.

<v Speaker 4>That's so cute. I'd hang up.

<v Speaker 1>Makes fine.

<v Speaker 4>I'd be like, oh, thank god.

<v Speaker 2>It's been a week since Lark has been at the

<v Speaker 2>sleep clinic, and a man named Abe walks into Lachlands

<v Speaker 2>shop wanting a repair on a saddle, and alarm bells

<v Speaker 2>are instantly going off in Lachland's head, like there's something

<v Speaker 2>off with this dude. When Lachlan he turned his back

<v Speaker 2>to get a paper and pen for his order, he

<v Speaker 2>swore he heard Ape's boots right behind him. But then

<v Speaker 2>the door opens and in comes Lark. When Lachlan turns,

<v Speaker 2>Abe's on the other side of the saddle, walking towards Lark,

<v Speaker 2>ready to introduce himself, which is also fucking weird. Lachlan,

<v Speaker 2>not trusting the guy, turns his attention back to the

<v Speaker 2>saddle and asks what Abe wants added into the design,

<v Speaker 2>and Abe gives him a Bible verse. Lark gets into

<v Speaker 2>Lachlan's car while he's finishing up the store, and when

<v Speaker 2>it turns on, she's greeted with a nice, smutty erotica

<v Speaker 2>audiobook that he's been listening to. Oh. He starts walking

<v Speaker 2>towards the car and she locks the door and turns

<v Speaker 2>the volume all the way up so we can hear

<v Speaker 2>it playing from outside, and he looks like so mortified.

<v Speaker 2>He stops the audiobook from his phone, and then she

<v Speaker 2>lets him in and there's like a lot of tension

<v Speaker 2>between the two of them right now, Like that was

<v Speaker 2>all I was needed, just a nice sexy erotica. That'll

<v Speaker 2>do it. They set off to go to a club

<v Speaker 2>that Connor found and am I have a possible connection

<v Speaker 2>between her family hit because there's been money wire transfers

<v Speaker 2>when the deaths of her family members have been happening,

<v Speaker 2>So it's a possible lead. They scope out the club

<v Speaker 2>and they don't see anyone they recognize, but they do

<v Speaker 2>register that the tension between them is palpable.

<v Speaker 3>Anyone who's gaze lingers on you a little too long.

<v Speaker 3>When I turn my head to the side to meet

<v Speaker 3>his eyes, Lachlin's attention fuses to my lips. They curl

<v Speaker 3>on a smile, only you his lips twitch. There's that

<v Speaker 3>fire again, the flame inside him that if Coke's just right,

<v Speaker 3>becomes a began in the night. My teasing smile might fade,

<v Speaker 3>but the flame between us doesn't.

<v Speaker 2>They head into the office and Lachlan contacts Connor, who

<v Speaker 2>like hacks into the cameras and makes them safe. They're

<v Speaker 2>looking around and they just take pictures of everything, looking

<v Speaker 2>for a clue. Lark finds an invoice of fifty K

<v Speaker 2>paid in cash for a contacting company, and as she

<v Speaker 2>takes the photo, they hear someone coming towards the office,

<v Speaker 2>and Lachlan grabs Lark and pulls them both inside a

<v Speaker 2>storage closet. And of course she's claustrophobic, so she's freaking out,

<v Speaker 2>but have no fear because her Pooky's there to anchor

<v Speaker 2>her and calm her down. She takes Lachlan's hands and

<v Speaker 2>puts it on her neck, and then puts the other

<v Speaker 2>one on her chest, like an attempt a ground herself,

<v Speaker 2>but with the tension between them too, she wants him.

<v Speaker 2>The man who is in the office walks away and

<v Speaker 2>close to the door, leaving them alone.

<v Speaker 3>And eight coils low in my belly. Anita stalks me

<v Speaker 3>more and more. It lingers, ready to consume. It's there

<v Speaker 3>when Lachlan stumbles out of his room in the morning

<v Speaker 3>in a T shirt and low slung sweats as he

<v Speaker 3>heads to the coffee machine to make us americanos. It

<v Speaker 3>haunts me when his gaze lingers on my lips as

<v Speaker 3>I smile. It possesses me when I'm alone in my

<v Speaker 3>room at night, staring into the dark as my hand

<v Speaker 3>slips beneath my sleep shorts. It's Lachlan's touch, I imagine when

<v Speaker 3>I circle my clit when I plunge my fingers into

<v Speaker 3>my pussy. I want his touch everywhere. I want it

<v Speaker 3>for longer than just a moment that feels stolen in

<v Speaker 3>the dark.

<v Speaker 2>Oh my god, she is bricked up for him.

<v Speaker 1>Yeah, she is.

<v Speaker 2>Her clit is mooing. She goes to kiss him, but

<v Speaker 2>he pushes her away. I would kill myself.

<v Speaker 3>I mean, honestly, where's a bridge, where's a freeway something?

<v Speaker 2>What do you mean you got to kiss your husband?

<v Speaker 2>And he's like, ugh not, Now, are you kidding me?

<v Speaker 3>If Andrew were to do that to me now we're

<v Speaker 3>eleven years in, where's my gun?

<v Speaker 2>Get that black girl. If it ain't me, baby, it's

<v Speaker 2>no one. He tells her they can't do this, not

<v Speaker 2>until he knows she's forgiven him. Otherwise what they have

<v Speaker 2>won't work, and he really wants this to work. As

<v Speaker 2>they leave the club, Slom texts her a link of

<v Speaker 2>the news article that their head master's dead, and Flown's like,

<v Speaker 2>you know, if you're like me, I wouldn't love you

<v Speaker 2>any less, And instead of going downstairs, she heads outside

<v Speaker 2>to the balcony to get some fresh air. Lachlan joins

<v Speaker 2>her outside and she finally opens up of why she's

<v Speaker 2>cost her phobic. They had a home invasion and that's

<v Speaker 2>how her father died and why her mom has a limp.

<v Speaker 2>Her mom had to hide her and her sister in

<v Speaker 2>a cupboard and told them to hide until morning unless

<v Speaker 2>they hurt the police.

<v Speaker 1>So I don't know if you know this. I know

<v Speaker 1>that you don't. But Lark is a singer. Oh, she

<v Speaker 1>has a big show coming up. They're both at home

<v Speaker 1>and it's before her big show and Lachlan hands her

<v Speaker 1>and tells her that he made her a present. She

<v Speaker 1>opens it and it's a hand crafted leather harness to wear,

<v Speaker 1>adorned with gold stars on the straps that Chris cross

<v Speaker 1>between her breasts because he's a leather worker. He made

<v Speaker 1>it for her by hand leather and luck. He tells

<v Speaker 1>her he wants to make this marriage something she can

<v Speaker 1>be proud of. He doesn't want to be something she regrets.

<v Speaker 1>She tells him she loves it and she's gonna wear

<v Speaker 1>it tonight at the show. She goes to her room

<v Speaker 1>to change and comes out wearing the harness over a

<v Speaker 1>sheer black dress showing a bralette underneath, and Lachlan can

<v Speaker 1>barely breathe. He tells her how feckin' sexy.

<v Speaker 2>She looks.

<v Speaker 1>He's sexy. Then she pulls out a small box and

<v Speaker 1>hands it to him. She tells him not to open

<v Speaker 1>it until she gives him the signal while she's on stage.

<v Speaker 1>He says, okay, whatever my duchess wants, and he calls

<v Speaker 1>her duchess. They pull up to the venue and it

<v Speaker 1>is popp'in'. Lachlan asks if she wants him to drop

<v Speaker 1>her off while he finds a place to park, and

<v Speaker 1>she's like, no, you might have trouble getting in. I'll

<v Speaker 1>take you in the back. And he's like, take me

<v Speaker 1>in the back because his mine's in the gutter right now,

<v Speaker 1>because their sexual tension is just so crazy, and she's like, yeah,

<v Speaker 1>the back entrance, you know, the back door.

<v Speaker 4>My back door.

<v Speaker 2>I'll take you in the back door.

<v Speaker 1>When she notices he's shifting in his seat, she's like, oh, okay,

<v Speaker 1>so you're an ass man. He feels like his dick

<v Speaker 1>is going to explode, but they eventually make their way

<v Speaker 1>into the venue, but she keeps running with all the

<v Speaker 1>back door jokes.

<v Speaker 3>I'm pretty sure my skin is melting from the raging

<v Speaker 3>blush that heats my flesh. What nothing to be ashamed

<v Speaker 3>about liking a bit of butt stuff, Lark chimes as

<v Speaker 3>we walk toward Amigo's cantina, dipping down an alley tour

<v Speaker 3>left toward a metal stage door.

<v Speaker 4>Anal is great. I like anal this one time.

<v Speaker 3>I was on the road touring, and before I even

<v Speaker 3>realize what I'm doing, I've grabbed Lark's waist and caged

<v Speaker 3>her against the brick wall of the building.

<v Speaker 2>A spike of fear.

<v Speaker 3>Hits my veins that I could have hurt her, but

<v Speaker 3>it's washed away by the look she gives me as

<v Speaker 3>I loom over her. Even with the blur at this distance,

<v Speaker 3>I can still see it flush, skin, blown pupils, a

<v Speaker 3>pulse that pounds in her neck.

<v Speaker 2>Desire.

<v Speaker 3>Oh oh, he loves abot hole. Yeah, he loves a buble.

<v Speaker 1>He tells her he cannot bear the thought of hearing

<v Speaker 1>about his wife being fucked by another man right now.

<v Speaker 1>He leans in close with his erection rubbing against her

<v Speaker 1>thigh and tells her it's agonizing, knowing it's not him.

<v Speaker 1>Then he pulls away, but she grabs him and whispers

<v Speaker 1>his name. But then the door swings open and the

<v Speaker 1>moment is ruined. It's the bass player letting her know

<v Speaker 1>it's time for her to get on stage. She warns

<v Speaker 1>Lachlan not to open the box until she gives the signal,

<v Speaker 1>or she'll turn his balls into a snow globe. And

<v Speaker 1>she walks out and she means it, yeah, yah, I'd

<v Speaker 1>believe her. She's kind of scary. He heads out to

<v Speaker 1>join the audience and when Lark comes on stage, the

<v Speaker 1>crowd goes wild. It seems like she's a very successful singer.

<v Speaker 6>Okay.

<v Speaker 1>She sings a few songs and then it's announced that

<v Speaker 1>she's performing a brand new original song. She tells the

<v Speaker 1>crowd that she wrote it over the the last few weeks.

<v Speaker 1>It's called Ruinous Love and it's for someone in the crowd,

<v Speaker 1>and remember this is the Ruinous Love Trilogy.

<v Speaker 2>Ah.

<v Speaker 1>Then she starts singing. Lachlan listens to the lyrics and

<v Speaker 1>they're all about him, about how the best things in

<v Speaker 1>life come out of the fire, and how she'd burned

<v Speaker 1>down the world for him. And at the end of

<v Speaker 1>the song there's a verse about how he's been forgiven

<v Speaker 1>and she gives him permission. Also, the narrator in the

<v Speaker 1>audiobook actually sings this, and it was so cringey at

<v Speaker 1>I listened to it at two X so it sounded

<v Speaker 1>like the Chipmunks.

<v Speaker 2>Yeah.

<v Speaker 1>The song ends and there's a roar of applause. Then

<v Speaker 1>Lark looks at Lachlan and signals for him to open

<v Speaker 1>the box. He does, and it's a small black remote

<v Speaker 1>with a note that says, turn me on. Oh, there's

<v Speaker 1>only a power button and two buttons for up and down.

<v Speaker 1>He's confused, so he presses up, up, up, up, until

<v Speaker 1>he sees Lark's face contort on stage, and now he

<v Speaker 1>knows exactly what this is. It's so remote for a

<v Speaker 1>vibrator that Lark is wearing on the stage.

<v Speaker 5>Cute.

<v Speaker 1>He messes with the settings and Lark is playing a

<v Speaker 1>cello at this point, which I thought was very funny,

<v Speaker 1>and he can see that she's getting all flushed and

<v Speaker 1>her browserre furrowed, and he knows he's going to be

<v Speaker 1>watching her come on the stage in front of all

<v Speaker 1>of these people. He edges her for a little bit,

<v Speaker 1>thinking about how badly he wants to fuck her, and

<v Speaker 1>he's rock hard. I would give my right arm to

<v Speaker 1>see her stride off that stage and drop to her

<v Speaker 1>knees at my feet. I want her begging for my cock,

<v Speaker 1>to feel the fluttering desperation of her fingers as she

<v Speaker 1>fumbles with my belt to free my erection. It strains

<v Speaker 1>against my zipper and a painful demand. As I picture

<v Speaker 1>her stripping me down.

<v Speaker 3>I'm desperate to sink into her, to feel how tightly

<v Speaker 3>her cunt can grip my cock as she takes me

<v Speaker 3>deep into her pussy. I need to see my cumb

<v Speaker 3>dripping down her thighs so everyone here will know she

<v Speaker 3>is my wife mine.

<v Speaker 1>He watches her as she lets out a soft moan,

<v Speaker 1>and then she makes direct eye contact with him as

<v Speaker 1>she comes as discreetly as she can. She takes a

<v Speaker 1>bow before she heads off stage, but Lachlan has already

<v Speaker 1>booked it out of the audience. Lark has to play

<v Speaker 1>an encore, so she goes back on and she's wondering

<v Speaker 1>where the hell her husband is and thinks maybe she

<v Speaker 1>scared him off. When it's time to finally head out,

<v Speaker 1>she's in tears and she runs to the bathroom backstage

<v Speaker 1>to sob, But then Lachlan person asking what the fuck

<v Speaker 1>she's doing, and he stalks toward her and tells her

<v Speaker 1>he was waiting for her in the dressing room so

<v Speaker 1>they could get the fuck out of here so they

<v Speaker 1>can go home and he can fuck her. And now

<v Speaker 1>she's like oh, because she thought that he was like ooh,

<v Speaker 1>and then was like bye.

<v Speaker 4>I mean he pushed her away earlier. I'd feel the

<v Speaker 4>same way.

<v Speaker 2>Yeah, I don't.

<v Speaker 5>Know how she was playing the cello. By doing that,

<v Speaker 5>I feel I could be like.

<v Speaker 4>Oh, she's very good.

<v Speaker 3>Half the time when they talk about these people coming,

<v Speaker 3>like wearing these wearable vibrators and they're just doing things.

<v Speaker 1>No, I feel like there's no way. No, I would

<v Speaker 1>stop talking all of a sudden, you stop playing the cello,

<v Speaker 1>and you're like uh uh. He asks if she meant

<v Speaker 1>what she sang when she said she forgives him, and

<v Speaker 1>she says yes. He tells her watching his wife come

<v Speaker 1>in front of a crowd of five hundred people bothers

<v Speaker 1>him in the best and worst of ways. He picks

<v Speaker 1>her up and puts her on the bathroom counter and

<v Speaker 1>turns the vibrator back on, telling her to show him

<v Speaker 1>the toy. She starts to pull up her dress and

<v Speaker 1>tells him she wants him. She's not his demure duchess,

<v Speaker 1>she's his fucking whore.

<v Speaker 3>Then lifts that dress up and fucking prove it. Yeah,

<v Speaker 3>or Lachlan leans closer. His fingers trace my thighs, spreading

<v Speaker 3>them wider without lifting the fabric that pulls between them.

<v Speaker 3>His breath floods my face as his lips stop a

<v Speaker 3>threads with for mine. Show me how soap those goddamn

<v Speaker 3>panties are from coming on that stage in front of

<v Speaker 3>all those people. Show me how desperate you are to

<v Speaker 3>be fucked?

<v Speaker 4>Yeah, him, show me your wet pulla fie.

<v Speaker 1>She spreads her legs and leans back as he turns

<v Speaker 1>the vibration up more and more, and he tells her

<v Speaker 1>that he didn't lock the door, but he isn't going

<v Speaker 1>to stop until she screams his name and everyone knows

<v Speaker 1>who's fucking whore she is. He rips off her panties

<v Speaker 1>and wraps them around her neck, and they go over

<v Speaker 1>their safe words, so like red to stop, Yellow to

<v Speaker 1>slow down, Green to fuck her and fill her with

<v Speaker 1>his cumb.

<v Speaker 2>Yeah.

<v Speaker 1>He chokes her with the panties and turns the vibrator

<v Speaker 1>up more as she's begging for him to fuck her,

<v Speaker 1>but he tells her the first time he fucks his

<v Speaker 1>wife won't be in a bar bathroom, so for now

<v Speaker 1>she can come with what he gives her, and she

<v Speaker 1>does just that. She comes, but it's not enough she

<v Speaker 1>needs that day. Then the bassist Xander walks in and

<v Speaker 1>Lachlan is like, get the fuck out. Xander scurries away

<v Speaker 1>and Lochlann's like, I fecking hate that guy. Then he

<v Speaker 1>says it's time to get out of here. They're going

<v Speaker 1>to Poundtown. Lachlan grabs her instruments and Lark goes out

<v Speaker 1>to the car before him. But then abe, remember the

<v Speaker 1>guy with the saddle, Yeah, that weird fuck yeah. He

<v Speaker 1>comes up behind her, telling her what a wonderful performance

<v Speaker 1>that was. She gets the he begbi's from this guy,

<v Speaker 1>but he's gone just as quickly as he arrived, and

<v Speaker 1>thankfully he's gone before Lachlan showed up. While they're driving home,

<v Speaker 1>Lachlan is getting pissed because Lark is taking the scenic

<v Speaker 1>root and even stops at the gas station for snacks

<v Speaker 1>and ice, and Lachlan is just sitting there with blue

<v Speaker 1>balls like she's purposefully not driving home. He's just sitting

<v Speaker 1>there with a raging boner. She thinks this is hilarious,

<v Speaker 1>and he tells her this won't be so fick and

<v Speaker 1>funny when she's gagging on his cock.

<v Speaker 4>Nice, nice irish accent.

<v Speaker 2>Thank you.

<v Speaker 3>I lean closer and her breath hitges My eyes fuse

<v Speaker 3>to her mouth as a smile sneaks across my lips.

<v Speaker 4>You like that, don't you? You want me filling your throat?

<v Speaker 3>You want to swallow every drop of cum like my

<v Speaker 3>good fucking whore. Don't worry you will, and then you're

<v Speaker 3>going to beg me for more, won't you. I chuckle

<v Speaker 3>as her lips part and the sweet scent of her

<v Speaker 3>breath floods my senses.

<v Speaker 4>She nods, that's what I thought.

<v Speaker 3>I lean closer just enough for my lips to graze

<v Speaker 3>Larks as I whisper, drive, I'm a bonerba.

<v Speaker 1>He speeds home and he snags her right up out

<v Speaker 1>of the car and carries her inside. Then it's game on.

<v Speaker 1>They start making out all the way to the bedroom.

<v Speaker 1>Lark is ready to go, but Lachlan sits down in

<v Speaker 1>the chair in the corner and tells her to show

<v Speaker 1>him how much she wants it. He commands her to

<v Speaker 1>take the dress off, but leave the harness on. He

<v Speaker 1>asks what she is and she says, you're whore, So

<v Speaker 1>he tells her to get on her hands and knees

<v Speaker 1>and prove it. She obeys, and then he pulls out

<v Speaker 1>his pocket knife and tells her to crawl. She crawls

<v Speaker 1>up to him, and he commands her to pull his

<v Speaker 1>cock out. She obeys again, and then he tells her

<v Speaker 1>to spit on it and stroke it. She does, and

<v Speaker 1>then she takes him into her mouth. He reminds her

<v Speaker 1>about the safe words and then begins to fuck her face.

<v Speaker 3>There's nothing like turning a perfect princess into a fucking slut.

<v Speaker 3>I grit out as I pick up a rhythm of

<v Speaker 3>deep thrusts. I bet your pussy is so wet it's

<v Speaker 3>dripping down your thighs. Lark whimpers, Take your fingers and

<v Speaker 3>show me. Lark drags her hand down her body as

<v Speaker 3>I continue the cadence of thrusts, each one hitting the

<v Speaker 3>back of her as she moans and whimpers, her eyes

<v Speaker 3>fluttered closed as she touches herself, and then she brings

<v Speaker 3>her hand between us, the proof of her desire glistening

<v Speaker 3>across her fingers. With my free hand. I capture her

<v Speaker 3>wrist and bring her fingers to my waiting mouth and

<v Speaker 3>suck sweet and salty. Her flavor coats my tongue, and

<v Speaker 3>I nearly lose my goddamn mind.

<v Speaker 2>He pops his.

<v Speaker 1>Dick out of her mouth and then throws her on

<v Speaker 1>the bed and starts to chow down. He edges her

<v Speaker 1>a little bit and then slides up to slide on in.

<v Speaker 1>He fucks her hard and fast until they both come.

<v Speaker 1>They snuggle a bit, and then it's time for round two.

<v Speaker 1>Lachlann gets up when they're all done, and he takes

<v Speaker 1>the doggie out to go potty, and when he gets back,

<v Speaker 1>Lark is fast asleep. He falls asleep next to her,

<v Speaker 1>but he wakes up and she's not in bed. She's

<v Speaker 1>in the kitchen making breakfast for her hobby. He sees

<v Speaker 1>that she's throwing bacon down for Bentley, and he's like,

<v Speaker 1>for the love of God, please stop feeding him people food.

<v Speaker 1>His farts are rancid, and she's like, e looel, that

<v Speaker 1>wasn't Bentley, it was the dead guy in my coffee table. Surprise,

<v Speaker 1>he tells her. Sometimes he forgets that he's married to

<v Speaker 1>a multiple deleter that's what she calls serial killers. Okay,

<v Speaker 1>They eat breakfast and take a shower where he fucks

<v Speaker 1>her once more. Then they head over to Leander's to

<v Speaker 1>talk business, but Leander seems a little too focused on Lark,

<v Speaker 1>so Lachlan pulls her away and is like, we need

<v Speaker 1>to start branching out. Let's start looking at people your

<v Speaker 1>family wouldn't suspect. Maybe someone in the inner circle. And

<v Speaker 1>she's like, well, there's Stan Tramblay. He's the one who

<v Speaker 1>helped clean up after Sloane, you know, at the school

<v Speaker 1>when Sloane killed the professor that was sexually assaulting her. Yeah,

<v Speaker 1>that's right, but also she's pretty sure that would be

<v Speaker 1>a dead end. She doubts it's him. Lachlan warns her

<v Speaker 1>not to trust anyone and to listen to her instincts,

<v Speaker 1>so she's like, okay, let's look into him. They do

<v Speaker 1>a little sleuthing on Stan in Leander's office computer, but

<v Speaker 1>they're both shocked to find out that he's already dead.

<v Speaker 2>He was murdered.

<v Speaker 1>They head home and Lark tells him how scared she

<v Speaker 1>is about everything and how it's all panning out. Buck

<v Speaker 1>Lynn assures her that she is the bravest person he knows,

<v Speaker 1>and then they start to smooch in but when he

<v Speaker 1>starts dddling her, she's pretty sore from their last round.

<v Speaker 1>But then he starts finger blasting her, and then he

<v Speaker 1>grabs an ice cube from a glass on the coffee

<v Speaker 1>table and uses it on her nipples. She's ready to go,

<v Speaker 1>and he tells her she'd better get ready for him

<v Speaker 1>to fuck her like a whore. He pops the ice

<v Speaker 1>cube in his mouth and goes down on her, and

<v Speaker 1>she loves it. Then he scoots up her body and

<v Speaker 1>thrusts all the way in so fucking perfect. Lachlan says,

<v Speaker 1>he gives my ass a gentle slap. When I cry

<v Speaker 1>out with need, he does it again, and then soothes

<v Speaker 1>my skin with a gentle caress. He separates my ass

<v Speaker 1>cheeks and groans that fucking perfect ass, that tight little hole.

<v Speaker 4>The ice slides down.

<v Speaker 3>My ass crack and I swear under my breath as

<v Speaker 3>he runs it across the pleated rim, the pleased rim.

<v Speaker 1>Yeah, A fancy little anish Yeah. Then he spits on

<v Speaker 1>her butthole and starts finger blasting that. He hands her

<v Speaker 1>the ice cube and tells her to use it to

<v Speaker 1>touch herself while he fucks her. They come together and

<v Speaker 1>then he pulls out and watches the cum drip out

<v Speaker 1>of her. He scoops it out with his finger and

<v Speaker 1>pushes it into her asshole.

<v Speaker 4>What is with men in doing that?

<v Speaker 1>She showers while he cooks dinner, and when they're done eating,

<v Speaker 1>they head to Connor's garage. He's going to guide them

<v Speaker 1>on how to break into Stan's home fault, because remember

<v Speaker 1>he's the tech guy. Lachlan tries to dissuade Lark from

<v Speaker 1>tagging along, but she's not having it and says they

<v Speaker 1>have a better chance of getting in and out quickly

<v Speaker 1>if she tags along to help. They head to the

<v Speaker 1>Medical Examiner's office first to get some stuff that could

<v Speaker 1>be useful to get into the vaulted stands because remember

<v Speaker 1>Stan was murdered. He is deadd bee right. Honnor uses

<v Speaker 1>his gear to let them know when the building is empty,

<v Speaker 1>and then they're in. They wind up in one of

<v Speaker 1>the coolers and they find the cold dead body of

<v Speaker 1>Stan Tremblay. Lark cuts off his index finger and thumb

<v Speaker 1>and plops it into a plastic bag that Lachlan is

<v Speaker 1>holding for her. Now it's time for the gross part.

<v Speaker 1>Stan has an IRIS scanner at his house and they

<v Speaker 1>have to scoop.

<v Speaker 2>Out his eyeball. Oh Stan.

<v Speaker 1>Lark thinks this part is fucking disgusting and doesn't know

<v Speaker 1>how Sloane does this, because remember Sloane.

<v Speaker 5>Loves the eyeball.

<v Speaker 2>She's the orb waiver.

<v Speaker 3>That's right, I do remember that. And Lark is legit gagging.

<v Speaker 3>Lachlan is gagging. It's nasty, it's goopy. Just imagine it's

<v Speaker 3>marble Connor chimes or one of those trullyglots r marshmallow

<v Speaker 3>gummy eyeball candies.

<v Speaker 2>Ew have you.

<v Speaker 3>Seen those gabs? Loves those things. They're filled with red

<v Speaker 3>sour liquid.

<v Speaker 6>Shit.

<v Speaker 3>I gag you again as Lachlan releases a string of expletives,

<v Speaker 3>some of which might be an irish though I can

<v Speaker 3>barely make out his words over the blaring alarm and

<v Speaker 3>the heartbeats roaring in my ears. Don't bring up food,

<v Speaker 3>you fuckin' gobshite, bloody hat.

<v Speaker 1>Finally they get the eyeball out and put it in

<v Speaker 1>a jar with formulin. Then they book it out of

<v Speaker 1>the building as they hear sirens in the distance. Then

<v Speaker 1>we get a POV from the Phantom he killed Stan

<v Speaker 1>and is currently watching aunt Ethel's sleep. She wakes up

<v Speaker 1>and is like, who the fuck are you. She knows

<v Speaker 1>exactly why he's here and asks if he was sent

<v Speaker 1>by Bob Foster, but he doesn't know who that is.

<v Speaker 1>He asks her if she repents before the judgment of

<v Speaker 1>the Lord and commands her to confess her sins before

<v Speaker 1>she goes to meet him.

<v Speaker 3>I regret not having gone home with Spencer Jones after

<v Speaker 3>Marcy's party when I was twenty three. Jenny Bright took

<v Speaker 3>him home instead and said he ate her ass six

<v Speaker 3>ways this Sunday. She wouldn't shut up about it at

<v Speaker 3>brunch at the country Club for a solid month. Lord,

<v Speaker 3>thy God, I seek refuge in you from the devil.

<v Speaker 3>I met my Thomas shortly after, and in sixty two

<v Speaker 3>years of marriage, he never once ate my ass. Took

<v Speaker 3>me nearly a year to convince Tom there were more

<v Speaker 3>positions than just me lying flat on my back like

<v Speaker 3>a dead fish.

<v Speaker 5>Anti Ethel wants to like be a freak.

<v Speaker 4>Yeah, ye're a freak in the sheets.

<v Speaker 1>The phantom legit thinks to himself that this woman is

<v Speaker 1>the devil, like he's appalled at what.

<v Speaker 2>She is saying right now, disgusting.

<v Speaker 1>She can tell she's pissing him off and just smiles

<v Speaker 1>at him, grabs a couple of syringes and injects them

<v Speaker 1>into her port a lethal dose of Luraza PAM. He's

<v Speaker 1>Harvey's brother, and remember Harvey.

<v Speaker 4>He was like that really fat guy, right.

<v Speaker 2>Yeah, yucky?

<v Speaker 1>What's he the one with the mom where she's like,

<v Speaker 1>you're a bad boy. Yeah, He's here to avenge his

<v Speaker 1>death and get revenge on Rowan Kin for killing his brother.

<v Speaker 1>He starts to sing aunt Ethel a hymn and she's like,

<v Speaker 1>oh my god, please stop.

<v Speaker 2>But then the.

<v Speaker 1>Drugs start to kick in and her last words are

<v Speaker 1>touch my Lark, and he'll kill you. The next day,

<v Speaker 1>Lark gets the call from her mom. She's distraught, even

<v Speaker 1>though she knew this day was coming sooner rather than later.

<v Speaker 1>Then she immediately calls Lachlin and as soon as he

<v Speaker 1>picks up, he knows there's something wrong, and she tells

<v Speaker 1>him that Auntie Ethel is dead and wants him to

<v Speaker 1>meet her at the funeral home. He asks if there's

<v Speaker 1>anything he can do, and she says, right now, she

<v Speaker 1>just wants a hug. Then he tells her he loves her,

<v Speaker 1>and she says it back, YO loves. She smooths Bentley

<v Speaker 1>and heads to the bathroom to wash her face before

<v Speaker 1>she leaves, but then she hears Bentley barking menacingly from

<v Speaker 1>the living room. She walks out and sees Abe standing

<v Speaker 1>in her living room. She gets whacked in the head

<v Speaker 1>and goes down. Then Bentley yelps and a needle is

<v Speaker 1>stabbed into her neck. Not the dog, I know, Not

<v Speaker 1>the dog rest in peace.

<v Speaker 2>He died.

<v Speaker 1>Lachlan gets to the funeral home and all of Lark's

<v Speaker 1>family's already there, but not her. He shoots her a

<v Speaker 1>text asking if everything's okay, and he tells her family

<v Speaker 1>that she had told him she was heading straight here,

<v Speaker 1>and he immediately feels like something is off. He calls

<v Speaker 1>her and she doesn't answer. Then his phone rings, but

<v Speaker 1>it's not Lark. It's Connor. He just got done looking

<v Speaker 1>through Stan's videos. He sends it to Lachlan and sees

<v Speaker 1>a man standing over Stan's body holding a weapon that

<v Speaker 1>looks familiar. He recognizes this man. It's Abe, and that

<v Speaker 1>weapon is from Lachlan's shop. He's speeding through the lobby,

<v Speaker 1>giving Abe's description over the phone to Connor when the

<v Speaker 1>receptionist is like, oh, are you talking about Steve? He

<v Speaker 1>was our temp. He left about an hour ago. They

<v Speaker 1>had some people out sick yesterday, so Steve was filling

<v Speaker 1>in for them. Now all the pieces are clicking together.

<v Speaker 1>Rose and Fion. Do you remember Fion is Lochlane and

<v Speaker 1>Rowan's other brother.

<v Speaker 2>Yeah.

<v Speaker 1>So Rose and Fion meet Lachlan at the apartment and

<v Speaker 1>he fills them in. As they walk in, blood is

<v Speaker 1>everywhere and Bentley is wounded and crying on the ground,

<v Speaker 1>and he orders Fion to save him because Fion's a doctor, right, Yeah,

<v Speaker 1>he's a doctor. They shave Bentley up and see that

<v Speaker 1>he's been stabbed. They do what they can to stop

<v Speaker 1>the bleeding until they can get him to the emergency vet.

<v Speaker 1>Lachlan is spiraling about how he wasn't here for her,

<v Speaker 1>and then he's filled with rage. He gets up to

<v Speaker 1>take care of business, but Rose is like, I'm coming

<v Speaker 1>with you. Lachlan has a brain blast and they run

<v Speaker 1>across the street to investigate the apartments that have a

<v Speaker 1>view of Lark's place. They find the one that would

<v Speaker 1>have the best vantage point and they break in they

<v Speaker 1>know they have the right place. Immediately there are Bible

<v Speaker 1>verses all over the wall, and then they find an

<v Speaker 1>old ticket to Lark's show. He calls Connor to get

<v Speaker 1>the details on Abe, but Connor does some sleuthing and

<v Speaker 1>that's when they find out he's Harvey's brother. Lark wakes

<v Speaker 1>up in a dark room with a screaming headache. The

<v Speaker 1>light switches on and she realizes she's in a batch

<v Speaker 1>oven because remember Auntie Ethel runs a bakery, so she's

<v Speaker 1>in a giant oven.

<v Speaker 2>Oh shit, yeah, terrifying.

<v Speaker 1>And Abe is standing outside the window and he starts

<v Speaker 1>reciting Bible verses to her. He shows her his arm

<v Speaker 1>covered in blood. Bentley got him good good. She tries,

<v Speaker 1>asking why he's doing this to her. Did she kill

<v Speaker 1>someone important to him? He laughs and is like, I

<v Speaker 1>was going after Lachlan, but then you walked into his

<v Speaker 1>shop that day and I knew what I needed to do.

<v Speaker 1>Then Abe turns around and she can hear him tell

<v Speaker 1>someone to drop the weapon and they can save her life.

<v Speaker 1>If they don't, everyone dies. Lachlan's here. Abe has a

<v Speaker 1>timer set on the oven to turn on in five minutes,

<v Speaker 1>and also there's a bomb set to detonate on Rowan's car,

<v Speaker 1>and Rowan and Sloan are currently on bation in Wine Country.

<v Speaker 1>He also has a pre drafted email that will incriminate

<v Speaker 1>Lachlan in every single one of the murders. Lachlan tries

<v Speaker 1>to call his bluff, but Abe is like, I've been

<v Speaker 1>following you guys for months. Believe what you want to believe,

<v Speaker 1>But is it a risk you're willing to take? So

<v Speaker 1>Lachlan hands over his gun. Abe grabs it and tells

<v Speaker 1>Lachlan he can either save his wife or his brother,

<v Speaker 1>but not both.

<v Speaker 2>That's so fucked up.

<v Speaker 1>Lark screams at him to save Rowan, but Lachlan is

<v Speaker 1>trying to pound down the oven door, but to no avail.

<v Speaker 1>Then there's a scuffle, a gunshot and the oven fans

<v Speaker 1>turn on. Rose bursts in, but the oven door is locked.

<v Speaker 1>Lark starts cooking what the fuck and Lachlan shoots out

<v Speaker 1>the oven window. They get her out and she can

<v Speaker 1>see Abe laying dead on the ground with a gunshot wound.

<v Speaker 2>To the head.

<v Speaker 1>Rose shoots a text to Rowan and Sloane to warn

<v Speaker 1>them about the bomb. They're safe and won't go near

<v Speaker 1>the car until someone comes out to check it. Lachlan

<v Speaker 1>snatches Lark up and holds her tight, telling her she's

<v Speaker 1>his wife and he'll never let her go. Now we're

<v Speaker 1>in the epilogue, Bentley pror sweet Boy, he made a

<v Speaker 1>full recovery, Yeah, and Lachlan is officially retired from Leviathan.

<v Speaker 1>He gives Lark a special secret safe hidden behind her

<v Speaker 1>Constantine poster, and it's filled with all of her trophies,

<v Speaker 1>plus an extra doctor Lewis Campbell's heart encased in resin

<v Speaker 1>and suspended in gold wire.

<v Speaker 2>Ooh.

<v Speaker 1>Then she sees some documents. It's an itinerary for their

<v Speaker 1>honeymoon trip to Indonesia.

<v Speaker 2>But that's not all.

<v Speaker 1>He also gave her divorce papers. What he wants her

<v Speaker 1>to choose the future she.

<v Speaker 2>Wants with him.

<v Speaker 1>She isn't stuck with him, and he wants her to

<v Speaker 1>choose him because she wants to, not because she has to.

<v Speaker 1>She rips up the divorce papers and tells him she's

<v Speaker 1>madly in love with him, and also she's regular mad.

<v Speaker 1>Don't ever do that again? Yeah, I agree. He crashes

<v Speaker 1>a kiss on him and tells her, of course, she

<v Speaker 1>chooses him. Lachlan kisses his wife and chooses love the end. Also,

<v Speaker 1>there's a bonus chapter where Lark pegs Lachlan why on

<v Speaker 1>their honeymoon. She has the ripped up divorce paper set

<v Speaker 1>up on the bed and tells him she's going to

<v Speaker 1>fuck him on these papers so he never forgets who

<v Speaker 1>he belongs to fuck.

<v Speaker 3>Me until I'm spraying, come all over these feckin' papers.

<v Speaker 3>I've run my palm across Lachlan's ass before I give

<v Speaker 3>it a sharp slap. Such a good boy, I coo,

<v Speaker 3>as a tilt the bottle of lube to let the

<v Speaker 3>first thick drops land on his ass crack. With my

<v Speaker 3>hands on his smooth skin, I separate his ass cheeks

<v Speaker 3>and maneuver my hips to drag the tip of the

<v Speaker 3>dildo through the viscous liquid. Are you sure you're a

<v Speaker 3>good boy? Though? With one hand, I grip the toy

<v Speaker 3>and press it to the puckered hole, massaging the tight

<v Speaker 3>ring of muscle circling it until the lube spreads and

<v Speaker 3>I feel him start to relax. Yes, he hisses, really,

<v Speaker 3>or are you my fucking whore? I press the tip

<v Speaker 3>of the dildo to the pleated hole keeping the pressure

<v Speaker 3>on until it slips past the resistance. Lachlan cries out

<v Speaker 3>with a since, dropping his head to his arm as

<v Speaker 3>I move with him, keeping the end of the.

<v Speaker 4>Dildo lodged in his ass.

<v Speaker 2>Wow, Peggy, Yeah, I hate seeing other people live in

<v Speaker 2>my dream.

<v Speaker 1>She asks him for a color and he says green.

<v Speaker 1>She slaps his ass, so she fucks him, then reaches

<v Speaker 1>around to give him a handy. He comes all over

<v Speaker 1>the divorce papers. She pops the dildo out of him,

<v Speaker 1>and then he flips her around because now it's her

<v Speaker 1>turn the end.

<v Speaker 4>Wow, that's a good one.

<v Speaker 3>I liked that one. I like Lark a lot. How

<v Speaker 3>many red pepper emojis do give this one? I think

<v Speaker 3>I give it four and a half.

<v Speaker 1>And what did everybody rate it?

<v Speaker 2>On Good Raids?

<v Speaker 5>I gave it a four.

<v Speaker 2>I gave it four, but I would say like four

<v Speaker 2>and a half or four point five. I think I

<v Speaker 2>gave it four point two five on Fable. But I

<v Speaker 2>liked it better than Butcher and Blackbirds because their banter

<v Speaker 2>was cuter, I think. And I like that Lachlan is

<v Speaker 2>like a big golden retriever, even though he looked scary y.

<v Speaker 1>Yes, I also gave it a four point twenty five

<v Speaker 1>on Fable.

<v Speaker 2>I liked it.

<v Speaker 1>I think I liked Butcher and Blackbird more just because

<v Speaker 1>they were both serial killers and it was like a

<v Speaker 1>competition between the two of them.

<v Speaker 2>Yeah, that was cool, all right.

<v Speaker 1>And next week we're telling Riley all about Heated Rivalry

<v Speaker 1>by Rachel Reid, and we're gonna have her look at

<v Speaker 1>the cover and give us her best guess on what

<v Speaker 1>it might be about.

<v Speaker 3>Okay, well, you have two hockey players on the cover,

<v Speaker 3>the both boys, and they're like staring at each other.

<v Speaker 3>And there's a quote on it from somebody that says,

<v Speaker 3>the book that got me into hockey romance heated rivalry.

<v Speaker 2>You know what, I think it's just gonna.

<v Speaker 4>Be dudes banging.

<v Speaker 3>I think it's gonna be a hockey player on this

<v Speaker 3>team and a hockey player on that team. They're gonna

<v Speaker 3>have a heated rivalry, right right, and.

<v Speaker 4>They're gonna kind of like I guess, enemies to lovers. Essentially,

<v Speaker 4>they're gonna be like fuck you, no, fuck you, and then.

<v Speaker 5>Fuck you yeah, but I'm gonna thank.

<v Speaker 3>You and essentially yeah, and then they just build a

<v Speaker 3>very like close bond and that's.

<v Speaker 2>That pretty good.

<v Speaker 1>It was basically the general gist of the book.

<v Speaker 4>Yeah yeah, it's.

<v Speaker 1>For like enemies and lovers, which we love. Ooh yes,

<v Speaker 1>we do love them all right. Well, if you liked

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