The Ruinous Love Trilogy, Book One - Leather & Lark by Brynne Weaver

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So I posted on Facebook. Yeah. I.

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Well, let me back it up a little bit. I was gonna boycott

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Meta. Yeah. I was, like, really committed to it. I already,

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like, barely use it anyways, so I was just kind of

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like, what's. What's the difference to me? But I realized

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that I have, like, a ton of friends

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who are big 47 supporters,

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and I. Gross. Yeah. And the thing is, like,

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I'm not on there enough to really, like, warrant going through and unfriending people.

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I also feel like I am one of those people who's like, I want to

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know my enemy. Yeah. You know?

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So I decided that I was going to be as obnoxious as possible

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and just post. I love that. Just post mean,

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you know? They do. Yeah, absolutely. I'm just going to be

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obnoxious about it. And one of the things that I shared recently

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was this app called Goods Unite Us. Have you heard of this? No.

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So it's an app that you can basically search for.

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This is not an ad. We are not sponsored.

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We don't have any money. We're not

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a post. We just don't have it. It's Unitus. If you would like to

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sponsor us, please reach out. But. But basically, like, what they. You can

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go and you can search for, like, companies, and it'll tell you what types of

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donations that they've made. Yes. Like, to which parties and

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things like that. And obviously, like, there's more nuance to it. Like,

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you know, Target donated heavily to the Democratic Party, but they

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still, you know, rolled back their deib. So there is, like,

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a lot of other, like, aspects of it. But anyway, so I shared it

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onto my Facebook page, and one of the guests commented

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and was like, I'm giving all of my money from now on to Ben and

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Jerry's. And I was like, yes, yes. We follow them on TikTok.

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Do we? Yep. Oh, I love you now.

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That's amazing. Yeah. Yeah. I just was like, okay, well, I could get

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on board with spending all of my money at Ben and Jerry's 100%. Except that

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we just talked about how we can't eat ice cream anymore because of the last.

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I know I love ice cream, and I'm going on a cruise.

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Oh, and Royal Caribbean has been Jerry's on them.

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What? I'm gonna have to get past shoot my thing.

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Just don't eat. Just don't eat cookies and cream, and you'll be fine.

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I don't think that the semen was contributing to the cookie part

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of things.

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Pretty sure it's cream,

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so. But I love that. Yeah,

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I know. I have to tell you,

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Dave's friend Cody. Dave was on the phone with him on Friday,

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and somehow I brought up. I had said,

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oh, you know, like snowballing, pegging. And he's like,

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what. What is pegging? And so I explained it

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to him what pegging is. You explained it to him?

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A grown man looked him dead in his eyes. Yeah.

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And he's like, he didn't get it.

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I had to explain to him what his prostate was.

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No, you didn't. And how you can stimulate it. No,

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you did not. Yeah, but he. We had to, like,

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preface. Like, if you do try to stick something in

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your ass, you need to make sure it has a base. Yes. Because you could

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so easily lose it. He had no idea that that was. That was a thing.

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Yeah. But I just.

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He. He was so excited, he had to Google. And he's like, oh, it.

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It is like, though. Male G spot. Yeah. That's literally what

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I said. And then he's reading me all about it. Yeah. Yeah, No, I know

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what it is. Yeah. I would love to hear what you think of it.

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Do you know how I know that I am just an absolutely up person.

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Yeah. All I can think about now is, like,

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how badly I.

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How badly I would like to get him into a room and just

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explain to him. Yeah. By doing it to him.

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I. Right.

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I invited him out on Friday, so maybe he'll

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come and we can see what happens. Melissa will

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be there.

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Could you imagine if I could be in

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a room talking them through how to

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do that while they do it? Oh, my God.

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Wow. That happened. Would be.

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Do you know how he'd be? I. I can picture him being like

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super willing. Pants down around his ankles. Yeah. And Melissa will

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be right up at the show. Yeah. I want him. I want him to lay

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on his back. I want him. Grab his knees and pull him up.

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I. Oh, my God. Yeah.

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Well, on that note.

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I'm Amanda. I'm Nicole. We are bookslets. We read,

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recap, and review some money books. Let us help you decide if this

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book should stay on your tbr. I don't

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give a fuck. You. This book should be on your tbr. Yes. You should

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read it. Yes. Leather and Lark. Yeah. Bryn Weaver.

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Brynn Weaver. You can't. You can do no wrong. Yeah. That's how I feel.

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Yeah. I. This book. I was so excited for this book

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because I like more of the enemies to lovers.

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Oh, sure. And Lachlan. I just.

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Yeah. In my mind.

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Cassian. Yeah. So I was so excited for

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this. Yeah. So we have not. It's. Again, we've been really trying to not talk

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about these books without you guys. Yep. So we haven't talked about this.

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Yeah. Because all of our best material is wasted. You guys have no idea.

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We're so funny. Actually, you guys

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just don't know. It's so true.

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I am. I. I really,

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genuinely think that I am a Rowan girl. Yeah.

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But after reading this book, I understand why I really

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probably need a Lachlan. Yeah. I don't do the Dom

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Sub, though. I like to be in control a little more.

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So that is where this book lost me with that.

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And you can't wait. It's not all exclusively that,

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though. It's not. So there. I.

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Oh. Every single person that's listening to this podcast and it's so

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annoyed with me. They're gonna be like, amanda, shut up. We get it. You and

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Lark are the same person. And I'm just gonna. You're gonna continue to say it.

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Yeah. Throughout this whole. How many quotes do you have today? Oh, I don't know.

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I just. I actually didn't even take screenshots of them. I just wrote them right

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into my notes. So basically, I'm just gonna

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read the book to you guys. Yep. Again, that is. That offer

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is always on the table. Yeah. Anybody would like Amanda to read these books to

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you? She will gladly. Yes, yes, absolutely.

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She will do the Irish accent, too. I actually was wondering.

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There's a couple of quotes here where I do feel like I might need to

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try to see if I can. When he says fecken.

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A couple of my quotes have it in there. And I'm like, God, I don't

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know if I'm going to be able to do it enough justice saying it.

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You know what I should have done is I should have got the audiobook and

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then found it so we could have played the quotes for it. Yes.

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Oh, my God. Bath and Sparrow. We'll do that.

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I love it. Oh, yeah. I'm so excited. All right, content warnings

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from the author here. As much as Leather and Lark is a dark romantic comedy

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and will hopefully make you laugh through the madness. It's still dark. Please read responsibly.

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Content warnings include eyeballs, but not eye sockets,

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so you're welcome. Teeth and tooth byproducts.

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I might have ruined pizza and beer. Also smoothies.

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Still not. Sorry. Yes. Snow globes.

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Autocannibalism. Welcome to a debate you never

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thought you'd have numerous weapons and objects, including darts,

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scissors, guns, saws knives, grinders, an edger

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and a little implement called an ecclesian spoon.

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Severed fingers. You might have new thoughts about crafting with epoxy,

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resin. Vehicular collisions, drowning in various forms. Terminal illness

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of a loved one. Detailed sex scenes which include, but are not limited to,

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adult toys. Choking, rough sex, mild degradation.

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Sexual acts in public, pegging praise, kink. References to parental

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neglect and child abuse, not depicted. References to child sexual assault, not depicted.

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Religious references or trauma. Explicit and colorful language, including a

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lot of blasphemy. Don't say I didn't warn you.

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Injured dog, cause of injury not depicted. And he's okay. I promise.

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There is a lot of death. It's a book about a contract killer and a

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serial killer falling in love. So. So I feel like that's probably a given.

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Too extensive. Some of them, when you were reading them, I was like,

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when does that even happen? I'll give it to the pizza and the teeth.

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Yeah. Because I. What is the autocannibolism? I don't

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know. I don't remember that. Is it the teeth?

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Oh, maybe.

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Sure. That makes sense. There's a lot. Like the spoon.

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Even the eyeballs. I'm like, what did we do with eyeballs?

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Oh, we're gonna get there. Okay. Well, I can't. I tried to finish the book

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today. I know. Read it for the third time and was unsuccessful

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because. Yeah. I haven't read it in a couple weeks now. Yeah. Well, we'll get

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there. It's fun. This. I think this particular one

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was a little longer than it needed to be, but that's

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okay. Bryn Weaver, we're gonna get. We're gonna let you have it, babes.

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Yeah. The dedication on this one is for those of you who

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came here after the BNB ice cream and just read the L and L triggers

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and thought, she's not really serious about the pizza. Right. This one's for you.

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And I just have a note here that says, let me tell you, Bryn Weaver,

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I knew you were fudgeing serious about the pizza. I didn't doubt you for a

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second. Serious. So. Yep. I still read it, knowing how queasy

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I got reading the cookies and cream ice cream.

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Yeah. We open our book with Lark, and we waste no

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time jumping right into our first murder. It was so good.

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This intro, this prologue is better than Butcher and Blackbird.

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Oh, yeah. The thing is, is. We'll talk

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about it later, but Lark is a very different type of

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killer. Yeah. Than. Than Sloan is. He's a much more.

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Yeah. You said we'll talk about it. Yeah. Lar has strapped her most

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recent ex to a chair in the middle of a clearing

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with fireworks strapped to the inside of his thigh.

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She has a brief monologue where she explains to Andrew,

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her ex, that although he did cheat on her in her bed,

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that's not why she's doing this. She is doing this because after

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finding out he cheated, she went through his phone and discovered messages

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between him, Andrew, and minors, effectively making him a predator.

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And we learn in this moment how closely

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Lark still feels the trauma of her experience at the prestigious

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art school where she was assaulted by the art director. So they talk about that

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in the first book. And in addition to the trauma of the assault,

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she also feels regret over the death of the art director, but not

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because he's dead, but because her best friend Sloane killed him and

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will now have to live with the implications of that forever.

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And she feels that she should have been the one to do it. She finishes

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her monologue, turns on Katy. Perry's Firework that

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had me going. I couldn't even handle

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it. Just. Could you imagine being Andrew strapped

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with fireworks, and then she turns on fucking fireworks by Katy

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Perry? Yes, I would be. Could you imagine having to die to that song?

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No. Oh, my God. Oh, my God. Were you expecting.

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Before reading this book, were you expecting Lark to be a serial killer?

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No, not at all. No. I was shocked, too. I love it, and I

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think she is. Her personality as a serial killer is

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so spot on. Yeah. This is how you'd be as a serial killer.

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Yeah. And I. Yeah, I was so. I was

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into this book immediately, 100%. I think that it's

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too, like. When we're kind of going through this. I say this numerous times,

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really. We cannot undersell the banter and the

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dialogue in these books. It is

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elite. It is the best of the best. This monologue that Lark

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is having with this guy is so, like.

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It is so perfectly Lark.

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And it is not. It's not over the top.

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No. Sometimes I feel like we get these types of characters, and it feels very,

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like, cutesy and over the top and. No, Lark is.

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Every time she does it. I even have, like, screenshots. Yeah.

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Just because I was like. If you bring this up, I want to remember exactly

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what she says, because it's so funny. It's so perfectly

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her. Bryn Weaver just thinks out to these characters so.

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So. Well, I want to see her storyboards. Oh, my God.

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Characters. I bet she has their astrological sign,

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everything that they are just so anytime

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they do something, I'm like, yeah, that tracks. Yeah. She knows them so

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intimately. And even, like, in this scene,

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I think, kind of actually speaking about what we just said,

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I think, like, Sloane is a very practical

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murderer. Yeah. It's. There is no emotion

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attached to her murders. She.

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Aside from when, you know, somebody that she loves

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is involved in some capacity with the person that she's

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murdering, she is very removed. It's very much

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like, this is a dirty job and somebody's got to do it, and so

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it's going to be me. And. And Lark is not

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like that. Lark is emotional. All of them. Lark is

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so emotionally connected to all. Of her murders,

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and she picks one specific type. Yes.

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Her specific victim that she chooses are

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predators. So she. Predators, not necessarily a

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serial killer who. Who kills serial killers like Sloane and Rowan

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are. She is a serial killer. Or as

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she'll call it later, a serial deleter. Yeah. Or a repeat deleter.

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She is picking people who are predators.

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And it's. I think that when she does kill them, it's not like a

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punishment. It's more of. For her. It's like she couldn't

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live with the fact that she knows that this person did this or is doing

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this and is still out in the world doing that to people.

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Well, yeah, because, you know, when they say, I'll never do it again, they're gonna

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do it again. Yeah, absolutely. Death is the only way. Yeah,

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absolutely. So, yeah, so she lights the

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fuse, and Andrew doesn't die

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initially, and so she

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has to shoot him in the head. And again, it's just

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so funny because she walks up to him and she's like,

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oh, hey, babes. Shoot. He's still alive.

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That didn't work. Darn it. Well, I don't have another round of fireworks, so I

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guess I'm just gonna have to shoot you in the head. Bummer. Like, it's still,

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like, she just is. Oh, God. And she's.

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Again, too. We don't. She's not scared of being caught.

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She's not worried.

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She's just having the most fun. Yeah.

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From the work, from the earth. Yeah, she is.

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From here. We move right into our second murder.

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Lark likes to toy with her victims a little bit.

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She likes to gloat. And so we open the next

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chapter with her telling a man who is trapped in

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his car as it sits, sinks in a lake,

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not to hold his breath.

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This is a murder gone wrong. So she

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kind of had this planned out. It didn't go exactly as she was expecting.

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Our victim in this case is a pervy Teacher

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from a friend's little sister's school. And Lark contacted

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him on social media to lure him in, and he ran

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when he kind of started to catch on what she was doing, causing Lark to

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pursue him and run his car into a lake.

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And there's a lot happening here, so we're going to try to capture it all.

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But first of all, the way that this is described in this book is hilarious.

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Lark is basically described as, like, chasing him down

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in her car and hanging out the window. Yes.

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Waves a gun at him and is. Like, screaming,

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ash, it's Halloween. She's also dressed up.

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She. What is she dressed as? Harley Quinn. She's dressed as Harley Quinn.

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Yes. And it's. Oh, my God. The visual

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imagery of it. I can't even picture things. And I can somehow picture

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this. It's so funny. And then as his car

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sinks, she calls her dad to ask for a cleaner. And her

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dad is like, oh, did someone throw up on the carpet?

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She's like, not that kind of cleaner. Dad.

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And he steps away from his party to give her the number for a cleaner.

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And we also learn here that the man that she calls dad is actually

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her stepdad. Yeah. The cleaner shows

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up masked and grumpy.

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It's. I love a masked man.

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But he pissed me off.

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He was being such a. Immediately, I was like,

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fuck this guy. I'm not gonna like him.

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He. Bet. I don't even know how he could. I was so pissed.

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Yeah, yeah. He. It's really hard to describe this

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interaction because, again, like,

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Lark is. Oh, God, she's so funny. And he is

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so. He is so monosyllabic. He just is like.

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And he just runs at her rather than responding. Yes. But he's

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also. It's like. He's also kind of being sort of sweet.

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He's, like, inspecting her injury, and he's, like,

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injured. They smack her on the head with a

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flashlight. Like, yeah,

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if I wasn't injured before, like, concussed. There you go.

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I know. It's just. I did not get sweet.

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I. I didn't really have another word for it. You're right. Like, he was being.

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He was absolutely. He was being a dick, but he was also very clearly kind

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of like stitches. Like, I have a quote here.

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Stitches. So they're going

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about their business of getting this crime scene cleaned up. And she's

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like, I've never had a concussion before. Like, could I fall into a coma?

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And he's like, no. And he's like. And she's like, do you think I have

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a brain bleed. And he's like, no. And she's like, but how do you know

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for sure? Are you a doctor? And he's like, no. And she's like, oh,

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good, because your bedside manner sucks.

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It's funny. Like, I am obsessed with Lark. Oh,

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my God, she is so great. She really lightened up

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this whole thing because he comes in being such a

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dick. Yeah. And then talking about how she's just some

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spoiled rich girl who needs somebody else to clean up her accident and

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a poor, well mannered man is

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dead because of it. I. Yeah. The thing

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is, again, Brynn Weaver's not out trying to outright herself here,

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so it's. We know obviously that this is Lachlan. Yeah.

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Like, she's not trying to hide that. No, Lark doesn't know

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that, but we obviously very well know that. And the thing is,

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is I do think that if I had read this book for first and

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not read bnb, I don't think that I

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would have given him the grace that I gave him in this scene,

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because I know I learned enough about

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him in BNB to know that he is

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soft and gooey on the inside and hard on the outside. Right. You know,

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so I do think that that does kind of impact the way that I

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see him throughout this book. And this is because

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we do know a little bit about them. This is before they've

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met. So this is while, like, the challenge

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is still going on with Rowan and Sloan. Yep. They. Yeah,

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they haven't met yet, so we know, like, what happens when they meet and they

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hate each other and now we get that backstory. And I just really

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like how she writes like that. Yeah. I just. I can't say enough. I can't

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wait to see what happens with sky and Sparrow. Yeah. Because are we going to

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get, like, the start? Is it going to pick up

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some more? How did she end up in a cast? Yeah, yeah. Like, I just

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can't wait. Yeah, yeah, for sure. So Lachlan

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recovers the body from the lake and he drops it at her feet.

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This part is so funny. And he's like,

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he. So he drops the body and then. They just look at

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her. Yeah, he's kind of just like looking at her, like. And she.

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She's like, oh, oh, oh, oh,

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no. A body. What have I done?

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Just overacting to sell that. She is

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so sad about this. Oh, my God. It's so

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fucking pisses him off. It makes him so mad. It just reinforces

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his thought that she's some kind of just, like, rich Daddy's girl

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princess. We don't know right now. We will find out later.

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But we don't really know why he is so crabby.

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Right. And she's started to call him Budget Batman

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and he calls her Blunder Barbie. And the other

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cleaner, Connor, shows up and she. And apologizes for

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him. And he describes Batman as normally

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a piss talking, button pushing kind of dick, but tonight he's

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more of a dick dick. And Lark responds, hmm, multifaceted in his ability

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to be a dick. Good to know. Yeah.

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Yeah. It's just. It's impossible. And she's clever and their

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banter is great and it's still believable.

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I still. A person could talk like this, which is again, her writing is so

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realistic. Absolutely. The whole scene is

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just chaos. Like, Batman takes the gun from her and then like,

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Connor is like, giving it back and then, you know, Batman takes it back again.

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And they're bantering and they're fighting and like, despite all the hostility,

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I do feel like there was a lot of sexual tension.

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Yes. A lot of it. Yes. She. I mean,

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we're getting it from her perspective. She is definitely

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watching all of the muscles underneath his wetsuit and

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his deep growl.

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And he's being, I think, very, like, intimate with her.

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Like him checking her forehead and getting up in her face and like smelling her

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breath because he thinks that she's drunk and he's being like,

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very physically close. Oh, she's giving dick

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cop to me. Yeah. And then when he throws her in the trunk next.

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I'm not getting intimate from him. No, I mean, I'm saying more

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like he's getting very, I think, like, up close with her.

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Yeah. Like getting in her space. Which is unusual, I think,

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for a stranger to do. Like I went to. You don't feel like

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men get in your space in an uncomfortable way.

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I wouldn't expect that, I think, from this

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person. Sure. To her point, because she's like, you know

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that I'm your client, right? Yeah. I was once on a first date

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with a guy that I met online and I don't

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know why. I like, he's like, oh, let's go for a driver on this lake.

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I was like, okay, whatever. And then I

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don't know if I was giving off any type of signal. I don't think I

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was. I was pretty uncomfortable. Yeah. And he, like, reached his

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arm across me to, like, open the window and grazed my

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boob very, like, slowly.

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Yeah. I don't. I feel like men just get

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up uncomfortably close to women and that's what

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that scene was giving for me. Yeah, it wasn't giving.

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It was. I don't know. I just thought of it. I. I guess maybe I

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was just so pissed off in this moment that I'm picturing

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him as more of just like a dirty, gross cop man.

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Oh, interesting. Yeah, I was. No, I think I was giving

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him the benefit of the doubt because I liked him a lot

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in bnb. I do get over it pretty quick, but I was.

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Oh, I. Well, yes, you're entitled to that. Absolutely. Oh,

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my God. Be pissed. They get Lark's car hooked up to the tow truck,

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and Batman tries to get Lark into the trunk of his car

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in order to remove her from the scene of the crime unseen.

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And she begs him not to put her in the trunk, but he

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doesn't give in, and she ends up in the trunk, where we learn initially about

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her fear of dark, tight spaces. And she manages

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to escape from the trunk while he stopped at a stop sign.

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Do we want to give the physical description of Lark? Yeah,

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so I don't have. I. Again, I'm a, like, reread.

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I didn't get too. Too much from her. She has blue eyes,

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honey, wavy hair, like, to her shoulders, very classically

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beautiful. But I don't. I didn't get much else than

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that. I. I don't know if I missed it.

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Yeah. She has a small mole on above her

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lip. And. Yeah. She's described as classically beautiful.

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She's taller, so both her and Sloane must be tall.

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And I think she's kind of described as sort of

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like, soft and curvy in body type.

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Sure. So not necessarily plus size, just.

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Yeah, yeah, very. It's giving very much.

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Marilyn. Yeah, absolutely. Yep. I would think that's a really good

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comparison. One year later, we meet Lachlan as he

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helps his boss, Leander,

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deal with a fentanyl dealer. It sounds like Leander is hired to kill

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or torture people by wealthy, powerful families,

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and Lachlan is the muscle that helps him execute them.

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And in this scene, we get a sense of how much Lachlan

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does not want to be doing this and also how

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unhinged Leander is. My God, he's throwing darts

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at this guy who's tied up. He's already removed

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all of his teeth. Yeah, because he says that candy rots out your teeth.

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So he removed them for him. Yeah, but the thing is, is, like,

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he's not like, I'm pulling out your teeth and candy rot

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your teeth. He's like, oh, shoot, you didn't need these? Did you? I'm gonna take

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those. I'm gonna. I'm just gonna. So I'm just gonna

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shoot my dart here, and if it lands in your eye, it lands in your

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eye. I don't. To tell you, like, he just is very, very unhinged.

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And while he's alive and conscious,

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he has ordered a pizza, which he adds to a blender

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with beer, and the man's teeth that he pulls out,

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and then commands Lachlan to help him feed

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the smoothie to the toothless man by holding his

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nose and forcing him to swallow it. Nicole's fate. I. I just.

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I have. I can't even comment on it. I.

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I can picture it, and it's so gross. The thing is, it's like, I.

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It really. I was just kind of like, oh. They,

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like, comment about how the teeth, like, kind of make it frothy.

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And then he makes a comment about how the teeth are

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adding calcium. Yeah. And he's really doing him

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the favor. Yeah. Yeah.

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Once the smoothie's gone, Lachlan pulls out his gun and shoots the

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man in his head. So good. At which point Lachlan tells Leander

451
00:27:03,022 --> 00:27:06,410
that he wants to retire, which Leander is not surprised by.

452
00:27:06,710 --> 00:27:10,862
However, Lachlan is still paying penance for a disgruntled

453
00:27:10,926 --> 00:27:14,222
client after Lachlan put her in the trunk of

454
00:27:14,246 --> 00:27:17,518
his car. So. Ba ba, ba. Lachlan is

455
00:27:17,574 --> 00:27:21,606
budget Batman. And as a result of his poor

456
00:27:21,638 --> 00:27:25,206
behavior that night, Lark's stepfather had rescinded

457
00:27:25,238 --> 00:27:29,190
his contract with Leander, forcing Lachlan into greater debt to this man.

458
00:27:29,310 --> 00:27:33,142
Yep, he became indebted to Leander after he walked in on the boys

459
00:27:33,206 --> 00:27:36,550
standing in the aftermath of killing their abusive father.

460
00:27:36,710 --> 00:27:40,038
Lachlan having taken the final actions to seal his fate by wrapping

461
00:27:40,054 --> 00:27:43,478
his belt around his neck and holding it until he died. Leander helped

462
00:27:43,494 --> 00:27:46,742
to clean up the mess, flew the boys to America and helped them get established.

463
00:27:46,806 --> 00:27:50,692
And all three brothers are now very successful. Leander is

464
00:27:50,796 --> 00:27:53,812
a leather worker. He has his own leather shop where

465
00:27:53,836 --> 00:27:57,476
he makes, like, art out of leather.

466
00:27:57,668 --> 00:28:01,444
Roland is a restaurateur. He owns two very successful restaurants

467
00:28:01,492 --> 00:28:04,996
in Boston. And Fion is a doctor. And Leander takes

468
00:28:05,028 --> 00:28:08,612
credit for all of that. Yeah. Lachlan is relieved of

469
00:28:08,636 --> 00:28:12,020
the conversation because he is on his way to

470
00:28:12,060 --> 00:28:15,986
the opening of Rowan's second restaurant, Butcher and Blackbird.

471
00:28:16,098 --> 00:28:19,350
Do we want to give a physical description of Lachlan? Yeah.

472
00:28:20,090 --> 00:28:23,442
So Lachlan has very deep blue eyes, and I was curious what you

473
00:28:23,466 --> 00:28:27,202
think. What do you think of that? You went on your Blue eyed rant today.

474
00:28:27,386 --> 00:28:31,794
Yeah. I mean, I think that I imagine Lachlan as

475
00:28:31,962 --> 00:28:35,058
brown eyes. Yeah, Imagine him with brown eyes. I also

476
00:28:35,114 --> 00:28:38,594
imagine him as the same as I imagined

477
00:28:38,642 --> 00:28:42,058
Peter Pan from the Never King. Sure. But he does have tattoos that peek

478
00:28:42,074 --> 00:28:45,098
above the collar of his shirt. So sexy. And he's a big guy. Yeah,

479
00:28:45,114 --> 00:28:48,698
he's a big guy. He's very muscular, very fit. Yeah,

480
00:28:48,794 --> 00:28:52,138
yeah. Nice deep voice. He does wear glasses.

481
00:28:52,314 --> 00:28:56,842
I did forget to put that, but. And he also wears a leather

482
00:28:56,906 --> 00:29:00,298
belt and carries around a knife that he,

483
00:29:00,434 --> 00:29:03,962
like, unlatches the belt and then uses the edge of the belt to sharpen his

484
00:29:03,986 --> 00:29:07,268
knife. So Lachlan arrives to Sloane and Rowan's

485
00:29:07,284 --> 00:29:10,692
apartment for the before opening party, where he is

486
00:29:10,716 --> 00:29:14,436
introduced to Lark. And it's important to note that everyone

487
00:29:14,508 --> 00:29:18,436
describes Lachlan as broody, as an asshole. Every single

488
00:29:18,468 --> 00:29:22,308
person in this room, he walks in the room and every

489
00:29:22,364 --> 00:29:25,828
single person is like, oh, hey there, you asshat. Like, right away.

490
00:29:25,884 --> 00:29:29,956
Even Rose. Yes. She already knows. She's just great. She fits

491
00:29:29,988 --> 00:29:33,836
in so well. She really does. Yeah, she's so great.

492
00:29:34,028 --> 00:29:37,404
And I think Lachlan is

493
00:29:37,572 --> 00:29:41,132
just to give kind of a little bit of a better idea of how

494
00:29:41,156 --> 00:29:45,084
he interacts with people. He likes to kind of fluster

495
00:29:45,132 --> 00:29:48,428
people, so he kind of likes to, like, joke and get people

496
00:29:48,484 --> 00:29:52,380
kind of riled up, but I don't know. The way that

497
00:29:52,420 --> 00:29:55,916
they tease one another is very, very true to life to me. It reminds

498
00:29:55,948 --> 00:29:59,458
me a lot of my family when we're together, to be honest.

499
00:29:59,604 --> 00:30:03,174
And when Lachlan meets Lark, he initially describes

500
00:30:03,222 --> 00:30:05,810
her as the most beautiful women he has ever seen.

501
00:30:06,430 --> 00:30:09,862
Right away, they don't recognize one another from the night at the lake. And they

502
00:30:09,886 --> 00:30:13,014
are both immediately attracted and super flirty.

503
00:30:13,062 --> 00:30:16,854
And I cannot do this justice. No, I know I can't.

504
00:30:16,982 --> 00:30:20,742
Lachlan is instantly obsessed with her. He's describing

505
00:30:20,806 --> 00:30:23,894
her as taking all of the oxygen

506
00:30:23,942 --> 00:30:27,502
out of the room with her presence and bolstering others as

507
00:30:27,526 --> 00:30:30,878
they share their stories. So he not only is he obsessed

508
00:30:30,894 --> 00:30:34,318
with her, but he has zero on her

509
00:30:34,374 --> 00:30:38,462
as well. And he has to physically stop himself from.

510
00:30:38,566 --> 00:30:41,614
From staring at her. Yeah. So, like, he literally says, like,

511
00:30:41,622 --> 00:30:45,422
I'm being a fucking creep right now. Yeah. He literally follows her around. Yeah.

512
00:30:45,486 --> 00:30:48,414
She's like, oh, I'm gonna go on the balcony. And he. She slips away on

513
00:30:48,422 --> 00:30:51,630
the balcony. Yeah. And he sees her, watches her, and then follows her.

514
00:30:51,670 --> 00:30:55,122
Yeah. And he really, I don't think is, like,

515
00:30:55,146 --> 00:30:58,658
prepared for Lark. She really overpowers him

516
00:30:58,794 --> 00:31:02,114
emotionally and mentally when he Slips out onto the

517
00:31:02,122 --> 00:31:05,298
balcony. He has to leave and come back multiple times.

518
00:31:05,354 --> 00:31:08,338
Yeah. Lark is like, all right, do you want to try that again? And he's

519
00:31:08,354 --> 00:31:10,770
like, yep, I'm going to try it again. And then he, like, comes back out

520
00:31:10,810 --> 00:31:13,490
and he, like, tries it again. And he just,

521
00:31:13,530 --> 00:31:17,150
as he even says in this scene, he is used to

522
00:31:17,530 --> 00:31:21,052
being so charming and just, like, women just kind of,

523
00:31:21,076 --> 00:31:24,972
like, melting underneath him. And he. Lark does

524
00:31:24,996 --> 00:31:28,332
not do that at all. No. He has a reputation that we. We know.

525
00:31:28,356 --> 00:31:31,436
He. He's been. He's gotten around Box then.

526
00:31:31,588 --> 00:31:34,600
So they are making kind of flirty small talk.

527
00:31:34,900 --> 00:31:38,572
And he describes holding her gaze and expecting someone as

528
00:31:38,596 --> 00:31:42,220
sweet and endearing as her to back down the longer he stares, but she

529
00:31:42,260 --> 00:31:45,548
doesn't. In fact, she looks more amused by him

530
00:31:45,604 --> 00:31:49,706
the longer they hold. And like, I just.

531
00:31:49,778 --> 00:31:53,034
Oh, my God, the feathers. I know. It's such a

532
00:31:53,042 --> 00:31:56,314
good scene. Good scene. I. I have so many other quotes,

533
00:31:56,362 --> 00:31:59,962
I couldn't use one here. But it's just. You have to read it.

534
00:32:00,146 --> 00:32:03,594
And I think it's important to note that, like, you know,

535
00:32:03,682 --> 00:32:07,274
we've already kind of talked, like, Lachlan is used to being domineering, but Lark

536
00:32:07,322 --> 00:32:11,226
is not somebody who will willingly give over control.

537
00:32:11,378 --> 00:32:15,072
Yeah, Lark is. For all of the way

538
00:32:15,096 --> 00:32:18,992
that she is described, Lark is very, very controlling.

539
00:32:19,136 --> 00:32:22,720
She wants to have control of as much control of her

540
00:32:22,760 --> 00:32:26,464
space as possible, and she is completely in charge

541
00:32:26,512 --> 00:32:29,952
of this exchange. And they're talking and she's like,

542
00:32:29,976 --> 00:32:33,664
God, something seems really familiar. And then Lark

543
00:32:33,712 --> 00:32:37,424
kisses him and he falls down a

544
00:32:37,512 --> 00:32:41,310
fucking hole. Like, it's like the

545
00:32:41,350 --> 00:32:44,942
world stops around him. He says something like,

546
00:32:45,046 --> 00:32:49,118
christ Jesus or something. And Lark. It clicks

547
00:32:49,134 --> 00:32:52,910
in Lark's mind because it's such a specific way of saying

548
00:32:52,950 --> 00:32:56,526
that. Like, he growls at her. Yes. She. He says,

549
00:32:56,598 --> 00:32:59,406
christ Jesus. And she says, what did you say? And he says, christ Jesus.

550
00:32:59,438 --> 00:33:02,398
And she says growlier. And he's like,

551
00:33:02,454 --> 00:33:06,110
christ Jesus. And he says a growlier. And she's like, oh, my fucking God.

552
00:33:06,190 --> 00:33:10,442
Like, yeah, like, puts it all together and she.

553
00:33:10,546 --> 00:33:13,882
He realizes, like, oh, my God, you're blunder, Barbie.

554
00:33:13,946 --> 00:33:17,866
They basically both practically throw up. Like, they just are so

555
00:33:18,018 --> 00:33:21,722
disgusted at the fact that they just make. Which is so funny because they

556
00:33:21,746 --> 00:33:25,066
were. He was so obsessed with her not one

557
00:33:25,138 --> 00:33:29,162
second ago. Yeah. And now immediately. Which I can relate to that just spell

558
00:33:29,226 --> 00:33:32,026
fading off of you. Yeah, you can. I know.

559
00:33:32,178 --> 00:33:35,658
And he's just immediately, like, over it. She was just the most beautiful woman he's

560
00:33:35,674 --> 00:33:39,240
ever seen. He couldn't breathe around her. And now he's

561
00:33:39,320 --> 00:33:42,648
disgusted. Yeah. They fight and

562
00:33:42,704 --> 00:33:46,072
they flirt like they have been doing it together for years. Yes.

563
00:33:46,136 --> 00:33:49,592
Yeah. She storms off, and he describes

564
00:33:49,656 --> 00:33:53,352
feeling like he has been pushed off his axis and displaced and like

565
00:33:53,376 --> 00:33:56,620
he is standing in the shade. Yeah. Yeah.

566
00:33:56,960 --> 00:34:00,552
We get a brief perspective from the Phantom.

567
00:34:00,696 --> 00:34:04,694
And as a reminder, the Phantom was the perspective we left off with in bnb.

568
00:34:04,832 --> 00:34:08,906
Someone looking for revenge for something that was done to his brother.

569
00:34:09,098 --> 00:34:13,034
The Phantom knows that his brother was chosen by Lachlan

570
00:34:13,162 --> 00:34:16,522
and that he was killed by Sloane. And in watching, Sloane has

571
00:34:16,546 --> 00:34:20,266
discovered that the best way to achieve his revenge is to destabilize

572
00:34:20,298 --> 00:34:24,026
the group and strike them not with death, but with loss.

573
00:34:24,178 --> 00:34:27,946
And he makes Lark his victim, but intends

574
00:34:27,978 --> 00:34:31,654
to tear them all apart by setting Lachlan up as the killer.

575
00:34:31,802 --> 00:34:35,710
So that's the. That is the fandom's plan. Yep. We return

576
00:34:35,750 --> 00:34:39,134
to Lark's perspective. She is visiting her family's estate.

577
00:34:39,262 --> 00:34:42,318
Lark's family consists of a sister, her mom,

578
00:34:42,374 --> 00:34:45,086
her stepdad, and her favorite aunt,

579
00:34:45,198 --> 00:34:48,702
Ethel, who is the current matriarch of the family and dying

580
00:34:48,766 --> 00:34:53,406
of some sort of lung disease. I am obsessed

581
00:34:53,518 --> 00:34:56,638
with Ethel. Yeah. Oh, my. Talk about a well

582
00:34:56,694 --> 00:35:00,766
written side character. Yes. She is queen.

583
00:35:00,878 --> 00:35:04,638
Oh, my God. Ethel is. Wow. And we're

584
00:35:04,654 --> 00:35:08,350
gonna get there later. But just this woman is such

585
00:35:08,390 --> 00:35:11,050
a powerhouse, and I just adore her.

586
00:35:11,670 --> 00:35:15,950
Clark's family is powerful and wealthy for my favorite

587
00:35:16,110 --> 00:35:19,262
possible reason, which is muffins. Yes.

588
00:35:19,326 --> 00:35:20,930
They make and sell muffins.

589
00:35:22,790 --> 00:35:26,070
Oh, it gets pretty dicey in the muffin world. Life.

590
00:35:26,450 --> 00:35:29,642
It's apparently a very, very cutthroat business.

591
00:35:29,746 --> 00:35:32,270
Yeah. Because they have rivals. Yes.

592
00:35:33,090 --> 00:35:36,794
It's so funny. While on her way up to

593
00:35:36,802 --> 00:35:40,522
see her aunt, she overhears her parents with their trusted business partner discussing

594
00:35:40,586 --> 00:35:44,458
a string of ongoing murders that are all connected to their family in some way.

595
00:35:44,594 --> 00:35:48,522
It is suggested that Lachlan Cain is the most likely culprit.

596
00:35:48,666 --> 00:35:51,866
Hypothetically, as revenge for them withdrawing their contract

597
00:35:51,938 --> 00:35:55,402
from his employer. Other suggestions are thrown around, including a

598
00:35:55,426 --> 00:35:58,458
competing muffin company, but they all come back to it being Lachlan.

599
00:35:58,474 --> 00:36:02,074
And when Lark hears them discuss his brother. Rowan and Sloan,

600
00:36:02,122 --> 00:36:05,850
by extension noting that they know about Rowan's history and have

601
00:36:05,890 --> 00:36:09,562
concerns of his response to the murder of his brother, she panics.

602
00:36:09,706 --> 00:36:13,530
Yeah. She heads up to her aunt's room, where her Aunt Ethel

603
00:36:13,690 --> 00:36:17,434
reveals that she requested for Lark to come up the way she did, intentionally so

604
00:36:17,442 --> 00:36:21,082
that she could overhear the conversation. And even though Lark's parents are

605
00:36:21,106 --> 00:36:24,666
trying to protect her from the information, she is well aware of the situation.

606
00:36:24,778 --> 00:36:28,314
And in that moment, convinces Lark to marry Lachlan as the most reasonable

607
00:36:28,362 --> 00:36:31,530
way to keep everyone safe, noting that

608
00:36:31,570 --> 00:36:35,706
family is everything, and by marrying Lachlan, they won't kill him, thereby preventing

609
00:36:35,738 --> 00:36:38,938
recourse from Rowan and protecting his and Sloane's lives

610
00:36:38,994 --> 00:36:42,074
as well. Rowan, with the help of his brothers,

611
00:36:42,202 --> 00:36:45,402
end Lark and Rose has arranged a surprise

612
00:36:45,466 --> 00:36:48,826
elopement ceremony for he and Sloane at a beautiful

613
00:36:48,858 --> 00:36:52,074
seaside inn. And I am really grateful for

614
00:36:52,082 --> 00:36:55,242
this scene, because even though this book is about Lachlan and Lark, we get a

615
00:36:55,266 --> 00:36:58,330
brief glimpse of a happy ending for Rowan and Sloane that

616
00:36:58,370 --> 00:37:01,578
I. I was so happy. Yes.

617
00:37:01,674 --> 00:37:05,402
Yes. So Lachlan is walking Sloane down

618
00:37:05,426 --> 00:37:08,810
the aisle, and Rowan is, like, sobbing as

619
00:37:08,850 --> 00:37:12,682
he watches them. It's so them. And the fact that he

620
00:37:12,706 --> 00:37:15,754
surprised her with this elopement. It's perfect. Oh, yeah.

621
00:37:15,802 --> 00:37:19,022
It was perfect for them. Yep. Absolutely. She makes it to the end of the

622
00:37:19,046 --> 00:37:22,130
aisle, and she asks Rowan, like, are you okay, pretty boy?

623
00:37:23,510 --> 00:37:26,686
And they say their vows, and she says, you better kiss me, pretty boy.

624
00:37:26,718 --> 00:37:29,950
You're not my husband until you do. And I. I'm not

625
00:37:29,990 --> 00:37:33,774
even really a big marriage person, but I cried. It was

626
00:37:33,862 --> 00:37:37,582
so just. Lachlan also describes getting a

627
00:37:37,606 --> 00:37:41,310
little stinging in his nose. So big, strong.

628
00:37:41,350 --> 00:37:44,968
Lachlan can cry. I can cry. Yeah. Lark is a famous singer,

629
00:37:45,064 --> 00:37:48,200
and she sang Sloane down the aisle. And we get some

630
00:37:48,240 --> 00:37:51,624
insight into just how observant Lachlan is. And again,

631
00:37:51,792 --> 00:37:55,320
I really can't do this justice, but he is

632
00:37:55,360 --> 00:37:58,808
trying to avoid looking at her and reliving their moments together

633
00:37:58,864 --> 00:38:02,600
on the balcony. And then he says something very insightful.

634
00:38:02,760 --> 00:38:06,632
He relives something she said, you have no idea who

635
00:38:06,656 --> 00:38:09,912
I am or what I know about consequences. And then thinks to

636
00:38:09,936 --> 00:38:13,664
himself, she said, as she submerged her pain beneath

637
00:38:13,712 --> 00:38:17,712
her fury. And I think that Lachlan is probably

638
00:38:17,776 --> 00:38:20,528
one of my. You're going to be so mad about this. We're going to disagree

639
00:38:20,544 --> 00:38:23,184
on it. Lachlan is one of my favorite characters that I've ever read.

640
00:38:23,352 --> 00:38:26,720
Really? Yeah. He is so well developed.

641
00:38:26,800 --> 00:38:31,580
He's so complex. He is so capable of just

642
00:38:31,960 --> 00:38:36,464
such incredible, like, love and compassion.

643
00:38:36,592 --> 00:38:39,602
And he is so guarded.

644
00:38:39,746 --> 00:38:43,058
And I think that Bryn Weaver did such a good

645
00:38:43,114 --> 00:38:46,790
job of writing him in a way that feels

646
00:38:47,130 --> 00:38:50,914
like. I don't care what you say. Lachlan feels warm to me. Sure.

647
00:38:51,002 --> 00:38:54,690
Like. Like, even when he's being gruff with the boys, he's warm.

648
00:38:54,770 --> 00:38:58,274
They. I believe fully that he is the one who started the tradition of

649
00:38:58,282 --> 00:39:01,538
pressing their foreheads together. Sure. And I think that he

650
00:39:01,594 --> 00:39:05,520
has been the Caretaker the. For them, Like. Yeah, he definitely has.

651
00:39:05,640 --> 00:39:08,640
I mean, he's the one who, like, off, like, finished off his dad.

652
00:39:08,720 --> 00:39:12,592
Yeah. And he has taken the responsibility of basically raising these boys,

653
00:39:12,656 --> 00:39:16,736
and I think, like, he has never really had anybody

654
00:39:16,768 --> 00:39:19,824
to care about him. That's true. And I just. Oh,

655
00:39:19,872 --> 00:39:24,140
God. I think that he's just. The way that she wrote him was just so

656
00:39:24,440 --> 00:39:27,520
thoughtful, and it was just done so well, So.

657
00:39:27,560 --> 00:39:30,796
I really, really like Lachlan a lot. We can agree to disagree

658
00:39:30,828 --> 00:39:33,964
on that. Well, I do. He redeems himself. I got over it

659
00:39:33,972 --> 00:39:37,644
pretty quick. Yeah. But I wouldn't say he's one of my favorite characters that

660
00:39:37,652 --> 00:39:41,788
I've ever read. Yeah. Sloane requests that Lachlan dance with Lark, her maid of honor.

661
00:39:41,884 --> 00:39:45,228
She doesn't know what is going on with them, but she knows that something's off

662
00:39:45,284 --> 00:39:48,892
and she wants them to play nice. And even Theon

663
00:39:48,956 --> 00:39:52,076
can tell that something is wrong. He approaches him to ask him what his problem

664
00:39:52,148 --> 00:39:55,532
is, and he's avoiding his task. And Sloane

665
00:39:55,596 --> 00:39:58,758
is preparing to blackmail him by getting Rowan drunk

666
00:39:58,774 --> 00:40:01,290
on whiskey and getting him to sing karaoke.

667
00:40:01,950 --> 00:40:05,782
Some Irish song. Yeah. It's just.

668
00:40:05,886 --> 00:40:09,942
Oh, God, I love Sloane. So while he's avoiding this,

669
00:40:10,046 --> 00:40:13,142
Lark is the one who breaks the tension.

670
00:40:13,206 --> 00:40:16,614
She's the one who approaches Lachlan and asks him to dance. Well, she says,

671
00:40:16,702 --> 00:40:20,086
dance with me. Yeah. Doesn't ask. She tells him. Yeah. And I love that.

672
00:40:20,158 --> 00:40:22,934
Yeah. It's very you. Yeah. Yeah.

673
00:40:23,062 --> 00:40:27,186
Yeah. I think, though, here the energy

674
00:40:27,258 --> 00:40:31,218
shift is very obvious. Yeah. He was telling him

675
00:40:31,274 --> 00:40:34,482
what to do when they first met in. Or when

676
00:40:34,506 --> 00:40:37,570
they. The second time they met in Sloan's apartment.

677
00:40:37,650 --> 00:40:41,154
But she wasn't telling him directly. Yeah, now she's telling

678
00:40:41,202 --> 00:40:45,442
him. Yeah. Now she's being direct about it. And she did

679
00:40:45,466 --> 00:40:48,306
a really good job of making him think that he was kind of in control

680
00:40:48,378 --> 00:40:53,024
the first time, and now he knows that he's not. Yeah. And I.

681
00:40:53,112 --> 00:40:56,576
Yeah, I. God, I just. I'm obsessed

682
00:40:56,608 --> 00:40:59,140
with this fucking book. I just. I hate myself.

683
00:41:00,520 --> 00:41:03,744
They start to dance, and they

684
00:41:03,832 --> 00:41:08,380
continue to banter and argue. And we get an interesting perspective from

685
00:41:08,680 --> 00:41:12,496
both of these people when Lark says that she feels like people like

686
00:41:12,568 --> 00:41:16,016
her but that they don't respect her. And Lachlan sympathizes

687
00:41:16,048 --> 00:41:19,840
in his mind when he considers that people respect him but don't often like

688
00:41:19,880 --> 00:41:23,614
him. And I have a note here about how challenging

689
00:41:23,662 --> 00:41:27,530
this book is for me to be succinct on, because I

690
00:41:28,070 --> 00:41:32,510
really cannot underscore how much

691
00:41:32,630 --> 00:41:35,410
I relate to Lark in that moment.

692
00:41:35,830 --> 00:41:39,662
Lark is described as sunshine,

693
00:41:39,806 --> 00:41:42,974
as air, and as bringing joy to people and making them feel important

694
00:41:43,062 --> 00:41:46,638
and seen and heard. And I think a lot of times people with those sunshiny

695
00:41:46,654 --> 00:41:49,660
disability dispositions are written off as being, like, dumb.

696
00:41:49,740 --> 00:41:53,212
Yes. Or, like, airheads. And what a lot of people don't see

697
00:41:53,236 --> 00:41:56,780
or understand about being that type of person is, like, the mental toll.

698
00:41:56,940 --> 00:42:00,348
If everybody could do that, if it was easy to do that,

699
00:42:00,404 --> 00:42:03,612
everybody would do it. Yeah. But most people don't.

700
00:42:03,756 --> 00:42:08,108
And I think, like, besides the fact that she genuinely

701
00:42:08,204 --> 00:42:12,060
is, like, positive and supportive because she

702
00:42:12,100 --> 00:42:15,488
is that person, people don't think that she needs that.

703
00:42:15,624 --> 00:42:19,104
Yeah, people think, like, you are inherently that person.

704
00:42:19,272 --> 00:42:22,432
You are, like, you are sunshine.

705
00:42:22,496 --> 00:42:25,600
You embody that, and you don't need that. Yeah. You bring that to yourself.

706
00:42:25,680 --> 00:42:29,120
Exactly. And that's just not the case. And I just love

707
00:42:29,160 --> 00:42:32,780
the way that she's written here because I think that

708
00:42:33,080 --> 00:42:36,880
it just is so. Oh, God, it's so fucking well done.

709
00:42:37,000 --> 00:42:40,476
And Larga's described as being oxygen for people that she loves,

710
00:42:40,608 --> 00:42:44,164
but Lachlan describes her as sucking all of the oxygen out of

711
00:42:44,172 --> 00:42:47,364
this room. So while other people are taking

712
00:42:47,452 --> 00:42:50,996
her oxygen, he feels like he's giving his oxygen.

713
00:42:51,108 --> 00:42:54,596
And I think that he continues that theme throughout the entire book.

714
00:42:54,748 --> 00:42:58,276
And I think that, like, even in taking

715
00:42:58,348 --> 00:43:01,924
oxygen from him, Lark is still giving

716
00:43:01,972 --> 00:43:05,396
to him because that's something that he needs. He needs somebody

717
00:43:05,428 --> 00:43:08,532
to give to. He needs somebody to care for that is, like, written into who

718
00:43:08,556 --> 00:43:12,048
he is as a person. You could talk about them

719
00:43:12,104 --> 00:43:15,440
as, like, characters for a whole podcast. I really

720
00:43:15,480 --> 00:43:18,768
could. Yeah, they're. It's. They're so, like, to your point,

721
00:43:18,824 --> 00:43:22,080
like, the star charts, like, everything.

722
00:43:22,200 --> 00:43:26,256
Like, this author knows these people in such a nuanced way.

723
00:43:26,328 --> 00:43:29,920
It's just. Yeah, it's just fucking incredible.

724
00:43:30,080 --> 00:43:33,312
So Lark lays out the scenario for him.

725
00:43:33,416 --> 00:43:37,232
She sweetens the pot by offering two new contracts to Leander in

726
00:43:37,256 --> 00:43:40,880
exchange for Lachlan's retirement. And although Lachlan is not an easy sell,

727
00:43:40,920 --> 00:43:44,012
he eventually accepts steps. Lark has found

728
00:43:44,036 --> 00:43:47,660
another predator to dispose of. This is one of my favorite scenes.

729
00:43:47,740 --> 00:43:50,860
This is. We'll say this is my favorite scene. It's not a sex scene.

730
00:43:50,940 --> 00:43:54,764
Okay. It is. So, yeah, it's so great.

731
00:43:54,932 --> 00:43:57,360
I have a quote for the scene, too. Yeah? Yeah.

732
00:43:58,900 --> 00:44:03,020
So it's the day of her wedding, and we

733
00:44:03,060 --> 00:44:06,914
open this chapter with her having a mini therapy session

734
00:44:07,092 --> 00:44:10,406
with her victim, who is restrained in a square

735
00:44:10,518 --> 00:44:14,390
Plexiglas casket that she is bedazzling

736
00:44:14,550 --> 00:44:18,422
with stars, flowers, and glitter and filling slowly with

737
00:44:18,446 --> 00:44:22,038
epoxy. Yes. It's so

738
00:44:22,174 --> 00:44:25,142
funny. She's like, oh, you're married,

739
00:44:25,206 --> 00:44:28,486
Right? Were you nervous? Yes.

740
00:44:28,518 --> 00:44:31,926
So this is my quote. So she says lark asks him, were you nervous

741
00:44:31,958 --> 00:44:35,934
to get married? And the pedophile says, you, you psycho bitch. And she says,

742
00:44:36,022 --> 00:44:39,902
it's probably normal to be nervous. Right? He says,

743
00:44:40,086 --> 00:44:43,310
what do you want from me? And she responds, for you to die,

744
00:44:43,390 --> 00:44:47,374
obviously. I like to think of this as justice, but make it sparkly.

745
00:44:47,502 --> 00:44:51,182
Also, I need a coffee table. And he says, just go to Target.

746
00:44:51,286 --> 00:44:53,650
And she says, but I like diy.

747
00:44:55,670 --> 00:44:58,750
And I love that she's making a coffee table with a human in it,

748
00:44:58,870 --> 00:45:02,290
because God forbid Lachlan bring in any of his shitty furniture.

749
00:45:04,070 --> 00:45:07,326
It's so funny. It's even more funny

750
00:45:07,358 --> 00:45:10,110
when you consider that her living room is covered in posters.

751
00:45:10,270 --> 00:45:13,090
Yeah. Like, yes, ma'am.

752
00:45:13,670 --> 00:45:17,374
Do we really think that his aesthetic would really bump up roughly

753
00:45:17,422 --> 00:45:20,090
against yours? It's so funny. It is.

754
00:45:20,710 --> 00:45:24,046
That whole scene is you. I can picture you doing this.

755
00:45:24,118 --> 00:45:28,030
Yeah. I can picture myself doing it. I really

756
00:45:28,070 --> 00:45:31,800
can. It's. You know. Yeah. We also learn here that even though

757
00:45:31,840 --> 00:45:34,520
Sloane tells Lark every sort of detail of her murders,

758
00:45:34,600 --> 00:45:37,540
Lark has not told Sloane about what she's doing,

759
00:45:37,920 --> 00:45:41,208
which is interesting. And I don't. That. I don't

760
00:45:41,224 --> 00:45:44,392
know why. Yeah. Really? Do you

761
00:45:44,416 --> 00:45:47,992
have. Do you know why? Like, Yeah, I do. 100%. Yeah, absolutely. I know

762
00:45:48,016 --> 00:45:51,432
why. It's because she doesn't want to burden other people with her

763
00:45:51,456 --> 00:45:55,060
problems. Sure. She is sunshine. She is air.

764
00:45:55,420 --> 00:45:58,836
People who are sunshine and air don't have problems. Sure.

765
00:45:58,988 --> 00:46:01,796
Like, you just don't. And I don't think.

766
00:46:01,948 --> 00:46:05,252
I think that, like, to some degree, Lark just carries

767
00:46:05,316 --> 00:46:08,404
so much guilt about the fact that Sloane. Yeah.

768
00:46:08,452 --> 00:46:11,732
Murdered. I mean, I think that for her, she's like. I just

769
00:46:11,756 --> 00:46:15,892
don't want to bring her any deeper into this darkness.

770
00:46:16,036 --> 00:46:18,756
Yeah, I guess she does say that. Like, if she. The more she knows,

771
00:46:18,788 --> 00:46:22,612
the more, the less safe she is. Yeah. I think I related to

772
00:46:22,636 --> 00:46:26,564
Lark in a similar way that I related to Violet in

773
00:46:26,652 --> 00:46:29,940
Brutal Obsession. And it was the same thing then with

774
00:46:29,980 --> 00:46:33,204
Violet, where she's like, I had this beer poured on me at

775
00:46:33,212 --> 00:46:36,260
my bar. At the bar, but my friend is over there chatting it up with

776
00:46:36,300 --> 00:46:39,684
a cute guy. Like, I'm not going to ruin her night. And that's a really

777
00:46:39,772 --> 00:46:43,716
obviously, like, oversimplified version of what we're seeing here, because Lark

778
00:46:43,748 --> 00:46:47,172
is literally a serial killer. Not telling her serial killer friend about it.

779
00:46:47,196 --> 00:46:50,460
But I think it's the same. I think it's the same sort of

780
00:46:50,500 --> 00:46:54,188
element there. Sloane knows that something is off,

781
00:46:54,244 --> 00:46:57,772
though. Sloane knows her and she is picking

782
00:46:57,836 --> 00:47:01,596
her up for her wedding to Lachlan. And she interrogates Lark.

783
00:47:01,788 --> 00:47:05,740
And again, I think it's a really important note that Sloane

784
00:47:05,820 --> 00:47:08,988
knows something is wrong, but Sloane is worried about

785
00:47:09,044 --> 00:47:12,604
the reason that something is wrong. She trusts that Lark

786
00:47:12,652 --> 00:47:16,372
is making the best decision for Lark. There is no question in her mind that

787
00:47:16,396 --> 00:47:19,604
that's what she's doing and she respects that. She wants to keep it private.

788
00:47:19,772 --> 00:47:24,068
She wants to make sure that the reasoning behind what Lark is doing is

789
00:47:24,124 --> 00:47:27,492
not something that she's tearing herself apart for. Right. And I just

790
00:47:27,516 --> 00:47:30,580
think it, like, really speaks volumes to what we talked about last time, which is

791
00:47:30,620 --> 00:47:34,228
that this is a very sincere and well done relationship between

792
00:47:34,284 --> 00:47:37,492
women. Yes. So this is where she also says,

793
00:47:37,516 --> 00:47:40,164
you're supposed to look in love, not like you want to decapitate your soon to

794
00:47:40,172 --> 00:47:43,526
be husband. Lachlan and Lark

795
00:47:43,558 --> 00:47:47,542
complete the ceremony in the company of Rowan, Sloane and Aunt Ethel.

796
00:47:47,686 --> 00:47:51,414
They kiss, and it's very obvious

797
00:47:51,462 --> 00:47:54,662
to everybody that these two are shoving their feelings

798
00:47:54,726 --> 00:47:58,534
down. Yeah. Well, yeah. I mean, Ethel gives her

799
00:47:58,702 --> 00:48:01,878
her the ring that her husband proposed with and says,

800
00:48:01,934 --> 00:48:05,302
like, you, you're choosing love. Even though,

801
00:48:05,326 --> 00:48:08,722
like, Ethel knows this is a sham marriage and why. Yeah. The only

802
00:48:08,746 --> 00:48:12,226
other person who knows. Yeah. And she still knows Lark

803
00:48:12,258 --> 00:48:15,874
enough to know that this. This is it. Yeah,

804
00:48:16,002 --> 00:48:19,602
I know. You can see they're like twin flame. Yeah. Because Aunt Ethel is a

805
00:48:19,626 --> 00:48:23,186
fucking gangster and you love her. I know.

806
00:48:23,338 --> 00:48:27,122
Yeah. She describes Lachlan looking at her as though he is

807
00:48:27,146 --> 00:48:30,354
savoring the details of her face and kissing her exactly.

808
00:48:30,402 --> 00:48:33,922
Like what she is the key to his survival. And she kisses him back as

809
00:48:33,946 --> 00:48:37,046
though she is saying goodbye to something that was never hers in the first place.

810
00:48:37,178 --> 00:48:40,462
It's a sexy kiss. It's a beautiful. It's a really great

811
00:48:40,566 --> 00:48:43,438
kiss. So it's the kind of kiss that I wanted to see.

812
00:48:43,574 --> 00:48:46,894
Yeah. That I would want to have with Lachlan. Yeah. Oh,

813
00:48:46,942 --> 00:48:50,494
yeah. Look at you. You and Lachlan. Yeah. It looks like

814
00:48:50,502 --> 00:48:54,206
Cassian. I know. Lachlan moves in with Lark and

815
00:48:54,278 --> 00:48:57,518
we experience some growing pains, especially after an incident where

816
00:48:57,574 --> 00:49:01,278
Lachlan convinces Lark to use the elevator to move her epoxied

817
00:49:01,374 --> 00:49:04,986
body. Coffee table upstairs. And the elevator stalls

818
00:49:05,018 --> 00:49:08,634
midway up, leaving Lark, her dog and Lachlan trapped in the cramped,

819
00:49:08,682 --> 00:49:11,994
dark space. Once again, we get a glimpse of the anxiety

820
00:49:12,042 --> 00:49:15,498
that Lark has around tight, dark spaces.

821
00:49:15,674 --> 00:49:18,554
And then we get another scene where Lachlan gets up at 3am to get a

822
00:49:18,562 --> 00:49:21,546
glass of Water. And finds Lark still up with her headphones on,

823
00:49:21,618 --> 00:49:25,130
singing along absently to a song on the guitar. And he said, I have another

824
00:49:25,170 --> 00:49:28,202
quote here. Yeah, I. If we hate him, we'll cut him out.

825
00:49:28,226 --> 00:49:31,682
Yeah. He says, she doesn't see me,

826
00:49:31,706 --> 00:49:35,042
but I see her clearly. Puffy eyes, blotchy skin, swollen lips, the sheen of

827
00:49:35,066 --> 00:49:39,122
tears on her cheeks as though they haven't stopped. She's stripped down to

828
00:49:39,146 --> 00:49:43,314
her raw edges, to the bloody knuckles from battling with life. I've lost skin

829
00:49:43,362 --> 00:49:47,010
in this fight to survive, too. And this is a pivotal moment for these two,

830
00:49:47,050 --> 00:49:51,042
because Lachlan went into this marriage with a very specific image of the

831
00:49:51,066 --> 00:49:54,190
bouncy life of sunshine and Daisy's person.

832
00:49:54,490 --> 00:49:57,554
And he's realized in this very short time already together,

833
00:49:57,642 --> 00:50:00,754
that he has it wrong. Yes. He picks it up so fucking

834
00:50:00,802 --> 00:50:04,274
quickly. And again, I have to give him credit, because Lachlan is a

835
00:50:04,282 --> 00:50:08,114
big, dumb idiot walking around, bumping into things. Yeah. He's. He has

836
00:50:08,202 --> 00:50:11,586
no idea what he's doing. Yeah. He describes, like,

837
00:50:11,658 --> 00:50:14,834
where she, like, asks him a question, and he gives her a short answer,

838
00:50:14,882 --> 00:50:18,114
and then he's like, oh, I think she maybe wanted me

839
00:50:18,122 --> 00:50:21,378
to say more like. And it's like,

840
00:50:21,434 --> 00:50:24,642
well, he's the type. Of woman he's known. He thinks that he can see a

841
00:50:24,666 --> 00:50:28,002
woman. What she's giving to him is what she is,

842
00:50:28,026 --> 00:50:31,714
and that's it. And now he's getting to know this other person

843
00:50:31,802 --> 00:50:35,298
who is. So there's so much more. She's literally like an iceberg.

844
00:50:35,394 --> 00:50:38,898
Yes, absolutely. And from here on out, Lachlan begins

845
00:50:38,914 --> 00:50:42,018
to make an effort to connect with Lark, including texting Sloane about her fear

846
00:50:42,034 --> 00:50:45,362
of dark spaces and inviting her and Rowan out for a double date with

847
00:50:45,386 --> 00:50:49,026
he and Lark. And it's while at lunch that a woman stops

848
00:50:49,058 --> 00:50:52,660
by their table to say hello. And it is insinuated that

849
00:50:52,700 --> 00:50:56,596
she and Lachlan had a thing. Yeah. And when Lark abruptly

850
00:50:56,628 --> 00:50:59,892
excuses herself from lunch, Rowan and Sloan have

851
00:50:59,916 --> 00:51:03,252
to explain to Lachlan, like, you better go get your

852
00:51:03,276 --> 00:51:06,900
girl before she murders. That she's gonna go kill her. Yes. Like, Sloan doesn't know

853
00:51:06,940 --> 00:51:09,780
she's a serial killer, but she knows enough. Yes.

854
00:51:09,860 --> 00:51:13,764
To know people disappear around this girl, and now that girl is

855
00:51:13,772 --> 00:51:17,520
not safe. But. And I can picture this girl fucking Claire. Yeah.

856
00:51:17,600 --> 00:51:21,632
Walking up, being just a pick me. Yeah. Like, oh, let's go

857
00:51:21,656 --> 00:51:24,752
do lunch. Oh, the last time I saw you on Halloween,

858
00:51:24,816 --> 00:51:28,496
and. Oh, just. Yeah, I want to murder her.

859
00:51:28,568 --> 00:51:31,456
Yeah. Yeah. I would have done the same thing. Yeah.

860
00:51:31,568 --> 00:51:35,200
Yes. Yeah. The thing is, is, like, Lar takes it as a

861
00:51:35,240 --> 00:51:38,688
personal attack on, like, who she is and

862
00:51:38,824 --> 00:51:42,240
her relationship with Lachlan. And literally was. It's not even about

863
00:51:42,280 --> 00:51:45,344
the fact that she's, like, jealous, because I don't think she's jealous.

864
00:51:45,392 --> 00:51:48,394
It's more of just, like, this bitch. Is gonna get what's coming.

865
00:51:48,482 --> 00:51:52,378
Yes. You tried to, like, stake a claim on something that is mine.

866
00:51:52,554 --> 00:51:56,394
Even if it's arranged, he's still mine.

867
00:51:56,522 --> 00:52:00,074
Yeah. And I'm gonna. We're gonna have a nice little chat about that,

868
00:52:00,162 --> 00:52:03,978
ma'am. And so Lachlan

869
00:52:04,074 --> 00:52:07,146
chases her down and manages to cut her off at the pass.

870
00:52:07,218 --> 00:52:11,162
And here Lark learns that she was not Lachlan's ex,

871
00:52:11,266 --> 00:52:14,674
but Theon's. And the reason that he had been so surly with her the

872
00:52:14,682 --> 00:52:17,794
night at the lake was because he was caring for a heartbroken Fion when he

873
00:52:17,802 --> 00:52:21,230
was called away to help her. And I love that.

874
00:52:21,770 --> 00:52:24,258
I love that she doesn't forgive him.

875
00:52:24,394 --> 00:52:27,714
I agree. I love that she doesn't just go,

876
00:52:27,882 --> 00:52:31,650
oh, wow, I've been doing, like, she is just kind of like,

877
00:52:31,770 --> 00:52:34,882
I don't fucking care. Like, I'm like, thanks for

878
00:52:34,906 --> 00:52:38,242
explaining it to me, but also, like, you were fucking put me

879
00:52:38,266 --> 00:52:41,542
in a trunk. And like, she bit. Begged for her life to not go in

880
00:52:41,566 --> 00:52:44,854
that trunk. And he even acknowledges, like, from his perspective,

881
00:52:44,902 --> 00:52:47,974
like, he realized how much she didn't want to go in that trunk. Yeah.

882
00:52:48,022 --> 00:52:51,190
And he still fucking did it because he's a man and

883
00:52:51,310 --> 00:52:55,014
big dumb idiot. Yes. After this encounter,

884
00:52:55,062 --> 00:52:58,934
Lachlan decides that he's got to solve the mystery that is Lark. He's going to

885
00:52:58,942 --> 00:53:02,886
get. He's going to get underneath that iceberg. And in his digging, he discovers

886
00:53:02,918 --> 00:53:06,656
a hole in her wall behind a poster of Constantine,

887
00:53:06,798 --> 00:53:09,916
which is just for a reminder,

888
00:53:10,028 --> 00:53:13,996
Constantine is Lark and Sloane's favorite movie. It's their comfort

889
00:53:14,028 --> 00:53:17,772
movie. The hole is filled with her souvenirs from

890
00:53:17,796 --> 00:53:20,760
her kills. These trophies are.

891
00:53:21,380 --> 00:53:24,956
There's some. Yeah. One is a set of maracas

892
00:53:24,988 --> 00:53:27,680
made from questionable material and filled with teeth.

893
00:53:28,020 --> 00:53:31,740
So there's that. And he

894
00:53:31,780 --> 00:53:35,040
confronts Lark and is like, what is all this

895
00:53:35,080 --> 00:53:38,432
stuff? Are you a serial killer? And Lark replies that she

896
00:53:38,456 --> 00:53:41,940
is not. She's a multiple. Deleter. Yes.

897
00:53:42,600 --> 00:53:45,920
I love. I love how she just minimizes it.

898
00:53:45,960 --> 00:53:49,536
She's like, I'm not a serial killer. I'm not. I'm ridding

899
00:53:49,568 --> 00:53:52,896
the world of people who shouldn't be here anymore. Yeah. And it's so funny,

900
00:53:52,928 --> 00:53:56,240
too, because he's like. Like, he's in

901
00:53:56,280 --> 00:53:59,672
shock. Like, his jaws dropped. And she's like, God, you know, it really

902
00:53:59,696 --> 00:54:02,664
feels good to talk to somebody about it. I'm gonna make myself a cup of

903
00:54:02,672 --> 00:54:05,816
coffee. Yeah. Like, she just is so. Oh,

904
00:54:05,848 --> 00:54:09,832
my God. Yeah. He, I think, realizes, despite his

905
00:54:09,856 --> 00:54:12,904
best efforts here, that he really cares about Lark. I think he's really starting

906
00:54:12,952 --> 00:54:16,472
to see that. And. Well. And he misjudged her. Yeah.

907
00:54:16,616 --> 00:54:20,904
Yeah. I mean, he. Yeah. And we'll get to it later. But I

908
00:54:20,912 --> 00:54:24,216
think Lachlan, in this moment, makes a commitment

909
00:54:24,248 --> 00:54:27,478
to himself that he is going to do everything

910
00:54:27,534 --> 00:54:30,742
that he can to make Lark forgive him.

911
00:54:30,846 --> 00:54:34,550
Yeah. And he is not going to pursue anything deeper in their

912
00:54:34,590 --> 00:54:37,490
relationship until she has forgiven him. So.

913
00:54:38,110 --> 00:54:41,942
Well, it's time to face the music. Lark and Lachlan announce their marriage to her

914
00:54:41,966 --> 00:54:45,046
family at family dinner. And Ethel appoints

915
00:54:45,078 --> 00:54:48,374
Lark as chief security officer, ensuring that she has the

916
00:54:48,382 --> 00:54:52,216
power to arrange the contracts promised to Lachlan's boss.

917
00:54:52,398 --> 00:54:55,764
They then make a trip to meet Leander with Lark,

918
00:54:55,812 --> 00:54:59,316
delivering him fresh baked muffins from Ethel.

919
00:54:59,428 --> 00:55:03,012
From Ethel. Yeah. And they

920
00:55:03,116 --> 00:55:06,212
have their conversation, they get their signature, they make

921
00:55:06,236 --> 00:55:09,764
their arrangements. They agree. And to celebrate, Leander takes a

922
00:55:09,772 --> 00:55:12,708
bite of the muffin and then slowly becomes groggy.

923
00:55:12,884 --> 00:55:16,724
And it's just funny.

924
00:55:16,852 --> 00:55:19,642
It's so funny. Funny, dude.

925
00:55:19,786 --> 00:55:23,770
It's like, it's legitimately. It's full

926
00:55:23,810 --> 00:55:27,226
blown chaos. So the muffins are drugged, but they're not drugged

927
00:55:27,258 --> 00:55:30,810
to kill, just to knock him out. And, like,

928
00:55:30,850 --> 00:55:35,274
one of the things that Lachlan, like, always says to Lark

929
00:55:35,322 --> 00:55:37,470
is you catastrophe.

930
00:55:38,050 --> 00:55:41,098
And he's like, were you gonna clue me in? And she's like,

931
00:55:41,154 --> 00:55:44,154
well, Ethel was bag on us not eating them, and I figured you went out

932
00:55:44,162 --> 00:55:48,250
of spring fight, and then they just, like, step over Leander's body and start their

933
00:55:48,290 --> 00:55:51,658
hunt for their murderer. Yeah. And it's so funny because later

934
00:55:51,714 --> 00:55:57,610
on we learned that Leander is, like, in love for

935
00:55:57,650 --> 00:56:00,826
drugging him. Yeah. It's like, nobody gets one over on me.

936
00:56:00,898 --> 00:56:04,090
And you did. With muffins. With muffins. I.

937
00:56:04,130 --> 00:56:08,362
It's so funny and appropriately. And I love that Ethel is like,

938
00:56:08,466 --> 00:56:11,594
fuck you, Lander. Yeah, you're gonna.

939
00:56:11,722 --> 00:56:14,698
Okay, we'll take the contract, but I'm gonna drug you.

940
00:56:14,754 --> 00:56:17,818
Yes. Oh, my God. I'm a little bit like Ethel I something.

941
00:56:17,874 --> 00:56:21,338
You are. Yes. Yeah. Yes. 100. Yeah.

942
00:56:21,434 --> 00:56:24,522
Did you immediately know that she was referencing Zoolander

943
00:56:24,666 --> 00:56:28,310
when she was like, oh, my God, she makes so many.

944
00:56:29,010 --> 00:56:32,346
She does a lot of pop culture. Yeah. Lark is so funny. And she watches

945
00:56:32,378 --> 00:56:35,818
a lot of movies and she quotes them, like, all the Time at random.

946
00:56:35,914 --> 00:56:39,082
And it's my favorite. And I knew all of her quotes, so I was like,

947
00:56:39,186 --> 00:56:42,650
know. That's. Yeah. She's just so funny. Yeah,

948
00:56:42,810 --> 00:56:45,930
I think I'm so funny. So it makes. It makes sense.

949
00:56:46,010 --> 00:56:49,226
It tracks. The relationship

950
00:56:49,338 --> 00:56:52,826
between these two. Takes a turn from here when Lachlan

951
00:56:52,858 --> 00:56:55,946
surprises Lark with a weekend stay at a sleep retreat.

952
00:56:56,058 --> 00:56:59,146
We haven't talked about it much, but, like, Lark does not sleep.

953
00:56:59,258 --> 00:57:02,842
No. She struggles. She basically just is

954
00:57:02,866 --> 00:57:06,036
kind of up all the time. And so he arranges

955
00:57:06,068 --> 00:57:09,268
this stay at a sleep retreat. He surprises her with it,

956
00:57:09,404 --> 00:57:12,740
and then he pulls her out of the

957
00:57:12,780 --> 00:57:15,764
sleep retreat her first night and is like,

958
00:57:15,772 --> 00:57:19,524
I have another surprise for you. Drives her out into the middle of the woods,

959
00:57:19,652 --> 00:57:22,884
and he has kidnapped the headmaster

960
00:57:22,932 --> 00:57:26,660
of the school where Lark was sexually assaulted so that Lark can

961
00:57:26,700 --> 00:57:30,116
murder him. Just. I love it. You too.

962
00:57:30,188 --> 00:57:34,300
It's. You know her well enough to know that

963
00:57:34,760 --> 00:57:38,544
you're. You're working on making amends. Not like none of these individually

964
00:57:38,592 --> 00:57:41,824
are going to make her forgive you. Yeah. It's a nice step. And it's just

965
00:57:41,832 --> 00:57:44,368
showing how well you know her. Like, you're trying to get her to sleep,

966
00:57:44,544 --> 00:57:48,096
leaving her alone. Yeah. But then you know her well enough to know that you're

967
00:57:48,128 --> 00:57:51,584
gonna need to pick her up at 11pm on

968
00:57:51,592 --> 00:57:54,496
her first night there and take her to go murder someone. Yeah.

969
00:57:54,608 --> 00:57:57,712
Well, and I think it's, like, important, too, to note that, like,

970
00:57:57,816 --> 00:58:01,536
he found out this information about the sexual assault on his own.

971
00:58:01,608 --> 00:58:04,592
Yes. She did not tell him. Has never shared that with him.

972
00:58:04,776 --> 00:58:08,560
And I think that it is very poignant

973
00:58:08,640 --> 00:58:12,288
that he literally takes time. He has this man tied up. This guy

974
00:58:12,304 --> 00:58:15,264
is like, I have no idea what you're talking about. And he goes through and

975
00:58:15,352 --> 00:58:18,784
lists out each of the times

976
00:58:18,872 --> 00:58:22,608
that somebody brought an issue to this headmaster's

977
00:58:22,624 --> 00:58:25,984
attention and that he threw the blind eye to it.

978
00:58:26,152 --> 00:58:29,584
And he ends on Lark.

979
00:58:29,632 --> 00:58:33,336
And you can tell in the way that he describes Lark that he loves

980
00:58:33,368 --> 00:58:36,696
her. Yeah, he, like, he. He describes

981
00:58:36,728 --> 00:58:40,008
her as being well liked and being a joy to,

982
00:58:40,064 --> 00:58:42,632
you know, a joy in class and, like, all these things. And you can just

983
00:58:42,656 --> 00:58:46,120
tell that he just loves her. And he even says, because he does not like

984
00:58:46,160 --> 00:58:49,496
to murder. Right. It's not. He's not like Rowan and Sloan.

985
00:58:49,528 --> 00:58:52,808
He does not enjoy in it. And he describes being excited for this.

986
00:58:52,944 --> 00:58:56,328
And I just. So Lark comes

987
00:58:56,384 --> 00:59:00,342
in. She also has a little monologue

988
00:59:00,486 --> 00:59:03,830
while she sews the man's mouth shut with

989
00:59:03,870 --> 00:59:07,730
gold thread. Gold thread. Because he knows her so well.

990
00:59:08,110 --> 00:59:11,734
Yeah. Lachlan had Set up like a little toolbox for her filled

991
00:59:11,782 --> 00:59:14,998
with, like, gold stars and glitter, and it's like,

992
00:59:15,054 --> 00:59:18,886
you got me. Glitter. Like, it's. Oh, my God.

993
00:59:19,078 --> 00:59:23,030
So she finishes her monologue, she shoots him the head. And then that night,

994
00:59:23,070 --> 00:59:26,678
while Lark is at the sleep center and Lachlan has returned home from cleaning up,

995
00:59:26,734 --> 00:59:30,142
she asks him to read to her, and he tells her a

996
00:59:30,166 --> 00:59:33,342
story that she quickly realizes is Constantine.

997
00:59:33,486 --> 00:59:37,182
And Lachlan, after learning that it was her favorite movie, has watched it

998
00:59:37,206 --> 00:59:40,382
12 times in two weeks because he had never seen it. Never seen

999
00:59:40,406 --> 00:59:44,286
it before. Yeah. He's not a movie guy. Yeah. And it's

1000
00:59:44,318 --> 00:59:46,990
so sweet. And then he stays on the phone with her after she falls asleep.

1001
00:59:47,070 --> 00:59:50,318
He's earned. I'm pretty easy. He's earned my forgiveness at this point. Yeah.

1002
00:59:50,414 --> 00:59:53,982
He. Yeah. A big, gooey man on

1003
00:59:54,006 --> 00:59:57,420
the inside. Mm. We don't need

1004
00:59:57,460 --> 01:00:00,284
to spend a ton of time on it because this is already gonna be a

1005
01:00:00,292 --> 01:00:04,028
long episode, but we do get a scene here where Lark gets

1006
01:00:04,044 --> 01:00:07,468
into Lachlan's car while she's waiting for him to sign for a package and

1007
01:00:07,524 --> 01:00:10,560
realizes that he's listening to smut. Yeah.

1008
01:00:10,900 --> 01:00:14,588
Like, he asked. What? Like he asked Sloane what

1009
01:00:14,644 --> 01:00:17,884
Lark is into, and he's like, read a

1010
01:00:17,892 --> 01:00:21,170
fucking book. And so he does.

1011
01:00:21,550 --> 01:00:24,662
He's listening to Death's Obsession, which is on my tbr.

1012
01:00:24,806 --> 01:00:27,686
Oh, I love it. Yes.

1013
01:00:27,798 --> 01:00:31,062
So great. And Lark, like, really gives him

1014
01:00:31,086 --> 01:00:34,134
a kind of a hard time about it, and it makes him so uncomfortable,

1015
01:00:34,182 --> 01:00:37,286
and I just fucking love it. I know. I do, too.

1016
01:00:37,358 --> 01:00:40,614
Like, I'd love it if Dave. I've tried to get Dave to read some of

1017
01:00:40,622 --> 01:00:44,630
the books. Yeah. If it's not Bernard Cornwall, he's not interested.

1018
01:00:44,790 --> 01:00:47,622
Well, Dave is a very specific type of person.

1019
01:00:47,726 --> 01:00:51,246
Yeah. So that doesn't. Would your husband read these books? Has he?

1020
01:00:51,358 --> 01:00:54,650
No, I really would. You want him to?

1021
01:00:55,430 --> 01:00:59,598
I don't really care. Sure. To be honest, I have you.

1022
01:00:59,734 --> 01:01:03,230
So I have somebody I have somebody to talk to about them, you know.

1023
01:01:03,270 --> 01:01:06,334
Just nobody to try these things with, because you and I are not going to

1024
01:01:06,342 --> 01:01:09,550
try these things. Yeah. Yeah.

1025
01:01:09,710 --> 01:01:13,582
He's getting a little bit more adventurous. Yeah. Yeah.

1026
01:01:13,726 --> 01:01:16,334
Slowly but surely. I know it takes time.

1027
01:01:16,422 --> 01:01:19,734
He's. He's about as vanilla as

1028
01:01:19,742 --> 01:01:23,206
they come, so. Yeah. Slow steps. The relationship

1029
01:01:23,238 --> 01:01:26,278
between Lark and Lachlan just continues to deepen.

1030
01:01:26,454 --> 01:01:29,654
Lachlan shares he and his brother's history with Lark.

1031
01:01:29,782 --> 01:01:33,590
And Lark shares that her dad died in a

1032
01:01:33,630 --> 01:01:37,014
home invasion while she and her sister were in the house hiding in a

1033
01:01:37,022 --> 01:01:41,130
closet, which is the origination of the fear of enclosed spaces.

1034
01:01:41,470 --> 01:01:44,662
And they are very clearly falling in love with one another. Yeah, you got that

1035
01:01:44,686 --> 01:01:48,302
impression. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. And I really,

1036
01:01:48,406 --> 01:01:51,886
again, I just have to note. I'm so sorry. You're gonna fucking hate it.

1037
01:01:51,958 --> 01:01:55,410
But I really love how layered

1038
01:01:55,750 --> 01:01:59,646
Lark's trauma is. Yes. I think that it's

1039
01:01:59,758 --> 01:02:03,502
really common for heroines

1040
01:02:03,566 --> 01:02:07,390
to be written with, like, one major trauma

1041
01:02:07,550 --> 01:02:10,814
that was pivotal to and shaped

1042
01:02:10,862 --> 01:02:14,554
their whole lives. And in this case with Lark,

1043
01:02:14,682 --> 01:02:18,410
we have so many points of trauma,

1044
01:02:18,570 --> 01:02:22,490
including the fact that she has never been treated as somebody who

1045
01:02:22,530 --> 01:02:25,994
was traumatized. Right. And which is in and of itself

1046
01:02:26,042 --> 01:02:30,282
very traumatizing. And I really love that

1047
01:02:30,386 --> 01:02:33,386
in addition to her being written with these traumas,

1048
01:02:33,498 --> 01:02:37,430
she also is written the way that she is. Yeah. Because I think

1049
01:02:38,060 --> 01:02:42,068
when you read the traumas and the things that Lark has

1050
01:02:42,124 --> 01:02:45,492
survived, I think most people would probably picture a

1051
01:02:45,516 --> 01:02:48,320
Sloan. Yes, very much so.

1052
01:02:48,780 --> 01:02:52,436
And I just. Oh, Brynn Weaver,

1053
01:02:52,628 --> 01:02:55,748
you. Ah, God, yeah. It's just so,

1054
01:02:55,804 --> 01:02:59,476
so good. Yeah. Lachlan has made Lark a

1055
01:02:59,548 --> 01:03:03,524
present. He has put together a beautiful

1056
01:03:03,652 --> 01:03:07,284
leather harness for her to wear for. For her concert performance

1057
01:03:07,372 --> 01:03:10,612
that is coming up that night. And the

1058
01:03:10,636 --> 01:03:13,940
harness is handcrafted with hand pressed stars along the straps.

1059
01:03:14,020 --> 01:03:17,252
And while opening it, she asks Lachlan

1060
01:03:17,396 --> 01:03:21,540
what he was thinking when he added each star. And he

1061
01:03:21,580 --> 01:03:25,348
knows. He tells her three specific memories of her

1062
01:03:25,404 --> 01:03:28,740
that he had while he was making those

1063
01:03:28,780 --> 01:03:32,004
stars. He's like, that one, you know, was like this thing and it

1064
01:03:32,012 --> 01:03:34,548
made me laugh. And that's why it's like a little bent on the corner.

1065
01:03:34,644 --> 01:03:37,326
And it's. He. It's so thoughtful.

1066
01:03:37,438 --> 01:03:40,622
Yeah. And she gives him a

1067
01:03:40,646 --> 01:03:44,078
gift in exchange that he's not

1068
01:03:44,134 --> 01:03:47,662
allowed to open until she says. And then they head to her concert.

1069
01:03:47,726 --> 01:03:50,782
Yeah. And again, it's so funny because he's like, well, how am I gonna know?

1070
01:03:50,806 --> 01:03:52,814
And she's like, well, I don't know. I'm gonna send out the bat signal.

1071
01:03:52,862 --> 01:03:55,694
Like. Yeah, he knows, though.

1072
01:03:55,782 --> 01:03:58,862
Yeah, he knows. Yeah. I had no

1073
01:03:58,886 --> 01:04:02,454
idea. Did you have an idea of what her gift was? No, no,

1074
01:04:02,542 --> 01:04:05,990
no, I had no idea. No. Which I think just goes to prove that,

1075
01:04:06,030 --> 01:04:08,774
like, Bryn Weaver, if she wanted to make it a mystery, she could make it

1076
01:04:08,782 --> 01:04:12,406
a fucking mystery. Yeah, she doesn't want to. Like, that's not what she's doing.

1077
01:04:12,478 --> 01:04:15,606
And when it's appropriate, she does. And I just, like, fudgeing love her. Yeah.

1078
01:04:15,638 --> 01:04:19,398
Like, as soon as we met the Phantom, I knew, I was like,

1079
01:04:19,454 --> 01:04:23,174
okay, yeah, yeah, he's the killer. Yeah, absolutely. She Was not trying to

1080
01:04:23,182 --> 01:04:27,050
hide it. No. Yeah. While parking for the concert,

1081
01:04:27,440 --> 01:04:30,900
Lark makes a joke about parking it in the back.

1082
01:04:31,360 --> 01:04:34,840
And when Lachlan blushes, he, like, clams up.

1083
01:04:34,880 --> 01:04:38,696
It's so cute. And she's like, oh, somebody likes

1084
01:04:38,728 --> 01:04:42,152
it back there. Yeah. Well, and it's funny because the

1085
01:04:42,176 --> 01:04:44,776
book that he was listening to, they were in the middle of, like an anal

1086
01:04:44,848 --> 01:04:48,168
scene, I think. So it's like all of this is kind of coming

1087
01:04:48,304 --> 01:04:51,176
full circle. And so she kind of starts to go in on him about,

1088
01:04:51,248 --> 01:04:54,908
like, there's nothing wrong with, like, the. But still stuff. And anal is great.

1089
01:04:54,964 --> 01:04:57,740
I like anal. Like this one time at band camp or like,

1090
01:04:57,780 --> 01:05:01,644
whatever. And she gets cut off when Lachlan grabs

1091
01:05:01,692 --> 01:05:04,732
Lark by the waist and cages her against the wall of

1092
01:05:04,756 --> 01:05:08,220
the venue and tells her he's not ashamed of

1093
01:05:08,260 --> 01:05:11,756
butt stuff. But he cannot listen to her talk about another

1094
01:05:11,828 --> 01:05:15,996
man fucking his wife and tells her that it is agonizing.

1095
01:05:16,188 --> 01:05:19,164
And I'm going to tell you right now, nothing happens in the scene. But it

1096
01:05:19,172 --> 01:05:22,348
is so sexy. I was

1097
01:05:22,404 --> 01:05:25,164
waiting for them to just write up against the wall.

1098
01:05:25,212 --> 01:05:29,372
Honest to fucking, my God. Yes. And again, like, Lachen is

1099
01:05:29,396 --> 01:05:32,332
so sweet because he does that. He, like, grabs her by the waist and,

1100
01:05:32,356 --> 01:05:36,060
like, it kind of manhandles her. Yeah. And then he's like, oh, God,

1101
01:05:36,140 --> 01:05:39,516
I like, lost. I lost my cool. I like my. I might have hurt her.

1102
01:05:39,588 --> 01:05:42,700
And then looks at her and realizes that she's, like, completely turned on. But,

1103
01:05:42,740 --> 01:05:46,012
yeah, his initial instinct is like, I didn't protect her enough when I,

1104
01:05:46,036 --> 01:05:49,510
like, physically manhandled her. I just. I don't know.

1105
01:05:49,630 --> 01:05:53,174
They get interrupted to all of

1106
01:05:53,182 --> 01:05:56,310
our. Every. Every book

1107
01:05:56,350 --> 01:05:59,510
like this. It was. It was

1108
01:05:59,550 --> 01:06:03,430
torture. Lachlan makes his way to his

1109
01:06:03,470 --> 01:06:07,734
spot center stage, and the band performs. And then Lark

1110
01:06:07,782 --> 01:06:11,654
comes out and she performs a song. So she's the singer

1111
01:06:11,782 --> 01:06:15,336
dedicated to Lachlan. And she sings it to him holding

1112
01:06:15,368 --> 01:06:19,736
eye contact the entire time. Lachlan is losing his fucking

1113
01:06:19,928 --> 01:06:23,528
mind. He like, oh, my God, I'm so in love.

1114
01:06:23,584 --> 01:06:27,160
I don't know what to do. It's full blown. Like, this guy is

1115
01:06:27,200 --> 01:06:31,016
just. He's completely overwhelmed. And he

1116
01:06:31,088 --> 01:06:34,568
says, lachlan. Lachlan says, I never wanted to be in love.

1117
01:06:34,624 --> 01:06:37,800
Afraid of the decimating power of its loss. So I buried it,

1118
01:06:37,840 --> 01:06:41,816
starved it. But Lark has blasted through every defense. A supernova

1119
01:06:41,848 --> 01:06:45,146
in my life. Yes, I know.

1120
01:06:45,298 --> 01:06:48,122
I love a man who is that obsessed. Oh,

1121
01:06:48,186 --> 01:06:51,882
good. With his wife. Yes. And he. I mean, even when he

1122
01:06:51,906 --> 01:06:54,890
was mad at her, he was still describing her as sunshine. And,

1123
01:06:54,930 --> 01:06:58,346
like, shining a spotlight on dark spaces inside

1124
01:06:58,378 --> 01:07:02,230
of him. And, yeah, it's just, like, so great.

1125
01:07:03,250 --> 01:07:06,506
So then the song ends. Nicole's house

1126
01:07:06,578 --> 01:07:10,356
is the funniest. Love it.

1127
01:07:10,458 --> 01:07:12,140
We find out what the gift is.

1128
01:07:15,800 --> 01:07:19,232
So Lark is not singing this time. She's playing a

1129
01:07:19,256 --> 01:07:22,304
cello. And she gives him the air quotes. Bat signal.

1130
01:07:22,352 --> 01:07:26,064
Yeah. So he opens his gift and realizes that it's a remote

1131
01:07:26,112 --> 01:07:29,232
control. And the remote control is to a

1132
01:07:29,256 --> 01:07:32,992
vibrator that is inside Lark. And she mouths

1133
01:07:33,136 --> 01:07:36,762
to Lachlan to turn it on and turn it up and

1134
01:07:36,786 --> 01:07:40,634
then turn it down. And he's, like, watching from the crowd as she

1135
01:07:40,722 --> 01:07:44,030
orgasms while they're song. Oh.

1136
01:07:46,210 --> 01:07:49,722
So fucking good. And as the

1137
01:07:49,746 --> 01:07:53,466
song finishes, Lachlan rushes to the dressing room because he's like,

1138
01:07:53,538 --> 01:07:56,634
he can't wait. He's can't wait. But Lurk thinks,

1139
01:07:56,682 --> 01:08:00,170
like, he's gone. She looks for him. Yeah. She's like,

1140
01:08:00,210 --> 01:08:03,460
I opened myself up to him and he. I took it too far.

1141
01:08:03,610 --> 01:08:06,560
Yeah. And she goes to the bathroom to cry.

1142
01:08:06,720 --> 01:08:10,160
And Lachlan breaks into the bathroom and he's like, what the

1143
01:08:10,200 --> 01:08:13,264
fuck are you doing? I've been pacing in the dressing room waiting to give

1144
01:08:13,272 --> 01:08:15,840
you the keys so I could. So you could drive us home and I could

1145
01:08:15,880 --> 01:08:18,688
fuck you until you can't walk. Oh, my God,

1146
01:08:18,784 --> 01:08:22,432
it's so good. It really is. God, he's got

1147
01:08:22,456 --> 01:08:26,160
it bad. Oh, my God, yes. He is out of his

1148
01:08:26,200 --> 01:08:29,712
mind. So she's sobbing. She's complete mess.

1149
01:08:29,896 --> 01:08:33,584
And she's like, will you. Like, she doesn't know. She can't find her

1150
01:08:33,592 --> 01:08:37,040
words. She's like, well, you know. And Lachlan's like,

1151
01:08:37,160 --> 01:08:40,496
I. Like, I've never known you to be speechless, so spit it out,

1152
01:08:40,648 --> 01:08:43,500
you catastrophe. And.

1153
01:08:44,440 --> 01:08:47,440
And he's. And she's like, you didn't use the bat signal. And Lachlan, like,

1154
01:08:47,480 --> 01:08:51,488
pauses and then laughs out loud and is like, all right, next time I'll

1155
01:08:51,504 --> 01:08:55,136
use this remote. And he's

1156
01:08:55,168 --> 01:08:58,610
like, text. He's like, I text you. And she reads the text, which just says,

1157
01:08:58,650 --> 01:09:02,310
dressing room now. And she's like, wow, that's bossy.

1158
01:09:03,050 --> 01:09:07,138
I can picture you in this scene. Oh, it's good. It's so

1159
01:09:07,194 --> 01:09:09,826
fucking good. It's just so good.

1160
01:09:09,978 --> 01:09:13,506
He picks her up, he puts her on the sink, and he makes her show

1161
01:09:13,578 --> 01:09:17,378
him the toy that's inside of her. And he's

1162
01:09:17,394 --> 01:09:21,778
kind of like pulling her dress up and. But she stops to tell Lachlan,

1163
01:09:21,954 --> 01:09:25,762
I want you, but don't go thinking, I want you to play nice. I'M not

1164
01:09:25,786 --> 01:09:28,150
your little duchess. I'm your fucking whore.

1165
01:09:28,580 --> 01:09:32,316
Yeah. Oh, my God. Lark, she puts

1166
01:09:32,348 --> 01:09:35,724
her thumb in his. Mouth, and when he goes. When she goes to pull it

1167
01:09:35,732 --> 01:09:39,484
away, he bites down on it. And then he says, lift that dress

1168
01:09:39,532 --> 01:09:43,100
up and fucking prove it. Yeah. It's so

1169
01:09:43,140 --> 01:09:46,396
fucking hot. Lachlan cuts her panties off.

1170
01:09:46,548 --> 01:09:50,172
She jumps off of the sink. He flips her around, wraps her panties around her

1171
01:09:50,196 --> 01:09:53,436
neck, and makes her beg him to fuck her, but he refuses,

1172
01:09:53,468 --> 01:09:56,246
saying the first time he fucks his wife will not be in a bathroom.

1173
01:09:56,388 --> 01:10:00,270
And she uses his hand to rub her clit until she comes.

1174
01:10:00,810 --> 01:10:03,730
That's the scene. Yeah, it's good.

1175
01:10:03,850 --> 01:10:07,554
It's really good. And I think that that scene. I'm sorry,

1176
01:10:07,682 --> 01:10:11,378
hate to do this, but if we're comparing non penetration sex

1177
01:10:11,434 --> 01:10:15,234
scenes, lights out couldn't touch this fucking scene.

1178
01:10:15,282 --> 01:10:17,938
Oh, agreed. Like the. Just urgency,

1179
01:10:18,034 --> 01:10:21,298
the inability. Yes, yes,

1180
01:10:21,394 --> 01:10:25,068
it's done. So paralleled, they head home.

1181
01:10:25,204 --> 01:10:29,212
The longest 15 minutes of Lachlan's life. Yeah. He's being tortured

1182
01:10:29,276 --> 01:10:32,588
by Lark with banter and, like, sexy promises. And she stops

1183
01:10:32,604 --> 01:10:35,516
for ice. And I just, like.

1184
01:10:35,668 --> 01:10:38,796
They get home and Lachlan makes Lark take

1185
01:10:38,868 --> 01:10:42,524
everything but the harness off and then makes her crawl

1186
01:10:42,572 --> 01:10:45,884
to him. He directs her to take his out and then instructs

1187
01:10:45,932 --> 01:10:49,542
her on how to suck it. And then he takes control, starts to

1188
01:10:49,566 --> 01:10:52,662
fuck her face and has her put her hand between her legs to show

1189
01:10:52,686 --> 01:10:56,134
him how wet she is. And when she does, he grabs her by the wrist

1190
01:10:56,182 --> 01:10:59,382
to lick her fingers clean. Loses his fucking

1191
01:10:59,446 --> 01:11:02,358
mind, pulls his cock out of her mouth, throws her on the bed and goes

1192
01:11:02,374 --> 01:11:04,370
down on her until she almost comes.

1193
01:11:04,830 --> 01:11:08,598
Stops and then fucks her, using the harness

1194
01:11:08,694 --> 01:11:10,810
as leverage. Yeah.

1195
01:11:13,080 --> 01:11:17,420
It's so good. Oh, my God, it really is.

1196
01:11:17,720 --> 01:11:22,660
They proceed to. All night long. We don't get any of the additional

1197
01:11:23,480 --> 01:11:27,568
until the next day. They continue their investigation.

1198
01:11:27,744 --> 01:11:31,472
They discover that Stan Tremblay has been murdered.

1199
01:11:31,536 --> 01:11:35,744
And they go back to her apartment and Lockhart Lachlan comforts

1200
01:11:35,792 --> 01:11:39,168
Lark and they discuss their feelings. And they start making out.

1201
01:11:39,224 --> 01:11:42,664
And it gets heated. Yeah. And Lachlan

1202
01:11:42,712 --> 01:11:46,072
uses an ice cube to tease Lark's breasts,

1203
01:11:46,136 --> 01:11:49,432
rotating the ice with his mouth, so hot and cold.

1204
01:11:49,496 --> 01:11:53,176
And then putting the ice in his mouth while he goes down on her.

1205
01:11:53,328 --> 01:11:56,856
He flips her over, starts to fuck her from behind while running

1206
01:11:56,888 --> 01:11:59,576
an ice cube up and down her spine until he gets to her ass.

1207
01:11:59,648 --> 01:12:03,272
And then he puts two fingers in her ass and directs her to use

1208
01:12:03,296 --> 01:12:07,062
the ice cube to make herself come. And she uses the ice cube on

1209
01:12:07,086 --> 01:12:10,406
her while Lachlan. Her. Until she comes. Oh,

1210
01:12:10,438 --> 01:12:13,638
my God. Yeah, yeah. And we have to talk about,

1211
01:12:13,694 --> 01:12:16,850
too, again, like, Lachlan is.

1212
01:12:17,150 --> 01:12:20,582
I just love him so much. So Lark says, like,

1213
01:12:20,606 --> 01:12:24,326
oh, my God. And Lachlan corrects her husband.

1214
01:12:24,518 --> 01:12:27,382
Yeah. Which in all of these other books,

1215
01:12:27,446 --> 01:12:31,158
Peter Pan said, when I'm inside of you, I'm your God.

1216
01:12:31,254 --> 01:12:33,330
Yes. And I love that he,

1217
01:12:33,760 --> 01:12:37,208
like. Yeah, I just. Yeah, I really,

1218
01:12:37,264 --> 01:12:40,580
really like Lachlan a lot. I. I do too. I mean,

1219
01:12:41,040 --> 01:12:44,552
he redeemed himself, like I said, pretty quick.

1220
01:12:44,656 --> 01:12:47,672
Yeah. And he's just. Oh, he's so sexy.

1221
01:12:47,736 --> 01:12:51,192
Yeah. This is where we get the eyeball. Oh,

1222
01:12:51,256 --> 01:12:55,128
that's right. I did forget about this. So they

1223
01:12:55,184 --> 01:12:58,600
have to hack into Stan's security system to get the information that

1224
01:12:58,640 --> 01:13:02,332
Stan had so that they can continue their investigation.

1225
01:13:02,396 --> 01:13:06,012
Because now he was the enforcer. He was the enforcer. Yeah.

1226
01:13:06,076 --> 01:13:09,260
And that night they break into the morgue to get Stan's thumb,

1227
01:13:09,340 --> 01:13:12,892
forefinger, and eyeball so that they can use it to crack his security

1228
01:13:12,996 --> 01:13:17,084
system. And we don't need to talk about this a lot, but it's funny because

1229
01:13:17,252 --> 01:13:20,364
they're, like, fighting the clock. They're, like, on a time crunch.

1230
01:13:20,412 --> 01:13:23,196
They only have, like, so many minutes to get in and get out. And both

1231
01:13:23,268 --> 01:13:26,060
Lachlan and Lark are, like, losing their shit. They're, like,

1232
01:13:26,100 --> 01:13:29,004
gagging. Yeah. They could not do it. Yeah. They're like,

1233
01:13:29,092 --> 01:13:32,674
are you sure we need the eye? Why did they kind of just call

1234
01:13:32,682 --> 01:13:36,130
it Sloan? Sloan would have. They say that. They're like, we should have.

1235
01:13:36,170 --> 01:13:39,682
Like, we're rethinking why we didn't bring Sloan. And, like, how does

1236
01:13:39,706 --> 01:13:42,434
she do this? And they're like, connor, are you sure we need the eyeball?

1237
01:13:42,482 --> 01:13:45,538
And Connor's like, yeah, no, 100%. And then they get

1238
01:13:45,594 --> 01:13:49,270
everything. And then Connor goes, I was just kidding. We didn't need the eyeball.

1239
01:13:52,810 --> 01:13:56,578
Oh, my God, their minds. And then he's

1240
01:13:56,594 --> 01:13:59,270
like, haha. Yeah. No, we actually did. Yeah.

1241
01:14:00,020 --> 01:14:03,324
It's so fucking funny, dude. I just. Oh, my God.

1242
01:14:03,372 --> 01:14:07,404
It's hilarious. So intermittent intermingled in

1243
01:14:07,412 --> 01:14:10,972
all of this, we've been getting, like, little brief, like, spurts of the

1244
01:14:10,996 --> 01:14:13,996
Phantom, whose name is Abe Midas.

1245
01:14:14,188 --> 01:14:17,436
He shows up at Lachlan's leather shop. He shows up to Lark's

1246
01:14:17,468 --> 01:14:20,892
concert, and now we get him at the assisted living facility where he has been

1247
01:14:20,916 --> 01:14:24,876
pretending to be a nurse in order to get access to Ethel.

1248
01:14:25,068 --> 01:14:28,890
He. He is here to kill Ethel. Yeah, She's a person. Obviously,

1249
01:14:29,230 --> 01:14:32,886
he knows she's awake when he shows Up. She knows why he's

1250
01:14:32,918 --> 01:14:36,646
here. He does. She does not fight him. She is kind of,

1251
01:14:36,718 --> 01:14:41,238
like, sick and dying already. And they have a very civilized conversation

1252
01:14:41,334 --> 01:14:44,662
while he injects her IV with something that will basically put her to sleep

1253
01:14:44,726 --> 01:14:48,918
and she dies. Okay. But we get here, she is so

1254
01:14:48,974 --> 01:14:52,424
funny because he's like, do you want to confess anything?

1255
01:14:52,552 --> 01:14:55,816
And she's like, well, yeah. She confesses to, like, a bunch of things. And she's

1256
01:14:55,848 --> 01:14:59,832
like, she regrets not taking a man home

1257
01:14:59,856 --> 01:15:03,032
when she was 23 because she later heard that he eats ass.

1258
01:15:03,136 --> 01:15:03,820
Yes.

1259
01:15:08,480 --> 01:15:11,240
So, like, you know, she's dying. He's.

1260
01:15:11,320 --> 01:15:14,664
He's killing her. Yeah. And he's like, confess your sins.

1261
01:15:14,712 --> 01:15:17,940
And she's like, I taken him home.

1262
01:15:20,300 --> 01:15:23,668
Ethel is absolutely a gangster. I.

1263
01:15:23,804 --> 01:15:27,320
So funny. Yeah, she is awesome.

1264
01:15:28,220 --> 01:15:31,972
The next day, after having lunch with Rose, Lark goes home, receives a

1265
01:15:31,996 --> 01:15:35,844
call from her mom letting her know of Ethel's passing. And she calls

1266
01:15:35,892 --> 01:15:39,732
Lachlan asking him to meet her at the assisted living home. But as

1267
01:15:39,756 --> 01:15:43,732
she gets up to leave, she is accosted by Abe

1268
01:15:43,796 --> 01:15:46,910
Midas with a needle, which he injects into her neck,

1269
01:15:47,100 --> 01:15:51,306
and her vision starts to go hazy before she passes out. When Lachlan

1270
01:15:51,338 --> 01:15:54,698
arrives at the assisted living facility and Lark isn't there,

1271
01:15:54,754 --> 01:15:58,394
he realizes immediately that something is wrong. Connor calls

1272
01:15:58,442 --> 01:16:01,994
him because he's recovered information from Stan's security

1273
01:16:02,082 --> 01:16:05,994
system. And Lachlan starts to put together that Abe is the murderer and that

1274
01:16:06,002 --> 01:16:09,914
he's trying to set him up. And he starts to describe Abe

1275
01:16:09,962 --> 01:16:13,210
to Lark's dad, and the nurse in the facility is like,

1276
01:16:13,250 --> 01:16:16,328
oh, you mean the temp nurse? And it just kind of all clicks.

1277
01:16:16,434 --> 01:16:19,612
And he calls in Rose and Fion to help search, but they

1278
01:16:19,636 --> 01:16:22,924
leave Fion at the apartment to care for Lark's

1279
01:16:22,972 --> 01:16:26,300
dog, who Abe has gravely injured. Yeah.

1280
01:16:26,460 --> 01:16:29,900
And as we said in the trigger warnings, the dogs survive. Yes. Yes, we know.

1281
01:16:29,940 --> 01:16:33,116
Animal deaths. I can handle. Men being killed.

1282
01:16:33,228 --> 01:16:34,880
I know. Not animals.

1283
01:16:36,100 --> 01:16:39,340
What is that? I know. Same in movies. Yes. Oh,

1284
01:16:39,420 --> 01:16:42,000
God. Yeah. I. Yeah.

1285
01:16:42,720 --> 01:16:46,072
Lark wakes locked in a box of a

1286
01:16:46,096 --> 01:16:49,432
rotary batch oven, which is funny. We had that little

1287
01:16:49,456 --> 01:16:53,032
foreshadowing in the beginning where she's talking about how she's not

1288
01:16:53,056 --> 01:16:56,392
gonna die in the oven. It'll be Lachlan. Yeah. Yeah.

1289
01:16:56,456 --> 01:17:00,056
She's in the oven. Yeah. Abe is a nut

1290
01:17:00,088 --> 01:17:03,784
job. Yeah. Gonna cook her. Yeah. Horrible.

1291
01:17:03,832 --> 01:17:07,240
Although, I mean, this is something that Lark would probably think of. Yeah, it really

1292
01:17:07,280 --> 01:17:10,734
is. I did think about that when I was, like, reading this whole

1293
01:17:10,782 --> 01:17:14,062
scene. I was like, this is something that Rowan or Lark Would

1294
01:17:14,086 --> 01:17:17,902
have done in retaliation for if

1295
01:17:17,926 --> 01:17:20,846
Abe had killed Lachlan. Yeah.

1296
01:17:20,958 --> 01:17:24,574
Like, so it's kind of ironic,

1297
01:17:24,702 --> 01:17:28,238
but Abe is also, like, constantly quoting the Bible.

1298
01:17:28,414 --> 01:17:31,774
Yeah, he's crazy. Like, he's the brother

1299
01:17:31,902 --> 01:17:35,774
of the chainsaw guy. Right. He's the brother of the chainsaw

1300
01:17:35,822 --> 01:17:38,898
killer from bnb. That horrible. Yeah.

1301
01:17:38,994 --> 01:17:42,946
Yeah. He deserved to die. Yeah. But you definitely

1302
01:17:42,978 --> 01:17:46,802
get a sense of, like, wow, mom did some real damage to these boys.

1303
01:17:46,946 --> 01:17:50,690
Because Abe feels like he is ordained by God

1304
01:17:50,850 --> 01:17:54,190
to do this. Yeah. Like, he really is.

1305
01:17:54,490 --> 01:17:57,730
Yeah. Lachlan arrives, and the

1306
01:17:57,770 --> 01:18:01,554
plan all kind of comes together. Lachlan can choose to save only

1307
01:18:01,642 --> 01:18:04,654
one person. Lark, who will be cooked alive,

1308
01:18:04,782 --> 01:18:08,638
or his brother Rowan and Sloan, who are in a car with a bomb strapped

1309
01:18:08,654 --> 01:18:12,686
to it, and he has to choose which one. And Lachlan

1310
01:18:12,718 --> 01:18:16,350
is, like, trying to process what he's saying, and Lark says,

1311
01:18:16,390 --> 01:18:20,238
like, I'm gonna make it easy on you, and basically volunteers as tribute.

1312
01:18:20,414 --> 01:18:24,302
Yeah. And Abe turns the oven on. He accepts her as

1313
01:18:24,326 --> 01:18:28,622
a volunteer, and he turns the oven on. And Abe didn't

1314
01:18:28,686 --> 01:18:31,050
expect for Rose to be there.

1315
01:18:32,340 --> 01:18:35,852
Queen Rose. Rose. Rose subdues

1316
01:18:35,916 --> 01:18:39,548
him. She gets stabbed in the process. And then Lachlan shoots

1317
01:18:39,564 --> 01:18:42,604
the glass from the box that Lark is in, saving her.

1318
01:18:42,692 --> 01:18:46,508
So everybody is alive and saved

1319
01:18:46,684 --> 01:18:50,204
with the exception of Rose. We don't find out in this book.

1320
01:18:50,292 --> 01:18:53,820
Right. What happened to Rose. Yeah. So based on the fact that there

1321
01:18:53,860 --> 01:18:57,212
is a third book called Skython Sparrow, we can assume that

1322
01:18:57,236 --> 01:19:00,596
she survives. But had we read this book before,

1323
01:19:00,748 --> 01:19:03,120
we wouldn't have known that necessarily. Right.

1324
01:19:03,660 --> 01:19:08,068
Fast forward. Lark arranges her final contract with Leander, thereby finalizing Lachlan's

1325
01:19:08,084 --> 01:19:10,880
retirement and also poisoning him with muffins. Again,

1326
01:19:12,460 --> 01:19:16,020
the fact that he is so cocky, and he eats another

1327
01:19:16,140 --> 01:19:19,812
muffin thinking there's nothing wrong with these muffins. Oh, my gosh.

1328
01:19:19,836 --> 01:19:23,204
I wouldn't do it twice. Yeah. Yeah. But this time it's lurk poisoning the

1329
01:19:23,212 --> 01:19:26,830
muffins, because that feels dead. Yes. It's so

1330
01:19:26,870 --> 01:19:30,526
good. Locklet has given Lark an early birthday gift,

1331
01:19:30,718 --> 01:19:34,142
starting with a safe behind her Constantine poster to

1332
01:19:34,166 --> 01:19:38,270
keep all of her trophies in, but also a new trophy.

1333
01:19:38,430 --> 01:19:41,854
He has put the headmaster's heart in a resin

1334
01:19:41,902 --> 01:19:45,134
box for her. It's so perfect. Oh,

1335
01:19:45,182 --> 01:19:48,910
perfect. She. It's so funny when she gets it because

1336
01:19:48,950 --> 01:19:52,194
he's like. You can tell that. He's like, oh, did I

1337
01:19:52,282 --> 01:19:55,458
this up? Like this? And then she's like,

1338
01:19:55,514 --> 01:19:58,882
so. She's like, so. She looks so, like, stoic and

1339
01:19:58,906 --> 01:20:02,450
serious. And then she goes, this is the Best gift I've ever

1340
01:20:02,490 --> 01:20:06,050
gotten. Yeah. Just. Oh, God, it's so

1341
01:20:06,090 --> 01:20:09,970
good. And then he's also given her divorce papers.

1342
01:20:10,130 --> 01:20:13,250
And when she turns around, Lachlan is on one

1343
01:20:13,290 --> 01:20:17,062
knee, proposing to her, showing her that he chooses her

1344
01:20:17,166 --> 01:20:21,030
and he hopes that Lark chooses him. I just love

1345
01:20:22,222 --> 01:20:25,462
was. It was perfect. Yeah, it was so perfect. It was so

1346
01:20:25,486 --> 01:20:28,198
cheesy, and I didn't even fucking care. Same. I was like,

1347
01:20:28,254 --> 01:20:31,430
yes. She, like, rips up the divorce papers and they kiss,

1348
01:20:31,510 --> 01:20:34,646
and it's. I say, like, it's the end,

1349
01:20:34,718 --> 01:20:38,278
but not quite. Not quite. We get a

1350
01:20:38,334 --> 01:20:42,730
motherfucking bonus chapter. You text me I being

1351
01:20:43,430 --> 01:20:45,250
Nicole, the bonus chapter.

1352
01:20:49,830 --> 01:20:53,086
Yeah, I. I'm gonna. I'm gonna talk about the bonus

1353
01:20:53,118 --> 01:20:56,690
chapter, and then I want to get your reaction to it. Yeah, okay.

1354
01:20:57,910 --> 01:21:01,502
So reading

1355
01:21:01,646 --> 01:21:04,570
this chapter was the highlight of my life,

1356
01:21:05,190 --> 01:21:08,770
actually. Oh, my God, them kids. Fuck them kids.

1357
01:21:09,520 --> 01:21:13,624
This chapter by Brynn Weaver, it's so

1358
01:21:13,712 --> 01:21:16,860
fucking good. I just. I can't.

1359
01:21:17,360 --> 01:21:19,980
Lark and Lachlan are on their honeymoon,

1360
01:21:20,560 --> 01:21:24,200
and Lachlan comes from the beach after scuba diving and,

1361
01:21:24,240 --> 01:21:27,608
like, goes to take a shower, and Lark joins him and does,

1362
01:21:27,664 --> 01:21:30,920
like, a little sexy, little strip tease, which is actually sexy.

1363
01:21:31,000 --> 01:21:34,504
Yes. Not cheesy. And then she drops to her knees

1364
01:21:34,552 --> 01:21:37,704
to give Lachlan head. And just as he's about to come,

1365
01:21:37,792 --> 01:21:41,808
she steps, stops, tells him to dry off and to meet

1366
01:21:41,864 --> 01:21:45,232
her in the bedroom, where she has put on a

1367
01:21:45,256 --> 01:21:48,704
robe and strewn the shredded divorce papers

1368
01:21:48,752 --> 01:21:50,660
over the bed like rose petals.

1369
01:21:52,680 --> 01:21:55,540
She is a creative queen. Yes.

1370
01:21:56,200 --> 01:22:00,080
Lark tells Lachlan that she wants to punish him for

1371
01:22:00,120 --> 01:22:03,536
giving her divorce papers every time he takes

1372
01:22:03,568 --> 01:22:06,836
his ring off. And Lachlan

1373
01:22:06,868 --> 01:22:10,580
is like. Like, I didn't want to, babe. I didn't want to

1374
01:22:10,620 --> 01:22:14,500
lose it. I had a tattoo. And she's like, I don't fucking care. And she

1375
01:22:14,540 --> 01:22:18,964
takes her robe, and underneath, she's wearing nothing but a

1376
01:22:19,132 --> 01:22:22,180
leather harness and a black strap on dildo.

1377
01:22:22,340 --> 01:22:23,880
Yep. Glittery.

1378
01:22:25,580 --> 01:22:29,076
Of course it is. Of course it is, because I'm gonna fuck you. But there's

1379
01:22:29,108 --> 01:22:32,494
glitter and there should be. Yeah.

1380
01:22:32,622 --> 01:22:36,414
She tells Lachlan. I'm going to fuck you on those papers.

1381
01:22:36,542 --> 01:22:40,014
I'm going to fuck you until you never forget who you belong to. Get on

1382
01:22:40,022 --> 01:22:42,542
the goddamn bed. Oh,

1383
01:22:42,606 --> 01:22:46,410
my God. Lachlan is

1384
01:22:46,710 --> 01:22:49,710
so fucking excited.

1385
01:22:49,870 --> 01:22:53,294
Yeah. He gets on the bed on all fours,

1386
01:22:53,422 --> 01:22:57,182
and Lark fucks his ass while she strokes his cock until he

1387
01:22:57,206 --> 01:23:01,276
comes all over the divorce papers. And it is the

1388
01:23:01,348 --> 01:23:05,004
best possible ending to a book that I could ever imagine

1389
01:23:05,052 --> 01:23:08,332
in my life. I. It's not what I was

1390
01:23:08,356 --> 01:23:11,084
expecting when you text me that. I was like, oh, my God, is this a

1391
01:23:11,092 --> 01:23:14,844
glimpse into the next book? What is it? Yeah. And then I read it and

1392
01:23:14,852 --> 01:23:18,360
I was like, God damn it, Amanda. Of course this is what it was.

1393
01:23:21,140 --> 01:23:25,224
This fucking scene. It's so

1394
01:23:25,412 --> 01:23:27,920
good. And there are a couple of, like,

1395
01:23:27,960 --> 01:23:31,632
inconsistencies just with like the things that she does and just

1396
01:23:31,656 --> 01:23:35,312
like his size versus her size. But I am willing to overlook all

1397
01:23:35,336 --> 01:23:38,912
of it because I don't fucking care. They have like the first time

1398
01:23:38,936 --> 01:23:42,080
that they have sex, he asks her, like, what does red

1399
01:23:42,120 --> 01:23:45,680
mean? What does orange mean? What does green mean? And she

1400
01:23:45,800 --> 01:23:49,104
makes him tell her in this scene. So she asks him,

1401
01:23:49,192 --> 01:23:52,558
what does red mean? What does orange mean? What does green mean? And he.

1402
01:23:52,614 --> 01:23:55,422
She makes him give his buy in multiple times.

1403
01:23:55,526 --> 01:23:59,534
Yeah, she makes him very into this. Make him say multiple

1404
01:23:59,582 --> 01:24:03,454
times, like, what color? And he's like, green. And like,

1405
01:24:03,542 --> 01:24:07,246
it's. Yeah. Oh, my God, it's so sexy. If you

1406
01:24:07,398 --> 01:24:10,702
have ever even considered exploring this as something that you would be

1407
01:24:10,726 --> 01:24:14,494
interested in, you have to read this chapter. Yes. It's so good.

1408
01:24:14,582 --> 01:24:19,630
Yes. And that ends our book. That's was

1409
01:24:19,670 --> 01:24:23,262
good. Yeah. I'm very happy. I'm still like.

1410
01:24:23,366 --> 01:24:27,374
Because sometimes when you get to like the third, fourth, like when

1411
01:24:27,382 --> 01:24:30,590
you get like into later books, things kind of go downhill.

1412
01:24:30,670 --> 01:24:34,702
Like, you don't always capture the magic of the first one. I am

1413
01:24:34,886 --> 01:24:38,814
so fully bought in. I can't wait. I want to read everything

1414
01:24:38,902 --> 01:24:41,982
that Bryn Weaver ever puts out. She has other series that I still really want

1415
01:24:42,006 --> 01:24:45,502
to read. I'm obsessed with her and her writing and it's her writing style.

1416
01:24:45,566 --> 01:24:49,610
It's so good. It is. Yeah. Nothing but just amazing things

1417
01:24:49,650 --> 01:24:52,710
to say. Yeah, same. So, so, so good.

1418
01:24:53,410 --> 01:24:57,514
So Brynn Weaver, you can find her online@brynweaverbooks.com

1419
01:24:57,682 --> 01:25:00,842
you know, kind of as we've already talked about, we've already done her Butcher and

1420
01:25:00,866 --> 01:25:05,162
black book and we are planning to also do her next

1421
01:25:05,186 --> 01:25:08,506
book when it comes out, sky the Sparrow. So we're going to be doing that

1422
01:25:08,658 --> 01:25:11,690
basically as soon as it is released, we are going to read it

1423
01:25:11,730 --> 01:25:15,182
and then we are are very. Our very next episode that following week is going

1424
01:25:15,206 --> 01:25:18,574
to be for that book. So look forward to that.

1425
01:25:18,742 --> 01:25:22,974
We want to thank Paggle for her help with our social media.

1426
01:25:23,142 --> 01:25:27,022
As always. We wouldn't be able to do it without her. And you

1427
01:25:27,046 --> 01:25:28,730
can follow us on social media.

1428
01:25:29,830 --> 01:25:35,850
Booksletspod. We are on Instagram and TikTok and find us online@booksletspodcast.com

1429
01:25:36,150 --> 01:25:38,370
do we want to do ratings? Yeah.

1430
01:25:39,280 --> 01:25:43,220
Spice level. So for spice level on this book,

1431
01:25:43,520 --> 01:25:47,112
I am going to go with graphic.

1432
01:25:47,256 --> 01:25:50,856
I think that's what we kind of decided. Spice level is how graphic

1433
01:25:50,888 --> 01:25:54,600
it is. Yeah. If it had not been for that bonus chapter,

1434
01:25:54,760 --> 01:25:58,104
I probably would have given this A3. Yeah, same.

1435
01:25:58,272 --> 01:26:01,272
But because of the bonus chapter, I am going to bump it up to a

1436
01:26:01,296 --> 01:26:04,536
four. Sure. I think that the bonus chapter is

1437
01:26:04,608 --> 01:26:07,748
very graphic. Yeah. And it

1438
01:26:07,804 --> 01:26:11,252
is. I think some of the things

1439
01:26:11,356 --> 01:26:15,140
in that. That chapter specifically, I think girl is a little bit more advanced.

1440
01:26:15,220 --> 01:26:19,188
Yeah. It's not something that I would necessarily

1441
01:26:19,364 --> 01:26:22,756
lump in with another three rated book. Yeah.

1442
01:26:22,868 --> 01:26:26,580
So yeah, I'm gonna give it a four. Yeah. I gave it a five based

1443
01:26:26,620 --> 01:26:30,084
on that chapter. Really? Yeah. Wow. Like that.

1444
01:26:30,172 --> 01:26:33,610
This was graphic. Even the earlier scenes were

1445
01:26:33,650 --> 01:26:37,130
like kind of graphic. Yeah, this one was very

1446
01:26:37,170 --> 01:26:40,810
graphic. Yeah. The scene where he's putting his fingers in her ass is very

1447
01:26:40,850 --> 01:26:43,418
graphic. Yeah. So yeah, it got a five for me.

1448
01:26:43,474 --> 01:26:47,370
Yeah. What about spice frequency? I'm gonna.

1449
01:26:47,530 --> 01:26:51,626
Oh, this one is hard because I feel like there's a lot of sexual

1450
01:26:51,658 --> 01:26:54,986
tension. Yes. I think because of that sexual tension,

1451
01:26:55,018 --> 01:26:58,148
I'm gonna give it. I'm gonna give it a three. Sure.

1452
01:26:58,284 --> 01:27:01,908
I gave it a two. Yeah. It's still.

1453
01:27:01,964 --> 01:27:05,172
It's more. There's more spice than some books.

1454
01:27:05,236 --> 01:27:08,452
Yes. This is definitely a book with smut. Yeah. It's not a

1455
01:27:08,476 --> 01:27:11,972
smutty book. Nope. Oh, I can't wait for the next one to see what we

1456
01:27:11,996 --> 01:27:15,252
get. Because it's not going to be.

1457
01:27:15,276 --> 01:27:17,844
The next one's not going to be like an enemies to lovers or we're just

1458
01:27:17,852 --> 01:27:21,252
getting to know each other. Like we know they know each other.

1459
01:27:21,276 --> 01:27:24,802
We don't know what their relationship is yet, but they've now known each other

1460
01:27:24,826 --> 01:27:27,730
for like two years dying.

1461
01:27:27,890 --> 01:27:31,266
I know. I get the impression that Fion is absolutely

1462
01:27:31,298 --> 01:27:34,786
obsessed with her. Sure. And like she knows

1463
01:27:34,818 --> 01:27:38,270
that, but she is not willing to.

1464
01:27:38,650 --> 01:27:42,226
I think that she's going to be kind of more traditional in that she wants

1465
01:27:42,258 --> 01:27:46,418
him to pursue her. Sure. And so she's not gonna like

1466
01:27:46,554 --> 01:27:50,204
give in to him. She's gonna be like, if you want this, you need

1467
01:27:50,212 --> 01:27:53,692
to come and get it. And I'm not gonna like bridge that

1468
01:27:53,716 --> 01:27:57,212
gap for you. Sure. I do see her being that strong willed.

1469
01:27:57,356 --> 01:28:00,280
I see her being into him first.

1470
01:28:02,740 --> 01:28:05,468
I mean, because we know that Claire is his ex and he's like really hung

1471
01:28:05,484 --> 01:28:08,620
up on her where. So I think it's going to be more where

1472
01:28:08,660 --> 01:28:12,220
he maybe can't move on or doesn't feel like he deserves these things.

1473
01:28:12,340 --> 01:28:15,040
And she's more into it. Yeah.

1474
01:28:15,340 --> 01:28:18,980
I like yours better. Okay. I'm gonna go with your favorite.

1475
01:28:19,060 --> 01:28:22,292
It's not my favorite type. Sure. Of, like, Trope, I prefer,

1476
01:28:22,356 --> 01:28:25,988
like, enemies to lovers. Or I need him to be more obsessed.

1477
01:28:26,084 --> 01:28:29,956
Yeah. But I don't. With their relationship. I don't see that happening.

1478
01:28:30,068 --> 01:28:33,172
When there's somebody, like. When there's somebody from, like, the past involved, I feel like

1479
01:28:33,196 --> 01:28:36,360
it's just. And I completely forgot about Claire.

1480
01:28:36,700 --> 01:28:40,644
So I didn't really take that into consideration when I made my. Because on Halloween.

1481
01:28:40,772 --> 01:28:44,422
Granted, this was two years ago on Halloween,

1482
01:28:44,566 --> 01:28:47,926
like, Fion had just, like. He was just sobbing and crying

1483
01:28:47,958 --> 01:28:51,382
about Claire because she tried to, like. Yeah. Again. And that's the

1484
01:28:51,406 --> 01:28:54,390
reason she's the reason that Fion won't move home. Yeah.

1485
01:28:54,550 --> 01:28:58,422
I can't wait. We're gonna. Should we take that day off?

1486
01:28:58,606 --> 01:29:01,878
Probably. Okay. Anyways, pros. I'm gonna

1487
01:29:01,894 --> 01:29:06,246
give it a five. Yeah. Easy. Yeah. Same storyline.

1488
01:29:06,438 --> 01:29:10,422
I'm gonna give it a five. Yeah. So did I. It's such

1489
01:29:10,446 --> 01:29:13,890
a good story. Such a good story. I love them so much.

1490
01:29:14,190 --> 01:29:17,654
I. It's hard for me to say anything. I don't really have anything negative to

1491
01:29:17,662 --> 01:29:20,262
say about this book. I couldn't think of a single thing. Yeah.

1492
01:29:20,406 --> 01:29:24,342
Overall, five. Five. Yeah. I go back and forth between

1493
01:29:24,446 --> 01:29:28,406
four and a half and five. Because I. I liked Butcher and Blackbird

1494
01:29:28,438 --> 01:29:32,502
more. I think that I like Butcher and Blackbird. I like the story

1495
01:29:32,526 --> 01:29:36,482
of Butcher and Blackbird more. I liked Lark and

1496
01:29:36,506 --> 01:29:39,842
Lachlan more than I liked Rowan and Sloan.

1497
01:29:39,906 --> 01:29:44,066
I. And that's saying a lot. Because I adore

1498
01:29:44,258 --> 01:29:47,506
Sloan and Rowan. Like, I adore. Like, I.

1499
01:29:47,658 --> 01:29:50,562
I didn't think that it's like when you. It's like when you have your first

1500
01:29:50,586 --> 01:29:53,106
kid and you're like, God, I don't think I could love. Yeah.

1501
01:29:53,218 --> 01:29:56,834
Anybody anymore than. I have this. Than I love this child. And then you have

1502
01:29:56,842 --> 01:29:59,922
your second child and you're like, oh, yeah, I do love. More. It's the

1503
01:29:59,946 --> 01:30:03,472
same sort of, like, sensation for me. But I have to go

1504
01:30:03,496 --> 01:30:06,848
back to the fact that, like, Lachlan is probably one of my favorite characters

1505
01:30:06,944 --> 01:30:10,512
ever written. And I really like. I mean, I've been

1506
01:30:10,536 --> 01:30:14,384
reading for a long time. I'm 38. I've read so

1507
01:30:14,472 --> 01:30:17,920
many female main characters. I have read so many,

1508
01:30:17,960 --> 01:30:21,552
I couldn't even fucking count them. And I have never, ever been able

1509
01:30:21,576 --> 01:30:23,936
to see myself in a character the way that I can see myself in Lark.

1510
01:30:23,968 --> 01:30:26,272
And so I think, like, just yeah. For.

1511
01:30:26,296 --> 01:30:30,220
That's gotta be a five for me. And you can still like

1512
01:30:30,660 --> 01:30:34,284
this, I feel like is like your God Tier book. Oh. Butcher and Blackbird can

1513
01:30:34,292 --> 01:30:37,692
still be a five. And this can be. Yeah. Yes, I got

1514
01:30:37,716 --> 01:30:41,164
that. I'm gonna give it. I think I'll like a 4.75.

1515
01:30:41,252 --> 01:30:44,844
Oh, my. Okay. Wow. Look at you. All right. It's not

1516
01:30:44,932 --> 01:30:48,556
just because. Yeah, yeah. I might amend that.

1517
01:30:48,628 --> 01:30:51,804
Who knows? You don't have to explain yourself at all.

1518
01:30:51,892 --> 01:30:55,356
I am so. Because I'm like, what are some other books that I gave fives,

1519
01:30:55,388 --> 01:30:58,866
too? Do I like them more than I like this book? Sure.

1520
01:30:58,938 --> 01:31:00,722
I don't think I do. I think I do need to give this one a

1521
01:31:00,746 --> 01:31:03,986
five. Okay. I've gone back. It's getting a five. Okay. All right.

1522
01:31:04,058 --> 01:31:07,410
Look at you. Wow. I'm glad we could all participate through.

1523
01:31:07,450 --> 01:31:09,310
Sometimes I have to talk. Talk them through.

1524
01:31:10,330 --> 01:31:14,258
Absolutely. So five. Yeah. All right.

1525
01:31:14,314 --> 01:31:17,426
Well, that was so much fun.

1526
01:31:17,498 --> 01:31:20,466
Yeah. Thank you so much for joining us again. Read this book.

1527
01:31:20,538 --> 01:31:23,800
Yes. It's so accessible again. You can get on audiobook.

1528
01:31:23,930 --> 01:31:27,900
You can get it your library. You can get it Target, Barnes and Noble,

1529
01:31:28,060 --> 01:31:31,404
Amazon, Kindle. Not on Kindle Unlimited,

1530
01:31:31,452 --> 01:31:34,364
but you can buy it for your Kindle. Yeah. Read it.

1531
01:31:34,452 --> 01:31:37,804
Yeah. It's so good. It's so. And then tell us what you think. Yes.

1532
01:31:37,852 --> 01:31:41,440
Do you agree with us? Oh, my God. What do you think? Bonus chapter.

1533
01:31:42,980 --> 01:31:46,284
I can't wait to hear. My sister thinks she loved Butcher and

1534
01:31:46,292 --> 01:31:50,096
Blackbird. Yeah. So is she going to think. Yeah. Of this one? One.

1535
01:31:50,168 --> 01:31:53,376
Yeah. I'll let you know. Yes. All right.

1536
01:31:53,528 --> 01:31:56,992
Well, I'm Amanda. I'm Nicole. We are book sluts and we will

1537
01:31:57,016 --> 01:31:57,776
see you next time.