Things We Hide From The Light by Lucy Score

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Apparently, we need to talk about Pedro, and I don't

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know. You told me this, like, three weeks ago.

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We haven't talked about Pedro. I know. So I don't know why we need

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to talk about Pedro. The reason that we need to talk about Pedro is because.

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So, first of all, I have never been

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like a Pedro Stan. I very much like

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Pedro now. I'm still not a Stan,

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but I do like him. He is very appealing.

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Yeah, no question. But I mean, obviously, like, I've been

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watching him since Game of Thrones. Very sexy in

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that show. The reason that this came up is because I think Pagel

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sent us a video of just, like, a bunch of short clips

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of Pedro being just the sexy daddy, sexy little creature that he

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is. And it occurred to me that it doesn't

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track for you at all. He has dark hair and a mustache and

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brown eyes. He's tall, very thin.

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Pedro. Have you seen him in the Last of Us? Have you

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seen your husband? Well, literally, there has.

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We have never talked about, like, a man who was, like, lean and

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muscled that you were like, that's for me. Pedro does not read

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as hyper masculine. And you typically are very attracted to

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hyper masculine men. It just brings

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me to the question of what's going on, Nicole.

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He didn't do it for me in Game of Thrones. He did not do

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it for me until the Last of Us, which he is super hyper masculine

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in the Last of Us. Oh, he's rugged,

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sure. He like fights.

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Yeah. Alpha. Yes.

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But did you watch the video that Pegla sent us? Because in

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one of the scenes, he was, like, giggling.

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I know. It needs to be Pedro and the Last of

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Us. Oh, interesting. It needs to be Joel. Have I told you, though,

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that Melissa is completely convinced that if she just met Pedro in

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real life, that they would be soulmates and he'd fall in love with her and

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they'd be perfect together. I hate to be the bearer of bad news, Melissa,

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but you're not his type. Pedro Pascal

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does not want to listen to you talk about keke Palmer for 45 minutes.

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He doesn't. And that's where I think Melissa will disagree with you.

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Melissa has completely convinced herself. I listened to her talk about this

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for, like, 45 minutes one day. The thing of it is, is, like, I love

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recreational arguing. That's like, a thing on the Internet right now. And I didn't know

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that that's what it was called, but I love a recreational

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argument. Is that what we do? Yeah, it is. Okay. You can't

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recreationally argue With Melissa. And I learned that the hard

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way. The time that I made fun of her bow. Oh, yeah. And called

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her a narc. Yeah.

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That was really, like, the moment for me where I realized

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there's no recreation about it for her. It's serious business.

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Always. Always. Although I am inclined to

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point out to her that they are not soulmates. When we go to Sam's concert

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in a couple of weeks, I won't. So,

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yeah, that was my thing with the Pedro was. I was just trying to understand

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because it's only Joel. For anybody listening, it is Joel,

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and that is it. I think the thing that I like about him is

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that he, for me, comes across as very sexually fluid.

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And I really enjoy that. I feel like, for me,

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though, it's the same as, like, Nick Offerman. It's not Nick Offerman. It's Ron Swanson.

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It's the characters they play where they play hyper masculine.

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So. Well, sure. Like, you can go build me a house in the

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woods and then ravage me. So it's not like

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real life Pedro. I mean, it is, because I'm always picturing him as

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Joel. All right, well, that really cleared it. Up for me now, you know,

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the. More, you know, it was really weighing on me, so. All right, well,

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I'm so glad that we got to talk about this. All right, well, I'm Amanda.

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And I'm Nicole. And we're plot tarts. We read, recap, and review smutty

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books. Let us help you decide if this book should stay on your tbr.

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What are we reading today? We are reading Things We Hide from the Light

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by Lucy. Score. The second book in the Knock Em out series.

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Yeah, and we should just let you all know that

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we're kind of winging it today. I only got about halfway through the book on

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my notes, so we're gonna make the best of it,

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honestly. Yeah, I mean, I remember pretty much everything that happens in this book.

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If we don't finish it, it'll be a spoiler free episode.

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For the record, my notes are done, but my note. You guys haven't heard many

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of my notes. Cause we cut them out. Because my notes are trash. But I

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tried to be a little better this time. Yeah. All right, well, content warnings.

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Once again, this book does not have content warnings, so I use

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the trigger warning database website. They include racism,

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parental abandonment, recounted domestic abuse, panic attacks,

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alcoholism, recounted post traumatic stress disorder, police brutality, gun violence,

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kidnapping, and sexual themes. Why do

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you look so disgruntled right now? What's going on? Racism.

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When yeah. The guy literally gets canned

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from his job because he is forging police paperwork.

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Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh. Okay. Okay. All right. I forgot about him.

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Well, I mean, I didn't. I just forgot that about that. Sure.

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I was literally in my mind. Those were just wheels turning. Oh, okay.

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That's what that was. It was such a serious. Yeah, okay. So serious. All right,

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well, we open where we left off in our timeline. Nash,

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Morgan, Knox, Morgan's brother, and the knock him out chief of police

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has returned to work after being shot on the job. Due to the potential

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overlap and conflict of investigation, with Hugo having gone missing after his kidnapping

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of Naomi, the FBI has gotten involved and placed one of their officers,

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Marshall Graham, on patrol of Nash.

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His only job, to stay close to Nash as possible and ensure

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he doesn't interfere in the investigation.

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I have to ask you a question. I have so many questions.

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Because you read the third book before you read the second book. Where did you

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think that Graham came from? I don't. The past.

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Interesting. You're just like, oh, just another goofy,

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knock him out character. Yep. Interesting. Yep.

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I want a book about Nolan. Oh,

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I like him. Yeah. He has a mustache.

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Yeah. Which is what I like about him. He also.

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He's funny. I enjoyed reading about him.

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Sure, sure, sure. Okay. Well, I just thought he was kind of

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boring. His little banter with Nash is adorable.

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Nash is adorable. Okay. It's clear

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reading this first chapter that an essential part of who Nash was

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as a person is no longer there after being shot. He is a fundamentally

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different person in the first book. He's affable, warm, and in

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this book, he's cold and surly, but not in a good natured way, the way

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that Nox is. I'm curious, how do you feel? Like his depression

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was written. I think that for

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all of the caricaturing that she does of characters in

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her book, I think it was pretty well done. I suppose when the bar is

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caricature. Yeah. Cause I was like. He kind of snaps out of it

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easily, which. Honestly. Just because he wants to have sex with Lena.

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Honestly. But the thing of it is, is that. Isn't that men, though?

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Isn't that just men? It's like their girlfriend will break up with

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them and then they'll turn into raging alcoholics for five years until they

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meet the next girl who comes along and, like, is willing to, like, save them.

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They're just. Men are just fucking trash. Agreed.

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Yeah. I hate men. I have always hated men. No, I know. I always try

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to. I'm the fucking lady that saves them. So I'm talking about me.

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I just call myself out. So it's always

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me. Nash has given up on his crush on Naomi at this point.

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Which I liked that they. That she addressed it because

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he's kind of like, I got over a lot quicker than I thought I would.

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Yeah. Which again, tracks.

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That's man. Oh, yeah. Next he was infatuated and

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then over it. Very clearly not in love. Infatuated and in competition.

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Yes. Men. What the fuck is that shit?

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Yes. It's like, I'm not gonna have to let another man have her. I'm gonna

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have her. It's like, I don't. You love that shit. I fucking hate it.

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Oh, yes, I do. Although I All I keep.

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What episode was it? It was Credence, where you say the

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thing about Jonah Hill, which I think is. Yes, yes. Even with

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my cousin, nobody else is gonna fucking have her.

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That is a. That's one of my favorite parts of that episode. Same.

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I actually love that episode. It's a good episode for sure.

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Go listen to Credence, everyone. Yeah, it's.

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Yeah. First read it and then. Yeah. And then listen to it. Or don't read

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it and just listen to our episode. Yeah, if. Yeah, that's. If that particular

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taboo is not for you, maybe just listen to the episode. Well,

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trying to hide from the prying eyes of Knock Him Out's finest, he,

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Nash heads home for lunch where he meets the new tenant in the building as

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she's moving in. Angelina Solavita,

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AKA Lena, Naomi and Knox's current friend,

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who also used to be a friends with benefits situation with Knox.

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And she's moving in to the empty apartment in Knox's building above Whiskey

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Clippers at Knox and Naomi's behest after they discover the

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pest ridden motel that she was staying in. I was thinking about this when I

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was reading this. This is very true to life. Small town.

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It's gotta be right where it's like, well, my brother used to

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have a crush on my fiance. And my fiance's best friend used

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to be my friends with benefits. And I wanna date

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my brother's ex friends with benefits who

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also had a sexual relationship with the guy who's tailing

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me right now. A lot of. Yeah, like shared exes.

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It gets messy. Yeah. It's when there's 10 people.

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Girls gotta do what a girl's gotta do. Well, the attraction between

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Nash and Lena is immediate. And we get point of view from both of them

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in this scene, learning that they are both in their Minds telling themselves that

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they're off limits to one another. And we also learn that Lena is kind

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of full of secrets. In addition to a medical condition that she's managing in secret,

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a situation that causes her parents to call and check up on her daily,

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if not hourly, she is also not being transparent with the crew about why she

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is in Knock him out, saying that she is an insurance investigator.

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But we see immediately that the case file has a photo of Hugo implying

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that she is there for something that is perhaps more involved than she is letting

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on. Nash is still unable to remember the details of his shooting.

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He's fairly certain it's related to Duncan Hugo, but he's not sure how. He's been

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visiting the scene of the crime to try and jog his memory. In the morning,

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after meeting Lena on the stairs in their apartment, while at the scene of

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the crime, he discovers a dog in the drain pipe on the side of the

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road. And while trying to get her out of the pipe, Lena comes along on

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her morning jog and ends up helping him get the dog out of the pipe

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and bringing it home to his apartment, where he and Lena give her a bath

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and they name her Piper. And this scene is funny because in

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another book, I think it would have been written sexy and,

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like, I don't know, like, angsty. But in this book, it's written in

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the format of, like, a sitcom. It is, like, I can imagine,

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like, almost like an audience of people, like, laughing. Because he

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gets surprised by her first, hits his head on the pipe. So we have some

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slapstick here. And then he goes full police mode to pin her to the ground.

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And then Lena climbs into the pipe to get the dog, and Nash has to

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pull her out and, like, gets behind her. She's on her knees,

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and he's, like, on his knees behind her to pull her out. And then Steph

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drives by in his sporty little convertible. It's so chaotic.

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And asks if they need any help and is, like, implying, like, you know,

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like, oh, you need any help down there, like, on here, like. And it's the

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whole thing. I. I think my note in the book was, this is an assault

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to my senses. It was funny when originally, when. Cause Nash

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is like, you never sneak up on a police officer and has her pinned to

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the ground. And she's like, your gun is digging into me. And he says,

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that's not my gun. Yeah, it was kind of sexy. Was it that

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Nash is perpetually turned on around

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Lena? That was, for me, the number of times we talked about his erection.

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Yeah. In this book, he's always this poor

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man. I know. Yeah, he really is. He really has

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no self control around Lena. Yep. This point in the book

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was when I kind of was like, you're gonna be obsessed with this guy.

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He's your perfect fit. We also get a little shower scene. Here,

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which is your favorite part.

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I love the idea of somebody masturbating thinking about me.

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So Nash in the scene is imagining Lena while

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he jerks off in his shower. And then the

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next day, Lena runs into Nash and Nolan, who is now Nash's shadow.

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And we learned that Lena and Nolan had a little flingy fling and that

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Lena had listened to Nash while he was masturbating and

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puts together when he discloses his nickname for her, which is

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angel, that he was masturbating thinking about her. Because he finishes

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and says, angel. And then when they're like having this little like,

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pissing contest between Nolan and Nash, he says

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like, oh, angel. And I go way back. And Lena falls down a dark

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hole because she's like, oh, my fucking God. That's. That's what you would do.

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You would react the exact same way. But also Lena's having none of their pissing

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contest. Oh, no, not at all. No. And I would same.

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I would be egging them on. Oh, yeah.

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Oh, yeah. Because Nash is giving Knox. He's so jealous.

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Yeah. Any other man. And Lena's just annoyed. I.

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My next note here is I literally love the scene because I love

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that Lena's got ex friends with benefits all over the place. Oh, yes.

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Like the fact that she's like, she slept with Knox. She slept with Nolan.

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Like, now she's gonna sleep with Mazz. Yeah, it's. I love it.

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During this encounter, Nash insinuates to Nolan that he and

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Lena also have a little thing. And this pisses her off. Rightfully so.

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And then that night at a dinner at Naomi and Knox's place, before leaving,

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she and Nash have a heated exchange that involves

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some dry humping while she tells Nash to fuck off. And when

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he goes to her place that night to apologize, he discloses how traumatized he is

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about his shooting and how getting her riled up makes him feel something for the

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first time since it happened, causing Lena to forgive him.

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I probably would have too. Oh, yeah, for sure.

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Bleeding heart. I'm a bleeding heart. I'm surprised that you would, though.

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He had me pinned up against the wall earlier with his giant erection.

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Yeah. At the very minimum, I would have needed to see what

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that was about. This scene was giving, like, caught up with Junior.

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And when they're like. When she comes out of the bathroom and she's,

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like, rubbing herself into him and is like, why don't you fuck off? And he's

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like, is this how you treat everybody that you want to fuck off? That was

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the scene right here is like. She's telling Nash, like, you have to stay

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the fuck away from me. Like, this is. You can't. We're not fucking doing this.

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And meanwhile, she's, like, gripping his shirt and, like, pulling him

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to her. And then in the midst of all of this, Knox walks in on

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them. And Knox is having none of it. Knox is

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like, she's my best friend. Stay the fuck away from her. Yeah. And Nash is

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like, don't fucking tell me what to do. Except that I think, like, we find

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out later. It's not, like, a major plot point. But Nox's thing was

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more a concern about Lena breaking Nash's heart. Because Lena is

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a friends with benefit. She has multiple friends with. We've seen that. We get that

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history of her. Nash is a I'm gonna marry you, and you're

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gonna have 18 children, and you're gonna be barefoot in a pregnant and pregnant in

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my kitchen for the rest of my life kind of guy. Your face is so

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gross out right now. But not for me. Yeah, that's the kind of guy he

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is. And until he meets Lena.

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But I think Knox is more worried about that. Yes. Yes,

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100%. He propositions Lena that night to help

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him feel alive, which she does not give a response to until later.

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On another night, he has an anxiety attack,

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and Lena stumbles upon him in the lobby and helps him to

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get back to his apartment and brings his heart rate back down.

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And she shares with him the heart issue she suddenly developed while playing soccer

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in high school, where she basically dropped dead on the field in the middle of

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a game and had to be resuscitated. Thus the cause of the overbearing

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parents. When she attempts to leave, Nash convinces her to stay,

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promising, no funny business, no sex, just sleeping.

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You skipped over. Oh, okay. When Steph and Lena go to

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the gym and are working out. Okay, well, let's talk about it, baby.

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So Knox's only other tenant in his. Building is a

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little old lady named Mrs. Tweety. Mrs. Tweety.

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Who is always awake and always drunk and always eavesdropping

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on Lena. And always up for it. Always up for it, no matter what it

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is. She's there. Yep. She's always there. And she convinces Lena

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to go to the gym with her because she has, like, a little group of,

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like, senior citizens who work out. And both Lena and Steph are fighting

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for their lives trying to keep up with these people. Well, they notice

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and Knox and Jeremiah are all working out in, like, the same gym and,

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like, watching them and, like, everybody's being sexy, and there's

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a bunch of, like, testosterone and hormones because everybody's working

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out and hot and sweaty. And Steph literally says, all right,

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we need to work out and make this sexy. I love Steph. I. I love

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stuff. Any chance we can talk about stuff? I want to. I know, honey,

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but it's. I was trying to keep it high level, so I'm glad we included

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it. It was a fun scene. I did enjoy it. Even though Nash has promised

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no funny business. Sleeping Lena has other thoughts.

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This is, I think, where Nicole kind of jumped on board with this.

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Yes. So they fall asleep with a pillow between them.

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And because she isn't, like, going back to her apartment, she's basically,

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like, sleeping in her underwear in a T shirt in his bed.

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And she has a sexy dream about Nash and

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then wakes up and realizes that she's crawled over the pillow

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between them, pulled down Nash's pants, and his dick is hard

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in between her legs. She's literally thinking to herself how

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wet she is and what a mess she's made. And she's like, I wonder if

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I could blame it on the dog.

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Well, he also. His arm is around her and under her shirt and on

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her bare breast, they're snuggling.

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It's sexy. So what does she do next? Well, she goes to

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dislodge herself, and his dick rubs her clit in

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just the right way, causing her to orgasm. And then Nash wakes up and is,

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like, super apologetic because he realizes that his dick is out and that they're not,

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like, separate anymore. But he also doesn't realize, like, what just happened.

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And again, very much giving sitcom. Yes.

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Very much. Like, could you come that quickly,

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that easily? I guess it had been a while. Cause it sounds

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from the description, it's literally like a quick. It's one hard rub.

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I mean, I definitely had dreams where I have

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orgasmed in my dream. So if I was at that place in

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my dream and then there was a little bit of stimulation, I suppose I could

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get there in this particular scenario. It was kind of hard for me

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to imagine. Yeah, same. Just the dream wasn't happen. The dream

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wasn't that great. Like, my dreams where I have orgasms

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from My dream while I'm sleeping are very,

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very intense. Like, very intense. I don't know that I

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can actually orgasm in a dream. I have sex dreams every other night.

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Sure. But I don't know that I actually, like, I remember them

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and I like, almost get there and want to get there, but don't.

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Sure. So I don't know if I can. I wonder what, like,

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the statistics are on that. I'm actually curious about it too. I'm actually,

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like, a little bit always sort of paranoid that, like,

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I'm like, making noises or, like, rubbing my body or something

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and like, my husband is sleeping next to me. Does he know, like,

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that's what I dream about? Like, and just doesn't say anything or,

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like, I mean. Yeah, so. So I'm gonna tell you right now, you probably are

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moaning. Cause I once I was asleep at my parents house very young,

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not very young. I was out of high school and college, but I was

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asleep on my parents couch and my mom was like, watching tv. I was laying

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there, I fell asleep and had a sex dream. Oh. Knew I had a sex

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dream. I woke up and mom was like, oh, did you have a nightmare?

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You were kind of making some noise. Oh. I was like, yep.

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Shoot. What? I know. I'm like, sweet Jesus.

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Yeah, please tell me I wasn't rubbing myself. Oh, my God.

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Yeah, that would be. That's so at the very least,

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you probably are making noises. Shoot. Tell your husband it's a nightmare.

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Yeah, he would literally never bring it up. He'd never even

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deign to question anything that I do in any way. No,

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he really wouldn't. We follow Nash along on a few of his calls

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that day as he fires one of his cops after he is

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informed that there is evidence that he is corrupt. And this is sort of the

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beginning of like, we're seeing Nash kind of coming back to

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his original personality, and the city is kind of starting to see him come back

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and because I think the population of this city have been kind of

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taking it a little personally, his bad attitude. Oh,

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yeah. Like, he's the sweet. They call him studly do, right? Yeah, he's the sweet

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cop. And now he's been like, attitude, he's lying,

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he's yelling at people. And so I think this

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is kind of our, like, her way of being like, he's coming around like he's

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got that life back in him. Like, whatever. Fuck this guy. Oh,

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my. Not Nash. Oh, Tate. Oh, yeah.

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The bad cop. Yeah. You didn't describe everything. He. Oh, my God,

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he's so nasty. Yeah. Literally.

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And then they kind of describe the, like, old police chief that Nash got rid

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of or, like, replaced, who was just garbage as well, who is

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still. In this town, present in this town. I think we actually talked about him

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in the first book because I think at one point in time, Naomi serves

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him. They're both corrupt. There's a little bit of, like, everything that's wrong.

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Yeah. With policemen. Oh, yeah. Police officers.

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Classic. Good old boys. For sure. We get a few stories from the rumor

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mill. Lena tells Nash, Mrs. Tweedy said you

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caught one of your guys stealing counterfeit bills out of evidence after they spent

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it at a strip club. Then Niecy all but tackled me on the sidewalk

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in front of Dino's, and she said that you headbutted that no good Tate Dilton

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in the candy aisle of the grocery store. Nisi also said that she

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heard that you two wrestled into a canned soup pyramid and that the store manager

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found two cans of minestrone all the way over in the freezer section.

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It's so detailed. It's just so funny because they're all.

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Just like you love the small town rumor. I live

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for it. Nash convinces Lena to spend the

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night again. She agrees, and I was going to

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say, like, reluctantly. Like, she reluctantly agrees, but it's not really true.

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It's more like she knows that she shouldn't, but she also wants to.

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And that night, they share more about their lives and history with

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one another and wake up again in a compromising position. And just

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as Nash is going in for the kiss, they are interrupted by Lucien,

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who had interrogated Lena the prior day and was here to interrogate

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Nash. And he and Knox are both anti Nashalina,

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which is what I named them. Nash and Lena.

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Nashalina. Nashalina. I thought you said Nash and Lena. And I was like,

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you're so creative. Oh, my God. Nashalina.

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Yeah. Okay. Like Angelina, but Nashelina.

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Yeah, but when I say it, though, can you hear Nash and Lena? Don't talk

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to me anymore. I thought it was really cute, and. I stared at you like

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if you were a fucking idiot. Yeah. If there are any listeners who also think

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it's cute, just let me know. Give me some positive feedback here. I'm dying.

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Lucian is so sexy. First of all, I love that

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when he does threaten Lena. Yeah. She essentially tells him to go fuck himself

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and go talk to Nat. And Lucian is terrifying.

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Everybody except for Lena and Sloane are terrified of this guy. Naomi talks about how

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terrifying he is. Like, Naomi's holding her Breath. When he gets angry

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and Lena can't be bothered. Yeah. She thinks

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he's just a big, dumb idiot walking around, bumping into things when he's the scariest

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man in every room. And it's actually so interesting to me that

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you said that about Naomi, because do you remember when we were recapping

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that book in the last episode, and I brought up the fact that he

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was charming and smiling and dancing her and very different between

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that book and these two books? He's a very different person. Yes. So I

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did think that that was interesting. But anyways, I think the conversation

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is. It's not well received by Nash,

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but it is enough to plant a seed of doubt for him.

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While he's at breakfast with Lucian, Lena connects with

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Naomi and has a realization that she wants to pursue something more official with Nash.

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So this is like the classic, like, not,

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Lena's not interested, and then now she's interested, and Nash

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was interested, but now he's not interested. And it's just like,

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Nash is not not interested. Nash is pissed.

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Yeah. Nash thinks that Lena has manipulated him and

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the things that he. I get so angry. Yeah. When he talks about what

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he thinks Lena did. He lost me for a minute. I was

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so mad. I text you. Shoot. That I was mad at him. You did?

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When he does all this shit. Oh, sure. Yeah,

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I did. Before we go move on, I do have to talk about the kiss.

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I don't know what it is, but this entire thing gives

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me the ick in a way I can't describe. They wake up.

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Lena is sleeping on top of Nash.

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Like, his erection between.

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Always. Yeah, between their bodies.

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And she's like, I'm pulling away. And he's like,

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no, you're not. And, like, they're just kind of like. There's sort of, like,

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this, like, tension. And then he goes, gonna kiss you Now. Lena and

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I. It's so. I don't know what it is. It just fucking grosses me out.

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Like, I don't kiss in the morning unless I've gotten up and brushed my teeth.

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That icks me out. Anyways, it's not even that. It's just, like, the way that

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he. Said it, where it was like, Yeah, I. I have a note. I.

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Wait. What? I don't do that. If Dave even wants to have

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sex with me in the morning. Oh, I love morning sex. I do too.

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We mostly have morning sex. I put a pillow over my head. Oh, my God.

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I don't. Until I've gotten up and brushed my teeth. Sure.

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And Dave has brushed his teeth. Sure. I don't want you

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breathing heavily in my face. I don't want

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to be breathing heavily in your face. Sure. So I put a pillow over my

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head. Usually I just have him do it from behind. Interesting.

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The more you know. Yeah. I won't, like, full on, like.

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Nah. I would make out. I think I would. I would not.

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Yeah. All right. Well. Nope. Just as

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we're about to see their relationship finally play out, Nash catches

438
00:28:39,180 --> 00:28:42,800
Lena visiting Tina, Naomi's twin, in prison,

439
00:28:43,600 --> 00:28:46,840
and confronts her about lying to him because it just

440
00:28:47,340 --> 00:28:50,800
confirms everything that Lucien said. They end up fighting,

441
00:28:51,300 --> 00:28:54,640
and Lina kicks him out of her place. So he's a dick.

442
00:28:55,140 --> 00:28:57,870
My note here says he's a dick. Here. I would never forgive him. Yeah,

443
00:28:58,110 --> 00:29:02,430
so same. He. He has it in his head that

444
00:29:02,670 --> 00:29:05,870
Lena manipulated him, that she's lied to him,

445
00:29:06,110 --> 00:29:09,630
that she moved into the apartment right across from his

446
00:29:09,790 --> 00:29:12,350
to get close to him, to see his files.

447
00:29:13,070 --> 00:29:15,310
Lucy Score loves a miscommunication trope.

448
00:29:16,510 --> 00:29:18,590
Now she's a fucking idiot. Yeah.

449
00:29:20,110 --> 00:29:23,150
And what happens next? I don't know if I'd forgive him.

450
00:29:23,650 --> 00:29:27,640
Oh, my. All right, well, this next scene here.

451
00:29:27,720 --> 00:29:31,080
So Naomi calls on her friends to come to Weilei's soccer game,

452
00:29:31,320 --> 00:29:33,800
where it's supposed to be the women,

453
00:29:33,960 --> 00:29:36,520
Nox and Steph. However,

454
00:29:37,400 --> 00:29:40,840
Lucien and Nash slowly trickle in,

455
00:29:41,399 --> 00:29:45,280
and all of the secrets come trickling out. And before

456
00:29:45,780 --> 00:29:49,000
we know it, the business between Nash and Lena has been aired

457
00:29:49,500 --> 00:29:53,260
out amongst the friends on the sideline. Because Nash says it. Yeah.

458
00:29:53,760 --> 00:29:57,660
And then Nash also, like, alludes to her medical condition and

459
00:29:58,160 --> 00:30:02,580
insinuate. Insinuates that she's faking it and lied about it. Yeah. And Lena's

460
00:30:03,080 --> 00:30:05,820
like, do you want to play that game? Because I'll go lower. Well, the thing

461
00:30:06,320 --> 00:30:09,300
of it is, is this is the second time that Nash has come to a

462
00:30:09,800 --> 00:30:12,900
soccer game on the sidelines and aired out some fucking dirty laundry in front

463
00:30:13,400 --> 00:30:15,900
of. Everybody thought about that and, like, the thing of it is, is that,

464
00:30:16,400 --> 00:30:19,980
like, they're all. All of these big ass men with these

465
00:30:20,140 --> 00:30:23,460
little women are all standing and Steph are all

466
00:30:23,960 --> 00:30:27,100
standing around on the sidelines of the soccer game

467
00:30:27,600 --> 00:30:30,820
arguing and screaming at each other. And Wei lay's gotta come over and be like,

468
00:30:31,320 --> 00:30:35,020
what the fuck are you doing? I'm playing soccer here. Like, like, literally, they're all

469
00:30:35,520 --> 00:30:38,780
so heated. Nolan is, like, holding Sloane back. I forgot that

470
00:30:39,280 --> 00:30:42,780
Nolan was there. Nolan's there holding Sloane back from attacking Lucien.

471
00:30:42,860 --> 00:30:46,430
Yes. Lena and Nash are gonna literally rip each other's

472
00:30:46,930 --> 00:30:50,190
heads off. Knox is glaring at Lena. Yep. Naomi is like,

473
00:30:50,510 --> 00:30:53,710
what's going on? What did I miss? She's trying to put all the pieces together,

474
00:30:53,950 --> 00:30:58,110
but I do. Like Naomi assumed, assumes that Nash

475
00:30:58,610 --> 00:31:01,430
said something to piss off Lena. Yeah. She's like, what if he said something?

476
00:31:01,930 --> 00:31:03,150
Don't worry. He's working on it. Yeah.

477
00:31:06,270 --> 00:31:10,070
Anyways, Lena goes home in a panic

478
00:31:10,570 --> 00:31:14,070
because she's dealing. Like, he's aired it all out. Everybody hates

479
00:31:14,570 --> 00:31:16,950
me. Like, I have to get the fuck out of here. And she starts to

480
00:31:17,450 --> 00:31:21,270
pack. Yeah. And then Sloane and Naomi show up and

481
00:31:21,770 --> 00:31:24,950
then, like, force her to let them in. Yeah. They're like, don't make

482
00:31:25,450 --> 00:31:28,110
me get the master key. Yeah. So they're, like, on the phone with her,

483
00:31:28,610 --> 00:31:30,590
and she's like, I'm not here. Go away. And they're like, we know you're here,

484
00:31:31,090 --> 00:31:32,790
and if you don't let us in, I'm gonna use the key on you.

485
00:31:33,290 --> 00:31:36,830
And then they all take her out for drinks. And while out, the women have

486
00:31:37,330 --> 00:31:40,630
a deep, meaningful conversation about Lena's commitment issues. And then they

487
00:31:41,130 --> 00:31:45,110
go for piece drunk pie. Because Naomi is like, I feel like pie.

488
00:31:46,550 --> 00:31:49,790
While they're out for pie, Lena gets a call about a

489
00:31:50,290 --> 00:31:53,910
man who skipped out on his bond and is tasked with bringing him in.

490
00:31:54,230 --> 00:31:58,109
Unable to leave wasted Naomi and Sloan alone, she's forced

491
00:31:58,609 --> 00:32:02,110
to bring them with. And the girls use teamwork to catch him. When Lena pursues

492
00:32:02,610 --> 00:32:05,550
him on foot, and then running in the opposite direction,

493
00:32:06,050 --> 00:32:09,710
he comes across Sloan, who shows him her boobs. And then Naomi throws Lena

494
00:32:09,860 --> 00:32:10,740
dog poop at him.

495
00:32:12,980 --> 00:32:16,660
This was my favorite scene. Yeah. This entire scene. Them getting drunk at

496
00:32:17,160 --> 00:32:20,260
the bar. Yes. Them going to catch this guy. My favorite scene,

497
00:32:20,580 --> 00:32:24,420
I 100% have been these women sitting around having these.

498
00:32:24,500 --> 00:32:27,620
This exact type of conversation where we're, like,

499
00:32:27,940 --> 00:32:30,260
picking apart all of our, like,

500
00:32:30,500 --> 00:32:34,900
traumas and then, like, bonding over it somehow. And I

501
00:32:35,400 --> 00:32:38,720
just think, like, the chaos of how they apprehended this guy is just

502
00:32:39,220 --> 00:32:42,640
fucking hilarious. And I just. I really loved it, so. I did too.

503
00:32:43,140 --> 00:32:46,520
It's very realistic. Yeah, it really is. Well, news makes it

504
00:32:47,020 --> 00:32:50,880
back to Nash, who pulls Lena over as she's bringing in her

505
00:32:51,380 --> 00:32:54,720
prisoner. He confronts her about what she's doing and how much danger she's in.

506
00:32:55,220 --> 00:32:59,360
And then while her convict is still in the backseat of

507
00:32:59,860 --> 00:33:03,560
her car, they find themselves in a standoff turned makeout session.

508
00:33:03,950 --> 00:33:06,990
Yep. That gets hot and heavy. Pinned up against her car. Yeah.

509
00:33:07,490 --> 00:33:11,230
Yep. With the guy in the backseat who's like. I think for

510
00:33:11,730 --> 00:33:14,430
what he said, he's like, I think I need something to Eat. Or I think

511
00:33:14,930 --> 00:33:18,270
my blood sugar's low or something stupid. And he's like, are you guys gonna take

512
00:33:18,770 --> 00:33:22,510
me in? Or like, yeah, what are we doing? And yeah, it's chaos.

513
00:33:23,010 --> 00:33:26,110
And that was where my notes ended, so. Oh, boy.

514
00:33:26,670 --> 00:33:29,790
You really didn't make it very far. Well, Nash is an.

515
00:33:30,620 --> 00:33:34,940
Oh, shoot. And decides to give Lena a speeding ticket.

516
00:33:35,340 --> 00:33:38,980
Oh. He pulls her over and gives her a speeding ticket. And in

517
00:33:39,480 --> 00:33:42,820
this time too, he's been debating like, oh, I think I'm gonna.

518
00:33:43,320 --> 00:33:45,740
Maybe I'll give it another try. I'll get over it. And then gives her a

519
00:33:46,240 --> 00:33:50,140
speeding ticket. Yeah. After that, I think, like, he is

520
00:33:50,640 --> 00:33:54,420
pretty much dead to her. Yeah. Oh, yeah. She's so pissed. Yeah. And then Nash,

521
00:33:54,920 --> 00:33:59,120
because he is like a testosterone driven male and

522
00:33:59,620 --> 00:34:03,560
is pissed at Nox because Nox has to pick up Sloan and Naomi

523
00:34:03,960 --> 00:34:07,160
and left Lena with her skip,

524
00:34:07,660 --> 00:34:10,920
which Lena's a professional, so she's fine. Nash goes

525
00:34:11,420 --> 00:34:15,240
over Knox on Knox's door. Knox opens the door and Nash just punches

526
00:34:15,740 --> 00:34:19,280
him in the face. Oh, that's right. And then they fight again. Yeah, because there

527
00:34:19,780 --> 00:34:21,480
has to be a fight. There is a fight in every one of these books.

528
00:34:21,980 --> 00:34:25,480
Yeah, that's your thing. The boys, it's knock em out. Yeah, the boys

529
00:34:25,980 --> 00:34:29,160
gotta knock em out. Yeah, they gotta fight. And then that night,

530
00:34:29,660 --> 00:34:33,320
after they're like kind of done fighting, Knox tells Nash that

531
00:34:33,820 --> 00:34:36,840
Lena told Naomi that she was feeling something real for Nash.

532
00:34:37,320 --> 00:34:39,960
And then Nash is like, all right, I guess I'm gonna get her back.

533
00:34:40,440 --> 00:34:43,760
Well, then what happens? Keep going, you're doing a great job. So the next day,

534
00:34:44,260 --> 00:34:47,320
when Lena's at the gym, Nolan asks her to grab a drink that night.

535
00:34:47,800 --> 00:34:51,380
Cause she's at the gym with Mrs. Tweety. And then Mrs. Tweety has

536
00:34:51,880 --> 00:34:55,220
her go grocery shopping. Mrs. Tweety is

537
00:34:55,720 --> 00:34:59,500
trying to like hook a girl up and approaches an attractive man in the cereal

538
00:35:00,000 --> 00:35:03,260
aisle and introduces Lena as her single friend. This is

539
00:35:03,760 --> 00:35:07,020
now the second time that this man has appeared.

540
00:35:07,580 --> 00:35:11,420
There was another incident where he kind. Of like at the.

541
00:35:11,500 --> 00:35:14,660
I think at the soccer game, he's like watching or

542
00:35:15,160 --> 00:35:18,500
something. Something. Yeah. So this is the second time that she's noticed him.

543
00:35:19,000 --> 00:35:22,380
He's very attractive. He looks like a health guy. He looks like

544
00:35:22,880 --> 00:35:25,660
a bro. And he's got a bunch of health stuff in his cart. And she

545
00:35:26,160 --> 00:35:29,500
notices that he has like a sweet tooth because he has all health stuff.

546
00:35:30,000 --> 00:35:33,260
Yes, It's a giant bag of some type of gummy candy. Yeah.

547
00:35:33,740 --> 00:35:37,100
So then that night when she's at the bar with Nolan getting a drink.

548
00:35:38,140 --> 00:35:40,980
Nolan's not there yet. And Dilton. Tate.

549
00:35:41,480 --> 00:35:44,820
Dilton is harassing some waitresses. So Lena, obviously steps

550
00:35:45,320 --> 00:35:48,710
in, and then serial aisle guy comes in and

551
00:35:49,210 --> 00:35:52,510
intimidates Dalton, so he leaves. And then. What did you think of him at this

552
00:35:53,010 --> 00:35:56,390
point? Who did you think he was? I wasn't sure. I mean, I knew

553
00:35:56,890 --> 00:35:59,470
he was someone. Yeah. Did you think he was a good guy or a bad

554
00:35:59,970 --> 00:36:03,630
guy? A bad guy. Yeah. Yes, for sure. Yeah. Yeah. I think

555
00:36:04,130 --> 00:36:06,230
she kind of tried to throw us off the case a little bit because she,

556
00:36:06,730 --> 00:36:09,270
like, had him come over and, like, step in to, like, rescue her. But it

557
00:36:09,770 --> 00:36:13,180
was also kind of like, why the fuck do you keep showing up? Why do

558
00:36:13,680 --> 00:36:17,340
you keep showing up in my vicinity? Like, what's going on? So now it's Halloween,

559
00:36:17,820 --> 00:36:19,100
so they're all at a party.

560
00:36:20,940 --> 00:36:24,860
The library puts on. Yes, they're at a library party that Sloane puts

561
00:36:25,360 --> 00:36:29,460
on. Everybody is there, the girls are dancing, and Sloane,

562
00:36:29,960 --> 00:36:32,980
like, is getting accosted by a drunk guy. So then Lena gets in his

563
00:36:33,480 --> 00:36:36,540
face. So obviously then Nash and Lucien have to step in.

564
00:36:37,500 --> 00:36:39,740
I had to tell that because it's just so sexy.

565
00:36:42,770 --> 00:36:46,610
After the fight, Nash asks Lena to dance, and she

566
00:36:46,930 --> 00:36:50,290
freaks out and volunteers to go into the library to go get some

567
00:36:50,790 --> 00:36:54,130
raffle tickets. How. You forgot,

568
00:36:54,290 --> 00:36:57,730
right? This is my favorite scene. Oh, man.

569
00:36:58,050 --> 00:37:01,250
It is. I know. Really? So obviously,

570
00:37:01,750 --> 00:37:05,170
Nash follows her inside. So basically,

571
00:37:05,970 --> 00:37:09,860
we're kind of getting this part of this scene from. Initially,

572
00:37:10,360 --> 00:37:13,780
from Lena's perspective. So Lena is like, I'm. I gotta get away

573
00:37:14,280 --> 00:37:18,540
from this guy. Because he. It's getting intense. And they get

574
00:37:19,040 --> 00:37:23,100
into this room together, and he's. She's thinking to herself,

575
00:37:23,260 --> 00:37:26,740
like, in her head, this is inevitable. Like,

576
00:37:27,240 --> 00:37:30,860
I can't fight this. It's never gonna stop. And he basically,

577
00:37:31,360 --> 00:37:34,280
after watching somebody fight. Yeah. Another guy.

578
00:37:34,520 --> 00:37:37,640
For me, it. It would also be inevitable for me.

579
00:37:37,960 --> 00:37:41,400
Well, then they kiss. It's a heated kiss.

580
00:37:41,880 --> 00:37:45,680
Nash describes it as not being cold inside

581
00:37:46,180 --> 00:37:48,120
anymore and maybe not ever again.

582
00:37:49,640 --> 00:37:53,600
Yeah. That we. You just know. Yeah. That can kiss.

583
00:37:54,100 --> 00:37:58,120
That was a really good kiss. Yeah. And this is where we get that

584
00:37:58,620 --> 00:38:00,800
first bit of, like, am I hurting you? And she's like, don't treat me like

585
00:38:01,300 --> 00:38:04,600
I'm fragile. And that I think from here on out kind of continues.

586
00:38:04,740 --> 00:38:06,900
Yes. For pretty much the rest of their relationship.

587
00:38:07,860 --> 00:38:11,380
Nash gets her up on the table. She is super eager. She's,

588
00:38:11,880 --> 00:38:14,660
like, super ready. She's, like, starting to take. To undress him, and he's like,

589
00:38:15,160 --> 00:38:17,180
I need this to be good for you. And she's like, I don't think that

590
00:38:17,680 --> 00:38:20,140
you understand that. You couldn't. It couldn't be bad for me if you wanted it

591
00:38:20,640 --> 00:38:23,740
to be. And basically, they start to get hot

592
00:38:24,240 --> 00:38:27,620
and heavy. They start to get naked. Lena is wearing a white thong,

593
00:38:28,020 --> 00:38:31,590
which, for whatever fucking reason, drives Nash up

594
00:38:32,090 --> 00:38:36,110
the fucking wall. Because here's this. Like, she's dressed.

595
00:38:36,610 --> 00:38:40,150
She dresses in leather and wears boots. And, like, for all intents

596
00:38:40,650 --> 00:38:43,470
and purposes, she's kind of like a motorcycle, like,

597
00:38:43,970 --> 00:38:48,030
rocker chick. And then she has these, like, white panties on, which probably

598
00:38:48,530 --> 00:38:51,950
just feeds his, like, yeah, fantasies. Like, they're starting to

599
00:38:52,450 --> 00:38:54,270
get hot and heavy. And he's like, oh, shit. Like, I don't have a condom.

600
00:38:54,770 --> 00:38:57,630
And she's like, we don't need the fucking condom. Like, let's just fucking do this.

601
00:38:58,510 --> 00:39:02,230
Lays her back on the table and fucks her so hard and so

602
00:39:02,730 --> 00:39:06,790
aggressively that they break the wall. They leave a dead in

603
00:39:07,290 --> 00:39:09,310
the wall. This is my favorite scene.

604
00:39:10,830 --> 00:39:14,189
They are in the library on a table.

605
00:39:14,830 --> 00:39:18,030
Leave my mark. Well, then it's funny, because don't they just,

606
00:39:18,530 --> 00:39:22,390
like, get off the table and just, like. Yeah, then they go home. Lena has

607
00:39:22,890 --> 00:39:26,450
five orgasms that night, which is so funny. These knock them

608
00:39:26,950 --> 00:39:30,250
out. Men are so, so good at pleasing their women.

609
00:39:30,730 --> 00:39:33,890
That's not true of a small town. I didn't have

610
00:39:34,390 --> 00:39:37,370
my first orgasm with a man. Sure. Until college.

611
00:39:38,010 --> 00:39:41,250
Like, I was 21, living in Minneapolis. And it was an

612
00:39:41,750 --> 00:39:45,050
older man. Sure. Yeah. These are older men.

613
00:39:46,010 --> 00:39:48,890
I also grew up in a small town. Not as small as yours.

614
00:39:49,210 --> 00:39:52,340
Not even remotely as small. I dated a lot of

615
00:39:52,840 --> 00:39:55,700
Latino men and Latino men.

616
00:39:56,260 --> 00:39:59,420
You definitely get the bad ones, for sure. You definitely

617
00:39:59,920 --> 00:40:03,380
get the ones that don't care. Most of them care. I could

618
00:40:03,880 --> 00:40:07,620
fucking see that a lot. They're all giving it their very fucking best,

619
00:40:07,860 --> 00:40:11,860
like, all the time. I think, like, that's where the idea of the stereotype

620
00:40:12,360 --> 00:40:15,860
of, like, a passionate Latino comes from, because my husband is

621
00:40:16,180 --> 00:40:20,020
not especially passionate, but he is very enthusiastic,

622
00:40:20,420 --> 00:40:23,820
you know? I love that for you. I know. I do, too. You get as

623
00:40:24,320 --> 00:40:27,740
many orgasms as Lena and Naomi and Sloane. How old were

624
00:40:28,240 --> 00:40:31,420
you when you had your first orgasm with a man? I'm not gonna say his

625
00:40:31,920 --> 00:40:35,460
name, obviously, but, yeah, we started dating when I was, like, 15.

626
00:40:36,260 --> 00:40:38,980
I probably would have had my first orgasm before,

627
00:40:39,780 --> 00:40:42,980
like, 18. Good for you. Something in that

628
00:40:43,480 --> 00:40:46,270
range. I mean, don't get me wrong. I was definitely fucking myself. Sure. Yeah.

629
00:40:46,770 --> 00:40:50,070
Getting myself off. Yeah. But men were not. Well, I think

630
00:40:50,570 --> 00:40:54,590
the thing of it is, is, like, at that point, I was very aggressively

631
00:40:55,090 --> 00:40:58,190
pursuing, like, any and all methods of, like,

632
00:40:58,690 --> 00:41:01,070
having sex. Like, there was nothing off the table.

633
00:41:02,670 --> 00:41:06,310
All right, well, Nash takes Lena out

634
00:41:06,810 --> 00:41:10,390
to dinner. They're in the nicest restaurant. Knock him out, which is

635
00:41:10,890 --> 00:41:14,950
like, Dino's Italian restaurant. But she. They're both dressed

636
00:41:15,450 --> 00:41:18,870
very, very to the nines. Yes. Yep. 100%. Yep. They look

637
00:41:19,370 --> 00:41:22,910
really nice. I'm sure that they smell delicious. I believe fully that both

638
00:41:23,410 --> 00:41:26,310
of these people smell delicious. Yes. Which, you know, is important to me very.

639
00:41:26,710 --> 00:41:30,230
They're at the table, and this, like, waiter is trying

640
00:41:30,730 --> 00:41:34,750
to collect their order. And they're both so, like, hot and heavy with

641
00:41:35,250 --> 00:41:38,270
one another that the waiter is kind of like, the fuck is wrong with these

642
00:41:38,770 --> 00:41:41,590
weirdos? Like, well, you know, it seems like you need some more time, like,

643
00:41:42,090 --> 00:41:45,220
I'll come back or whatever. And basically, like,

644
00:41:45,540 --> 00:41:49,060
he kind of, like, prompts it himself. But then Lena sort

645
00:41:49,560 --> 00:41:53,100
of is encouraging it because she, like, spreads her legs for him, and he's

646
00:41:53,600 --> 00:41:56,500
like, oh, my fucking God, I have to fucking touch her now.

647
00:41:56,820 --> 00:42:00,099
She spread her legs, and then he fingers her to

648
00:42:00,599 --> 00:42:03,860
orgasm. In the restaurant. In the restaurant, while everybody is around. She'S trying to

649
00:42:04,360 --> 00:42:07,620
order her dessert. Yeah. They ended up taking it to go. Yes. Yeah.

650
00:42:07,780 --> 00:42:11,380
Hear me, Sue. To go, please, as he is

651
00:42:11,620 --> 00:42:14,840
not stopping. Yeah. Just continuing to finger

652
00:42:15,340 --> 00:42:17,320
her to guess them. So then when they leave,

653
00:42:18,520 --> 00:42:22,200
Lena goes down on Nash while he's driving.

654
00:42:22,520 --> 00:42:26,520
He does pull over. Yeah. Which is also. It's so funny because

655
00:42:27,020 --> 00:42:30,280
I'm pretty sure they're pulled over. And then Nolan comes up to

656
00:42:30,780 --> 00:42:33,800
the window and is like, what the fuck are you guys doing? That's right.

657
00:42:34,360 --> 00:42:37,560
And it's very evident. Yeah. What they were doing,

658
00:42:38,060 --> 00:42:41,900
which, again, is. Just like, wow, could you guys be. Could your lives be any

659
00:42:42,400 --> 00:42:46,060
more ingrained with one another? Like. Yes. Because Nolan

660
00:42:46,560 --> 00:42:50,140
is following Nash around everywhere, still in and amongst all of this.

661
00:42:50,640 --> 00:42:53,980
So he was probably in the restaurant while he was fingering Lena at that table.

662
00:42:54,380 --> 00:42:57,740
Nash comes up with a plan with the guys

663
00:42:58,060 --> 00:43:02,380
that he's going to try to smoke out Duncan Hugo by

664
00:43:02,700 --> 00:43:06,550
saying that he got his memory back. And then Steph sets up an interview with

665
00:43:07,050 --> 00:43:10,830
a magazine. He's gonna be on the COVID and he's gonna say, local hero

666
00:43:11,330 --> 00:43:14,510
gets his memory back. And they have it scheduled to come out on a certain

667
00:43:15,010 --> 00:43:18,870
date. Yes. That it's. The whole plan is, like, very strategic.

668
00:43:19,370 --> 00:43:22,870
Cause it's after the wedding. The wedding's on Saturday. Yes. And everybody

669
00:43:23,370 --> 00:43:26,990
is in on it, including Mrs. Tweety. Mrs. Tweety's gonna be. She's. She's gathering

670
00:43:27,490 --> 00:43:30,750
the troops. Yeah. Cause they know they're on the lookout for someone,

671
00:43:30,830 --> 00:43:33,910
but they don't know what he looks like. And Mrs. Tweety is kind

672
00:43:34,410 --> 00:43:37,920
of, like, the pinnacle of town gossip, so the idea

673
00:43:38,420 --> 00:43:42,360
is that she can kind of keep people on the lookout without, like, overtly telling

674
00:43:42,860 --> 00:43:46,640
them what they're looking for. And everybody is involved now. So Lena

675
00:43:47,140 --> 00:43:50,440
is the one who ends up calling in because Nash tells her

676
00:43:50,940 --> 00:43:54,520
the plan. And Lena is like, I don't know what protocol

677
00:43:55,020 --> 00:43:57,560
for having friends is, but based on the things that we've done in the past,

678
00:43:58,060 --> 00:44:00,840
it seems like this is something I'm supposed to tell him about. And she calls

679
00:44:01,340 --> 00:44:04,720
in her friend Naomi and Sloan, and then obviously, that gets Knox

680
00:44:05,220 --> 00:44:08,670
and Lucien and Nolan gets involved. And this is where

681
00:44:09,170 --> 00:44:11,710
Nash and Nolan's relationship starts to take a turn as well.

682
00:44:11,870 --> 00:44:14,950
Yep. Because this is where Nash is kind of starting to see Nolan more as

683
00:44:15,450 --> 00:44:19,150
an ally than as an enemy. And that actually is where I started to

684
00:44:19,650 --> 00:44:21,630
like Nolan is kind of when they started to.

685
00:44:22,510 --> 00:44:25,390
Yeah. You're so cute. Ugh. I know.

686
00:44:25,630 --> 00:44:29,430
Nolan did it for me. So Nash and Lena decide that they're going to talk

687
00:44:29,930 --> 00:44:32,590
to Whaley. They think that maybe she'll remember something because.

688
00:44:32,970 --> 00:44:36,890
Mm, She's a kid. You've talked about your kids all the time. They remember fucking

689
00:44:37,390 --> 00:44:40,730
everything. Yeah. Weyla remembers that Hugo was playing video games

690
00:44:40,810 --> 00:44:44,450
with somebody and eating some weird type of candy that he seemed to,

691
00:44:44,950 --> 00:44:48,570
like, be obsessed with. All right, well, we get another sex scene with

692
00:44:48,890 --> 00:44:52,410
Lena and Nash in the. Shower,

693
00:44:52,730 --> 00:44:56,050
and then Nash decides he's gonna risk his life and go down on her

694
00:44:56,550 --> 00:45:00,100
in the shower to orgasm. And then fucks her from behind. Oh,

695
00:45:00,600 --> 00:45:02,820
my God. You did such a good job describing that. You don't even need me.

696
00:45:03,220 --> 00:45:05,780
And my face isn't even red. Oh, my God.

697
00:45:08,340 --> 00:45:12,020
It is time for the bachelor bachelorette parties. So the wedding is tomorrow.

698
00:45:12,420 --> 00:45:15,500
They're just chilling at Naomi's and Waylay's. So funny.

699
00:45:16,000 --> 00:45:19,860
She's like. My friend told me that her mom got arrested in

700
00:45:19,940 --> 00:45:22,820
Las Vegas during her bachelorette party, so I know that's a lie.

701
00:45:23,380 --> 00:45:27,060
Wei Leigh is unimpressed with these ladies partying. Oh, yeah,

702
00:45:27,560 --> 00:45:31,180
a hundred percent. So they need more snacks. Lena goes

703
00:45:31,680 --> 00:45:34,860
with Weyla and Liza J. To the store to get some more snacks. And this

704
00:45:35,360 --> 00:45:38,140
is where Lena puts it together. Yes. While they're in the candy aisle,

705
00:45:38,640 --> 00:45:42,660
Wei Lei points out the candy that Duncan Hugo was eating while

706
00:45:43,160 --> 00:45:47,740
he had her kidnapped. And Lena realizes that she's seen that candy before because

707
00:45:48,240 --> 00:45:51,860
cereal aisle guy was Buying it. And Lena makes

708
00:45:52,360 --> 00:45:55,660
a call. She calls now to alert him about this

709
00:45:56,160 --> 00:45:59,910
guy. And the guy just so happens to be in the

710
00:45:59,990 --> 00:46:03,030
grocery store again for plot. And.

711
00:46:03,430 --> 00:46:06,790
Well, because I'm, like, debating. I'm feeling like he's following her.

712
00:46:07,030 --> 00:46:10,030
Okay, I guess that makes sense. So never mind. I'll cut that out. Well,

713
00:46:10,530 --> 00:46:12,990
no, I mean, it could be. For the plot, but it would make sense.

714
00:46:13,490 --> 00:46:16,030
It just feels like he's always kind of showing up where she is, and that

715
00:46:16,530 --> 00:46:20,430
to me, is giving, like, bad. Like. Yeah. You know, so he

716
00:46:20,930 --> 00:46:24,510
confronts her. She kicks his ass with, like, a soup can of soup

717
00:46:25,010 --> 00:46:28,180
or something. Which is funny because that was the rumor that she had heard about

718
00:46:28,420 --> 00:46:33,220
Nash earlier in the story. And basically,

719
00:46:33,300 --> 00:46:36,100
like, he ends up. He pulls out a gun. Yeah.

720
00:46:36,340 --> 00:46:39,860
He takes Lena hostage. She's like.

721
00:46:40,360 --> 00:46:43,180
She's telling Liza J. And Wei Lei, like, it's fine. I'm fine. Everything's gonna be

722
00:46:43,680 --> 00:46:47,260
fine. I've got a tracker on me. The men Lucian had put together trackers

723
00:46:47,760 --> 00:46:51,380
for the women. Yep. The man ends up dumping the tracker.

724
00:46:51,780 --> 00:46:54,480
Almost immediately, Liza J.

725
00:46:54,980 --> 00:46:59,160
Calls Nash to say that Lena's been kidnapped. And kind

726
00:46:59,660 --> 00:47:03,200
of in that little scenario, Nash actually

727
00:47:03,700 --> 00:47:07,240
does get his memory back and remembers that Dilton is the one who

728
00:47:07,740 --> 00:47:11,360
shot him. Just as serial aisle guy is taking

729
00:47:11,440 --> 00:47:14,960
Lena to see Duncan, Hugo and Dilton is also there.

730
00:47:15,040 --> 00:47:19,290
Yeah, well, they have, like, a plan to

731
00:47:19,790 --> 00:47:23,370
lure Nash because their ultimate goal is to get Nash.

732
00:47:23,450 --> 00:47:26,090
They don't want Lena. They're using Lena as bait.

733
00:47:26,650 --> 00:47:30,410
Basically, the guy, Hugo, is always

734
00:47:30,910 --> 00:47:35,009
playing fucking video games. And Waylay puts together this

735
00:47:35,509 --> 00:47:39,570
guy, plays a specific video game, logs into a chat, and gets

736
00:47:40,070 --> 00:47:44,290
connected with Lena through the chat on the video game. Because Lena,

737
00:47:44,790 --> 00:47:47,770
like, disarms him with a chair or something. She gets his headset and then gets

738
00:47:48,270 --> 00:47:51,340
his headset. And then now she and Wei Lay are. Are communicating.

739
00:47:51,740 --> 00:47:55,540
Yeah, she, like, locks herself in the bathroom or something. Yep. Cause they're

740
00:47:56,040 --> 00:48:00,100
at a farm just, like. Five miles outside of town. So close. So Weyla

741
00:48:00,600 --> 00:48:03,820
calls Nash and is like, I have the IP address. I know where Lena is.

742
00:48:04,460 --> 00:48:07,940
So the little Scooby gang gets together,

743
00:48:08,440 --> 00:48:11,420
and Knox and Nash go to get Lena back.

744
00:48:12,380 --> 00:48:16,380
They end up having a good old fashioned gunfight. They're hiding

745
00:48:16,880 --> 00:48:20,740
behind vehicles and tractors and hay barrels. And you can imagine the sounds of

746
00:48:21,240 --> 00:48:24,580
the bullets ricocheting off of things. It's very classic.

747
00:48:25,080 --> 00:48:28,300
And then while all of this is happening, at one point,

748
00:48:28,940 --> 00:48:32,420
Nash thinks that Lena may have been shot and killed, discovers that

749
00:48:32,920 --> 00:48:36,540
she's not. They go in to get Hugo

750
00:48:36,780 --> 00:48:40,220
and Dilton in and amongst all of the chaos,

751
00:48:40,720 --> 00:48:43,500
Nash is basically like, I'm going to fucking marry you. Yep.

752
00:48:44,000 --> 00:48:47,540
Like, sorry, same thing that now. Yeah, that Knox did. Yep. And they're in the

753
00:48:48,040 --> 00:48:51,180
middle of getting shot at, and she's like, all right, I guess we're getting married.

754
00:48:52,030 --> 00:48:56,110
And then they end up confronting Dilton

755
00:48:56,610 --> 00:48:59,910
and Hugo together. Nolan gets shot

756
00:49:00,410 --> 00:49:04,110
trying to protect them. And then Hugo gets shot

757
00:49:04,510 --> 00:49:07,949
and is killed. And Dilton ends up

758
00:49:08,270 --> 00:49:12,110
the old, old. Boy sheriff somehow there

759
00:49:12,190 --> 00:49:15,630
and shoots Dilton. Yes. And the thing of it is, is right

760
00:49:16,130 --> 00:49:19,860
before Dilton gets shot, Nash makes a comment to him

761
00:49:20,360 --> 00:49:23,700
about something along the lines of, like,

762
00:49:24,200 --> 00:49:26,980
who is behind it all? And Dilton says,

763
00:49:27,780 --> 00:49:32,220
you still don't get it, do you? And then that's when the old captain

764
00:49:32,720 --> 00:49:35,860
shoots him right before he, like, discloses what's actually happening.

765
00:49:36,100 --> 00:49:39,220
And it also turns out that Lena is after

766
00:49:39,720 --> 00:49:44,080
a Porsche that was stolen, which happens to be in this

767
00:49:44,580 --> 00:49:48,640
barn. It's really just kind of a happy ending. Yeah. And then it's

768
00:49:49,140 --> 00:49:52,200
now the wedding. That's a good book. Ta da. It was.

769
00:49:52,280 --> 00:49:55,680
It's still like, if I'm ranking them, it's gonna be the third one.

770
00:49:56,180 --> 00:49:59,160
The first one. This one. Really? Yep.

771
00:49:59,320 --> 00:50:01,640
Interesting. How would you rank them?

772
00:50:02,200 --> 00:50:05,520
It's really hard because Lena is my favorite. I know. I was gonna say,

773
00:50:06,020 --> 00:50:09,400
I think you're gonna be two, one, three. I think I'm gonna be.

774
00:50:11,060 --> 00:50:14,580
I'm gonna be one, two, three. Okay. Lucy Score. We talked

775
00:50:15,080 --> 00:50:17,940
a little bit about Lucy in the last episode. You can find her online.

776
00:50:18,420 --> 00:50:21,900
She has. This is a three book series. She's got a

777
00:50:22,400 --> 00:50:25,500
ton of a bibliography of books. I mean, it's. She's got a ton of them.

778
00:50:26,000 --> 00:50:29,060
A lot of series. I haven't read any of the other ones. I have to

779
00:50:29,560 --> 00:50:32,580
imagine they're probably all similar. All right,

780
00:50:33,080 --> 00:50:37,170
well, you can find us online@booksletspodcast.com

781
00:50:37,410 --> 00:50:40,570
still. We will eventually be at Plot Tarts.

782
00:50:41,070 --> 00:50:44,770
We just. We're getting there. Yeah, it's. You know what? Let's get these

783
00:50:45,270 --> 00:50:48,490
fucking episodes out. You know what I mean? And then we'll get there. Find us

784
00:50:48,990 --> 00:50:51,970
on social media, follow us on social media. Tell your friends about us.

785
00:50:52,770 --> 00:50:55,330
And. Yeah, let's get into ratings. All right.

786
00:50:55,410 --> 00:50:58,210
Spice level. I'm gonna give it a three.

787
00:50:58,690 --> 00:51:02,090
Okay. I gave it a four. I do feel like

788
00:51:02,590 --> 00:51:05,780
they're these. Lucy score. Can write a sex scene.

789
00:51:06,100 --> 00:51:08,500
These sex scenes do it for me.

790
00:51:08,900 --> 00:51:12,100
Oh, interesting. My husband enjoyed these books. Oh,

791
00:51:12,740 --> 00:51:16,300
lucky day. I know. She can write

792
00:51:16,800 --> 00:51:20,020
a sex scene that I appreciate. Sure. I think,

793
00:51:20,260 --> 00:51:22,900
like, in terms of graphic,

794
00:51:23,380 --> 00:51:26,820
these scenes were. Especially in

795
00:51:27,320 --> 00:51:31,180
this book. There was a lot of, like, I'm on fire.

796
00:51:31,500 --> 00:51:34,700
It's an inferno. It's. There's a lot of, like,

797
00:51:35,200 --> 00:51:38,940
this, like, internal, like, emotional, like,

798
00:51:39,260 --> 00:51:43,060
roller coaster that is, like, interspersed throughout the sex scenes.

799
00:51:43,560 --> 00:51:46,060
And so I think from my perspective, it's just not,

800
00:51:46,220 --> 00:51:48,860
like, as graphic because it's more.

801
00:51:49,580 --> 00:51:52,940
They do kind of write in more emotional stuff,

802
00:51:53,580 --> 00:51:56,700
so. Which is not a bad thing. Just because I gave it a three doesn't

803
00:51:57,200 --> 00:52:00,390
mean it's bad. Bad. Oh, no. I just wouldn't give it the same rating that

804
00:52:00,890 --> 00:52:04,390
I would give some of the other things. I've given a four, too. All right,

805
00:52:04,890 --> 00:52:08,110
Spice frequency. I'm gonna give it a two. I'm gonna

806
00:52:08,610 --> 00:52:12,590
give it a two and a half. You don't even get penetration until the second

807
00:52:13,090 --> 00:52:16,030
half of the book. Yeah. And then there's, like, three scenes. Yeah,

808
00:52:16,510 --> 00:52:20,630
it's not. It is. I mean, Nash is always hard around

809
00:52:21,130 --> 00:52:23,960
Lena, but there's not a ton.

810
00:52:24,040 --> 00:52:27,640
Yeah. There really isn't. Pros. What did

811
00:52:28,140 --> 00:52:31,240
I give the last one? I don't remember. I think a five.

812
00:52:32,040 --> 00:52:35,640
I'm gonna give it a four. Only for the fact that the characters

813
00:52:36,140 --> 00:52:39,480
are caricatures. Sure. It's well written. There's not, like.

814
00:52:39,640 --> 00:52:42,440
There's nothing in it that, like, jumps out to me as, like,

815
00:52:43,160 --> 00:52:46,600
this is so bad. Or. I mean, I think, like, the dialogue. It.

816
00:52:47,100 --> 00:52:50,100
It's very good for what it is. I gave it a five. Oh,

817
00:52:50,600 --> 00:52:53,460
okay. I like the. I like her writing. Yeah. Storyline.

818
00:52:54,260 --> 00:52:57,700
Storyline. I'm gonna give the storyline. I'm gonna

819
00:52:58,200 --> 00:53:01,780
give the storyline on this one a five. Oh, okay. Because I

820
00:53:02,580 --> 00:53:05,460
really enjoyed all of the chaos.

821
00:53:05,780 --> 00:53:09,700
This book is less plot driven and much more character driven in

822
00:53:10,200 --> 00:53:13,780
terms of we get Ms. Tweety, we get the gym rats,

823
00:53:14,280 --> 00:53:18,620
we get Nolan. There's so much more town in this, and I fucking

824
00:53:18,860 --> 00:53:22,540
lived for it. I lived for all of the little sitcom moments.

825
00:53:22,940 --> 00:53:26,220
It just wasn't the storyline for me. Yeah. Overall.

826
00:53:27,180 --> 00:53:30,740
Overall, I'm gonna give it a three and a half. Okay. I feel

827
00:53:31,240 --> 00:53:34,500
like when I rated it on story graph, I gave it a five,

828
00:53:35,000 --> 00:53:37,740
but I feel like, realistically I'd give it a four. It wasn't my favorite.

829
00:53:38,460 --> 00:53:42,020
I think I really did like it a lot. I don't even remember

830
00:53:42,520 --> 00:53:46,020
what I gave the first one. I may be regretting my ratings in the

831
00:53:46,520 --> 00:53:50,140
future, but I think my one thing, like, with this book,

832
00:53:50,300 --> 00:53:53,820
I really forgot about it. Yeah. I mean, like, we didn't.

833
00:53:54,320 --> 00:53:57,620
Like, I didn't finish my notes, literally. Forgot about the best sex scene and.

834
00:53:58,120 --> 00:54:00,140
You were like, going through it and I was like, oh, yeah, that's right.

835
00:54:00,640 --> 00:54:03,340
He does. He, like, goes back later to, like, fix the hole in the wall

836
00:54:03,740 --> 00:54:06,900
so that hopefully nobody will notice. But I forgot

837
00:54:07,400 --> 00:54:10,380
about it completely. Entirely. All right, well,

838
00:54:10,880 --> 00:54:13,620
this is fun. Join us in a couple of weeks. We are doing our episodes

839
00:54:14,120 --> 00:54:18,010
every other Thursday. Before we go, we just gotta thank Paggle.

840
00:54:18,490 --> 00:54:22,290
We're recording in her green room or

841
00:54:22,790 --> 00:54:26,290
her greenhouse, whatever you want to call this. This actually would be such a good

842
00:54:26,790 --> 00:54:30,770
greenhouse. It would be. I think you should lean into it. Yeah. Join us

843
00:54:31,270 --> 00:54:34,490
next time for the third book in the series. Follow us on social media.

844
00:54:34,890 --> 00:54:38,130
And yeah, I'm Amanda. And I'm Nicole. And we're

845
00:54:38,630 --> 00:54:40,570
Plot Tarts. We'll see you next time. Bye,