Name: Forever After All
Rating: 3.75 (86 reviews)
ISBN: 9781955981071

Catharina Maura

Desperate and out of options, Elena Rousseau walks into a gentlemen's club, ready to sell her body in a last attempt to save her mother's life. She didn't expect Alexander Kennedy to be there, and she certainly didn't expect him to propose a marriage of convenience instead. Marrying Alexander means knowingly becoming a tool in his revenge plan. But what choice does she have? Better the devil you know than the one you don't.

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“She’s beautiful, and she looks so incredibly sweet. Far too sweet for a man like me.”

“A reminder of what happens when I allow myself to fall in love, when I allow myself to be weak.”

Sophia

“Does that mean you intend to have… lovers?”

I tense. “No,” I snap. “Neither you nor I will have any lovers. Don’t even fucking dream of cheating, Elena. Don’t even fucking look at another man, you hear me?”

Her eyes widen in surprise and I hate the way she’s looking at me—as though she’s trying to read me. I relax slightly when she nods. I don’t know what I’ll do if I ever catch her straying, but I do know any man that touches her is going to be six foot under before he realizes what’s happening to him.

“What about divorce? What if one of us falls in love with someone else?” she asks.

The mere thought of her leaving me infuriates me, and she isn’t even mine yet.

I shake my head. “It’s not an option. I won’t ever sign the papers. If we were to divorce, my grandfather would disown me without a second thought. I won’t do it. If you agree to this, you’ll agree to a life without love. Think it over carefully.”

“Elena, if you want to marry into this family, I’ll marry you,” Lucian says, his eyes blazing with sincerity.

 heart feels so full it might actually burst. I smile at him but shake my head. The mere idea of marriage to Lucian is so absurd, it never even occurred to me.

“Over my dead body,” Alexander snaps, moving closer to me. He puts his arm around my waist and pulls me to him, moving me out of Lucian’s reach.

She looks at me, smiling through her tears. “Elena, my son’s heart is broken, and it has been for a very long time. Maybe it’s damaged beyond repair, but maybe, just maybe, it takes the right touch.”

Alexander blinks, and I push past him, getting into the car. My heart is aching today. I’m tired of being reminded that I don’t mean anything to anyone, that I’m just a thing to be owned, used, and discarded. I know I have no rights to Alexander, but I’m sick of feeling like I’m a mere object.

“Baby,” I say, “it’s not like that at all. I just ran into her, that’s all.”

Her eyes flash with anger as she points her index finger at me. “Don’t you call me baby. I’m not your baby,” she yells, and she’s got me enthralled. Why the fuck does she need to be so beautiful when she’s mad?

Alec leans in and presses a kiss to my forehead, and I can’t help but tease him. “Though… I thought you didn’t believe in forever?”

He chuckles and shakes his head. “I do, if it’s with you. You’ve got me believing in forever, after all.”

Desperate and out of options, Elena Rousseau walks into a gentlemen's club, ready to sell her body in a last attempt to save her mother's life.She didn't expect Alexander Kennedy to be there, and she certainly didn't expect him to propose a marriage of convenience instead.Marrying Alexander means knowingly becoming a tool in his revenge plan.But what choice does she have?Better the devil you know than the one you don't.

Forever After All is a marriage of convenience standalone. I was really intrigued by this due to the setup of the story and this trope is my catnip. And even though I love this author, something that drive me bonkers is the way she handles the grovels. I am SO not a fan of how she drags it out and the heroines treat the hero's so awful in their grovel. It really rubs me the wrong way. So this story was solid for the most part. I enjoyed the angst, I enjoyed the whole hero is so emotionally constipated and the heroine trying to make her husband fall in love with her. So the first 2/3 of the story I really enjoyed. But then we get to the third act where the heroine breaks it off with the hero but when the hero tries to show how much he loves her, she spurns him completely and even has him dragged out by security and it just doesn't make sense. Throughout the whole book she wants him to love her, and when he finally is open with her and admits his feelings, she treats him like a criminal for it and his whole family acts like he is the enemy when there is obvious reasons why he doesn't open his heart easily. Basically, we just get to see the heroine emasculate the hero (which is not sexy) and it just wasn't super enjoyable when the rest of the book was so solid.

Lover of Romance 

Alec really annoyed me at the beginning but he redeemed himself by the end for sureee. Elena was my fave, she was just so perfect like omg. Only one don’t bit of the plot i didn’t like. The only other thing i didn’t like is alexander’s lack of humour like he never got the jokes 😭 but either way i LOVED the ending, made me cry happy tears it was a super fun read <3 

Mae Morton

the family drama is hella dramatic and i liked it. the conflicts are somehow draggy and repetitive, both love each other but are still in denial. at first i was okay with it, and thought it was cute. but no... as it went on, i began getting annoyed

Not my fave but not my least fave. The spice was fine, the plot was sort of lacking and out of the blue. Weird twist. The grovel wasn’t great lmao but there was one😂

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