Want You Still (Alternate Cover)
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Want You Still (Alternate Cover)

Duty, honor, and sacrifice. Dedicating my life to these elements, for family and country, leaves little for myself in return. It's why I indulge in a no-strings hookup with a handsome stranger mere days before heading half-a-world away. Except one night turns into a week-long fling, creating a connection at the most inopportune time. And neither of us want it to end. Staying in touch is easy at first, but dwindles to radio silence and distant memories as time passes. I didn't expect him to reemerge in my life months later, now belonging to someone else. It should be enough for us both to walk away. To push down this relentless, aching want. But we don't... We can't. Because the heart always wants what it can't have.
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aleksandra@aleksandrareading
1 star
Apr 2, 2024

dnf 55% The review contains spoilers! No No No No No. I’m not reading this. I can't do that when the main characters are people I usually hate with a passion. I want to forget about this book as soon as possible, so a quick review. The first part of the story. Our main characters had a one-night stand that turned into a week-long fuck fest, with some breaks, but the first hundred and twenty pages were them fucking eight percent of the time. If you like smutty books, you might like it, but I'm not a fan so I skipped almost all of them. The third part. The second part was just them exchanging letters for twelve months, so there's not much to say. So as it turns out - we actually know this from the prologue, but we don't know who this person is - Pierce is married and cheats on his partner with Will/Auden (that’s the same guy, just his two names). But the person he is cheating on is Auden’s sister. A very nice, loving and just sweet sister who did nothing wrong. Auden returns from the army after twelve months for his sister's wedding and then finds out that Pierce is marrying his sister, there is an explanation in the book why he didn't make the connection that they were siblings. An explanation which I still don't understand because he saw the photo when Auden was eight years old, and his wife and Auden had the same last name. I skipped to the end to see if she was cheating on him or if she was a bad person who deserved to be cheated on, but she isn't. So, I can’t do that. I hate these types of cheaters. I wish them well. In Hell.

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Mary Carmona@mary_carmona
2.5 stars
Feb 9, 2025
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Murphy-Ann Craig@avocadomamma26
5 stars
Sep 6, 2024
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Mary Carmona@mary_carmona

“I swear to you, I didn’t know. You have to believe that. God, if I had, I’d…” I trail off, not knowing where my thoughts are trying to lead me.

In all the time that I’ve studied his face, I’ve never seen an expression quite like this. Quite literally torn in half between rage and regret. Hatred and⁠—

Don’t go there. Not now.

His eyes might as well be on fire as he half glares, half pleads with me through the windshield. 

“Pierce, I swear to God…” he says, voice coming out strained between gritted teeth. “If you don’t get out of the way willingly, I will fucking make you.”

His pain and anguish cut through me like a knife; the closed-off soldier, exposed and bleeding before me. It’s enough to have me stepping around the hood, slowly making my way toward his open window like I’m approaching a cornered animal.

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Mary Carmona@mary_carmona

“I want you to promise me something:

If you love someone, you tell them.

Even if you’re scared that it’s not the right thing.

Even if you’re scared that it will cause problems.

Even if you’re scared it will burn your life to the ground.

You say it, and you say it loud.

And then you go from there.”

— Dr. Mark Sloan, Grey’s Anatomy