Sorry (not sorry) Dad!

We're ready. Let's go. Today's not. It's Jenny. Why do I get the fucking show on the road? I don't know.

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Welcome back, boozy fans. I'm Kim. I'm Lynn. And I'm Jen. This week, we're diving into an evitable by Jenna Hartley, who is a Texas local author.

So I'm super happy to support fellow taxes. Let's go. This forbidden age gap romance that ask one of those hard questions. Like, what happens when your dad's best friend

“stops seeing you as a kid and starts seeing you as a woman?”

Yes. That's right. I said your dad's best friend. The guy you've known you since you were five. I'm fine with those.

I don't have to say I was done initially prepared for this ride. And we're boarding the stairs. This isn't morally complicated. It's very comfortable reading.

At the time, throughout the book, for me. I did not have that problem. Me neither. Before we go any further, I'm a need of drink.

You guys know me.

I'm always trying to match the perfect drink

with our read. Let's a gift. And for this one, I'm pretty sure I nailed it on this one today. Today we are drinking the WAP.

For fun. I know, but it's not what you're thinking. It's their song. It's not to be confused with what else, Pussy. God forbid.

Which is referenced in this story. We're not that kind of a show. It's weird. We are in that kind of show. No, no.

We're better than not ladies.

“Are we this WAP stands for Wex and Potent?”

No. And you know what? It has some of my favorite ingredients. Which we all know is vodka. Thank you.

Thank you. Some vodka, some watermelon liquor, some pineapple juice, a little squeeze of lime. It's got a bit of a sweet and tropical flavor. However, you can make this with a bit spicier if you add some

to heat to the rim of the glass. Or if you like it a little sweeter side, you can add some sugar. Who doesn't like options when you're rimming? Right?

Now, there we have our booze. And we're here for this roller coaster of emotions. And also opinions, possible pedophiles. What? She was a vage.

I eventually. Here we go. I mean, if you don't like it, just wait a minute. Show grow up. Yeah.

Let's call the age of concern.

Yes, but when you change their diapers first, it's weird.

Oh, so I'm happy. We open with this young 20-something girl by the name of Sumner. We find out she has been dating a much older man named Miko, who is her professor in college. A little background on Sumner is that she's in school.

She's trying to decide kind of her next steps. If she wants to go for her MBA, which her dad and now Niko are pressing her to do, she's also kind of thinking about doing this overseas internship next semester. But again, she really isn't sure. And we find out she is supposed to travel home for the holidays in the morning

with Niko to meet her parents for the first time. So there's a lot going on. She's frustrated with Niko from the get. She is. She's grading his papers for him.

He's not.

“Yeah, and he keeps asking her is like, are you done yet?”

And he's pacing kind of around the room basically holding a conversation with himself. And he's pressing her to go to this dinner place that she absolutely hates. He's not focusing on what she's saying. He's telling her all about why she should go for her MBA. And he's not really listening to her.

He's talking at her instead of to her. Sumner kind of like we all do at certain times with our spouse, our significant other. She takes this deep breath and she's like, hey, I'm so excited that you're going to be going

with me on this trip to meet my parents for the first time.

But I have all these things to do in order to make the flight tomorrow. And that's when Niko drops this massive bomb on her and he's like, oops. I forgot to purchase my ticket. What a dick. What a dick.

Like he's known about it forever. He was a user. He was. And he does that typical heat jumps around the conversation. Like, oh, I could get it now, but it would be so expensive.

You know what? Maybe it's better if I go next time. It's pretty obvious he had zero plans to go. He made a bunch of excuses first. And then she's like, I'm disappointing.

He's like, like, yes, like, it's still go. And it's like, well, if you wanted to go, you would have booked your ticket three months ago. When we talked about this, this is very much a one-sided relationship. At this point, a light bulb goes off for her. And she starts putting these pieces together.

It was the last straw.

And she decides right then in there.

She's ending the relationship. Over. She's heartbroken. She's going home for the holidays. And it kind of dawns her her. She is his dirty little secret on the side.

And she's over it jumping ahead on the other side of the book. We have Jonathan Jonathan is Sumner's dad Ian's best friend. From when they were small children, they were like 14, 15. Jonathan is super rich. He's successful.

And in his spare time, he flips houses with his friend Alexis. He is, however, after a very serious breakup years ago, missing something in his life. And for all of his success, he just kind of feels empty. He's a workaholic who has nothing else going on in his life.

But work. But it's not filling his cup. There's nothing of substance. But wealthy, super rich, getting rich, was important to him. Yeah, he was checking boxes.

Rich, successful, own your own company. There's something missing. There's that hole. So Jonathan and Ian are playing basketball. They're catching up at Ian starts to talk to him about Sumner.

How she came home over the break. She was not great after a bad breakup. And then she was going overseas on a trip. Ian feels like Sumner's floundering. He wants to make sure she gets back on track.

So he asks Jonathan as her pseudo uncle. I am emphasizing this. It isn't fold in my note. He doesn't use those words. He is not an uncle.

He does not use those words. But it's true. There is no blood relation. Definitely not enough. There is no blood relation.

But they're not enough.

And they never call him uncle.

I think that's important. Who's your uncle? You know. I mean, you guys read into it as you well.

“I think what's really, really important to note is they haven't seen each other in five years.”

Four years. I would just like to say that in braving the story, they also haven't seen each other in a long time. Different story, different blood, different concept. He was her uncle. But go ahead.

He wasn't her uncle. But he was adopted whatever. He grew up with her dad as his brother. Go ahead. This guy grew up with this guy as his best friend.

That's not brothers. Okay. Dalai back lady. Here we go. He knows that Jonathan and Sumner were very close when she was a little girl, emphasizing.

And being said would be a great idea for her to do an internship over the summer with the Wolf Group, which is Jonathan's commercial real estate business. This way, Jonathan could help her get some experience as he does. I mean, I don't think the dad was thinking of that kind of experience. Well, we don't know.

Poor shadow. I don't know. I will say that they felt like a little bit like the dad was playing that. It was a little bizarre. But then we found out later that was definitely not as intense.

Not the thing. It was lying to both of them about why he wanted them to work together with that one. Suspect Ray. He agrees to do it because Ian is so worried about Sumner. And he cares about both of them so much.

At the same time, Ian is playing Sumner. He is convincing Sumner that she should go to work for Jonathan because he's very concerned about his best friend. He doesn't seem happy. And she would help since they were so close again when she was a child.

And he maybe would open up to her. And she could kind of get him back on track. He was playing both of them. Yeah, she agrees to do it for the exact same reason.

“Yeah, I think he did think Johnson was going to drift.”

And Sumner was a drift and maybe like bringing them together with the whole. Sumner shows up to Jonathan's office.

And they see one another for the first time in four years.

Jonathan instantly regrets giving her the job. She is a fucking smoke show. And definitely not the little girl that he took out for ice cream. Now, she is this drop dead gorgeous woman that he cannot stop checking out. I mean, he is literally eye-fucking her.

Well, I'm vice versa. She also finds him quite attractive. Sure. But she always has. She's had a crush on this guy since she was 14.

Yeah, that's true. Jonathan, as Sumner, what are you hoping to learn from your time at the wolf groups? And Sumner gives him a very rehearsed and canned answer about gaining insight and expertise. But Jonathan, he's not buying it. He knows her.

I mean, might as well the four years when she apparently turned into a smoke show. Just like a new woman. Right. Totally different. He tells her.

Try again. And they go back and forth on this a while. Like she's like, what do you want for me? And there's even a point where Sumner gets up to leave because she's so frustrated with the conversation. And he says, yeah, yeah, you're brilliant.

And you have credentials to prove it.

“But what sets you apart and what makes you special?”

She's also like, I'm still in a favor for my dad taking this internship. And I don't. The, I'm not going to sit here and be budget by you.

Yeah, he eventually prize out of her.

She wants to be a life coach. Yes. Everybody caught that right. She's mid 20s. She's 22 year old like life.

Her ex boyfriend was very dismissive of this idea because she's at 20 year old, trying to coach people in life. She has thought it through. She has a business plan. And she has some background.

“And she's very, I think, thoughtful about like, I know I'm only 22.”

Like, do I think I can do this? And she's done she's a certificate program. I think that she was thoughtful. And I agree. I like she was a little green in this sense.

And I felt like this was kind of a weird story twist for me. It was a random career. It was random career choice. So they do a little bit more playful banter back and forth. They also do at this point discover that both of them have been duped by Ian.

Jonathan also takes her around to meet some of his co-workers, which are now her co-workers.

The introduces her to Eric, who's one of their project managers. And if I turn a lunch at 3 p.m., which instead ends up being drinks, which turns into a lot of driving around, more conversation, and a lot of inappropriate thoughts on both sides. On both sides, I did say that although I feel like one of them's way in the wrong, and the other one's just kind of inner 20s.

But my personal opinion, when you're 20, you're still in adults. You can be held accountable for your thoughts. Why do you say I understand when you're much older? You should dial that shit back. I mean, he tried so hard, did he?

Anyway, we're going to fast forward. Jonathan, how is the dinner at his house? And he invites Ian and Leah, who is Sumner's step mom? Of course, they invite Sumner.

“Jonathan and Sumner are flirting all night, of which Ian and Leah completely oblivious.”

No mention of, it's very weird to me. There was like a hallway flirtation. Yeah, there was a lot of banter, like as a parent, which I am. I think I would notice these things. I don't know if I would.

I would be like, my kid is chatting with my friend. I don't think I would notice if it's flirty. They're friends to your point. They grew up together. They've seen each other at a long time.

So for the dad, he's not cluing in on the fact that they each think each other's husband. This is what he wanted. He doesn't know they're inner thoughts. I don't think it's quite what he wanted. I'm not sure he knows where he wanted those two to connect for the summer and the same adventure.

He made this hard on putting. He did. I do blame him a lot for this whole scenario. You should. I mean, he's not trafficking, but it feels very similar.

Oh my god. That's just a symbolism. It is a realism. It is a realism. Okay.

I take that back. That's not something. Okay. So they're flirting the whole night.

“And then Jonathan realizes that Sumner hasn't seen his house.”

So he takes her on this tour.

And she's looking around and he basically is like,

"This is nice, but this doesn't look like you at all." Because I know you and your soul. It's very stark. And I know you. Since I was five.

To start. She starts this deep conversation with him. When's the last time he did something for himself? And starts to kind of build him up about how successful he is. And yet he doesn't seem to be satisfied.

Or happy. Yeah, it's just kind of sitting on Jonathan like very heavy. Before dinner, she really started to talk to Jonathan about her wannabe business. How she wants to help others, especially women taking charge of her wannabe business. It is a wannabe business.

It's not a business yet. It's a wannabe business. That's what she wants. That's her future. Is that not right?

Fair, I think it's fair. Okay. All right, ring call that. Well, she doesn't have a business yet. That's what she wants it to be.

She wants a business in these things, but she doesn't have it yet. She's a wannabe. Okay, got it. All right. [laughter]

Her future business. She's talking about her future business. I don't know. Make note. For the next time, Jenny's leading.

Before dinner. [laughter] Oh, okay. [laughter] Oh, it's coming.

Before dinner, seven or starts to talk to Jonathan about her future business plan. At this point, Jonathan is starting to get like all of the fields he's having. All kinds of thoughts about this woman who he watched grow up since she was a little girl. And realizes how hot she is. Still smoke show, but still also he took her out at five years old for ice cream.

Anyway, after dinner, they're doing cleanup and he leans in while they're watching dishes. And he asks how she would advise him to start on the path of joy. And she says to start journaling every single thing he does. I've heard this. Yeah, it's a thing.

I don't think I could ever do this. Like journal every single thing you do. I have commitment problems. Maybe. I didn't got that kind of time.

That's why I don't have a path to joy in there.

No joy here. Anytime I've ever journaled,

“I've ripped the pages up crumpled them up”

and thrown them in the garbage because I'm like someone will find this. And like you see my inner thoughts. I can't have that. Gotta burn it. Anyway, if he starts journaling, he can start to see where his time is being spent

and where he wants to focus it. He's like, I don't understand. So she ends up showing him her journal. She adds the initials JJ in her book. Which stand for and represent just Gillian.

Which would be the equivalent of a man jacking off. I'm going to use it. It's her private time for herself. She's just Gillian with her vibe. So he's super uncomfortable and yet very turned on by this.

That's interesting. And she's super uncomfortable. But very intrigued. I don't think that she's uncomfortable. As a 22 year old, she is very self-aware and self-confident.

Now, not in her business. She's very insecure about starting the business. But as a human, she's very self-confident. She does keep reminding him that she's an adult now. They can have these conversations.

It's not a big deal. She's kind of seducing him by saying, I'm not a child anymore. Treat me as a grown-up. Yes. She continues to drive that point home.

But he continues to struggle now with his thoughts and even more so. Now that he's thinking about just Gillian. Just Gillian. So the next day, Jonathan calls Sumner to his office. And he tells her he's going to hire her as his personal coach.

And he will toss in some other clients to her as well. Which will help kick off her business and give her some cloud, which is great. Especially as a struggle. It's amazing. He's some odd year old trying to be a life coach.

Similar to when he asked her the basic question of what she wanted to get out of the experience. She turns it on him. And she's like, what a success look like to you. He does exactly what she did. He gives this super artificial canned answer.

And she's like, unacceptable. Not good enough. This will be a theme for the whole book.

“He spends the entire book trying to figure out what success is.”

What success is. Yeah. And what do you want?

Because he's basically checked all the boxes for what he deemed success.

And he's still not happy. Yeah. Which is very interesting. He just needed her as Iki is this maybe feel. She was a very old soul.

Totally. We go on this journey with them for a couple of weeks of Bantering and struggling with inappropriate thoughts a lot of them. Semner knocking it out of the park and work. She's like killing it at this job that she didn't even want.

Everybody loves her. And one day Jonathan walks in the office and his assistant Cody stops him and says, Hey, you've got a conference call on hold. And by the way, Eric, who was the project manager, he has appendix just ruptured.

And he's no longer able to go on your New York trip for this big important meeting. Uh-oh. What do we do? Who do we take? I don't know.

Oh, really have one option. Who knew everything about this because she's been working so closely with Eric. Hmm. Right, right.

“So Cody suggests, obviously, that Jonathan takes Sumner with him for the week.”

Yeah. I know, right? The shock. The deal was that Cody was like, you're happier when you're around her. She's really good at what she does.

I see a lot of potential in her. Eric loves her. Eric's supportive. Am I too, grad? I mean, she's kind of smart.

Super smart. They squabble about it for like a half a second. And then he's like, okay, get her booked. And then he tells Sumner and she takes a moment and then realizes, perfect. I'm all in.

So they get ready to get on the flight. You can tell that Sumner's getting kind of anxious. Sumner has this incredible fear of flying or rather landing. She's taken her best friend Piper's anxiety meds. So the friend gives her some meds.

Like just take these meds you've never taken before.

Good luck to you. And she's sitting next to Jonathan and she's shaking. And he's like, what is going on with you? He's trying to calmer down and up giving her some whiskey. Which she does.

Doesn't know that she's on for skiers and medications. Like everybody, you're a little fear of flying. Do a shot. You'll be fine. She does really well.

And then passes out. She's fine. But then she wakes up and she's filled with anxiety. Full blown panic. So much so she's got claustrophobia.

And she starts abutting her brows. I also felt this was weird. I mean, don't you guys do that when you're anxious. You took to rip your shirt. On the airplane.

This is a first term. Like I'm like, is that how you do? I need to get naked on an airplane. That's going to make me feel better. I'm feeling claustrophobic.

So you just want to rip off your clothes. I have a tendency to be claustrophobic.

You've never wanted to rip off your clothes.

No, just my shoes. I'm like, OK. And then I can wiggle my clothes. Do you take off your socks, too? No, no need.

Definitely not my shirt.

I guess it manifests differently in different people. Right. Everyone's different. I can't say. She needed to take your shirt off.

OK. Her feelings are valid.

“He was appropriately distressed for her.”

Yeah. He's like trying to contain himself. He's watching her. He's like, well, but he did get a peek at her hot body. Yeah.

Meanwhile, he was concerned. He was like concerned about her. He put his jacket over her. He was concerned, but he did clock out. Oh, I mean, there's a man.

I mean, he's flesh and blood. Did he cover her up with his jacket? He's not a monk.

Because a monk would never have seen that.

That would be weird. I mean, her uncle's one thing. But like, you know, the family monk totally different. That's the next season. We're going to read a monk.

We're a man. We're a man. We already read a pre-stroke man. I'm so glad you're the one editing. OK.

You're going to hell. OK. So, Jonathan is trying to contain himself. He's trying to make her eat some cheese, drinks, some water. He's like, here's a sugary.

They're in first class.

“And the sewordess is like, what is happening?”

He's like, don't worry about it. Get me some cheese. She's like, OK. She's coming. She's coming.

I'm so sure. He already put his jacket over her. She did. He's covered her up. So she finally fesses up to taking the extra pill,

to call her anxiety and super embarrassed. And then she tells him about her semester. She worked in this C program abroad. She missed a flight with Oliver classmates. And she had to take a separate flight.

Well, they got on the flight and everything was going well. And then all of the sudden they hit some turbulence. And they had to do this emergency landing. So this is the first time she's flown because she had this like near-death experience. And then she boated into Southern California.

This is her first flight ever since she felt like she was going to die. Seven or makes Jonathan promised not to tell her dad about the incident. She's told him that they had a little turbulence. And it was a rough light and everything.

But she never told him how freaked out she was.

And he smiles and she's like, "Why are you smiling at this?" He smiles because he sees her as the child again. And not the woman that she is. Sometimes I get a glimpse of you as a girl. And it just makes me smile.

If you don't have the X by now readers, you will soon. That is a little X. Start away. It's not a little X. It's a lot of X.

That line was pretty X. Considering how much you wanted to fuck her. But I managed to breathe right. That's why I was like keep for sure. For sure you get it.

You're just very repulsive. I did not. I was struggling. But if you can forget those two lines for the rest of the book, you're fine.

You can't. I could. She gets very disappointed by that. Yeah, because she wants to fuck him. He's like, "Okay, that's a turn off."

Well, it's not that she doesn't want him anymore. She thinks he only thinks of her as a little girl. She thinks she's not going to get me. She says that. She's like, "I'm a woman now.

I'm not a little girl anymore." And he says, "You forget I was there for most of your childhood, most of your life, at least until the last few years." So fast forward off the flight. Everything's five.

We land in New York. She's dressed. She has fully clothes. She got a shirt.

The first night they're in New York.

They head to the hotel and there's this huge banner and posted that welcomed the WAP annual summit. And some of her thinks this is hilarious. Don't just like, "I don't get it." What's going on?

Because he's old. She's then forced to share. Thanks, Lindsay. What? What is she saying?

It's because it's old. He doesn't get it. Yeah, that's very true. She's forced to share the pop song, "WAP,"

“which on it then, where it is revealed that WAP stands for?”

What else, Pussy? Thank you. Thank you. You're welcome both laugh about it. But he's now imagining her what else Pussy?

Uh-huh. What her lady bits look like? How she grooms herself. And if she likes clip stimulation, all the inappropriate things you could think of for your uncle to imagine about you.

Not her uncle. She is a love interest. She is not her uncle. Also, if you say what else Pussy in front of any man, they're going to think of all those things.

They're going to start thinking about your lady bit. You know what? I changed this five-year-old diaper over here. I'm thinking about what else Pussy? No, no, that doesn't help it.

He was thinking about the diaper. He was just wow. That's Pussy to a man in a lobby. He's going to think about those things. Who already thinks you're hot?

So, yeah. That's a pretty short road between us. Not even a road. It's like barely a sidewalk. He ends up taking her to see Hamilton on Broadway

He's not a big fan of rap.

And Sumner laughs and mentions that he sounds like a hurt dad. Again, who? First. We talk about the old man who doesn't know what the song is. What's the rap song?

Then we're going, "Oh my God, you sound just like my dad, but I'm hot for you." She regretted saying that if I recall. She did. The interim before they actually get together is kind of aching.

“I think they're both honestly like throwing up roadblocks in their own way”

to try and avoid the thing that they know is going to happen. They're on a high speed train. They both know what's going to happen. They're in New York by themselves with no one who knows them around. They are for a week.

We know what around who knows them. This is going to happen. I shouldn't have it, but it's going to happen. Sure is. Can't fight the moonlight.

Can't fight them. Okay, okay. So they're back at the hotel bar drinking, flirting, and they're getting very deep again about whether Jonathan wants to be a father someday.

Because, you know, it's the first thing you would bring up at the bar with your pseudo-uncle.

And love interests. What he gets out of life, et cetera. Very grown up. She's still trying to help him find his happiness. Sure. She's his pseudo-nice, his life coach, and his love interest.

All of these relationships are in conflict with each other. They have to go with this. I feel like he's getting a bargain based on that price on life coaching. I mean, that's really exciting. No.

And in fact, that she actually is quite mature about this whole thing. Like she doesn't let the uncle or the love interest get in the way of her, hoping.

“And even though I want to have sex with you, I'm still going to give you a feeling of coaching.”

I mean, that's nice. And she's hosting him. She's a giver. She's a giver. But he got some.

Yeah. He definitely got some. He's a taker. He ends up walking her back to her room after drinks and... What a gentleman.

Next door to each other, their rooms next door. And he kisses her on the cheek. She feels jipped. Yeah. He decides he has to go to the gym and work off all this tension.

This scene was so unnecessary. I hated this. Gross, unnecessary. So sleazy. He runs into a yoga instructor named Kelly, and she offers him free private lessons.

AKA, I will blow you for free and stretch out all of your muscles. You'll feel good off. Who doesn't want that? You're going to feel great. I mean, sure.

Sounds great. It takes her up on it, though. He's trying to get her out of his mind. Yes. He's got to scratch the edge.

Yeah, he's got it. Yeah, he's like maybe if I can go to bed with this woman. I'll stop thinking about the other woman. We all know that that is a bad idea. Never happens.

He and Kelly kind of play around a little bit. She takes his pants off. She gets about a half a centimeter from his dick. His penis. His dick.

Whatever you want to call it is rod. Whatever you want to say. She's rod. Whatever. He shuts it down.

He's like, hey, we don't need this. My mind on my other girl. Appreciate you. Come again. He's like, this was great.

It's not you, it's me. I got to go. How awkward. How humiliating for her. Poor Kelly this led.

She didn't do anything wrong. She was just ho and out a little. That's fine. She was a whore. She was a whore.

She was a gym rat. But why does she deserve to be rejected? Like, that wasn't nice. Because she's a gym rat. Waiting in the gym for a piece.

She was literally waiting for a piece. A tenser night night. She got one. Well, she didn't get one. Not really.

That's the sad part. Think her. Yeah. He goes back to his own room. All on his own.

And decides to take a shower.

Basically, he masturbates to the thought of the girl of his dream.

Sumner. And then right after he is completely and utterly disgusted with himself. Yeah. Doesn't the feel real, though? That felt real and I appreciated it.

This book was real. There was. All the emotions and the outcome and we're going to get there. But everything that happened in this book. Part of it was the romance.

But also part of it was the fallout. Yeah. A romance that shouldn't have happened. Oh, yeah. This is so well written.

“Don't have been in Sumner at this big conference, right?”

And she shows up in this dress that is just to die for. He's hot again. There are several encounters like this. And in almost every single one of them. He mentions to himself or to her something about being older.

This is like his talking myself out of this. This is not the right thing. This should not be.

I guess I never see someone's age or title.

I just see them. And this is almost like a. I'm open the door for you. I have invited you in. I don't see your age.

I just see you.

“She laid out the red carpet for this guy.”

It was like whenever you're ready. Like hired the band. Yeah. You needed it. Set up the catering.

Rolled the carpet out and said, come on, buddy. I'm open for business. She did that. So he leads in one night. And he goes to kiss her on the cheek.

And he just kind of lingers for a minute. He's like his lips, cheek, lips, cheek. It's just right there on the press of us. And she takes over. He goes on.

She goes in for it. They lose control.

He needed her to be the first.

He did. He needed her to make that first move. I think we needed that too. Yeah. I was over the slow burn at this point.

But also, if he had made the first move, it's very different than if she did. He was really torn. And she had to make the first move. Or he would have found a dirty asshole. So they lose control throughout the whole thing.

He's super torn up inside. I want her. What I'm doing is wrong. This is terrible idea. I can't resist her.

He's really and truly tormented. Again, I appreciate that in the right feeling. And really worried about what the friend's going to think. The dad really, really worried about that. But this is typical dad's style moment.

Trying to be sexy. They get naked and he says turn. It gives me some. He's trying to be super sexy.

He goes such a pretty little.

Wow. Oh boy. I was lost. My shit. That jerk.

He thought he was being so hot and sexy. And he wasn't. And it was really kind of wolf meets red riding hood. He had a crazy rose. He's trying to be on her level.

I thought it was kind of cute that he was trying to like meet her. Sexiness or shoe is that. I think it's a swing in a miss. He missed it. The whole lap.

It was a miss for me. But it was kind of funny though. I thought it was cute. It was hilarious. But they've got a whole week there.

So they end up doing all the things in all the places to each other. They decide that they're going to take this week. They're going to spend that time together. And they're going to be exactly who they want to be in that moment. Just for the week.

That always works out. Lots of sex. But they also have a little bit of business to do too.

“And honestly, a summer ends up closing deals for the wolf group.”

She nails it on the park with whether the hardest cells. He's super turned on by her brain too. Yeah. She's smart. They spend every single minute together having sex into a New York.

All while Jonathan is still internally torn up. And wondering what the hell are they going to do when they go back? But see, this made it feel real, him being torn up felt very natural. Yeah. It's so real.

I did not have an issue with the writing. I had an issue with the true. Yeah. The actual story. It was the trope.

It's not my trope, I guess. They're starting to get ready to go back. And he's stressing over like, what do we do? What do we do? My best friend Ian.

And as they board the plane, he tells her. It was fun while they lasted. But when we get back, this all ends. Essentially, we didn't have anything. She's furious.

Well, she's devastated. Yeah. She's furious. She's devastated. And she throws this massive tantrum on the plane.

Well, she's 22. Also true. She ends up getting up and going to the restroom. Who doesn't throw? And he's hit on the plane.

And they're just marched into a very small confined place. But this is actually also very normal. She has these... She needed a Montreyndios ideas. And she needed a moment.

Where are you going to go on an airplane? It's really the only other room. Where are you also going to go? She only tries to get away. She soon follows her after a little bit of banter back and forth.

They end up joining the mile hike club. She says you're every dream I ever had. We just can't do it. But let's fuck again before we get home.

“And she says, I'm your dirty little secret.”

And I don't want to do this. I don't want to be somebody else's secret. I didn't like this because... I didn't like it because of the germs and an airplane bathroom. I didn't.

You like it, Lindsey. That's embodied me not. The eyes didn't like it because I felt like she knew what he was all about. He was really struggling. So it was like, let's get one more time in before we land and I totally drop you.

But you're devastated by the fact that I've dropped you. They had this conversation back and forth. And she says, I don't want to be your dirty little secret. That's what I was to Nico. That's not what I'm about.

And he says, it wasn't nothing to me. And so they have said, and that's where they kind of decide we're not done. We should be, but we're not. Let's carry on through the summer. Yes.

Because we're not ready to be done.

He explains that he's super torn up.

And it's his best friend. And he does want to lose her. He does want to lose him. They get back into the real world. And they decide after their plane ride.

“Obviously, in the bathroom of gloriousness.”

I think that's a word. Not a word. I'm not sure. We'll go go that.

Like Heidi Holm is in the next section.

Okay. Well, look at gloriousness. See if that's in the dictionary. Gloria. That's different than Heidi Holm.

It's totally not a Gloria. It's totally not a Gloria. It's like a bag of the real world.

“And they decide to continue the relationship.”

But again, it has to be kept a secret. So here we are, poor little Sumner. Again, has to be in the shadows. Jonathan's working on himself. He's assigned Sumner a few new clients within the company to help coach Sumner start seeing Jonathan pretty regularly at this point.

And she starts to kind of disassociate from her family and lying to everyone. She's created a big boyfriend named Jack, which is obviously Jonathan. But it is also someone she works with so she's trying to kind of cover up her tracks and is meeting up with Jonathan every single day at work and at night. He's now lying to his best friend Ian, who at this point starts to confide in him that he's worried about his daughter and this guy that she's dating. He's worried that it'll be another incident like her ex-boyfriend Nico, which was an old pervert using her.

Ian also starts to push Jonathan to let Sumner go with the end of the summer and persuade her to go back to school for the MBA. He wants to use Jonathan to move her in the direction that he wants her to go in. These two guys get together and talk about her future without including her like an uncle and a dad. It was right. Awesome, Jonathan. It's very torn because he tries to share some of Sumner's feelings with Ian. He's like, "Oh, maybe she doesn't want to do that. Maybe she wants to do this."

And he is shut down immediately by Ian who reiterates the fact that he's her father and knows what's best for his little girl, which is like a huge stab to Jonathan. And he feels like he's the one holding Sumner back. Guess what? Act three break up right here. Boom. They were very often on. I'm over it by now. He ends up with Sumner who is once again completely blindsided. She doesn't understand. She wants to stay at the job. She wants to stay there. She's loving it.

She's succeeding. She's building her client's house. Yeah, but he literally tells her it was great for the Sumner, but it's time to move on. And this time, she's over it. She decides that's it. And they go their separate way. She goes back to school. He stays miserable. She goes through all the real steps of a break up. She does.

But she has a broken heart. She picks herself up. She goes out to school. She does everything in a very classy way. She starts coming back from this event. The next thing she knows, she's actually exiting his exit. She is at his door banging on the door. And this to me was probably the realest thing in this book.

“Because how many times have we gotten somewhere and gone?”

Fuck, I don't even remember how I got here, but I'll be damned if I'm not going to finish this right now. She's pissed. With some version of this ever girl has done. Something hotter per cent. She plowed out tells him, I know you want me and you can have me. You just won't take me. I'm yours. And he says, I can't throw away a 30 year friendship.

And even if I'm willing to sacrifice my relationship with Ian, I'm not willing to sacrifice yours. She's not backing down and she's certainly not letting him get away with that.

She's convinced my dad loves me no matter what, you're basically a coward.

And she calls him on it. So Jonathan starts avoiding Ian completely because he doesn't want to deal with us. Ian is so determined that he puts himself on Jonathan's calendar and shows up at his job to play basketball with them. They end up talking Ian figures out that his friend is tied up on someone and presses to find out that she is a much younger girl. And he basically uploads him for being with a younger girl until he tells Ian that it's over. Jonathan realizes he needs Sumner. He doesn't know what the real definition of success means to him but he knows that he now needs to find out.

Several months go by and we find ourselves at Ian's birthday party. Jonathan and Sumner have not spoken for months ever since their big blowout. At the birthday party, Leah has set Sumner up on a date. And this guy is super nice, but he's obviously not Jonathan. At a certain point in the reception her date looks over and goes, "Oh my God, your dad looks so big."

And an effort to avoid the glaring eye, she again retreats to the restroom. Of course, he follows.

I'm just like how he's like, "Get rid of him, no." She's like, "What?" No. He tells her, "Get rid of your date. He wants to take her right then and there in the restroom." And she says, "No."

“She says, "I'm not going to be your dirty little secret. I'm not going to be your mistake.”

And I'm not willing to be your nothing." She waits, he says nothing. She gets ready to leave the restroom and he blurts out. He sold his company and he wants to find a way for them to be together. She's like, "That's great." She walks out. She's like, "I'm glad you're happy now."

And says, "I don't think we should see each other anymore." She's moved on with this new guy and he is now devastated. And then he has to go and deliver this speech for his best friend at his birthday party. He's sick and is stomach and Talia informs him that she has set some nerve up with her blind date for the first time tonight. And he goes over to her and grabs her on the dance floor and calls her on the glove.

He says, "I want to spend the rest of my life making sure you know how much you mean to me. And I want to tell everyone which includes your father." She says, "No, we will tell him together." She assumes, "This is my dad. He's going to support me no matter what." Yeah, no. So the next morning, they said, "Down to breakfast."

And Jonathan starts. "You know how important your friendship is to me."

"You know I would never do anything to hurt you."

Well, I'm in love with Semner. I accept this one thing. It didn't go well.

“Let's just say that there was a lot of screaming a little bit of fighting.”

Both Leah and Ian realizing that they had been lied to for months. Ian's hurt blurt out that he and Jonathan agreed that forcing Semner out of Wolf Company was the best option, which sets Semner off. She walks away. The two men met over the basketball court like Jenny brought up earlier.

And they decided her future without talking to her. She's like, "What?" She's pissed. Everybody's mad. She gets up and walks away. Jonathan yells after her baby weight.

And Ian says, "No, she's my baby." She's my daughter and I was like, "Oh, gross again." But this was a very realistic scene. Surprise. They almost break up again.

It's like fourth act to break up. They did not. They ended up working it out. The dad did punch him in the face, which he deserved. Yeah.

“And then Jonathan decides he's going to just stick to his flipping houses.”

And he starts fixing up the house that they're now living in. They're happy. It's been several months since Ian and Leah have spoken to them. They're refusing calls. They're refusing emails.

They're just shutting them out. They eventually Leah starts to crack. But Ian continues to hold out. And they go through holidays. Sumner is really missing her dad.

This was so realistic. This made me love the story more because it was like, This is how real dad's react when their best friends sleep with their daughters. I would imagine. I think you know people?

I don't. But if I did, I imagine this is how real dad's would act. This is how I would react if my best friend would sleep with my kid. I would be so angry. But they don't gloss over it.

Like, oh, we got through it. No. We spent several chapters on the heartbreak at the family dynamic that it upset.

I would say the last third of the book is how the family gets through it.

I really liked that because it was a big part of the story. I appreciate it. It did feel right. Jonathan just continued to kind of make his final pleased. He would show up and try and convince Ian, like, hey, you don't have to like me.

She misses you. You try and everything. They're kind of building that bridge. They're growing that relationship back together. And on graduation day, everybody's kind of back on good terms.

These graduating just got her MBA now. And they plan this big celebration back at the house. She gets ready with her best friend, pipeer, and she gives her a little white dress cue. Does her make up because what turns out is not a graduation party. It's actually an engagement party surprise.

Jonathan wants to marry her happy, happy, happy and Ian welcomes Jonathan. Officially into the family. The end. Yay. And you kind of guess what our feelings and ratings are.

But I'm going to start with Jen. Oh. I gave this book a four. Ooh. It because I really appreciated the realistic story writing.

You know, I'm not a huge fan of a taboo romance. But to me, for whatever reason, the way the story was written, I could understand it. And I was there for the journey.

All right, Lynn.

I really liked this book.

I love a good taboo romance. It was really fun.

“I'm going to give this book a four and a half.”

There's a fun book. It was easy to read. And I liked the story. And it felt really true. It felt relatable.

Like it didn't gloss over the hard parts of this relationship. While I didn't like the off-on off-on. It felt real. Yep.

Four and a half going for it.

Okay. I went in with a three and a half. It was because of the writing. Even though I was uncomfortable with a lot of this scenarios. And a lot of the things that were happening.

“The way that it was written made me feel like I was standing on the corner,”

listening to it happened. I did really and truly enjoy the writing of it. And the struggle that he went through. I appreciated instead of insta love. It was a real true struggle for him.

And I appreciated that spice. Jen. Three and a half.

It wasn't like overly spicy.

It wasn't over the top. But I felt like the spice was appropriate for the book. Okay. The spice in this book was good. I really liked their sex scenes.

I'm going to give it a three and a half. Four. It was appropriately placed. It didn't feel like they were stringing along sex scene after sex scene. I felt like the natural evolution of their relationship led to the sex.

Okay. I gave it a one and a half. Why? I told you. Because they are playing bathroom.

No. But also. Yes. No. Because it gave me the egg.

It was not sexy to me as a parent. I struggled with the concept of it. I don't often buy into taboo. I have a hard time with it, but this was written so well. Every once in a while we hit a book where we flip scripts.

This totally is one of them. Because I'm like, what? Jenny, love this. I hated this. It was awful.

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