Category: After

After Chapter 50 – Saved by the bell.

Previously: IDK, Hardin’s parents were presumptuous and weird. — Samantha: I am considering getting out the good old brain bleach for this, another sexytimes chapter in like 3 chapters. Marines: No...

After Chapter 49 – A Hormance for October

Previously: Hardin broods. — Marines: Karen and Tessa make small talk about baking. Karen offers to teach Tessa how to bake. Tessa accepts the offer because apparently Karen is trying...

After Chapter 47 – The boo-boo on his soul.

Previously: Family dinner revealed that Papa Hardin is the Chancellor. — Marines: Tessa follows Hardin out after his outburst, for several reasons: 1- She’d rather be with angry Hardin than his...

After Chapter 46 – As if.

Previously: Hardin and Tessa had a fight about family dinner. — Samantha: Tessa notices that Hardin seems tense for some reason as they drive to the family dinner he very...

After Chapter 44 – Small dumpster fires.

Previously: Hardin and Tess went to the same coed shower to shower. — Samantha: The chapter starts with Tessa telling us she stopped to use the toilet. Cool. She then notices...

After Chapter 41 – Movie night

Previously: Tessa makes herself feel like less of a horrible person by calling Noah. — Marines: Tessa takes out her notes and her textbooks and very haughtily tells us that she does...

After Chapter 40 – A damn emotional vampire.

Once Hardin has successfully bullied Tessa into the car, they don't talk for a bit until Hardin asks her about her new look. He thinks its a little "over the top" and cool we're veering into the shaming and/or "you don't need all that make up" territory.
Tessa balls her hands into fists in her lap which is a detail that grabbed me because it's very "I'm afraid and trying to self soothe" to me. She tells him that he didn't have to drive her home and Hardin, being the aces guy he is, tells her to stop being so defensive, he's just saying the makeover is "extreme."

After Chapter 33 – Stomach Ache

Hardin's eyes are on fire ("blazing") as he pulls Tessa onto the bed and on top of him. Tessa is straddling him, which she's done before, but now she's straddling him with very little clothing on. She stays up on her knees so they aren't touching but "Hardin isn't having it," and he pulls her all the way down. Because clearly what Hardin's having is the only thing on the menu.

After Chapter 32 – Hardin is the Kool-Aid Man.

Okay well here I go. To recap Tessa and Hardin alone in a room at night again. With sex implications in the terribly written text. Alright. Here we go. Oh, wait, man, have I asked how you all are recently? Anything new?
Marines: Just rip the bandaid off, girl. This garbage fire has 90-something chapters.
Samantha: .......fine. According to my Kindle app we're only 26% done.