Review: The bigger they are, the harder they fall.......
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 03 17, 2013
I loved every word of this story about a man that needs the very thing he thinks he can live without......love. Jessica a struggling college student meets Connor when she joins an escort type website for sugar daddies. She has just lost her scholarship and is about be thrown out of campus housing for the summer. With no money or a place to stay, she needs cash fast to continue her education. Jessica decides to investigate a rumor on campus, about how young girls can earn quick and easy money, by becoming paid mistresses through a popular website.  Of course making money that involves a very dominant Alpha male as your sugar daddy is never quick or easy, you just know there will be nothing tidy about their relationship. LC successful captured Jessica's anxiety and feelings of helplessness as she tried to come to terms with her decision to become Connor's mistress.Connor is one Alpha that was cruisin for a bruisin and boy does he get it when he meets his Waterloo in Jessica.  The reader is treated to plenty of scenes of Connor being a rompin and stompin Alpha  with all kinds of rules he imposes on Jessica, it was a joy to experience all his rules being broken.  He was such a Neanderthal at the beginning of their arrangement, I loved it when he was brutally honest, and told Jessica he only saw her as a vessel for his sexual needs....how charming. I couldn't wait to read about the moment he fell for her. Turns out Connor  is a Teddy Bear under his hardcore Alpha exterior. I knew the minuet I fell in love with his character, was when he admitted to himself he didn't like to hear Jessica  cry, and he had to fight his feelings of wanting to comfort her. Another moment of Alpha badness that made me like Connor even more is when after a jealous tirade he says, "I can see I made a f..king error in judgement", it was a pivotal moment in the book that sealed his downfall.The woman that eventually brings our Alpha to his knees is Jessica, a believable 20 yr old steel magnolia that had enough sense to know "when you've got your hand in the lions mouth, you've got to ease your hand out". She gives our boy a run for his money, when she reveals she has a few demands of her own for how she wants their relationship to go. I liked everything about her including the crying, I saw her tears as tears of frustration in dealing with a stubborn male that refused to admit the obvious....he was in love and fighting it every step of the way by saying cruel things and behaving badly. In spite of their rocky start I felt they made a wonderful couple, I loved how Connor provided for her needs and made sure she was safe. He may have called her baby but he did not treat her like a baby, he appreciated she had a brain and knew how to use it.  The love came in stages which was nice, I enjoy reading romances when the characters are saying no love allowed but their actions are saying the total opposite. Don't get me wrong, Connor was a cold SOB in the beginning, and I believe he still is, but not toward Jessica, he was wrapped around her finger just as tight as she was wrapped around his.Great book, will read it again. The sex between the H/h was alpha HOT, the epilogue only made me want more of their story.