Between Commitment and Betrayal: An Arranged Marriage Romance (Hardy Billionaires)

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My favourite part was the way Declan just couldn’t get over everly wearing wes’s jersey and demanded she take it off throughout the book. Even till the end he was just happy to see her wear the jersey with his name on it was swoon worthy.🥹🥵 If it meant saving the firm that they had built together, the business partner of my father would marry me. While she’s not writing, she enjoys spending time with her family, which includes Doc G, Liv, and Gray Gray, as well as the family’s renegade golden retriever. She and Doc G act like they’ve been married for decades, but they still argue about everything from excessive caffeine consumption to sweet foods. I’m being honest when I say I don’t think I’ve ever been so angry at a book before (or if I was I can’t remember). I just cannot for the life of me understand why this man could not COMMUNICATE!! She’s about to tell you she loves you or that she could and she wants to have your child. And instead of telling her ‘i really love you regardless of the will’ you make her think you’re going to impregnate her stepsister and she can’t divorce you. I’m honestly flabbergasted.

Declan and Everly have tension from the start. You can’t deny their pull and chemistry towards each other. If you love good sexual tension and lots of spice. This is a GREAT book for you🤤 If she isn’t spending time with loved ones or working on a project, it’s likely that she is calling them. If you call her and she doesn’t answer, she’s probably reading or watching some mindless drivel on television. Synopsis of the Book Between Commitment and Betrayal I’m treating you like my wife. And if your boyfriend puts his hands on you, he better know I’m breaking them.”

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We have Declan and Everly who are forced into a marriage of convenience. Declan is a former NFL superstar but now runs a billionaire empire. Everly comes from humble beginnings and is running from a past that still haunts her. I’m so utterly disappointed because this book sounded so interesting…and it didn’t deliver any of that. THE BETRAYAL!!! i felt like it was so unnecessary? like he was trying to get her to trust him and then did a complete 180 at the drop of a hat. he could’ve just told her he loved her and wanted a baby with her not because of the will??? instead he breaks her heart and starts “dating” HER SISTER??? he tells her he will have a baby with her instead and nothing will change between them ARE U FR??? It seemed promising at the beginning. Then we got about a quarter of the way in and there is an… unexpected plot twist. I’m talking, out of absolutely nowhere. The only foreshadowing was perhaps a mere sentence at the beginning of the novel. Try as I might, this sentence set a precedent for this book and not a very good one. Though I tried to power through, it seemed as though this one ill-timed moment put every other discrepancy under a magnifying glass. At first, it seemed as though it was the sort of conflict that should’ve been saved until the climax. Then we learn it is actually the inciting incident that sets the story into motion. There appears to be a thin line separating loyalty and betrayal, and as more circumstances come to light, we are unable to determine exactly where that line is located.

While he will inherit the health and hospitality dynasty, I will be able to keep the one person I have ever truly loved. And as more conditions arise, it's clear there's a fine line between commitment and betrayal... and neither of us knows where that line falls. I don’t need to plan it like you, Drop, or think about all the different outcomes.” they’re talking about bringing a CHILD into this fake marriage!!!!! no plan needed 🙂they would hook up and the next minute everly was throwing her boyfriend in declan’s face and telling him to go out with her sister. it got old real fast. declan wanted everly outside of the fake marriage but did nothing when ow would hang all over him and try to get between them like are you sure you’re 34??? Some parts were fun and cute. But I barely saw any of that when the whole plot of the book was surrounded by OWD and OMD. Twenty-one times you haven’t listened, haven’t let me open the door for you, haven’t let me take care of you.” Everly has two step sisters, one who is literally THE DEVIL, and the other who is the only person actually trying to form a relationship with her. Everly is so dang strong and she had an AWFUL past with a different popular golden boy in her small town & you learn how much she had to go through. I was rooting for her HEA. i hate to say this bc i loved corrupted chaos by this author but this book was so bad 😭 i was expecting so much more.

And Evie "dating" another man while married to Declan, even though she says several times how she feels nothing for this other man, made me not care very much for her character. She's afraid of trusting and getting hurt, well then date no one while being in a fake marriage. I realized she didn’t belong to me, I belonged to her… she held my sanity, my control, my power, my heart in her hands. She owned me.” Between Commitment and Betrayal, a forced proximity, arranged marriage, sports romance, is the first installment of the Hardy Billionaire Brothers series. Let me begin by saying, there’s no doubt in my mind that this will be someone’s comfort series or favorite book. It just wasn't for me and that's okay. For fans of Lauren Asher and Elle Kennedy, a fake marriage, forced proximity romance about a young woman who becomes entangled with her father’s business partner to save the empire he’s built.

Overall it’s a really good read I enjoyed every bit of Declan and his possessive nature ofcourse I did but I cant lie at some parts even I was like ok dude RELAX 😂💀 but I LOVED THIS BOOK BECAUSE EVERLY SHE WAS STRONG AND AMAZING THE WAY SHE HELD HER GROUND AND AFTER EVERYTHING SHE HAD BEEN THROUGH SHE DESERVES THE WORLD 💕

The sex scenes were hot and great! But the relationship just put a bad taste in my mouth. He didn’t seem dominant to me outside of the bedroom-just inconsiderate but pretending he was. I can see that she cares for him but i unfortunately cannot be convinced he really cares for her.While Declan and Evie’s relationship was toxic in every sense of the word, at least the sex was hot. Gave me butterflies every time. Though in the grand scheme of it all, their relationship was built on lust. Even after reading the entire book, I struggle to believe they truly love each other. Perhaps it’s because I couldn’t get past their personality flaws, but their relationship is very surface-level. It in no way was healthy. The hate-sex trope is my guilty pleasure, but even I can admit that getting it on every time you disagree is not going to nurture a lasting relationship. Once again, as someone that loves the angst the silent treatment builds, resorting to it every time isn’t getting anyone anywhere. Declan was a gem he truly loved everly even before Carl had forced their hand in this marriage of convenience the way he’d go the extra mile for everly and payed 100 million to dance with her in the moonlight at a charity gala so no other man would dance with his wife still does something to my heart YES you read that correct 100 mill even i had to do a double take🥹🥹🥹