This story very well written, and the narration is excellent. Love grows between them, but Elijah also begins to love the children in a way he never expected, as he learns to embrace family life. But as neighbors, they begin to learn about each other. Both of them make general, biases assumptions based on appearances. When they first meet, it’s not love at first sight. After throwing out her loser boyfriend and father to her children, Hadley is just keeping it together as she works and goes to nursing school on top of raising kids. Hadley is a single mom, pregnant with her second child. He’s surly with a mean disposition and a pessimistic view of people in general. The sex scenes are extremely well-written and hot! Elijah is a the owner of a tattoo shop, covered in tattoos. This may be a slow-burn romance, but it’s by no means clean either. I listened to this book in two days and Ioved, loved, loved this story. I absolutely loved Elijah and Hadley’s story! His strange acts of kindness are unraveling me. I build an unlikely friendship with him which deems it necessary for him to start smiling around me and my kids. Turns out, Judgmental Guy isn’t too mean. Judgmental Guy decides Lucy and me - as well as baby Eli, are worth his friendship.
Then, something happens, I’m not even sure what.
He judges my very round belly, Lucy’s inability to leave him alone, the bags under my eyes, and the fact that I couldn’t care less what I look like anymore. He doesn’t know me, but he’s already painting a picture of who he thinks I am in his mind. His cold, blunt observation of us doesn’t differ from any other stranger. I’m too busy most days between parenting, work, and finishing up my last year of nursing school to let their judging gaze tear me down, until he moves into the vacant house next to the apartments I live in. I mean, why else would someone have a child so young, right? They see Lucy on my hip, and they see a mistake.
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