Leather & Lark Part 1

***SPOILERS*** On this episode we dive into Leather & Lark by Brynne Weaver. We'll follow Lark, a serial killer, who as she embarks on a sham of a marriage to Lachlan, a contract killer, in order to save the ones she loves. Join us as we break down this book and discuss each riveting and spicy chapter!

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Welcome to Crime in Passion, the channel where we deep dive into the dark and thrilling world

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of true crime cases.
And also book reviews, mostly focusing on smut.
On Mondays we will turn up the heat with our candid reviews of the latest in smut, or any
genre.
And Thursdays we'll unravel the mysteries behind some of the most notorious crimes.
I'm Destiny.
And I'm Allison.

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So sit back, grab your popcorn, or your coffee, as we take you on a thrilling journey.
So on today's episode we are going to talk about Leather and Lark by Bren Weaver.

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It is the second installment in the Runes Love trilogy following Butcher and Blackbird.
So Butcher and Blackbird was the story of Sloane and Rowan.
Leather and Lark will follow Sloane's best friend Lark and Rowan's brother Lachlan.

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Now before we dive in, I think it's worth mentioning the trigger warnings because it
is quite an extensive list.
So to begin with the trigger warnings, there probably should be a trigger warning on the
trigger warnings.
This is pretty gruesome.

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So there's eyeballs, but not socket mutilations.
Thith and Tooth by-product.
The ruining of pizza and beer and smoothies.
For everyone, forever, because Bren Weaver apparently likes to ruin foods for all of

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us.
It also says snow globes.
That's all I can say about the snow globe.
Like, I can't describe that yet.
Auto cannibalism.
Numerous weapons and sharp objects including darts, scissors, pew pews, pointy sticks,

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grinders, an edger, and a nucleation spoon.
There are also severed fingers, epoxy resin, which you will see why that needs a trigger
warning, vehicular collision, drowning in various different forms, terminal illness

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of a loved one, also going to state death of a loved one, details of spicy scenes including,
that I'm going to say not limited to, adult toys choking, rough spiciness, mild degradation,

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spicy acts in public, freeze kinks, and the best for last apparently, pegging.
So be warned.
And we're not done.
Not done yet.
There are references to parental neglect and child abuse, not depicted but is mentioned.

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References to SA, an essay of a minor, not depicted but it is mentioned.
Religious references.
Explicit language including blasphemy.
An injured dog.
It is not explicitly depicted and yes the dog is okay.

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She states that in the very beginning, in the trigger warnings that the dog will be
okay.
And lots of death because after all we are following a contract killer and a serial killer.
So with that being said, let's talk about some of the tropes in the book that she listed

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offhand.
It is a hate to love.
It is a marriage of convenience.
A grumpy guy and the sunshine girl.
He falls first which is kind of rare in these books.
Usually the woman becomes more emotionally attached even though the guy is more protective

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to start with.
Just usually the girl that leans into her emotions first.
There is groveling.
But she said make it psycho.
So take that however you take that.
And then it's a touch her or him and die.

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Which is also kind of different.
Usually it's a touch her and die but it also goes to the guy as well.
Touch him and you die.
That's all the tropes though.
That she listed.
I'm sure anybody can find more.
Such a short list compared to the trigger warnings.

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Okay well we have the trigger warnings out of the way.
Let me give you a slight summary of the book.
Killer Lachlan Kane wants a quiet life working in his leather studio and forgetting all about
his traumatic past.
But when he botches a job for his boss's biggest client, Lachlan knows he'll never

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claw his way out of the underworld.
At least not until songbird Lark Montague offers him a deal.
Use his skills to hunt down a killer and she'll find a way to secure his freedom.
The catch?
He has to marry her first.
And they hate each other.
Indie singer songwriter Lark is the sunshine that burns through the darkness Lachlan Kane

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choose to hide behind.
Lachlan might think Lark is just a privileged princess but the truth is that she keeps plenty
of secrets.
With her formidable family in a tailspin and her best friend's happiness on the line,
Lark's willing to make a vow to the man she's determined to hate no matter how tempting
the broody assassin might be.

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And they navigate this sham marriage turning real marriage as another phantom lurks on
their doorstep who is out for blood.
This was a great book.
Just gonna go ahead and just gonna go ahead and throw that out there.
I'm still partial to Butcher and Blackbird because I liked the competition between the

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two of them.
But this one had more angst.
Yeah.
I feel like it's an unpopular opinion but I prefer this one over Butcher and Blackbird.
I mean, everybody likes what they like and each- even though they're in the same series,

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both books are wildly different.
Oh, 100%.
The only thing they have in common is unaliving people.
It really makes you wonder about the third book because Fiona's supposed to be like a
goody goody doctor.
Yeah.
As we'll never know.

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Not until February.
I hate when authors do this.
And I usually do not start a series if it is unfinished but since these were standalones
I was like I'm gonna go ahead and read them.
You don't have to read one and then have to read the other.
You can read one and not the other and you can read them out of order too if you want.

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You can read them as standalones but it's also referenced by the author that it would
be better to read them in order because stuff that happens in this book is a direct correlation
because of stuff that happened in the first book.
So it gives you a better understanding but you don't have to.
It still gives you enough detail in both books to know what's happening.

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So let's get into it.
The opening scene, and I love this so much because the first line literally is a quote
of her of Lark and she says, this is called consequences of your actions, sweetie.

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As she is walking away from her now exed boyfriend who is strapped to a chair with fireworks
strapped to his junk and she has a detonator and she says this line as she is walking away
from him and he's in the middle of a random field.

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I have to say this is probably one of my favorite hills just because of the theatrics.
I loved her attitude for it.
Like I have yet to see a book where the killer is so joyful.

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Like it wasn't even angry.
She wasn't even angry when she did this.
She was still like joking about it.
It's kind of like in Butchering Blackbird when Sloane is on the phone with Lark in the
middle of her Dexter-esque queue.

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And now we know why Lark didn't freak out when she was hearing man's screams in the
background of the phone call.
But for anybody wondering, yes, VX did deserve this and not just because he cheated on her
in their bed of their relationship for two years, but also because when she was going

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through his phone to find the proof that he was cheating, she found him talking to a bunch
of other girls, a few of whom were underaged.
So just desserts?
My opinion?
Well deserved punishment?

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Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.
Can't be stupid, gotta learn to be tough.
My favorite part about this scene though was she sets off the fireworks.
And you know, his mouth is taped shut and they're in the middle of nowhere so it doesn't

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matter anyways.
But she sets off the fireworks and they go off for a while.
And then once they finally stop she starts walking up to him and he like makes a grunting,
groaning noise and she's like, holy shit, babe!
You're still alive?

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Like she was proud of him.
Yeah and then I mean she pees him in the head because she says, sorry, I didn't bring extra
firepower.
I mean, the whole thing was so comical.
Again props to the author because she makes scenes like this that should not be funny.

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Hilarious.
Yeah.
But...
So that is the opening scene and then we move forward to her next kill.

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We just get two right off the bat, like within the first 20 pages.
Not many details on the second one though.
No.
You get the aftermath.
Yeah.
You get...
So she ends up trying to chase this guy down who was a pervy teacher who had been doing

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inappropriate things that he shouldn't have been doing.
To be clear, yes, Lark is a serial killer but she goes after predators.
So yeah.
But she finds out that this guy had been doing some stuff he shouldn't have been doing with

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some underaged people.
And according to the scene, she tried to shoot out his tires, didn't quite work, and I'm
not sure because there's not a lot of detail on the actual accident.
But it kind of to me sounded like she tried to pit maneuver him after she couldn't shoot

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out his tires.
And the vehicle that he was in ends up in the lake but it doesn't sink all the way.
It's like still like halfway out of the lake.
And so she calls her stepfather who sends in a cleaner to come and help her.

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This is where we meet Lachlan.
He works for the cleaning company Leviathan.
They do a few more tasks than just cleanings but for this part, he's there to clean.
Lachlan shows up and when he gets there, he assumes that Lark is just some socialite that

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was drinking and driving, not caring because when he shows up, she's not remorseful at
all that she killed this guy.
Which it's hard to fake being sad over someone like that.
But especially when that was your intention.
But she faked it so bad too because she was like, oh my god, he's dead.

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I was like, girl.
This is why you need to listen to the audiobook of it though because the way they talk, it
makes it so much funnier.
They add personality to it.
They do, yeah.
So he thinks that she's just like a drunk socialite who drove drunk and killed somebody

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and didn't care.
He didn't know her underlying motives but because of this assumption and because he
had to leave an event that he was at, he was mad already when he showed up.
And then he sees this and sees her lack of remorse and thinks she's just a really horrible
person.

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So he starts getting irritated with her and getting pissed off at her.
And then he starts calling her Blunder Barbie.
I love their nicknames for each other.
What was his nickname?

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Budget Batman.
Blunder Barbie.
He was Budget Batman.
Their nicknames were just hilarious, which I mean they evolve later on.
Yeah.
Just as an automatic nickname for somebody, like your first impression of them is Blunder

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Barbie or Budget Batman.
And it wasn't even that they were nicknames, they were insults.
But they were so funny.
And I think it's worth mentioning that she was also dressed like Harley Quinn.
She was fully made up with like 20 pounds of makeup on her face and she looked different.

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But Lachlan is pissed and she keeps pushing his buttons because she's also in no mood.
She's been sitting out there by this lake hidden off the side of the road for hours.
And she's just ready to go home.
And she's getting irritated pushing his buttons.
He's getting pissed off.

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And so when it's time to leave, he tells her that he is not riding with her and tries to
throw her in the trunk.
And he does succeed.
But she does not like dark enclosed spaces.
And it's clear that she's kind of panicking and she literally begs him, don't put me in

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the trunk.
And he does anyways, because he's an ass.
Of course.
And then she's in the trunk, they're driving, she starts panicking.
And when she feels the car slow down, she pulls the latch and jumps out.
And that lands Lachlan in some pretty hot water with his boss because Lark's family

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was a very big contract for that company.
And after this event, they pull their contract from the company.
And so that's Gru's Lachlan.

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Real quick.
Do you want to decide which sections you want to do real quick?
I just highlighted or put an Astrid or something.
Leander Astrid.

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I figure I'll like just do one every few times that you go because this one's yours.
So I don't like kind of talk a little bit.

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But I mean, you get what I'm saying.
This is your half of the podcast.
Oh my gosh, my eyes.
That'll work.

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Oh, shit, this is not that long.
That's why I'm good with like the.

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Back and forth.
I figured if I gave less detail, it would give us more opportunity to actually discuss
some of the scenes versus just reading it.
It'd be more engaging.
OK, so I did the first scene with Leander where they're they're killing the dude that

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sold fentanyl.
And then I chose when he kills Ethel.
I don't want to read that part.
And then the epilogue.
So I mean, since you didn't read it, you had just heard it when I said that is perfectly

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fine.
You're more equipped to talk about it than me.
And then also, I guess to kind of help us out a little bit.
Let me hear a bit more.

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Right now, we.
OK, yeah, there's that.

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And then I'll just scroll to.
I pulled up that summary thing.
Just so I can kind of like I know exactly what happens in the second chapter, but just
in case.
Yeah.
I'm ready whenever you are.

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Did you highlight them or something?
I put an asterisk beside them.
Do you want me to go highlight it instead?
Yeah, maybe.
Oh, I'm going to have to go full screen.
Hang on here.
I can do it.
You said meet Leander.
Oh, yeah, I already started it.
It took me like, wait.

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There's two meet Leander's.
I was talking about the second chapter.
OK.
Not the shown up at the nursing home.
Me.
Wrong thing.
Wrong keyboard.
OK, so.

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Here we go.
I changed the other one to business meeting Leander.
OK.
To differentiate the two.

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That's good.
Just want to make sure I had like a clear sign.
I have so much pulled up on my screen right now.
I think I do need to screen.
I almost want to bring that damn TV in here.
I don't think that small one's.
OK, I'm ready.

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OK.
So we time jump to a year later and they meet again, but they don't know it's each other.
So the whole meet up happens because of which is mentioned in the previous book.

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Rowan and Sloan are having like a dinner, like a celebratory dinner, and they invite
all their friends and family.
So naturally, Lark is going to be there for Sloan and Lachlan's going to be there for
Rowan.
But they don't know.
They don't recognize each other because Sloan.

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Shit.
Sorry.
I meant Lark.
Lark's are killing me.
Oh, I thought you were about to talk about Sloan.
I'm going to take a hint off this real quick.

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So they don't recognize each other because when they originally met, Lark was in a costume
wearing a ton of makeup and Lachlan was dressed all in black in the middle of the night with
a hood up.
So you don't really get a whole lot of description on them at that point.

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They couldn't see descriptive features that well.
So when they meet again at this time, they don't recognize each other and they actually
start flirting with each other.
And there's like a whole part where they're out on the balcony and they're flirting and

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then they get into like this heated makeout sesh.
But then Lachlan says the phrase fucking Christ Jesus.
And she's like, and then you hear a metaphorical click.

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Yeah.
So to mention it, a year before this, when they were having the whole cleaning incident
happening, he says that very angrily, very excitedly because she was making him mad.

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So when he says it again this time, she stops, looks at him and she's like, what did you
just say?
He's like, oh, it's still not clicking in his head.
And he's like, I don't know.
What did I say?
And she's like, say that again.
And he says it again.
She goes, no, no, no.

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Growlier.
He does it.
And if you're listening to the audio book, it's so funny to hear him artificially do
this again.
And she's like, oh, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
Oh, fuck, fuck, fuck.
And he's sitting there still confused.

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Like what?
What did I do wrong?
Like, I thought we were enjoying ourselves.
She's like, he was like, was it the Christ?
Was it the Jesus?
And she's like, no, it was the budget Batman.
And he's like, and it clicks in his head and he's like, blunder Barbie?

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Yeah the scene up until they realized who each other was, I was like, this one's not
going to be a slow burn.
I thought we were going to kick off hot.
Yeah I was totally wrong.
Very misconceived.
Yeah.
And then the villain is also a slow burn.
Yeah, once again I'll say those are not for me.

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I'll say it every time.
Yeah.
So it clicks for him and then they spend the rest of the evening being pissed off at each
other, giving each other angry looks that are also slightly like desire filled looks.
But they're trying not to let that show so they're focusing on anger.

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But yeah, so they just they spend the rest of the night glowering at each other and acting
like they hate each other and they kind of do.
I mean, at least on Lark's part, she's very, she's still hanging on to the anger of being

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put in the trunk.
Yeah, which when we learn later on why she didn't like it, you get why she would still
be mad.
Yeah, it's traumatic.
Very much so.
And now we move on to figure out why pizza and teeth were in the trigger warning.

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That is so horrible.
Why does she have to ruin foods?
She's sadistic.
I think she just enjoys it.
What was it?
It was ice cream.
Now it's pizza and beer.
Ice cream and Caesar salad.
And what was it?
A Dijon mustard.
And now it's pizza.
Yeah.

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And beer and smoothies.
Something that everybody likes.
Probably not anymore.
This woman.
This chapter opens up with Lachlan and his boss.
We find out that his boss's name is Leander and he is a pretty messed up individual.

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He's crazy, but he's a funny crazy.
Yeah.
Like don't make him mad, but if you're on his good side, you're good.
And it's a good crazy.
Yeah.
This is the man that's going to ruin food.
They are in a basement.

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It's like a basement.
Correct?
Kind of.
It's somewhere in Leander's big, big house that he has like, he has a whole room that's
made to look like a pub.
Yeah.
So technically they look like they're at the bar.
And there is this person named Robbie who is tied to the wall in front of a dart board

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and they are using him as the dart board.
In the beginning of the chapter, Lachlan actually makes a quote that says, can't say this is
the life I imagined for myself.
Pulling teeth with pliers and playing darts with some guy's face in my boss's basement
on a Friday night.

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Could be worse.
Could be.
So we find out why they are doing this to Robbie.
He was selling fentanyl to children and yeah, no, no, no.
He got his payback because the parents of the children actually hired Leander to torture

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and unlawful Robbie in a pretty sadistic way.
I feel like.
Well, I mean, he killed their son by selling fentanyl.
True.
Yeah.
I mean, he deserved it for sure.
Yeah.
100%.
I'm just saying it is a pretty messed up situation.

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They are talking about the situation with Robbie and everything that's going on.
And that's when a pizza man arrives.
Lachlan gets this pizza and brings it back downstairs.
And he really wants to leave, but he's not going to say anything because we find out

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that Leander actually saved Lachlan and his brothers Rowan and Fionn.
So Lachlan kind of has a obligation to Leander.
He also kind of owes him.
Yeah.
Because there was a mistake he made a long time ago and then there was the mistake he

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made with losing Lark's family's contract.
Yeah.
So he pretty much owns Lachlan's ass.
Pretty much.
So Leander and Lachlan are having the conversation and Leander grabs some pizza and beer and
throws it into a blender and then proceeds to take the teeth that they had just pulled

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out of Robbie's head and sprinkle them on in the blender as well.
This is when Leander then proceeds to grab a funnel.
Shove it into Robbie's mouth and pour the beer teeth pizza smoothie straight down his

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throat.
And the descriptions of everything going on while they are doing this is just... it's
a lot.
I was grossed out but fine when it was the pizza and the beer.
Yes.

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But then the teeth were added and I just... my stomach curled.
Yeah and especially the details of them shoving the funnel pretty much down his throat.
Yeah.
It's just very gruesome given I know the man did some very messed up stuff to deserve this.

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Because wasn't it also... wasn't it like a beer funnel?
Yes.
It was a beer funnel.
Yeah it wasn't just like a normal kitchen funnel.
This was like a... they shoved a tube down dude's throat.
Yeah.
And this is where I thought it was going to end for him.
I was wrong.
He was actually still alive.

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And...
Lachlan knows that Leander's brothers would take him out as well as Lachlan's brothers
if he did anything to Leander.

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So he kind of just leaves it be until he pews Robbie and proceeds to tell Leander that he
wants to retire.
But once again since there is an obligation, Leander refuses to allow him to retire due

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to the mistake with Lark and a mistake that I believe we learn later on in the book.
It's a double edged sword for him.
Because on either hand he can't leave.
On one hand he fills an obligation.

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Like he feels like he owes Leander because he saved him and his brothers from a bad situation
and set him up for life.
But on the other hand Leander practically owns his ass.
So there was no out for him.
Regardless.
Which is pretty sad.

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He was stuck doing something he didn't like doing.
But...
All he wanted to do was work in his leather shop.
Live a normal life.
Or a simpler life.
He was trapped.
I think we've all felt that before.
Yeah except we weren't being forced to play darts with somebody's face.

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Yeah.
Lachlan and his killings is more of just a shoot to kill be done with it.
Not torture.
So he was really over the theatrics at that point.
Yeah.
Like you know he likes the thrill of the kill.
But he doesn't want it drawn out.

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He wants it over and done with.
Yeah.
So.
For him it's a job.
He wasn't doing it.
Yeah.
Literally.
It's his job.
He literally gets paid to do it.
But it is later learned that the mistake that Lachlan made the night of Lark's accident

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might have actually put a target on him.
And his brothers.
And quite a few other people but we can discuss that once that actually pops up into the chapter
which is soon.
But it is believed that the mistake he made is going to cause problems for his family.

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So in the next part we get introduced to the Phantom.
Which we're not quite sure who he is.
Based on foreshadowing from Butcher and Blackbird we know he's somebody that was involved somehow

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with the competition that was happening in the first book.
And as of right now we still don't know exactly who he is.
He's just a mysterious guy who is stalking Lachlan and Lark and everyone involved with
the two.
So we also learn it's only like a page or two long where he's...it's from his point

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of view.
But he also is a little crazy.
I mean obviously he's stalking them so he's a little unhinged.
But I mean in the point that he hears God talking to him.
Telling him to do things.

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Very bad things.
And he happens to hear the conversation that was happening on the balcony.
And this is why he locks on to Lark as well as Lachlan.
Because this is the moment that Lark gets put on his radar.
Was the situation that happened on the balcony.

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And that's about all we get from him at the moment.
It's literally just like a one or two page thing where he's stalking them.
He's entering their apartments being, you know, weird creepy dude who is hearing God
talk to him and telling him to do bad things.

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And then we get another time jump.
So in this time jump it opens with Lark and she is...her and her family are in the process
of packing up her Aunt Ethel's things because her Aunt Ethel is going to move to a home

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because she's getting older, she is struggling with cancer, and she won't take any treatments
for it.
I mean she is...she's an old woman.
She's the matriarch of the family.
And she's the one who owns the company.
She is a character.

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She is a character.
She's my favorite character in the entire book.
I just...I hope I'm like that when I'm old.
She's such a little spitfire.
What a machinist thing.
She's so sneaky.
She is.
And we learn this because a little backstory on their family is that they are like either

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millionaires or billionaires or something like that from the muffin industry.
Which according to Lark can be pretty dark.
And she references this by saying you should listen to the history of any big food industry
company and you will find skeletons in their closet.

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But they run a very big muffin company that Ethel, I'm assuming started because Ethel's
muffins are like a big deal in the book.
But we learn how sneaky she is when she asks...she texts Lark asking if she's showed up to the

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family home yet.
And Lark says yes and she says to go and bring her the lotion from downstairs.
Which apparently her asking for random things is normal.
Normal.
And so Lark goes to get this lotion.
And in the midst of that she passes by a room that her mother and stepfather are in with

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one of their family, friends, associates, whatever you want to call him.
And they're having a conversation about the company Leviathan that Lachlan works for.
So people are getting picked off in their company, in their family, in their close friend

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circle.
Just people that they know and are in business with are getting picked off and killed.
And they're talking about this and Lark overhears it and when she hears Leviathan get brought
up in it she starts to eavesdrop.
And she learns that her parents plan to be proactive in finding out who is killing all

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of these people.
And their first suspect is Lachlan.
Because their family pulled the contract which prolonged his retirement.
And they know this.
Because Sloane and Rowan are really good friends of Lark.
So they hear through the grapevine, things like that.

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And so they are locked on to Lachlan, assuming that he is the one that is picking all of
them off out of revenge and vengeance.
But Lark does not believe this to be true.
So she goes and she takes the lotion to Ethel.

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This is our first real like situation with her.
First real introduction.
And Lark is kind of distracted.
She's supposed to be talking about Sloane's wedding.
As she's holding Sloane's wedding dress.
Because they are supposed to be getting ready to go to this event for them.

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And she's trying to stay up with the conversation with Ethel about the wedding.
She can't quite do it.
And so then Ethel, in her natural way, which we learn through this book, is very blunt.
Very mischievous.
And she says, so what are we going to do about that Lachlan boy?

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Lark is like, what?
How did you not-
I already knew.
Yeah.
Lark is like, how did you know?
And she goes, wait a minute, is that why you sent me to get the lotion from that bathroom?
She's like, did you set me up to eavesdrop?
Ethel's like, well yeah, we got to do something about this, right?

(44:57):
That boy didn't do this.
And so then the two of them hatch a plan.
And it's pretty much Ethel's plan.
She has to spoon feed this to her.
Ethel is like spoon feeding this to her.

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She's like, your parents take vows very seriously.
She's like, so what you think, when Sloane and Rowan get married?
Because the premise is that if they take out Lachlan, they'll also have to take out Rowan.
Because he will come after anybody who touches his family.

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And Lark does not want to hurt her best friend like that by having that happen.
And Sloane could also get caught in the crossfire, because when you hire a company, you never
really know what you're going to get.
Because they would in fact contract it.
They would not be doing this themselves.

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But Lark feels an obligation to protect her best friend, because her best friend protected
her a long time ago from something very horrible.
So she decides to give up any chance of a love life, and her and Ethel hatch a plan

(46:22):
for her to marry Lachlan to save her best friend.
The man she currently hates holds resentment towards.
She is going to marry him.
Which I mean, you gotta get him on board.

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Yeah that's how you know that she loves her best friend though.
To marry somebody that she absolutely hates to save her best friend's heart and life.
Yeah.
I mean, that's a real ride or die right there.
Really?
Would you marry somebody you hate for me?

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It depends on who it is.
I thought I'd just kidnap you and hide you away and put you in witness protection.
I see how it is.
Would you marry somebody you hate for me?
If I was single and had no prospects already, yeah.

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But if you're asking me to give up Jessie, it has to be a very dire situation.
We're talking about nobody has anybody.
If I was single and had no prospects, like in the way that she did, she was very independent,
wasn't looking for anything, then yeah, I would.

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I'm sure I could name one person off right now and you would tell me no.
If that was the same situation, okay?
Somebody who wronged me once but I didn't have a past with, okay?
Okay see now you've written stipulations.

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It's the same situation.
If I didn't put those stipulations on it, would you agree to the same thing?
If there were stipulations, yes.

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Great to neither one of us like actually saved the other one from an instant danger to our
lives.
Well.
We're trauma bonded, okay?
Yeah.
Forgot about that one time.
Okay, different topic.

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Anyways, so clearly we are not as good of friends as Lark is what we're getting at.
It takes a very special friend to do what she is doing.
We're just friends because of trauma.

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That sounds so fucked up.
It does.
Anyways.
Off topic.
So the plan is hatched because Ethel is a little sneaky son of a gun who knows all the
workarounds because she's been around the block or two.

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And so they attend the wedding of Sloane and Rowan and at the reception Lark approaches
Lachlan to dance and this is where she brings up the proposal.
And he was like, why would I do that?
He laughed about it at first.

(49:57):
He thought it was like a joke.
And then he goes, oh, I love when he says the F word, especially in the audio book because
he's like, oh, you're fecking serious.
It's the fecking.
The fecking gets me.
The clip-its from it.
That would be pretty cool.
I mean, you've got audio book on your phone.

(50:20):
I'm sure you could just hold it up to the mic.
I want to totally fast forward it to that one word.
Anyways.
I just I have a soft spot for Joe Arden and pretty much any accent he does.

(50:43):
After two audio books of him narrating, I feel the same way.
I don't like it's going to be really hard for me to listen to another audio book and
he's not narrating.
It is difficult.
I don't know which I liked better him in this book or him and flock.
The Raven had series because we go from an Irish accent to a French accent.

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And I didn't think either one of those would be like intriguing to me.
But I was wrong.
I was very wrong because I did not think that, you know, the Lucky Charms Leprechaun and
Pepe Le Pew would be attractive.
But I was wrong.
I was wrong.

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But he thinks she's joking.
And so she gives him a look and he's like, oh, you're fucking serious.
And she's like, yeah, like, I'm not just going to sit here and joke about marriage.
What the fuck I look like.
I'm just going to need you to talk like that for the rest of the time.

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I cannot keep up an Irish accent.
I don't have that much Irish in me.
I got the height.
That's about all that got me.
But she explains to him, like, you know, a decision you made by locking me in that trunk

(52:15):
has started this whole situation where now my parents think that you are the prime suspect
for picking off the people we care about, need and love.
And he kind of does the, you know, the macho act like, oh, I can handle it.
I'm a contract killer.
I got this, blah, blah.
She's like, hmm, what about your brother, though?

(52:38):
You got your brother?
You got Sloane?
You got Fionne?
Because my family is going to put down all the strays.
And that's exactly how she refers to them is strays, because that's what her family
is going to view them as.
And so, inevitably, he does agree to this marriage.

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And in return, he will also get their contract back, which will buy his retirement if he
can pull it off.
So he agrees and she agrees, so they get fucking married.

(53:25):
I just have to ask this.
In what way was Lark winning in this situation?
She protected Sloane.
That's the only positive that she got from all of this.
Locklyn got to retire.
Her motives were completely selfless.
Like literally, she wanted nothing.

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She would gain nothing personally, aside from sparing her best friend.
But for her, she got nothing.
This was a completely selfless act, and that is why I love Lark.
Because she's better than all of us.
Oh, 100%.
100%.

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But, yeah, so they get fecking married.
I'm sorry to any Irish people listening to this.
I just love it.
I don't know why.
It's the way he says it specifically.
It's not just the accent.

(54:33):
Just don't hate her because she does a horrible Irish accent, okay?
She can't do an Irish impression.
I didn't have a very small amount of Irish in me.
All they got me was five feet of height, okay?
Literally five feet.
That's all I got.
Looking at you, you would not think that you're Irish.

(54:54):
At all.
No.
Definitely.
I mean, granted, my ancestry said that I'm literally from every continent except for
Australia and the furthest east you can get.
You gotta go past, like, India to find something that I'm not.

(55:17):
My whole map is literally lit up, okay?
I truly am a Heinz 57.
Granted, I'm mostly Mexican and Native American.
Oh, yeah, that's obvious.
We'll talk about my ancestry another day, okay?

(55:39):
We'll make an episode just about Destiny's ancestry.
You might need three.
In this episode, we break down Destiny's ancestry.
Fuck off.
Anyways, this isn't about me.

(56:00):
This is about Lark and Lachlan's marriage, okay?
I'm sorry, I had to make fun of you for the Irish accent.
I'll stop now.
Let's hear your accent.
No, because I know I'm gonna embarrass myself, so I'm just gonna keep it with the accent
that I don't have.

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Unless you were around my brother's friends, then I have a country accent.
Well, not to Australian or Irish accents or British, you can...
I'll leave that to you.
I can't do any of them.
So again...

(56:44):
What happened?
My alarm went off.
I didn't even hear it.
Just picked it up.
You can't hear it because it's back over here.
My mic's just here, but...

(57:06):
Yikes.
Okay.
So they get married.
They do this by eloping.
And this is where Lachlan meets Ethel, and she gives him a hard time.
In a good way.
And then we've also got Sloane, who is there, and she is questioning this whole marriage.

(57:32):
She's like, I know you, you're my best friend.
You fucking hate this guy.
Why are you doing this?
You've had four conversations with him.
Why?
And Lark is like, I'm just needing you to trust me.
Just trust me that I know what I'm doing for once.
Just put faith in me and don't ask questions.

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Sloane doesn't really agree to this, but she's like, whatever.
She kind of just drops it for a little bit.
But they go inside, they, you know, get married, and it kind of takes her by surprise.
Because while they're in this courthouse saying their vows, it comes time for the kiss.

(58:20):
And you know, the pastor dude, the justice of the peace, whatever, he's like, you may
kiss the bride.
And she didn't really know what to expect from Lachlan.
Like maybe a quick peck on the lips, a cheek kiss, maybe not even anything at all.
But he mutters something.

(58:41):
I don't know what language it is.
I probably should have looked that up.
I don't know what the native language over there would be.
Yeah, let's do that because I don't want to get it wrong.
Because I feel like that'd be rude.

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But he mutters something, and he grabs her neck, and he gives her actually a very deep
and passionate kiss, which confused the hell out of her.
And she was not expecting it.

(59:24):
It's in Irish.
It's Irish?
That's what I'm seeing.
Let me see.
So it was in Irish.

(59:46):
Maybe I should know now.
Yeah, yeah, it's Irish.
It's this.
We'll see if my camera will pick it up for us.
Let me turn it.

(01:00:07):
Well, I was trying to.
Oh, well.
Because I am not going to try and read that top line.
Yeah, I can't read backwards.
No, it's fine.

(01:00:28):
I'm not going to read that.
I can't pronounce that.
I can't even say his few Irish accent lines.
But that's what he says.
It is Irish.
So he says that in Irish.
And she wasn't expecting the kiss to be so passionate.

(01:00:55):
Kinda took her by surprise.
But we also find out that Lark has...
Sorry, let me back up a little bit.
After the wedding ceremony, they...

(01:01:18):
We skip to Lark's chapter and she's down in this basement of a building.
And we see her next kill.
Real quick before you say the next kill, I translated what he said.

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What did he say?
I promise to be a faithful husband to you as long as we live.
We're saying this now because it literally does not get translated.
It doesn't.
At all in this book.
You kind of are just left to guess on what he's saying.

(01:02:05):
So that is what it is.
He's promising to be a faithful husband.
And he whispers that in her ear right before the kiss.
She doesn't know what it means, but she still felt it.
Like the meaning of it.
To know what that means just feels so sweet.
It makes it better knowing.

(01:02:25):
Yeah, he didn't have to add that very personal touch from his native language in there, but
he still did.
Swoon.
Swoon.
Fucking swoon.
Into.
Yeah, back to the murder.

(01:02:45):
Let's get back to the killing.
So we're on to Sloane's next kill.
She has a man.
And she, I don't even know how to describe it.

(01:03:08):
Can you?
She is making a table.
I lost my shit in this one.
It's just so like, like you wouldn't even think about something like this.

(01:03:30):
I got like the cask of Amontillado or really any Edgar Allan Poe book.
Because she makes a table with a guy in it.
He drowns from resin being poured on top of.

(01:03:51):
What a horrific, horrific way.
Wasn't it coffin shaped?
Yes.
Well, yeah, it was a coffin shaped table, so essentially he was in a coffin.
She took a coffin, put a guy in it, filled it with resin and made it a table.
And she made it to where you can't see that he is in it.

(01:04:13):
So nobody knows that there is a human being in her coffee table.
All I could think about when I read this part was there was a video I had seen where every
year this couple puts a pumpkin in a cube of resin and they try to figure out how to
preserve it, but it never actually preserves correctly.

(01:04:34):
And so in my head I'm reading this scene and I'm like that is so not going to hold up in
a year because they do the pumpkin every year.
We do slightly know how bad it could possibly be in a little bit.
She makes this table though and as dude is drowning she's like, sorry, I got to get a

(01:04:57):
move on.
I really need this table to be done before my husband moves in.
And then she's like, ugh, I hate that word.
I hate that word.
Yeah, she was not the marriage type.
She was at this point, she is not into this at all, but she still does it.

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And then she's making this table because she's like, I don't want him bringing all of his
bachelor pad frat boy furniture to my home.
And then she drowns the dude in resin.
Oh.
That's horrible.
That's absolutely horrible.

(01:05:41):
It's very Edgar Allan Poe of her.
Just imagine.
I don't want to.
I'm claustrophobic.
That freaks me the fuck out.
That's like equivalent to drowning and getting buried alive at the same time.
That's exactly what it is.

(01:06:02):
No thank you.
And just imagine, would you die from the drowning first or from the hardening of the resin because
she puts him under a UV light to quicken the hardening process.
I mean, either way, it's suffocation.
Yeah.
And I've always heard you're not supposed to even get resin on your skin.

(01:06:25):
So horrible way to go.
Not a good time at all whatsoever.
But he didn't deserve a good time because she only goes after predators.
He was definitely.
If she is murdering someone, she has every right to.
There's a good reason for it.

(01:06:45):
Yeah.
I can't argue with that.
But so she's got this coffee table now and the first day that he's there, that he moves
in with her after the wedding, she is still downstairs working on this project and she

(01:07:10):
is sanding it.
And she has her dog Bentley, which is an American Akita.
So he's, he's a big dog.
Sorry.
I thought this part was funny.
It was like in the opening page of this chapter, Lachlan looks at the dog and he's like, what
is that?

(01:07:31):
And she goes, a dog?
Have you never seen one?
She's like, I know what a dog is.
What kind of dog is it?
She's like, oh, it's an American Akita.
Like she didn't just insult his intelligence, which this happens quite often.
This is literally how their entire banter works.
It's her making him feel stupid.
I need to see.

(01:07:51):
I don't think I've ever seen an American Akita before.
They are massive.
These big old puppies.
Oh, they're furry.
Fluffy.
Okay.
Now that I have a visual.
So she's sanding this coffin table with this guy in it.

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And nobody at this point knows what Lark does in her spare time.
You know, what her hobby is.
And she's sanding down this table.
And then all of a sudden she like freaks out and Lachlan's like, what are you okay?
Like he had like genuine concern for her and this is kind of the first time we see like.

(01:08:41):
He may be a little more interested in her than he lets on because he drops all his shit,
jumps up and is over there in like a millisecond.
And she's got her hand like placed down on the coffin.
And she's like, no, I just realized that I need a star.
I need a star right here.
I need a resin star.

(01:09:03):
And he's like, that's oh, you need a star.
She's like, yeah, in the kitchen over there, there is a star cake tin.
Can you bring that to me?
We learned why she reacts this way over a star later, but he's still questioning the

(01:09:26):
tin and she's he goes, what is that smell?
And she blames the dog and says he farted.
Lachlan kind of makes a comment about, oh, you need to change his food.
That's not good for him.
And then he goes and gets the tin.
He comes back and he gives her the tin and she finishes her project.

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Well then she demands that he help her take it up the stairs to her place to put it in
the room.
And he says, OK, but I'm not taking the stairs.
We're going to take that elevator, which by description, this is a very old elevator.
It's one where you like actually have to close the cage door and then push a lever to get

(01:10:11):
it to go.
The way she described it would be like what you what I feel like you would see in like
a nightmare on Elm Street movie, like how it's dark and just really creepy.
See, I thought of the Annabelle movie.
Yeah.

(01:10:32):
Whenever she's going down to the basement where all the storage units are like that
was the elevator I pictured.
It's a creepy old.
I granted on the other hand, I also thought about Looney Tunes and when that little dog
was the elevator butler.
So could go either way.

(01:10:52):
Just depends on your perspective.
That is to completely opposite.
Welcome to my brain.
OK.
But T. Who he demands that they take the elevator and she's kind of reluctant.
She doesn't want to use the elevator, which she mentioned kind of like in passing before

(01:11:16):
in the book that she does not like the elevator.
But you know, she will not leave him the table.
Leave the table in his care.
So she goes in the elevator with him and they start going up then all of a sudden it stalls.
And she starts freaking out.

(01:11:38):
And then all of a sudden the light starts flickering and then the light goes out and
then she is in full panic rocking in the corner on the floor in this elevator.
And he turns on his flashlight to kind of try to look at her, see her, give her some
light.
But she's freaking out.
And she's muttering numbers to herself and the dog Bentley, he is trying to comfort her.

(01:12:05):
Loughlin tries to comfort her but then he inevitably realizes he's going to have to
go through the roof hatch and fix the motor, which he's very handy.
So he does and she calls Rose, which is Fjoln's girl chick thing?

(01:12:26):
They're not really a thing but they're a thing.
We learn more towards the end of the book.
Kind of their standpoint on each other.
Yeah.
But Fjoln is Loughlin's brother and Rowan's brother.
It's Loughlin, Rowan, and Fjoln, they're all three brothers.

(01:12:50):
And because Lark is best friends with Sloane, she has gotten to know Rowan, Fjoln, and Fjoln's
girl chick thing Rose.
So she calls Rose because she knows she will be a talker and not shut up and give her no
time to think about her current situation.
And that's what she does.
She calls Rose and Rose inevitably does not shut up and keeps her distracted.

(01:13:15):
And Loughlin fixes up the elevator and they manage to get it upstairs.
But after this we see Loughlin start warming up to Lark.
He has seen a different side of her that in my opinion was like an ignitement to his protectiveness.

(01:13:43):
And I think that's why he started warming up to her because he seems like the type of
guy that if somebody's in distress he's going to help them.
Yeah, for sure.
And for it to be the woman he's now attached to for the rest of his life, it seems normal
that he would start warming up to her.
But she is still icing him out and more so now that he is seeing her vulnerable, she

(01:14:11):
gets a little more bitchy.
A little more annoying in my opinion because I'm like, girl, shut up.
Just chill out for a minute, okay?
He's trying.
And so because he's starting to warm up and he's starting to realize like, I'm married

(01:14:33):
now.
Like I'm married to her.
I need to try harder.
So he tries to talk to Sloane about like, he asks her why Lark has a thing about being
in the dark and closed spaces and Sloane blows up on him.

(01:14:58):
She goes apeshit.
Like why are you asking me?
Why don't you just ask your wife?
She's your wife.
You should know this.
Man, you're so stupid.
You should pick up a book.
And then she tells him that she needs to read spicy smut books.
And that maybe he wouldn't be so ignorant about it.
I just don't feel like it was very fair for her to be so upset with him because I'm the

(01:15:27):
kind of person if somebody is in a state like that, a panic state, I'm not going to ask
them while they feel like that.
Well, why don't you like this?
Yeah.
I feel like that that puts a lot of, she's probably already embarrassed that she was
having a panic attack.

(01:15:47):
So why would you want to ask somebody?
Like, I feel like it would be okay for him to ask Sloane.
Why would you want to pry if somebody's already upset?
I think it's understandable that he asked, but at the same time, I think Sloane's reaction
was more of a, I'm not going to tell you something that that's, that is that personal to her.

(01:16:11):
You need to find out from her.
And granted, she could have been a little less bitchy about it, but Sloane is bitchy.
You know, she's fiery.
So I didn't expect a whole lot less from her.
I did think it was funny when she told him to pick up a smut book because it's pretty
much a guidebook to how to treat women.
Yeah.

(01:16:31):
I was like, hmm, maybe I can get Jesse to read one.
Probably not.
Probably not.
He probably threw himself out this window before that.
I feel like she was coming from a annoyed and jealous place too.

(01:16:52):
Cause her best friend didn't say anything about getting married to somebody and then
just sprung it on her like, Hey, I'm getting married to your husband's brother.
She's probably a tad bit annoyed with Lark at that point too.
I mean, she could have been.
I see it from all of the different perspectives of why she reacted that way.

(01:17:16):
But I also think it's understandable that he wanted to ask because he's clearly not
getting that answer from her and he needs, you know, this is the second time he's been
involved in a situation where she freaked out over an enclosed space.
He's wanting to know, you know, naturally, but I do think she overreacted.

(01:17:37):
But what else are best friends for?
They ate their best friend's significant other.
Just kidding.
Love you, Jesse.
I know you edit this story.
Poor Jesse.

(01:17:58):
I'm taken.
So that happens and then he decides that he, he wants to, I don't know, start trying to
break down the walls of Sloan or of Lark.
Sorry.
I was just thinking about Sloan.
He decides that he wants to start trying to break down the walls of Lark.

(01:18:23):
And so he texts Sloan again this time, she does not go apeshit on him.
And he says that he wants to take her to dinner, but he felt like she'd be more on board with
it if Sloan and Rowan were there.
So they plan a double date and Lark goes.

(01:18:45):
She's okay with it.
So they go to, I think it was Butcher and Blackbird they went to.
And they're eating, they're talking, and he sees a different side to Lark.
And it's also at this point where he had noticed that she's not really sleeping.

(01:19:09):
She mostly sleeps in a chair that sits by the window in their living room and she just
kind of falls asleep at some point throughout the night, but it's not...
She's staying up super late, waking up super early, not really getting any good quality
sleep.
So as she's talking and being this uppity, like enthusiastic, joyful sunshine person,

(01:19:35):
he also realizes that she looks tired.
And I feel like that's important that he noticed that because it shows that he's actually starting
to pay more attention to her.
Because up to this point, Lark knows a lot about Lachlan because she researched him,

(01:19:57):
but Lachlan hasn't put in the energy to do this for her yet.
Yeah.
But they're at dinner.
This is all going pretty decent until Claire comes in.
Claire is somebody from their past and she is like the pantsuit hot chick that just bursts

(01:20:27):
onto the scene.
And she stirs the fucking pot.
She greets Rowan, Rowan introduces Sloan as his wife and she's like, oh cool.
Immediately turns to Lachlan and Lachlan's like, this is my wife, Lark.
And she starts laughing at this announcement and makes a comment about, oh wow, you really

(01:20:52):
settled down.
I can't believe somebody finally got you.
And he just kind of like one word responds, like very much trying to end the conversation
because he's wildly uncomfortable.
This bitch, she was such a bitch.

(01:21:15):
Because then she gets a phone call.
She gets a phone call and she's like, I'll have to stop by the shop so we can catch up
properly.
Like, you've really changed a lot since two years ago at that Halloween party.
Like clearly trying to stir the pot and reference the past and properly get to know each other

(01:21:41):
again.
And then she leaves.
She just like struts out and there's like this weird awkward silence for a moment.
And Sloan and Lark give each other like these looks back and forth.

(01:22:04):
The way that best friends talk without actually having to say anything.
And suddenly Lark is like, okay, I'm going to go.
This was fun.
I'm out.
And she walks out the door and then Rowan and Sloan start laughing.
And Larklin is like, why are you laughing?

(01:22:27):
Like what's going on?
And Rowan tells him, you should really go after your wife before she rips Claire's face
off.
And Larklin is like, my Lark?
My sunshine?

(01:22:49):
Glitter Lark?
And Rowan and Sloan start telling Larklin about all the things that Lark has done.
For instance, she put a glitter bomb in Rowan's car, like a big one with gorilla glue, after

(01:23:13):
he made Sloan cry.
She also.
I mean, again, what are best friends for?
But she also, when her and Sloan were at that academy, there was a girl who called her friend

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something along the lines of like a dirty cum bucket.
And she went into she went into this girl's dorm and wrote dirty cum bucket on every single
piece of clothing, underwear, bras, pants, shirts, jackets, all of it in permanent marker.

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Wrote dirty cum bucket on all of it.
Once again, as she should.
And then the next one they mention is when her ex, the one that cheated on her and also
she blew up the fireworks.

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She not only got revenge on him, but she got revenge on the mutual friend that he cheated
with.
She snuck into the woman's apartment and glued with gorilla glue, cheating whore on her face
face.
She used gorilla glue to write this with bedazzles and then stole her phone, her laptop and her

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nail polish remover so she would have to leave the house to fix it.
So she had to walk around with cheating whore dazzled on her face that she had to get removed.
And then apparently after it was removed, there were still marks on her forehead from
where it said it so you could still read it after they were removed.

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That is unfortunate.
That is a level of spite and petty I could only aspire to be.
Literally.
Thank you for giving me all of the ideas, Lark.
We were amateurs with thinking about sugar and gas tanks and you know, popping three
tires because the insurance won't cover it if it's not all four.

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Amateur hour over here.
We should be having gorilla glue and glitter on us at all, Toms.
So naturally, Walkland is dumbfounded by this.
And then they bring up the fact that there was the incident with the guy that actually
cheated on her and the whole fireworks situation.

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And he's like, do you really think she did that?
And Sloane's like, I don't know.
It was only two months after the incident happened.
So take that.
That's what you will.
And then Rowan says, I don't even know why you're still talking to us when Lark has probably
already caught up with Claire.

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And Walkland shoots from his seat and he says that you can hear Sloane and Rowan laughing
as he bolts from the diner.
He goes and catches up with Sloane or with Lark.
I keep saying Sloane.
I'm sorry.
I mean Lark.
There's so many L's, okay?
I know Sloane starts with an S, but the L is so hard on her name and then there's Lark

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and Walkland.
It's fucking me up.
So don't forget about Leander.
He's an L too.
If I had another L and then Ethel, there's an L at the end of that.
I'm taking an L because of the L's.
Anywho, he does catch up with Lark and he just happens to see her in an alley that he

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was passing and he turns around, he goes back and she's muttering to herself.
Like expletives while she's walking down this alleyway by herself.
Like just ranting to herself like a mad woman.
And so it made it easy for him to sneak up behind her, but he grabs her by the throat
and like pins her to the wall.

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This was not supposed to be like a sexy scene, but shit got me.
I was like, ooh, are we going to get a little something here?
See these books have totally ruined my fucking mind because this was not meant at all to
be a sexy scene.
And it got me.

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I feel like it was meant for some tension though.
I hope so.
Otherwise I feel really bad about my mental situation.
You're dirty.
Anyways, but they have like a whole thing in the alley where he's like, were you like

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seriously you were going to like run up to her and cut her face off?
What were you even thinking?
And she was like, is she, every time he asks the question she picks like the nonviolent
thing he says to focus on.
And they kind of have a moment.
It's not really a sexual moment, it's more just like a intimate moment because she yells

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at him as he's asking all these questions.
She's the reason you hated me that day you had to leave the party the day that he came
to clean up her mess.
And he's like, what?
Is that what this is about?
And she's like, yeah, you didn't want to leave that party and she's the reason why and now
I understand why you hate me so much.

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And he was like, I wasn't there to see Claire.
This was a total girl moment because she's like, don't fucking say her name.
And that was such like a relatable moment.
But he's like, no, no, no, no.

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She was Fionn's ex.
Like she broke his heart and ruined his life and I was trying to convince him to move back
home and that's why I was mad I had to leave the party because I almost had him convinced.
But then I had to leave him because I had no choice but to obey the call.
And so Fionn didn't end up moving home.

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And then once that's cleared up, Lark kind of just leaves the alley.
She just walks away and he's like, I'm not done with this.
And she's like, I am.
I just needed an answer to know that she wasn't yours.
That's all I needed.
I just needed to know if that was what it was.

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It was for your brother.
Okay, cool.
Which I feel on a personal level.
Bobbin there.
There's a couple of like realistic jealous moments here that I'm like, finally an actual
real jealous moment, not some psychotic over the top theatrical book jealous.

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Right.
Just like the little thing.
She didn't get the context jealous, which happens to everybody.
Yeah.
Well, after this encounter, he decides that he needs to find out more about Lark.
So he rushes back to their apartment.
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