J. M. Hunter had signed the order for Joey’s apartment building to be torn down. Every time Joey tried to get into the Hunter building to see the lawyer to plead their case she could never get past the guard. Now, almost a year later, she was still homeless and working at a dead in job trying to save up enough money to get an apartment, one with heat, as well as electricity. Instead, she had to … to save Jesse’s mom from dying in a fire and have the shit beat out of her by someone while doing it.
Jesse couldn’t understand why the woman wouldn’t just shut up and do what he told her to do. It wasn’t as if he was trying to hurt her, but she had saved his mom, and it was the least he could to do make sure she had a job and a place to live. Of course, it had been pointed out to him several times already that he could have asked, but his way was much quicker.
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Jesse & Joey are probably my favorite couple of all the Hunters =)
Josephine, or Joey as she likes to be called, hasn’t had it easy in life. Growing up with parents who sometimes forgot they had a kid then losing them and living with a grandmother who treated her no better than a maid has made her an independent woman. Even though she’s evicted from her home by a J.M. Hunter, and is now living wherever she can she’s determined to make her own way. But rescuing 2 women from a burning building has put her face to face with J.M. Hunter and she can’t seem to shake the feeling she starts to develop for him.
**”He wanted Josephine here right now so that he could explain a few things to her. And maybe talk her into not hurting him again if he took her to his bed.”**
Jesse Hunter is a playboy. He’s determined he’s never going to get married, no matter how much his mother tries to match him up. But when confronting the woman who rescued his mother he can’t understand the feeling stirring within him that make him basically talk neanderthal and mess up. Even when she kicks his balls around his ears! But Jesse has to convince Joey he loves her and wants to marry her for who she is and protect her from a killer as well as her returning grandmother determined to bring Joey down.
These two characters will probably always hold a special place in my heart. Joey is such and independent woman and has had a rough upbringing, but she never let that bring her down. She’s determined to prove that she can make her way in a world determined to see her fail. But when she loves, she loves Jesse and the Hunter’s with her full heart and doesn’t let them settle for anything less than they deserve.
**”And what’s wrong with you being president? Nothing. You don’t aim for the middle ring when the top one is open to you.”**
**EDITED MARCH 27, 2017**
I’ve been going back and doing a reread and I don’t know how I have missed the many inconsistencies in this book!
There’s a time when the mother is speaking with her sons when Joey first goes to the hospital. At first she’s talking to Daniel and Jesse. Then she’s talking to Curtis at the same moment. When the heck did he come into the room? Then Curtis supposedly stays behind to speak to Joey, yet the mother is speaking to him…okay…I think there may have been a mix-up between names.
The other big one is after Joey gets back the hospital after being shot at, and she’s staying at Jesse’s house. Before Jesse mentioned he didn’t have a cook because he enjoys cooking for himself. He does have a housekeeper (who is a she). But then when Joey wakes up he has a male housekeeper and a cook…
Again, I think the author may have forgotten what she had wrote previously or maybe forgot to mention he hired extra help?