Total pages in book: 43
Estimated words: 40966 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 205(@200wpm)___ 164(@250wpm)___ 137(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 40966 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 205(@200wpm)___ 164(@250wpm)___ 137(@300wpm)
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David: —if you think the push is bad—
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Kowalski: David. Did you read ahead?
Kai: He read ahead.
David: Anyway. CHAPTER 6. The silo reunion.
Kowalski: She strips. Removes the ring. Blue cotton dress. Cassia bareback through the creek at midnight. JUMPS A FIVE-RAIL FENCE. Sheds every fake layer on the ride there. He's in the doorway bathed in golden light like a fallen angel who knows how to hang fairy lights and I want him to me against that wall and until I and then me—
[10:25 PM — AGENT: KAI has disabled REDACTION FILTER: BookTok Mode]
Kowalski: —pinning me against that silo wall with those dirty fucking hands, Legion, pull my hair and tell me I'm yours, make me feel it for DAYS, I don't care about the ring or the ranch or the shotguns, I want your mouth on my pussy, making it all wet and squishy—
David: …
Marsh: …
Castillo: …
Kai: …
Kowalski: Why is everyone quiet?
Marsh: Filter's off.
Kowalski: SINCE WHEN?
Kai: "and then me—"
Kowalski: KAI.
Kai: What? I wanted to hear it.
[10:28 PM — AGENT: KAI has re-enabled REDACTION FILTER: BookTok Mode]
Castillo: I've mapped the bareback route. Three point seven miles, eastern pasture, creek bed crossing. The silo matches a decommissioned grain elevator visible on satellite since 2011. I have coordinates.
Kowalski: We are discussing the most emotionally devastating reunion scene in dark romance history and you are on GOOGLE EARTH?
Castillo: The forty-seven thousand acres with artesian wells and Yellowstone River valley views corresponds to a specific corridor in Prairie County. The dry riverbed separating Kane and Ashby land places the silo at approximately—
Kowalski: You are GPS'ing the silo.
Castillo: It's a GRAIN silo with forensic significance. The Badlands compound sits six miles southeast of Terry off Highway 253. 46.7918° N, 105.2847° W. Give or take.
David: Castillo, we’ve talked about this. You cannot investigate fiction.
Castillo: The author provides extremely detailed geographic data. I would be negligent not to cross-reference.
David: Chapter 7. Legion tells Savannah she's "allowed" to marry Marcus and sends her back. I think that shows real matur—
Kowalski: MATURITY? He told the love of his life to marry someone else because he thinks he's too broken to deserve her. He watched her ride away on her expensive horse back to her mansion and convinced himself it was over. That's not maturity. That's a martyr complex wearing a leather cut and I am GUTTED. He doesn't think he's worthy. He is WRONG and I want to him and then him until he UNDERSTANDS.
Marsh: From a psychological standpoint, Legion exhibits classic patterns of internalized unworthiness stemming from—
Kowalski: He's a cinnamon roll who thinks he's a villain.
Marsh: …Reductive but not inaccurate.
David: The branding ceremony. Chapter 8. Can we discuss it professionally?
Kowalski: No.
David: Capital B. Hot iron. Full membership witnessing. He earns his cut after three years of silent prison time.
Castillo: Aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, even with consent. Every brother present is an accessory.
Kowalski: He didn't make a sound.
Castillo: That's not legally relevant.
Kowalski: It's relevant. He let them burn belonging into his chest without flinching because that's what family costs in his world. Legion Kane has never had anything that was truly his except pain and Savannah and now this brand and I am — I need to lie down. I need to lie down on the FLOOR. He is touch her and die, property of, morally gray, obsessed MMC, only-her-for-twelve-years PERFECTION and I am not surviving this series. I am . I am DECEASED. Bury me in the silo.
Kai: Kowalski.
Kowalski: WHAT.
Kai: …Breathe.
Kowalski: …
Kowalski: Thank you.
David: Then Mercy. He finds his nine-year-old sister asleep in his bed clutching a BB gun. She asks if the club will help find Destiny. He promises. Kids at school call him "Demon Kane" and cite Mark 5:9 as proof. And he tells Mercy his demons will protect her.
Kowalski: Which is the single most devastating found family moment I have ever read. He is in physical AGONY from the brand and his baby sister asks him for a promise and he makes it without hesitating. I am not okay. I will never be okay again. DNR. Do not resuscitate. Let me .
David: I was going to say it was well-written.
Kowalski: It's not "well-written," David. It's a WAR CRIME against my emotions.
Castillo: Speaking of the child. Nine years old. Alone in a condemned trailer for two months. Malnourished. Nonverbal. Armed with a Red Ryder. Emerges from a juniper bush like—and I'm quoting—"a wild thing." This is a CPS emergency.
Marsh: And yet the only person consistently providing her with food and clean clothes is Savannah Ashby. Twice a month, the actual ranch heiress drives to Kane scrubland to feed this child. No one asked her to. No one knows. She just does it. That's who Savannah is underneath seventy thousand photographs.
David: Savannah is engaged to Marcus.
Kowalski: Savannah is engaged to a PRESS RELEASE, David. She removes that ring like it's burning her before she even gets on the horse. Wrong ring on her finger is the trope and she KNOWS it.