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What perfect revenge! And what a gripping dénouement! It was past fitting that Merrick should understand completely that it was Andrew who destroyed him so thoroughly. But it is a shame that Andrew probably will feel that he cannot tell Will about it. We'll, with any luck, maybe Avery will tell Will. He needs to know--it would finally explain to him so much of Andrew's distance.

Thanks for this, @Topher Lydon. I've a lot of intercontinental travel looming and planned to read the whole series again. Now I know what order to follow!

Ben needs to call his family together and lay it out for them. Julian is someone he is not going to compromise on--if any of them stirs up trouble through a complaint and Ben loses Julian, then they lose him. Definitively. He works from home-he can do that from anywhere. He can move to another city and get a new phone number, and his family will suddenly find that their service provider has disappeared. Ben will miss his nieces, but if that is the only way to break out of their clutches and claim his independence, so be it.

But what does Esca really want? Control over Andy? With the resources available to him, Esca could have had Andy captured and spirited away, like he just did, but from the moment he found Andy. Why stir up resistance from the werewolves?

"Some guys tasted good, but his cum was a little tart. That was probably something I’d get used to over time." This sounds like their oral bout wasn't something they just slipped into, but more like the first sortie of a campaign that is still in planning, but clearly intended to be a longer term engagement. I am surprised that Kendo doesn't come across here as purely "manipulative" and of evil intent. I am not at all bothered to find Travis being so deliberate about this--after all, Will does this all the time and expects Travis to roll with it. What was truly "manipulative" in my eyes was the way Will engineered the threesome with Travis and Austin to keep Austin on the hook while disarming Travis' discomfort with the whole Austin-Will relationship. I just hope Travis can stay aware in his increasing drug use, but I doubt it. It's going to overtake him and drive him to the brink of catastrophe, in his career and in his relationship with Will (that part has already started, witness the tone of recent telephone calls). The real question is whether he will fall over that brink into the abyss.

It is sad to see someone who seems so self-assured and self-confident otherwise turn into such a blithering fool everytime the hunk shows up! He does not like Cameron's personality but apparently has no defense against his pheromones. Another guy consumed by his sex drive about to throw away what could develop into a positive relationship because his choices are driven by his urges.

Is that all? Doesn't seem to be...we have Lucas actively coaching Declan on how to seduce Andy. Lucas seems to want to pass Andupy off to Declan. It doesn't seem to be primarily Andy's initiative, trying to protect Lucas from drawing Esca's attention to himself. Andy is 'willing' to share Lucas because the little shit left him no choice! It seems to me to be more of Lucas' increasingly self-absorbed and deeply shitty 'playa ' persona. Lucas was funny before his turn to a werewolf, as counterpoint to Andy's seriousness. But now he has become just plain insufferable and a potential liability to Andy as he attempts to extricate himself from his Sire's control. Look at how flippantly he destroyed Andy's sweet manoevre with the Boy Scouts! I hope that whatever transpires as the story unfolds further, it wouldn't involve Andy again getting dragged along in Lucas' chaotic wake as if Andy has surrendered every last vestige of the self-confidence and sense of self-preservation that kept him alive for so long.

Lucas' ridiculous Alpha pretentious are no longer just puerile and annoying, they directly undermine Andy's resistance to Esca and put him in danger. Lucas won't take Andy 's admonitions seriously; Marty is a bro, not an Alpha pack leader exerting absolute authority; and Lucas has so thoroughly dominated the unfortunate Ronan that the Dravens now can say nothing. Lucas needs to be confronted with the pure evil that is Esca to be shocked of his stupid "Alpha-playa" fantasy and get with the program. It's going to take a tightly coordinated effort to drag Andy out from under Esca's thumb, and there is no room left for Lucas' by now unfunny shenanigans.

And the slide downhill begins. Differently than I'd expected though. I thought Travis would end up opening himself to Kendo-the logical consequence of how well Kendo has created this chemical dependence--and that there would be a big confrontation with Will over Kendo, with Travis pushing Will away because of his own guilt. But instead, all on his own, Travis is transferring his feelings of guilt onto Will, convincing himself that Will is being 'unreasonable' and totally denying the nature of his own problem. I can only hope the denouement comes quickly and Travis unravels soon. It would be too painful to have to watch him destroy himself inch by inch over another 25 chapters.

And that fluffy pseudo-Alpha, without any filters or self-control, is going to attract the attention of the corporate bounty hunters by boasting loudly and in the wrong place about his "supernatural harem" with "the ten-million-dollar sugar daddy, and.. the flannel-wearing side piece boyfriend". The werewolves will be inevitably drawn in and it will get ugly. What was once Lucas' exuberant, irreversible cheerfulness is becoming decidely unpleasant and dangerous with his 'Alpha-posturing', and the fallout could get deadly.

Welcome back!!

ESPECIALLY if he gets arrested first!

Sorry, I don't think I missed a chapter, but if I did, please point me in the right direction ... where was it said that Caleb is Mr. Archer's son?

Travis send to understand that his troubles interacting with Julian stem from his torturous relationship with Curtis. Maybe the thing to do is to seek some therapy so he can get an proper handle on that, rather than dulling the emotions with Xanax.

Don't understand this weirdness with Diana at all she obviously hates Caleb why insist on drawing him back in?