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Someone on the Black Widow's payroll. Duh.

One thing I love about older homes and estates: you can scream and shout and no one outside your solid door or paper thin walls can hear you or listen in to your private conversations/ fights... Thanks for the latest chapter Mark and Team

Wow. I was thinking Chicago. Had I bothered to look it up on that Internet thing, I would of known it was Charlottesville Virginia. Zach was able to use a fake ID on that flight? Thanks TSA!

Welcome Back Mark and I do hope all goes well with you! So why is The Car already in the shop? A developer was purchasing land surrounding Escorial and NO ONE noticed this? If the land was for sale, neither Stef or JP thought to buy it first before some fly-by-night developer comes in and shoves student and section 8 housing all over Escorial? Really? Will and Zach: Stef: Get Off My Lawn! Dallas and Ryan. Yes, I want to see this.

I'm sure there is a cream or a shot for that. Black Widow topics: 1) who is this mysterious Parnel dude and is he going to cause problems? 2) will Brad and his Boytoy (how the HELL does Boytoy translate to Hittite Siri/autocorrect???) artist Marc get back together? 3) who dies next in the story? (I'm going to say Darius) 4) bitchy skater queen JJ and ex-football jock? (Nah, friends only) 5) BW is or is not Elizabeth Danfield. (I'm going to say no.)

I'll have you know that I am the At Work example of how to be the nice guy! (Okay that's a lie but I don't get caught being an ass toward people who are important.) But I will suggest to Mark and to any and all authors who need an incentive to post more regularly: it's called Patreon dot com.

Thanks for the current chapter Mark. I'm actually enjoying seeing what JJ is up to. Can't wait to see where the story leads to and who ends up dead.

Everyone stop what you are doing and put on your tin foil body armour on and read Private Tim's review right now. What IF Buzz was part of Mommie Dearest plan? Take note: everyone was planning to be far and away from JJ before ME's wedding. She had the layout long before JJ decided to be with Alex after the wedding.

Re chapter 17: if Will was going to give the condo below Brad's condo, why buy the other ones on each floor? I can guess he bought the land around his house in Hawaii to keep the snoops outside the viewing area. That's an easy decision. It's all those condos in SF that is confusing me.

Not really. All JJ has to do is tell the authorities to drop the charges as it's been settled. Look at Michael Jackson.

Ah. Well then it's good . I am curious as to wonder: Did ME and The Black Widow actually think the family was just going to sit back and NOT retaliate? Or were they just so used to getting their way for so long that the possibility of a counter-strike was just outside their thought process?

Hmmm. Shouldn't JJ be 17 when ME took advantage of JJ? He was born in dec 1985.

I am beginning to like JJ! ME launched an attack, JJ responded in kind. Gonna grab me some popcorn and enjoy the fireworks on this one! Thanks Mark and Team for the latest chapter!

Unless it was deliberately kept sloppy so no one got really hurt (Except Zach).

That would explain why JP can't get as excited as much.

1) The Wife of JJ's Coach. 2) ABC. 3) Tony's mom. 4) Nana. 5) * ED 6) Brad 7) John C This is CAP. Since when does making sense ever made a storyline? That's why I say it's someone else!

Okay: to add to the list of known Widows thanks to Kitt. --> 1) The Wife of JJ's Coach. 2) ABC. 3) Tony's mom. 4) Nana. 5) * ED Tin foil mode: I'd just realized who would benefit the MOST with Zach playing football and dumping Will --> Wally Hayes

Hmm. The wife of JJ's coach would be a widow in the technical sense that ED is not. But as others have said, so would ABC. And so would Private Tim's BFF Tony's mom.

1) I didn't spill everything. 2) I would never thought it was Brad doing this. Of course my tin foil body armour is not as fancy as Headstall's so... 3) the answer to the question of "who benefits from all this?" Has not been answered yet. We find the answer to that will tell us who the Black Widow is 4) Maybe it's Ace. He's got to be a bitter middle aged man since he's already divorced and a pusher of grapes not suitable to be raisins.

** Tin Foil Body Armour On --> Okay. This is a full blown, paranoid mode. What if the target of all this WAS Queen Lizzy Dee (ED's rap name)? How do you go against ED? By putting one strong family and all her enemies against her --> Treveor is not all that fond of her so The Black Widow goes to him and bribes him. The Black Widow knows the Cramptons/Schulter family is strong so cause problem with Will/Zach and JJ/The Earl so they all go against ED. The Hammer invites Wade to Africa? Another bribe on TBW's part. To separate him from ED's grandchildren. / Tin Foil Yeah that's all I got on this take because we don't know what JP's role (except he's the head of the family) or Brad's role or even this mysterious Parnel dude's role yet.

No since Will's lawyers have already put into motion his "plan", whatever that plan's goal is. I just don't see why buying all the condos surrounding Brad/Marc is going to accomplish.

Off base as in maybe it's not Evil Queen ED in the first place. This is just too sloppy. Too many innocents in the line of fire. Hammer got targeted big time by multiple parties and was sent away. No innocents involved (except the tribe in Africa). THIS operation just pissed off everyone in every direction and enables people like JJ to do something on his own, potentially messing up the Master Plan (even if there was one). Coincidence that Matt/Wade just happen to be in Kenya while JP/Stef was only a couple thousand miles offshore on an island? Coincidence that Zach was being blackmailed? That JJ is sort of out of the picture because of the paparazzi ? Coincidence that Brad was in China with his boytoy? (Okay iOS, why did you try to autocorrect boytoy to bottom? What are you trying to say?) Maybe it was all a coincidence and this family was just entitled to a string of bad luck for once.

Not a prediction but stating fact: Mark is laughing his ass off reading our comments because all us simple people are off base. Kind of like the R+L=J people and George RR Martin.

Okay so Zach goes against the grain and meets with Will and now Evil Queen ED gets him discredited and kicked off the football team. But who benefits if Zach can't play football? He was being blackmailed to stop seeing Will so he can play football. Makes no sense. Slut ME runs to Mommie Dearest: Slut ME: MOM! JJ is being mean to me! ED: I'll take care of this. Alex: Bye JJ. JJ: Fuck all you bitches. Of course Alex won't divorce Slut ME. He would have to return the $150M. But now both names are mud and so is the The Heir to the Granger Fortune. Who benefits from this? No one. Alex is outed and stuck in a poor marriage, Slut ME is tainted (even with a title) and stuck in a poor marriage and finally JJ is outed and possibly discredited from skating. Everyone loses. Except Will can now openly be with Zach if he gets kicked off the team and loses eligibility (and he will if that piss test comes up hot) It's like Mutual Assured Destruction. Someone launched nukes and everyone lost. This does not sound like a finely tuned revenge. This is a scattershot strategy to destroy the lives of everyone involved. Unless that was the whole point. I say this again: something is missing here.

Yes but who benefits if that happens? Zach was being blackmailed (I totally called it!) so he would both dump Will and play football. And now (before Will went to see Zach) he is going to be kicked off the football team (possible) with a hot piss test? He was going to lose both will and be off football. Who benefits with this? ME and Alex? Who benefits of Alex decides to divorce ME for being a bitch? He already has his son. He doesn't need ME. ( he does need the $150 Mil. This also benefits no one. Something is missing.