I fell for Doha and Bada, hook line and sinker...

I read read the story after 73 came out. It wasn't my first time rereading it, but it's been a while. This was already great, but I still got that feeling of awe this around as well.

With 74, it really brings home that the author has manged to convey something that is kinda of rare. Many of us love the smut and that often fills in a lot of holes in some relationships. Like, it's easy to see how sexually compatible two charters are and all the emotions they feel during those moments and we buy into that intimacy and we let it shape the relationship for us, let it replace real chemistry.

And that's fine, some really good stories get away with that, but if you've read as far as 74, you can see that their sexual relationship was not hot in the beginning; well, the scenes were good, but they were gaming the system. Doha became more invested first and Bada took a lot longer, but eventually, they were on the same sexual page. But the other side of their relationship, their partnership... this story has managed to illustrate numerous times that the are ALSO intellectually attracted to each other. And that really sells the severe and sincere devotion that Doha has for Bada. Bada's is more understated, but it's definitely there, too. Since the beginning of the story, since he unknowingly put himself back into play, Doha has been overwhelmingly intrigued by Bada and how his mind works. Bada, as well, once he understood that Doha's moral compass was broken, his actions made sense and he could understand Doha to a more intimate degree. Trust was a tricky thing, but they also built that up over time.

They have true chemistry; multifaceted chemistry, and it's not solely based on passionate sex and has very little to do with them going through a traumatic experience together. Not that that aspect can be ignored, but it's not the foundation of their relationship. I'm completely sold on them. And I hope you all are too.