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I felt so bad for FL imagine breaking your walls and letting someone in. Putting all the negatives you’ve grown up seeing and hearing from your parents finally putting caution and fear to the side and finally telling that man how you sincerely feel about him only for him to prove all your fears and nightmares true.
As a reader I also believe the ML. I totally believed he was sincere with feeling. Only to cringe at his response. God! I can’t imagine the embarrassment, pain and self loathing she must have felt.
After reading all those chapter of that girl suffering throughout her life and that fckd up marriage as a “replacement wife” not allowed to be called mother by the children she birthed( as a surrogate) raised and not cause they kids don’t want to but because the man doesn’t want to erase the role of his long deceased fiancé even though it wouldn’t. From going through miscarriage to feeling like a stranger in your own home to being scared of something happening to your unborn child.
If I’m gonna sit through those dialogue of her happy moments in her positive new environment I’m gonna read it with a smile. She deserves a man that loves her not the one that can’t move on from his lost love. Noah doesn’t love River. He is looking for her not cause he suddenly developed feelings after all those years it’s cause his children r having a had time. Everything he does is for Summer like literally summer is in his mind 24/7 is only now he thinks about everything River has done for him.
She will never not be a second option to his Summer not matter what. His obsession with his deceased fiancé is deep. The twins are proof of that!