POWERLESS
Jasper and Sloane have known each other all their lives. However, they lost touch after Sloane asked Jasper to her prom and he said no. Then both their hearts are broken and they decide a road trip is just the thing to make them whole again. One bed and a snowstorm will test them both.
The banter between these two was incredible. They had this endearing honesty thing and then we see how they both just stayed and listened to each other's truth and pain without any judgment at all, except that honesty never worked when they had to talk about their feelings. They would clam up and believe the other wasn't for them. They couldn't let themselves be happy.
“Do you think about me?” I blurt, watching him still the minute those words leap from my lips. “When we go weeks or months without talking or seeing each other . . . do you think about me?” He finally responds with, “Every fucking day, Sunny."
They both were so good at hiding their love. Sloane has always known Jasper as the lost little boy with sad eyes. He's the one that would crawl onto the roof at night on the ranch and they would sit there in compatible silence. To others, Jasper is the star of a hockey team. To Sloane, he's so much more.
Jasper can't stop thinking of his friend Sloane who is set to marry a bad guy because her father made a business deal. Jasper will never understand why she doesn't see her father the way he does but he won't be the one to reveal that to her. When he gets a frantic call from her to come help her on her wedding day, he drops everything and comes.
With friends to lovers and grumpy sunshine vibes, Elsie Silver again knocks it out of the park. I fell for Jasper and his broody ways. Sloane was a Cinderella-type heroine because she needed Jasper to save her. I didn't find issues with this though because her backstory made it make sense. These two had AMAZING spicy scenes that even made me blush and I have read many spicy books. I'm looking forward to the rest of the Chestnut Springs series.
Two childhood friends. Two broken hearts. One impromptu road trip to get away from everything. That's all this was supposed to be.
To Jasper Gervais's fans, he's the handsome, talented hockey heartthrob on TV. But to Sloane, he'll always be the lost boy with the sad eyes and a heart of gold.
The man she's loved in secret all her life.
So when her life falls apart on the day she's supposed to marry someone else, it only makes sense that he's the one to swoop in and save her. And when his world comes crashing down around him, she's there to return the favor.
But the more time they spend alone, the more Jasper isn't looking at her like a friend anymore. He isn't touching her like one, either. And after all these years, he's still everything she's ever wanted, everything she thought she could never have.
Their feelings aren't straightforward, though. They twist and turn around the pain of Jasper's past and the reality of Sloane's present.
Jasper Gervais might act like he wants her.
But after years of turning her away, he's going to need to prove it.
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