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The Devil`s Mistress (Harlequin Presents)

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BACK COVER: Once they had been everything to each other, but he had chosen to believe the lies of Roger, his spoiled, willful brother. Alex's jealousy had suffocated their love, leaving her life in shreds.

Working with him, the violent undercurrents between them were hard to ignore, and Alex seemed determined to stir up memories she had desperately tried to forget.

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In the end I really liked this one. Yes, Alex was very mean and violent and perhaps he could be accused of manhandling Natasha as well. But I never believed he would strike her or really physically hurt her. He stated at the beginning that he had never hit a woman. I didn't believe that he would hit her either. I did have to go through w/ the whole idea that if he was that passionately angry w/ Natasha then of course he must feel something for her - at least old school HP feelings, right? After all they like to state that hate/love are just different sides of the same coin. Now indifference is a whole other coin in and of itself! I enjoyed the characters and felt that Natasha did defend herself to Alex several times, but without Roger backing her up the circumstantial evidence was just bad! I felt that once she was tired of beating her head against the Alex Brick Wall that she was justified in running. He was never going to listen and she couldn't continue to subject herself to his cruel punishment. She was willing to risk/lose it all in regards to her career as well. He begged her to listen to him at the end! Of course he had decided that he would much rather have her in his life even believing that she had slept w/ his 17 year old brother than having her gone from his life forever. He had to beat the information out of his brother though. Apparently Roger is very intimidated by Alex - a lot of people were but it seemed that Natasha would still make remarks to him that riled his temper. My one hang-up: why would he mistrust her so much? There wasn't anything that indicated that he should unless I missed something. I couldn't figure out why he would be that insecure. So for an UN-PC book it was a good read. I think I was just in the mood for one and it flowed well for me :)