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Tomorrow Began Yesterday

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How could she still love such a man?

What would it take for Laura to learn her lesson once and for all? First a father with a string of mistresses and then a husband who had cheated on her on their wedding day!

Men were not to be trusted with a woman's heart! And oh, how her heart had broken. She'd loved Jake so much. But not now, not ever again.

That was a year ago. She was over it --or was until Jake suddenly turned up again!

MY REVIEW: Five hours after Laura had married the man of her dreams she found him on his bed, minus his shirt and w/ another woman, Melissa! Waiting for no explanation she ran. Jake Ashton eventually caught up w/ her at her mother's house and forced his way into the bedroom . . . and on her. I'm sorry but it really sounded more like rape than forced seduction. Ripped nightgown, bruises, fighting tooth and nail trying desperately to prevent the invasion of her body . . . yeah so not seduction, forced or otherwise. Why didn't mom show up? He leaves when she won't listen to his explanation - which by the way when we finally get it is so over-the-top and just plain stupid! Seriously you felt sorry for Melissa so you comforted her, and this turned into a kiss which somehow needed to be experienced on the bed! A year later Jake shows up in the now 21 year-old Laura's life. He wants her back and he wants her to listen to his explanation. Over the following pages we get to read about the borderline abuse - okay it was abuse - and the fact that Laura puts up w/ it! I never heard him apologize for his actions and frankly neither did Melissa. I got tired of Jake blaming Laura's father for her lack of trust in him. She trusted him enough to marry him w/in two months of meeting him and it wasn't her father that she caught in that bed w/ Melissa. Jake never seemed to take any blame but Laura had to shoulder it all. Oh and the real kicker - he is trying to win his estranged wife back but somehow he thinks it would be a good idea to run off to get Melissa, show up separately as Laura is such a dingbat and won't put that together, then run off w/ Melissa for the entire following day. I also have to say that Melissa was a dingbat because she seemed to forget why Jake had actually invited her there in the end. I never saw any redeeming qualities in Jake - he pretty much agreed to marry Melissa, met Laura, tried to contact Melissa to say it's off, because he now wants to marry Laura - but never ONCE thought to tell Laura about Melissa - gets caught kissing Melissa and then has a flimsy explanation. Yes, Laura should have listened to the explanation and then she should have walked . . . no RUN away! It should also be noted that Jake was only abusive to Laura and only when others were NOT around. Otherwise he can control himself. He is so very different w/ each woman - caring, tender, and loving w/ Melissa; volatile, abusive, and nasty w/ Laura. I kept thinking Jake should have stuck w/ Melissa and left the young Laura alone, but who knows what his true motives are since we don't have his POV? I never really warmed up to Jake and I have a very thick pair of rose colored glasses! We do know that he had, "A tender nickname for Melissa - a biting fury every time he came near Laura" - that about sums up their r/s!