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One Night of Scandal (Elle Kennedy)

One Night of Scandal (an After Hours novel) (Entangled Brazen) - Elle Kennedy
I read book #3 first before writing longer review for this one -- thus, I can safely say that Reed and Darcy's story is definitely my favorite among the three After Hours series by Elle Kennedy...

Reed and Darcy's initial progress into relationship intrigued me the most because of the forbidden element. Darcy used to be AJ's girlfriend and AJ is Reed's best friend since his high school years. Reed feels guilty of wanting his best friend's girl, so while Darcy and AJ were dating, Reed kept his distance and acted cold towards her ... until he found out that Darcy and AJ broke up.

On top of that, I enjoyed the internal conflict that both Reed and Darcy were fighting with. Reed has reputation of being a player, he never has a long-term relationship, he is more of one-night-stand type of guy. Plus he thinks that he screws up more often than not. While Darcy is a good-girl type and she avoids men like Reed because that is what happens with her parents. Her father loves his freedom so much that he walks out of his family. Darcy wants to keep their affair as a fling while Reed is trying to prove that they have something more serious that that.

I really loved Reed!! Yes, he has that 'bad-boy' image and he lives up to his reputation, but at the same time, he really has a heart as big as the ocean. Especially when he started connecting with Darcy's students, as he helped them with self-defense classes. I just swooned!! Reed is actually also quite sensitive inside *sigh*. The part with the misunderstanding, when Reed thought that Darcy would never going to love him the way he does her, he just showed his vulnerability and I wanted to hug him. Darcy is a lovely girl as well, she is quite protective to people she cares about (shown from her attachment to her students).

So yes I skimmed the sex scenes, yes I deleted all those 'baby', but outside the sex, the story was really good and I liked it quite a lot!