So when his son is in trouble and no longer has a home, Pike opens his door to him and his girlfriend without a second thought.

He makes her laugh and smile in ways that she hadn't before, even though they do butt heads from time to time. While Pike is being a guilt-ridden drama queen in denial, his best friend gave no fucks😂 I appreciated that. If you love forbidden romance, slow burn romance, FANTASTIC sexual tension, a hero who is quite older and is super mature and charming, STEAMY AS HELL sex scenes, and angst, then this is the perfect book! p94 - Pike states “Jordan is usually already up when I come downstairs in the morning…” Absolutely not. Time passes by you like a bullet,” he says, “and fear gives you the excuses you’re craving to not do the things you know you should.La protagonista está en una relación de estas que son una mierda y que son en plan: amiga, date cuenta. I have to stop my mind from drifting to her and stop holding my breath every time I bump into her in the house. P164 – Jordan says “…in the wee hours when it’s still dark, and I’m the only person up and in the kitchen with my coffee.

Jordan is quite poor because she illegally spent her student loan money on fixing her boyfriend’s car.

Pike crash landed into my heart the very first chapter and he's still there even after I inhaled that last page. I was expecting Birthday girl to be heavy in the feels but it turned out as just another book I will forget about it in a week. so if you're into stories with taboo, great plot, and bumping uglies you've got to add this to ur TBR. I was so in love with this man's personality the minute he stared talking and stared doing stuff like putting a little candle on Jordan's donut because it's her birthday, doing dishes while talking on his phone or thinking about AC's temperature if is okay for Jordan(h) these little things tiny gestures always gets me. En definitiva, Birthday Girl ha sido una lectura que he disfrutado la mayoría del tiempo, me ha entretenido y ha conseguido engancharme para mí sorpresa.

p134 - We know from p9 they live in a town a few hours from Chicago so they must live in either Illinois, Wisconsin, Iowa, Michigan or Indiana.p98 - Jordan “releases the handles” of the lawnmower which, for safety reasons is a dead man’s switch, and would immediately cause the engine to stop, yet the engine continues to run. I can feel his eyes on me over the breakfast table, and my heart pumps so hard when I hear him pull in the driveway after work. In fact, if the break up wouldn't have occurred, I feel that the relationship would have failed and they would have never gotten their HEA. Jay, an ex-boyfriend, follows Jordan into the theater suggesting Jordan’s abusive relationships will follow her whenever and wherever so goes.

I know that some people feel that slow burns can't happen in stand alone books, but in response to that, I would direct them here. One night Cole fails to pick her up from work so she goes to see an 80s movie alone, where she meets Pike - the super hot dilf. I feel asleep thinking about it and woke up giddy as fuck because I knew I was about to jump back in to it…and see Pike.We are shown that while she has people around to support her, Her sister Cami and Her boss Shel, she is still mostly alone. I thoroughly relished every page of this book and found the slow burn between the characters well crafted. The nearby theater is showing a movie from the 1980s, a metaphor for Jordan wanting to escape and live in a simpler time. One of the best of those things is her ability to make something taboo seem irresistibly satisfying. p68 Pike says to himself “The Hook is a strip club downtown, not far from Grounders where Jordan works.