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Lover Unbound: A Novel of the Black Dagger Brotherhood | J.R. Ward

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Vishous goes to Jane's home to tell her the good news, that Phury will take his place. He removes the block on her memories. Meanwhile, Phury goes to the other side to start his duties as Primale. He is appalled that Carmia is bound and gaged to a bed. He releases her and takes her back to the mansion. Phury has the Directrix's number and reports her to the SV. Vishous goes to the hospital and removes the images of his heart and wipes Manny's mind

TheSpineView During training, Zsadist realizes John is lefthanded like his father, Darius. He comments that he even moves like him. Jane is shot by a lesser and dies in Vishous's arms. Jane is greeted by her sister's ghost on the other side. The ghost tells Jane she must let Vishous go to continue fully to the other side. V has a plan to reanimate Jane by using lesser blood. The SV stops him. Phury discovers that the Directrix is the one who shot Vishous. 3mo

TheSpineView Vishous's visions come back ṭo him. The SV gives Jane back to Vishous, sort of. She is a ghost now. John is given Darius's journal. V goes to thank the SV for the gift of Jane and finds that her sacrifice was her beloved birds. It is revealed that V has a twin sister. Jane goes to say goodbye to Manny as a ghost. V takes a bird to the SV as a gift. @PageShifter @Laughterhp @julesG @ShananigansReads @DuckOfDoom @InkedBookworm13 @tdrosebud 3mo

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TheSpineView Some final thoughts on this book. In my eyes, the SV redeemed herself a little with the gift of Jane to V. However, she destroyed it when I found out she was basically keeping her daughter in suspended animation. I have come to the conclusion that she is just one of those characters I am going to love to hate. I think Jane as a personal physician to the brothers is fabulous. No more Havers! Yeah! So happy John now has a piece of Darius. I wonder 3mo

ShananigansReads So many things happening at the end of this book. I remember having mixed feelings about how Jane and V end up together when I first read the story but this time around I feel like it‘s pretty perfect. Maybe because I already knew what to expect. 3mo

TheSpineView ...if the journal will tell us who John's mother is. Will we even get any insight into what is in the journal. I'm glad V got his own HEA. Now on to Phury's story. Free free to discuss anything, even if it is at a later date. 3mo

TheSpineView @ShananigansReads I feel bad that they can't have children. Maybe something miraculous will happen on that front. 3mo

julesG I don't like the SV. So far every time she did something nice we get to see a 'nastier' side of her afterwards. I want to know what's in the journal too. There are quite a lot of lose ends at the end of the book. Sure, they will be dealt with in later books, hopefully, but when in later books. I'm impatient. 😉 3mo

TheSpineView @julesG IK! I want to read ahead but so far have contained myself. 3mo

julesG I stopped after book 10. Didn't want to binge the whole series at once. 3mo

PageShifter I was surprised that they could give the memories back just like that. I am not sure how I feel about Jane being a ghost. That was a surprise! I loved that V gifted the bird. That made the ending touching. But it sounded like his sister is going to cause troubles... 4w

PageShifter “Free free to discuss anything, even if it is at a later date.“ Hahahaha, I felt like you were thinking about me 🤣

About children: I don't feel bad because I think it was said somewhere that V didn't even want them in the first place. 4w

TheSpineView @PageShifter I don't remember anything about how V thought about children. 4w

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TheSpineView I enjoyed this a lot also. 🖤🧛‍♂️🖤 3mo

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Lover Unbound: A Novel of the Black Dagger Brotherhood | J.R. Ward

My husband snapped this picture of Dexter trying to get my attention. I guess it's time to stop reading and go to bed. 📖 🌙
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Lover Unbound: A Novel of the Black Dagger Brotherhood | J.R. Ward

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The story is moving g along now. John has survived his transition and realizes he is as tall as Zsadist and taller than Lash. As usual, Lash tries to start shit. Z has man to man conversation with John. He promises John that he will keep all of John's secrets. Vishous takes Jane home and erases her memory. Manello is worried about Jane and goes to visit her. V sees him there and loses his shit. Butch stops V from

TheSpineView ...doing anything Rash. They have a good old-fashioned knockdown fight but are good afterwards. V can't resist making love to Jane but puts it in her head that she is dreaming. Jane wakes up and thinks she slept with Manello. However, he tells her no they didn't. Now Jane thinks she is crazy 4mo

TheSpineView Vishous and Carmia are both miserable over their mating. In the end, Vishous storms out and can't go through with it. At a meeting with all the Brothers in Wrath's office, Phury offers to take Vishous's place. The Scribe Virgin agrees to the plan. @PageShifter @Laughterhp @julesG @ShananigansReads @DuckOfDoom @InkedBookworm13 @tdrosebud @CoverToCoverGirl @StayCurious @BooksNBowls @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks 4mo

TheSpineView I feel so sorry for Phury. He holds so much guilt over events that were out of his control. I think they all need therapy. God help us if a man ever thought he needed therapy. I also think there is some grand plan here. The SV has something up her sleeve, I sure of it. I wonder how much she knows of the future and if she tries to influence it? 🤔 4mo

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julesG I've said it before, I hate the SV's whole breeding program. She had planned for her own son to be her prize stallion?? I'd love to slap her with a hardcover edition of each of the books. I'm utterly sorry for both, Vishous and Phury (different reasons, of course). 4mo

julesG Men/males going to therapy? So far only one Brother was willing to try (?) and it has done him good. They could all benefit from therapy, they all carry lots of baggage. 4mo

TheSpineView @julesG Agree. However, if I am thinking like an author, how do you write the actions of a character? A goddess would be a narcissist probably, because their word is law... literally. From that view point, I see why the plot is that way. The means justifies the end from the SV's pov. Also, religion in general is bogged down in dogma and tends not to change with the times. It also creates tension in the plot. It makes me dislike the SV's character 4mo

TheSpineView @julesG...and the reader needs someone to put blame on... maybe this is what Ward was thinking when she created the character and the belief system as part of the world building. A whole thesis paper could be written on this. Anyway, I am in total agreement with you. As a mother, I couldn't do something like that to my child. The whole breeding thing just gives me the creeps. 4mo

julesG I understand from writer's POV, but still. Ugh!!! You're right, a thesis could be written about it. 3mo

PageShifter I was surprised that they really took Jane's memories. I thought it wouldn't go there. I started to suspect that Phury would go instead of V. But it just feels so bad. And how V is going the get Jane now when she doesn't remember him. 4w

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Lover Unbound: A Novel of the Black Dagger Brotherhood | J.R. Ward

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In chapters 14 - 26, starts with Zsadist talking to Phury about Bells's pregnancy. She is bleeding and is rightfully worried. He takes her to see Havers. John is not feeling well yet goes to class anyway. Quinn and Blay tell him they have his back when it comes to Lash. Vishous realizes he has fallen for Jane. Vishous recalls more of the times he spent in the camp with his father. He realizes he can read Jane's..

TheSpineView ...and Jane desires him even though he is a Vampire. He also released a bonding scent when he let Jane pleasure him. He knows he has to send her home soon. Phury takes out his frustration over Bella on a lesser. He is so distracted that another lesser attacks him and he is injured badly. He insists on going back to the mansion because he doesn't want to upset Bella if he runs into her at Haver's clinic. Jane is asked to help Phury. She does... 4mo

TheSpineView ..surgery to repair the damage to his skull and face. The operation goes well, though Jane is not sure about Phury's sight. Vishous and Butch are talking after the surgery, and Butch says he approves of him and Jane as a couple. V admits he used to be attracted to Butch but not since Jane. Butch admits he knew but is cool with it. V is happy he gets more time with Jane and takes her to his condo for some alone time. John goes with Qhuinn and Blay 4mo

TheSpineView ...to ZeroSum. While there, John meets Xhex and she learns who John really is. Once they leave, they run into two lessers, which John kills. Thank goodness, John is an excellent shot with a gun. But he has another seizure once he stabs them both. He awakes at the mansion and has started his transition. Layla is there to drink from. But John is still struggling with his past and not able to have sex with her. Layla feels it is her fault. 4mo

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TheSpineView Phury takes his bandages off and can see. @PageShifter @Laughterhp @julesG @ShananigansReads @DuckOfDoom @InkedBookworm13 @tdrosebud @CoverToCoverGirl @StayCurious @BooksNBowls @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks 4mo

TheSpineView Every time V has a flash back to his time in the training camp with his father it makes me wonder, how could the Scribe Virgin let the Bloodletter be the father of Z. She could have chosen anyone. I get that she wanted a powerful warrior. However, there had to be others that were close in strength and cunning without the physo path tendencies. 4mo

julesG I'll never understand why the SV chose the Bloodletter for procreation. She can't have been that desperate. 4mo

julesG Speaking of the SV, why does she make whores out of her Chosen? "donating" blood is fine by me, but the rest feels morally icky. 4mo

julesG I know, I've rushed through the first 10 books again, but do we get an explanation for John's seizures? 4mo

TheSpineView @julesG Right! That part of the story doesn't work for me. 4mo

TheSpineView @julesG Agree. Especially since she is female. 4mo

TheSpineView @julesG Not so far. It has been so long since I read the first, I think, 14 or so books I can't remember. 4mo

julesG I'll check the Wiki. But I think we don't get an answer. 4mo

julesG Wiki says he has seizures when he has flashbacks to his former life. Well, duh!!! I thought we'd get something more substantial. 4mo

TheSpineView @julesG Jeepers... we already knew that! Sigh... I 'm thinking maybe when Darius's memories come to the surface it over loads his brain and causes the seizures. 4mo

ShananigansReads @TheSpineView I will never understand that decision. Could you imagine leaving your 3 year old in that camp? Hell I wouldn‘t leave a 30 year old there. 3mo

TheSpineView @ShananigansReads IK! This part of the plot never made any sense. A God who doesn't set the rules??? Right... 3mo

PageShifter I loved how this showed us the power of mind: John doesn't feelself him a real man even though he got this super male body. It's his mind that has not yet followed. Well there is his past and trauma, but the mind is powerful. 4w

PageShifter I agree that the Scribe Virgin could have chosen a better male to be a father of her child! And I was so happy when V talked with her mother at the beginning and pointed how poor judgment she had and how he doesn't trust her judgment when they were talking about his future. That made me laugh, she deserved that comment 🤣 4w

TheSpineView @PageShifter She deserved more than the comment. 4w

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Lover Unbound: A Novel of the Black Dagger Brotherhood | J.R. Ward

Happy Tuesday! Here are the #Two4Tuesday questions for today. Everyone is welcome to play. My answers:
1️⃣ Bought one bag over the weekend. Hubby has already opened, so I will probably have to buy more.
2️⃣ Dark, Vampires, Romance

Play? @InkedBookworm13 @wanderinglynn @eggs @dabbe @TracyReadsBooks @Kshakal @kelli7990 @KadaGul @Klou @kspenmoll @BethM @AnnCrystal @DebinHawaii @JenReadsAlot @Deblovestoread @Cupcake12 @JessClark78

wanderinglynn Thanks for the tag! 4mo

Deblovestoread Thanks for the tag! 🧡🖤🧡 4mo

AnnCrystal Thanks for the tag 🎃☺️👍💝. 4mo

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TheSpineView @wanderinglynn @Deblovestoread @AnnCrystal YW! 4mo

dabbe Will do; thanks for the tag! 😘 P.S. Your hubby: 😂 4mo

TheSpineView @dabbe 👍 4mo

BethM This has been on my tbr forever! 4mo

TheSpineView @BethM ❤️📖 4mo

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Lover Unbound: A Novel of the Black Dagger Brotherhood | J.R. Ward

Every time I read about the transition and how it changes the scrawny lad into a muscled giant.

#BDBBuddyRead #BDBBookClub #BDB @TheSpineView

TheSpineView Yeap! 4mo

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This is book 5 and the story of Vishous and Jane. The story starts with a glimpse of Jane as a child. Her parents are cold and controlling. Her younger sister, whom she adored, dies very young. A game on the Ouija board says she will marry someone named Vishous. V is wanting a relationship like Butch and Marissa have. While Phury is still pining over Bella. Quinn goes through his transition and tells John and Bley

TheSpineView ...all about it. V finds out his mother is the Scribe Virgin and she wants him to become the Primale. Basically, he will be her prized stallion and he will service all the Chosen starting with Cormia. Cormia , as well as V, are not happy about this. V is gravely injured in a fight with lessors. He ends up in the human ER where Jane is now a trauma surgeon. She saves his life. Manny is the Chief of Surgery and likes Jane. She wants a job at.. 4mo

TheSpineView ...Columbia but Manny is trying to talk her out of it. The brothers come for V and he insists that Jane come back to the mansion with him so they kidnap her. Z tells John that Lash is coming back and he has gone through the transition. He says not to start anything with Lash. Z basically says he has John's back. Jane awakens at the mansion. Though she asks V several times what he is, he always deflects. She is starting to figure things out. 4mo

TheSpineView V is acting liked a bonded male. He is very possessive and protective over her. However, he does promise to take her home when he is better. @PageShifter @Laughterhp @julesG @ShananigansReads @DuckOfDoom @InkedBookworm13 @tdrosebud @CoverToCoverGirl @StayCurious @BooksNBowls @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks 4mo

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TheSpineView I wonder how long it will be before Jane puts two and two together with the Ouija board and V? I am loving this soft side of Z. But I can't shake the bad feeling I have about Lash. What will have to happen before he is kicked out for good? 4mo

julesG Lash - ugh!!! He needs to take a beach vacation, with lots of time in the sun. 😈 4mo

TheSpineView @julesG 😂😂😂😂 4mo

ShananigansReads I‘m playing catchup. V‘s story is so heartbreaking. I‘ve actually forgotten most of this so I‘m shocked all over again. Also apparently my brain has completely changed what Jane looks like in my memory. And Lash is back in the training program, ew. 3mo

TheSpineView @ShananigansReads Yes, it is heart breaking. Seems like all the brothers have had a tough time. 3mo

PageShifter I am eager to get to the scene where Jane gets to know V's name 🤣

I actually thought they would have kicked out Lash (edited) 1mo

TheSpineView @PageShifter OH the wait. You know it is coming 1mo

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Curretly reading Lover Unbound which is set in a fictional town in New York state.

#BDBBuddyRead

🖤🗡🖤🧛‍♂️🖤

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Hope everyone has been able to secure a copy of Lover Unbound our October book for the #BDBBuddyRead This is book 5 in the series and tells the story of Vishous and Jane. There are 54 chapters in this book. We will read and 13 chapters on weeks 1 and 2 and 14 chapters for weeks 3 and 4. Enjoy! 🖤🧛‍♂️🗡

@PageShifter @Laughterhp @julesG @ShananigansReads @DuckOfDoom @InkedBookworm13 @tdrosebud @CoverToCoverGirl @StayCurious @BooksNBowls

TheSpineView #BDB #BDBBookClub @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks 4mo

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#FirstLineFridays @ShyBookOwl

"Just take it, Jane"

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ShananigansReads 😳 😳 😳 4mo

TheSpineView @ShananigansReads IK! But as you read further, it is not what you think. 4mo

MegaWhoppingCosmicBookwyrm Lol, I have to say I had gutter-thoughts too after seeing the title and then the first line. 🤣😂🤣 4mo

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dabbe @ShananigansRead @TheSpineView I thought the same thing! 😂😂😂 4mo

julesG 🤣🤣🤣🤣 Pull your heads out of the gutter. 🤣🤣 @MegaWhoppingCosmicBookwyrm @ShananigansReads @dabbe 4mo

ShananigansReads 🤣🤣🤣 4mo

CoverToCoverGirl Oh… V! 4mo

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Lover At Last: A Novel of the Black Dagger Brotherhood

Lover Unbound: A Novel of the Black Dagger Brotherhood | J.R. Ward

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Lover Unbound, book 5 of the Black Dagger Brotherhood series will be next up to read in October. My library has both digital and physical copies. Hope everyone can find a copy.

@PageShifter @Laughterhp @julesG @ShananigansReads @DuckOfDoom @InkedBookworm13 @tdrosebud @CoverToCoverGirl @StayCurious @BooksNBowls @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

dabbe Okay, his eyes are tripping me out! 😱 4mo

TheSpineView @dabbe IK! 4mo

Laughterhp That means I‘ll finally get to participate in November! 4mo

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TheSpineView @Laughterhp Awesome! 4mo

julesG I've re-read it already. Sorry-not-sorry. 😉 4mo

TheSpineView @julesG It has been hard not to read ahead. 4mo

ShananigansReads I\'m behind. Eek! It\'s okay I can re-read both this and Lover Revealed in September and be happy. 4mo

TheSpineView @ShananigansReads Sounds like a plan! 4mo

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Finished this one about a week ago. This is the 5th book in the series and mostly follows V and a surgeon Jane. These books all have kind of weird endings for me. They‘re romance so they have a slight HEA, but a weird HEA.

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Final book of the #20in4 #readathon @Andrew65

#BlackDaggerBrotherhood book 5

This got weird towards the end, did not see this coming. @GingerAntics

Hooded sweater for my son finished while I listened to the tagged book. #LitsyCrafters @Catsandbooks #audiosewing

Andrew65 A great readathon for you. 👏👏👏🙌🥳 3y

Catsandbooks Love the stars! 3y

Cathythoughts Nice work 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 3y

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GingerAntics With the birds? 3y

GingerAntics Love his new hoodie!!! I love that the inside of the hood has the stars. 3y

julesG @GingerAntics more the, I'll bring her back no matter what. Very desperate move. 3y

GingerAntics @julesG that whole over protective, bonded male thing? It does seem a bit much… a bit heteronormative. I wonder if Ward really needs the rampant homophobia from some of the characters. (edited) 3y

julesG @GingerAntics Yeah, would be interesting to see a m/m of f/f pairing. She kind of tried to make V bi, but there was all this 🙄🙄 I liked how V and Butch get to talk about their feelings and sex, even if it's in a grunty alpha-male way. 3y

GingerAntics @julesG oh there is a M/M pairing in the making. They get their own book and everything.

julesG @GingerAntics just 6 more books to go, for me 😁 better hurry and put the next one on 😉 3y

GingerAntics @julesG 😂🤣😂 it‘s the third book after I finish the one I‘m on now. 3y

JudeCC 👏 👏 👏 😍 3y

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So much tragedy in this one. I was so excited for John to finally reach his transition (becoming an adult male), but there was still so much sadness in the milestone for him. He got his father‘s/his diary, so that he at least feels like he has a connection to someone. He‘s so adrift in this book. At least he‘s got Blay and Quinn now. 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻

GingerAntics I like the connection John is forming with Z though, too. Those two kind of need each other. I just hope the diary doesn‘t give him seizures. 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻 3y

GingerAntics It was great seeing Vishous finally face his past, share it with someone, then open himself up. It was unfortunate how he lost it all in the end, but sort of got it back. I really didn‘t remember the bombshell about his mother. I can‘t believe I ever managed to forgot that one. 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻 3y

GingerAntics We really spent much less time with V and Jane than we did with the other couples during their books previously, too. That was a little weird, but it worked for everything that happened in this book. #jrward #BlackDaggerBrotherhood #LoverUnbound 3y

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Lover Unbound: A Novel of the Black Dagger Brotherhood | J.R. Ward

We‘ve had this discussion, too. “Free will” is a bit of a misnomer. You only have as much “free will” as your gender, sex, sexual identity, socioeconomic status, religion, location, etching grant you. Freedom for one is not freedom for another.
#jrward #BlackDaggerBrotherhood #LoverUnbound

TheBookHippie, ravenlee

TheBookHippie 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 3y

GingerAntics @TheBookHippie obviously, the most philosophical creatures on the planet are leather clad vampire warriors. Just ask @Branwen. 🤣😂🤣 3y

Branwen @TheBookHippie @GingerAntics It's true! 😂😂😂👏 3y

TheBookHippie @Branwen 🤣🤣🤣🤣 3y

GingerAntics @Branwen 🤣😂🤣 obviously this is why you love the series as you do. You come for the leathers, but you stay for the philosophy, obviously, as we all do. 😂🤣😂 3y

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This is me 100%!!! 😂🤣😂 If I‘m going to talk to you and tell you anything, I‘ve got to know you‘re not going to take what I say, craft it all into a dagger, and then plunge it into my back. I‘ve been burned WAY too many times, even by so called councillors/therapists. PAAAAAAAAASS.
#jrward #BlackDaggerBrotherhood #LoverUnbound #therapy #wordsareweapons

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Lover Unbound: A Novel of the Black Dagger Brotherhood | J.R. Ward

This book is amazingly philosophical. I know we‘ve had the free will discussion, and we‘ve had the discussion on how “eternal life” devalues life itself. Now let‘s put them together. If you already “know” you‘re going to “die and go to heaven,” do you have free will anymore?
#ThisLife #MartinHagglund #Philosophy #AdventuresInPhilosophy #DeadPhilosophersSociety
@TheBookHippie @ravenlee @JaclynW @RavenLovelyReads @AlaSkaat @Chrissyreadit @kspenmoll

TheBookHippie Free will is a ploy. 3y

GingerAntics @TheBookHippie totally agree. I honestly couldn‘t agree me. There are only so many things you can exhaust your will upon. Most of life is a rollercoaster. You can hop off anytime you want (we‘ve swung back to suicide again), but you can‘t rebuild the track because you don‘t like it. You control yourself (sort of - chronic illness comes to mind), but that‘s it. 3y

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GingerAntics @TheBookHippie is it me, or is “free will” just one more way to blame the oppressed and down trodden for their lot in life? 3y

TheBookHippie @GingerAntics yup. People ASS U ME that everyone has the same choices and that those choices will get positive results … 3y

GingerAntics @TheBookHippie of course. “I can do this, so obviously you can to if you really want to. Oh you say you can‘t? Well, that‘s your choice.” 🙄🙄🙄 3y

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The world really needs more of this.
#jrward #BlackDaggerBrotherhood #LoverUnbound

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