Evelyn Bella's Reviews > We Were Never Lovers

I always admire how MCs have the restraint not to blurb shit when the other has some sort of amnesia. The doctors would simply have to hate me because I'd sing like a canary. You forgot shit? Let me catch you up.

No idea what Jack did to the gods in a previous life but yeeish. He's been a victim of circumstances as far as anything to do with Sean was concerned for a decade. And the hits just kept coming.

Their memories, though. At first I was so frustrated with Jack for not just telling Sean, because Sean begged and begged. But reading through the memories? All that little shit? Yeah, there's some stuff you can't explain. Stuff you can only feel.

I started to understand when he kept telling himself he couldn't tell Sean the truth about them because if he did and Sean didn't believe him, it would break him.

It legit got to a point where I was sadder than Jack about the absence of Sean's memories. Because it was breaking him regardless and he had to hold himself together for Sean, who btw is no fucking walk in the park. And he had no one to lean on because nobody else knew about them.

It didn't help matters that they'd had a D/s dynamic before Sean's accident, so without him there in the Dom capacity, Jack was flailing.

This one's sadder than the others because it's not just messy relationship drama. It felt like Jack fighting for his life and he's not even the one that got his body broken.

When the memories returned?

When Jack burst into tears I was right there with him. I'm not even going to lie, that man wouldn't have made it if Sean hadn't remembered.

“Whatever you want.”
“‘Cos we always do what I want?” Sean smiled up at him.
“I always want what you want,” Jack said simply.

Like...??? Tell me that's a man who'd have made it.

And I was just so happy that he got his dom back, man. Watching his heart break again and again daily was really ruining the vibe.

Could not recommend more highly.

Got a review copy of this one from GRR.