I seriously hate Marisol. She's the worst kind of person. How do play with someone's emotions for so many damn years!!!! She doesn't want Brandon but doesn't want anyone else to have him. She likes knowing that he'll do anything for her and her girls. She doesn't love him. I feel for Diya. She loves Brandon but there's just too much to deal with. I really hope both she and Brandon take a step back. Brandon has to work on himself and cut the cord with Marisol. I know he loves her girls but none of this is healthy.

Wow!  Yeah, Brandon was tryin' a b@tch in this one! 😡  Had a nerve to lie, play victim, and have a 'tude!  He was on one, and Diya was a good one. She was VERY calm. I'm glad she voiced her feelings, but it would've been even better if she had voiced all of her thoughts. I was thinking a lot of the same things that she was throughout their interaction. Yeah, she needs to step back, regroup, and reevaluate some things. Dag, I was halfway pulling for Brandon before, but he done went and showed his ass!! At this point, he had nothing to lose and should've given Diya full disclosure on everything if he really meant the things he was telling her. After this, I have more questions than answers!  Unless he starts spilling everything, he gets nothing!!!  Stay strong D!!!

Great update!  The suspense is killing me. Looking forward to see what happens next. 🥰ðŸ˜�ðŸ‘�ðŸ�¾

I’m beyond proud of Diya for not letting him EASILY get out of this. Yes he stayed the night and I understand that, but she showed true backbone. Here she is taking the literal fire from hell with her family meanwhile you’re lying by omission. Ugh, I love it. I don’t know how long we will wait for the next chapter, but I’m so happy she really didn’t fold like she normally does.

I’m torn with this chapter...I hurt for Diya...she loves Brandon truly but her trust in him is shattered...he could/should have told her about Marisol...but as Brandon begins to feel true love, he is seeing what he felt for Marisol ain’t...Marisol has never belonged to Brandon is quite clear...she likes his attention but doesn’t truly want him...just a nice fallback...until Diya...Brandon never faced the truth of Marisol’s toxicity...his love for Diya makes him face it...such a hard truth but can he cut out the poison...when you’ve been fed poison for so long the withdrawal is quite painful...Marisol, Rafe have Bran co-dependent...they are unhealthy friendships...Rafe knows Marisol is using Bran otherwise he wouldn’t have been so kind to Diya some chapters back after the Tyler confrontation...but with Bran’s toxic family (grandfather, father, brother) he struggles to find acceptance...Diya gives him something he has never had and he doesn’t quite know how to live it...he’s trying...a lot more bumps and trials but I hope he figures it out soon...you, author, are cruel but I know there is a long term payout coming eventually...right???

WELL DAMN! 

This was well worth the wait! 

The emotional roller coaster ride you have taken us on is insane and I'm a tad addicted. I've reread this chapter 3 times. 

Diya has EVERY right to be mad and upset and downright hurt. I really wanted her to shout everything she sees about mari-whore and how he doesn't realise that he puts that bitch before her! I hope she explodes Because she was right and now she knows that what she was suspecting was right. 

My heart broke for her because you can see that she is so torn and humiliated in a sense because this whole time, the ex-love was right there in front of her this whole time. She deserves to go crazy and run. 

Brandon... I hated that I couldn't wholeheartedly hate him. YES for sure I want him to feel so heart broken and torn without Di because he needs to fucken learn that MARIS-HOE should not be present in his life if he wants our homegirl Di. She comes FIRST and should never feel threatened or unwanted. My only thing was when he argued that he truly believed she knew- and the heartache behind his argument just made me only wa t to drop kick him 99%. He definitely stupid for thinking that Di knew and was a ok with it. 

I honestly think she needs to go ghost for a while, break his heart for a while and focus on herself for a minute. Away from her family and all his friends and stink people. 

Brandon needs to know what it's like to not have her... what it's like to actually be without her due to him and his choice of ... hoeship. 

LOVE LOVEVLOVE AND WILL BE TOO EXCITED AND EAGER FOR MORE!!!! Thank you thank you!! It was amazing and I loved it. 

Brandon seems willfully ignorant when it comes to Marisol. Diya needs to do self-care.  She seems to be more concerned about Branny than herself. Diya, take a bit of time to figure out who you are and why you let folks treat you any kind of way. You seem to want to belong so badly that you accept treatment that a person who values themselves would've punched the asshats in the throat a long time ago. I think that this goes back to that wack family of hers. You need to help yourself before you can help Brandon. As for Brandon, there are no words. He needs help and I don't think no matter how much Diya loves him, she's not equipped to take on his drama. Remember Diya, you teach people how to treat you and I don't see you being your authentic self with Brandon right now. Girl, run, and run far. I'm so pissed at Brandon right now. 

Well damn!! This is just too much.

WoW!! What the hell, Brandon is unstable and Marisol is a bitch. Do not like those two right now. Diya run. Excellent chapter.

SWEET BABY JESUS. THIS WAS A LOT. BRANDON CAN'T SEE THAT MARISOL KNEW OF HIS FEELINGS AND HAS USED THAT TO HAVE HIM AT HER BECK AND CALL. SHE'S BEEN USING HER GIRLS TO KEEP HIM AROUND. SHE DOESN'T WANT HIM. SHE LOVES THAT HE WILL ALWAYS DAMN NEAR HER AND THE GIRLS ABOVE EVERYONE. HE CAN'T SEE THAT SHE IS TOXIC. HE LOVED HER AND SHE USED IT AGAINST HIM. I KNOW HE LOVES DI BUT THIS IS SO DAMN CRUSHING. HE SHOULD OF TOLD HER ABOUT MARISOL PERIOD. THEY WILL NEVER BE THE SAME. I LOVE BRANDON AND DI BUT THEY BOTH HAVE STUFF THEY NEED TO DEAL WITH PERIOD. HE BROKE HER TRUST AND ITS GONNA TAKE A LOT TO GET THAT BACK. GREAT CHAPTER AS PER USUAL.

So here I am again, months later, because I have not been able to get this chapter out of my mind. I need closure from this chapter, answers, something. I truly have the utmost respect for the writing process but girl....you gotta throw me a bone or something. Brandon really just say back and played her like a fool this whole time, gaslighting her and manipulating. After reading other people’s comments I’m inclined to think that he is either the father of the eldest, the uncle of the eldest, or still deep down trying to fill the role of lover and daddy that he feels his brother snatched from him. 

I hope diya leaves him. Doesn’t even tell him or her family, just disappears on a 3 week vacation with a burner phone only. Let them panic and stress over her the way she panics and stresses over them all. I do think Brandon and di are drawn to each other because they are addicted to drama and chaos. They’ve lived in constant distinction and heightened states for so long that being together, when there is so much constant turmoil, just continues their norm and they don’t realize that they are comfortable with it.

i hope an update is somewhere near on the horizon because the scenarios I’ve been concocting for my lovely (needs to break up) couple in my mind are getting worse and worse 

I am literally crying at that last line. I knew it but I didn’t want to believe it. Like my heart is BROKEN. Di is going to walk. She’s not gunna stay. You swear up and down there is NO concern about you playing daddy to your first loves children, staying in the hotel together alone......I literally have tears in my eyes my heart HURTS

I'm re-reading your wonderful story again and omg, this chapter had some serious foreboding now that I read the recent one, that last line?! aaah! and it was obvious when Brandon was hesitant to say something and Diya said, 'what are you not-?' he was thinking about his history with Marisol. AHHH! what a mess...can't wait for more lol