Between her husband's three deployments to Iraq, she worked odd jobs from a makeup counter to the IRS processing counter. Both the writing style and character development in this final book is both leaps and bounds above the other three. It's like they know they have an audience and feel the need to put on a play that no one would be willing to pay for or would even stay halfway through, and then here I am still reading it because I have no self-respect at all. Tessa can be infuriating at times and I swear she sometimes makes choices that you can't help but think she is purposely testing Hardin's limits but she didn't deserve to have, once again, her heart ripped out of her chest and stomped all over.

No me gustan los saltos en el tiempo, no me gusta que ocurra todo del tirón, no me gusta cómo acaba y no me gusta cómo está escrito. In August 2022, it was announced that production had commenced on a secret sequel to After Ever Happy. Hardin wakes up the next morning and Tessa tells him Vance told the police he had set the fire himself. She tells him they need time apart to heal from their recent family traumas and she's decided to leave Vance Publishing to move to New York with Landon. And THEN, on top of THAT, Hardin's book is so immensely popular and all the publishers are fighting for it and everyone wants to read it and are freaking out about it, making this a sad wish fulfillment fantasy a la Twilight and I just got so like, sad because it all just feels so pathetic and I'm rolling my eyes and clutching my face and mumbling "please no, this can't actually be published and available for purchase, what am I doing with my life?

She was going to move to New York with Landon but her resolution was slipping once again because of Hardin. I’m giving my four finally finished and the characters gathered their senses not to act like spoiled brats stars! In this book they’re back together in terms of they live in the same house for most of the story, talk all the time, have sex etc, but they are not together because she’s supposedly not letting him treat her that way anymore.

After Tessa found out about the book Hardin wrote about their story, two years pass and we are at Landon’s weeding (with whom, we don’t know). My only complaint about how things were handled in this one was that there was absolutely no talk of what Steph and Dan did to Tessa--I mean it was mentioned in passing, sure, and moving on is key. Well, obviously Tessa thought that this thing with Zed was settled and that he understood that she only wanted a friendship with him.Even though Hardin comes to his senses and does his best to get Tessa to forgive him, it won't come easy this time around. My heart was broken into tiny little pieces and once again I felt there was little that could be done to mend things.