Congratulations! �� �� �� 🎉

This is beautiful from start to finish and this last chapter especially is so heartwarming and wholesome .

I love that these three are back together and have a fresh clean start far from the centre.

In the end ...and this beginning.. they gave themselves the kind of life Catherine wanted for them all..

This last bit brought happy tears to my eye.

#Worth the wait .

10 of 10.

Thank you 😊  ðŸ™�ðŸ�¼

Always impressive, Mirage. Your stories are visual, rich in detail, and still somehow astonishingly succinct. I can't believe you don't have an editor.

I needed a moment, as always when I read you, to reflect on what you've said here in your stories. The hero's heart was, I thought, Kyle's heart, and could have been, or could have been Parker's heart. She was truly heroic in this, letting herself be captured by agent Misha Clemente who was pretending to be an old woman named Magdalena.

Parker knew something was off, but Jarod was being too stubbon to listen to her because he was so hurt.

This could have been about Jarod's heart, he never gave up looking for her, trying to save her. This could be about Angelo's precious heart, I know you love him. This could be about the heart of the hero inside of all of them and all of us really.

I love that about you and your storytelling. You leave enough to our imagination. I think the fan inside of you can't help but to recognize that need that we fans have to want to interpret some things on our own and you allow room for that.

You have made these characters reborn here in this final chapter of a journey that has been agonining. It's such a portrait of life. There were moments of comedy and uncertainty and pain, loss, all that makes life life and you let them start over, the three of them in a true rebirth just in time for spring! You even talk about Miss Parker possibly being dead, how certain sources were claiming she was dead and her brushes with death.

This is a complete rebirth... for Parker, Jarod, and Angelo. A new start. A new everything.
I enjoyed every word, every chapter, every twist. I still have more analyzing to do but rebirth seems to be overarching theme, beginning with Kyle's appearance. I love this story. It's beautiful. The redemption is beautiful. These characters save each other as much as they save themselves.

You are a paragon. Maybe a paradox too at times, an enigma definitely. Mirage is accurate.
Thank you, thank you, thank you.

Perfect chapter title.yes. Perfect chapter. Perfect all the way.

Fans self ... vigorously, darling.

You deliver the tension, the heat, and an actual kiss💋.

Parker is the ultimate boss bitch! This is amazing.

A happy ending from Mirage??! I'm astonished! Pleasantly so. I was expecting more sex in this chapter but what you've done is so special and hits hard in the pretender feels. I don't miss the smut that could have been. I love that the OG original gang has found each other and they are so happy.

You've outdone yourself again !

Congratulations!

It has been a minute. This is worth the wait. 🫸�🫷�. The 3 of them will live a happy rest of their lives.

I can't put into words how thrilled I am. The nostalgia makes me so happy tears. I'm so overwhelmed.

Thank you for this. Such a gift.

"The man, the myth, the legend" Yes, she did. How accurate is that? What a beautiful home she's made, a kind of walking city, and Jarod isn't there to arrest her, he's there to help her. It's so Jarod. I love how she invites him to kiss her but only after she realizes there's no risk to him, his career, etc. Oh, Mirage.

For someone who isn't a shipper you check all of the shippery boxes for those of us who are. I thank you.

I'm totally gutted by that scene and Jarod's breaking heart but the way he lets her go and is so tender with her and wants her to be careful and free. The missing piece here is that she put that pendant in his hand along with a thumb drive during the limo scene back in scotland and I love that and it's my canon now. Periodt!

I hope he will be done with Rachel now. I know they have sex lives outside of each other but I want them to be exclusive with each other. I'm a sappy shipper.

This is brilliant and I love it.

Ooooh awesome. This is exactly what I needed today. I love it. The 3 of them together for a new start.

Thank you for writing, for completing this. It is well worth the wait.

Congratulations!

Oh, thank you. I asked you to update this and Lucanae before continuing with Residuum and you did it. You updated them both. You didn't have to do that. I'm grateful to you.
I love this chapter, I love the closure, that Angelo is now with Parker and Jarod and that means they are going to live a second chance childhood and it's already beginning wiith this journey.

Thank you so much for this and for being you.

Ahhhh Angelo. He sees everyone so clearly and he knows he is dearly loved by Parker whether she says the words or not. I love this insight into him and your writing. Your voice is powerful and so necessary.

This is all the more plausible and relevant in year (project) 2025 . I don't blame the three of them for never coming back to the US.

This is so beautiful and so beautifully written.

Thank you as always.

Ohh oh! Stunning. "She couldn't see life exactly the way Angelo and Jarod did, but she perceived, nonetheless, with extraordinary clarity."  oomph .

Parker has learned to see what matters and nothing else matters

Closing this peek into their lives with the three childhood friends reunited and still off on adventure just stirs my nostalgic bones.

This is my new favorite Pretender story .

It warms my heart.

Thank you writing and for the way you write.

XO

Exquisite, Mirage.

I enjoyed it all. I love that Angelo, Parker, and Jarod are together again and with some peace this time. Parker has accepted her wrongs and I have to admit I thought she really was evil when she caused that serum to spill instead of letting Jarod give it to Davy to begin with. That was terrible of her. She was stupid for that. I never saw any remorse or heard her apology. It's about damn time she took accountability. Thank you.

She's finally the person I wanted her to be.