OMG. I love this. So in character. I love that Jarod and Miss Parker are working together and I hope they work in some otehr ways really soon get what I'm sayin'?

More, please?

Oooh. Terrific!! I love Parker's snark in the loft safe house and the withered flowers and your descriptions of it and omg it's just like they were beautiful together and why why why aren't they together?  Please Mirage put them back together again. Have you not met Michael T. Weiss yet? Where is my selfie? Bah. I'm kidding with you. I think you've already met him and are keeping it secret. I won't bother you about him. I swear.  Please write more.

Wow. Your writing and story telling skills have always been polished and professional and also mature but you've taken it all to a new level with this story, and this chapter. Your descriptive work is second to none, the transitions are seamless, the dialogue is brilliant and best of all the characters are the characters. I can feel the yearning for the absent mother, I can feel Jarod's yearning for Parker. I even feel sympathy for Lyle which is new and unexpected because I had labeled him evil and labeled Jarod good and gave all of the characters labels and put them away in their right places. You made me ME feel sorry for Lyle. Even without the torment that you implied Ray inflicted, Lyle was an innocent child stolen from his mother at birth and mistreated terribly. If I blame him for his actions I have to blame Ethan for his and Kyle's for his. If they can be redeemed Lyle can be redeemed. I love this backstory you filled in, with Lyle being forced to hurt Emily and his explanation fits with what we know already. Parker did have the good luck of faking Jacob's murder easily. It just works the way you write it and I love it. I hope everything is good in real life. I kind of worry when you're gone for too long. Take care of yourself and thank you for this. Congratulations are in order. You earned it.

Ahhhh! There you are. Finally. Brilliant chapter, a brilliant addition to a brilliant, action packed work of dramatic fiction. I'm always so awed, Mirage. I need more. The sooner the better please. I love that Lyle will hopefully get the help he needs and deserves. Love the wit. You capture the characters perfectly.

Please don't ever stop writing for us. It's hot outside and I felt the heat during the scene from the past. Hot. Hot. Hot.

You leave me wanting more and I'll wait years if you need me to before you update again. Just PLEASE update. Keep going. No one writes them in character the way you do and I love it all.

Ohhh. Wows. That was a smoking scene. Yes they would have the best and hottest sex ever so yes even if only oral sex. I love how easy and sweet they were together. That was a beautiful gift and it makes it so much more sad that they lost what they had with each other.

Trying to regain my thoughts after that scene. It makes what happened before and after hard to remember. I agree that Parker would have gone to Sydney so I have to wonder why she didn't but the earlier chapter she was blaming herself. Oh, she feels too guilty to go to Sydney, and unworthy. Damn. That's so plausible so relatable. Her behavior when she realizes she doesn't have her gun is just amazing. I've always wanted to see her reach for that gun to pull on him and then be like oh crap, no gun. This feels so realistic. I need more. Now.

Please write more and don't stop writing ever.

I love this. Everything makes complete sense now, why Jarod assured her they would get Sydney through it, his anger and hurt when Sydney was still missing, and the reason MP always has that gun glued to her hand around Jarod. She never fired a shot at him during the tv series and was all talk and no action, bark and no bite. She's scared of him, I've always believed even from the pilot episode that she's scared of Jarod and always will no matter what the novels say but she's always scared that she'll let herself go and have sex with him. You write it the way it should be and cannon and I want more. Please. This is pretender perfect. It's heaven.

More. Please. Now?

Bravo Mirage!

Thank you for including details of the weekend. We Pretender fans love our details. They were close to happiness and then it was snatched away, and that's a page right out of the Pretender canon. It's all the more plausible because of the aversion therapy and only aversion therapy would make sense because it's like Miss Parker would forget events and crimes that she just witnessed her father commit and each time she met Jarod it was always the gun and the fear, even though she'd literally just been in a bank with him or was saved by him. After 3 seasons of that I knew that something had to be seriously wrong with her. Nothing else was plausible or believable. You explained it all brilliantly.

Congratulations.

Take all of the time you need to update.

Ciao!

So well executed. I like the expansive knowledge you have about medical stuff and varied topics. I always learn something when I read you and that's not the reason I read you but I feel like I'm learning and being entertained so that means it's not just a guilty pleasure ''''wink wink'''' plus it's well written and helps my brain. It's good for me. Thank you for sharing your talents with us.

Bravo! I love how you open in an emergency room waiting and then show the doubt Jarod begins to feel and why. You explain things perfectly and don't get bogged down in the details. It's a fine line and you are a high wire walker I guess because you don't cross the line into too many details.

I like how you gave us details of the weekend, and transitioned beautifully between scenes, present and past. Nick found them at a pretty low point after both of them were remembering the past and suffering from the Centre's crimes. and still upset about Sydne. That was an excellent choice that allowed Nick to think they were just upset for Sydney and nothing else was going on there.

You've implied all along that there has been a deep relationship between Sydney and his family, Parker let it slip to Jarod that Nicholas knew about Parker and Sydney's closeless, because they're all close. Michele gave Parker love and comfort and they are really familiar with each other and Parker is used to letting them fuss over her because she didn't object and wasn't strong enough at the time, and then Sydney said everyone he loves is in the same room so that means Jarod has been seeing Sydney, Michele, and Nicholas too. But they kept the gatherings separate. I want to know more about those relationships and if Sydney thought Parker avoided Jarod because of the Centre or some other reason. Did they like have two separate birthday parties and stuff, one for Jarod to attend and one for Parker to attend, or, what? You said 6 faces so that means Broots and Debbie were there? Does that mean gatherings involved Broots and Debbie, too? I want to know more about the relationships and how deep they all are.

Gotta say, the "certain activity" was amazing and I'm glad the people you let read this asked for dirty details but this wasn't dirty. It was nice and loving, it was really sweet and tastefully written and you stun me Mirage. I like that Parker instigated the oral sex and I love their funny conversations, and flirting. It's amazing. I also like that the weekend of oral sex followed years of communication and bonding and Jarod trying to understand her, and he's Jarod so yeah, he does put a positive spin on everything. He's so hopeful.

So brilliant job as always and thanks for being you and being here and ... just thanks. :)

Oh holy mother of... GIRL! You're the best. The best. Thank you so much for this. I was expecting any kind of sex because the story is amazing without it but those two went and had the best hottest kind of sex ORAL and holy wow had to grab the hubby and come back to this. So satisfying Mirage. Thank you.