I thought the previous chapter was the best and it was until I read this one. You're competing with yourself. You're winning. Easily. I can't get enough. I love the library. You're a book person I can tell, and a music person. You really hit all the senses with your descriptive work. It's just enough descriptive work. Always impressive, Mirage.

Gothic trifecta achieved!! ooh my library of dreams..Jarod would have it . So stoked for more!

So rich in detail and so in character and ooh I want more. Please update Devil's Advocate, Blindsided, The Retut, Oblivion, Lacunae, Hero's Heart,, Darkness Falling and any I've left out. I need more!!

Ohh beautiful sweet author! I love Jarod's "Or" and wanting to push Parker's buttons and just all of it really. Please post more when you can and update the other pieces too. You're quite addicting to read.

Oh ohh!

"It's bold of you to assumed I'd regret killing Lyle." WOW!

"She's even punched a door." LOL.

I love this. I love your writing style. Just amazing Mirage. Thank you.

Omg I love it so much! Please update all of your stories when you can please !

Oh, what a gift for the senses and for the fandom. Parker's internal dialogue is all so fresh and in character. Pulling a U-ey, moisture damage when she couldn't find the bathroom lol 😂 I love it. We've all been there! Jarod's family making him search Parker's bag sounds about right actually and I can understand the frustration Jarod and Parker must feel knowing she's innocent but I also don't blame his family. Parker thinking Jarod's  associate =lover but it was really his mom. So many brilliant details. I love this story, your writing voice, the narration, your story telling all of it. I could read you forever. Please continue.

Amazing work as always Mirage. You are brilliant. I love the characters are you really do them justice. Please never stop writing for us.

...and OK I get it... what you said in the last response to review.

YES!! Thank you for this! Please keep going.

EPIC! I love this chapter. OMG the library. "Contentious ghost and secret passage" and then boom Jarod has secret passages. OMG!! Gothic trifecta achieved. I love it. Damn, girl, you rule. Glad to see you back again too. So much to love. Thank you so much for updating this.

Exquisite. You continue to out-do yourself. Appointment in Samarra feels. Very very Miss Parkeresque, like all of her other thoughts. She's come close to losing Broots already with his health issues that are related to working for the Centre. I too want to see him get out of the mess alive. It's probable that there would be a time that this would happen, and cannon because in the past she's been protective of Broots. The closeness Jarod and Parker shared wasn't expected. You're not a shipper but you also know the chemistry and cannon. She's important to his world and they both had some flashbacks of kissing each other during the television series and they did almost kiss in Carthis. Actually I think they did kiss and Ocee walked in and we weren't allowed to see that they kissed. All of that mouth wiping of Jarod's makes me wonder. Apothecary and card catalog ahhh a woman after my own heart. I can smell that library. Books. Lightly scented oak from pervious fire place fires. Pancakes. You caress all of the senses including auditory with Bach. The feel of books. Records. Polished wood. Jarod's gothic trifecta achieved was brilliant. A real stroke of genius. He's restoring an observatory, and he's rather observant. I think he meant "first step" exactly the way Parker thought he did and I think she probably had to conceal the alarm. Your writing is transportive, illustrative. It feels like I'm there. If Parker COULD could allow things to happen, one first kiss as adults, take that first step there's no telling where it'll take them. We all want it.

Your response to my previous review and check in was really vague, Mirage. "Priorities that could't be back-burnered." You're not actually Miss Parker, are you? That sounds like some quick stock reply. As a matter of face you replied to another reviewer with that same reply. I hope you're really well and taking care of yourself. Until next time.

Ciao!

Welcome back 🙂 we've missed you! I love your wording "guilt sickness" which is a thing and Parker saying "fuck these appointment in Samarra feels" worry that Broots will suffer no matter what.. he is her idiot like she said on the DVDs and she loves and protects him and I love that dynamic and that you explore it. More please!