well hello All You Beautiful [Music] People you know what time it is ladies and gents Guys and Dolls and everyone in between gather around get you something real nice to sip on and comfy to slip on cuz it's time for smut Club here's your hosts Chelsey and [Applause] [Music] Hannah hey everybody and welcome to smut club I'm owning my clap and I'm Hannah solid initial offering today CH that's only going to get better because after the Cliffhanger that was our last episode we did decide to
complete the duet yep um ever last time we were recording we were just drinking tea it was like a very cozy day and I feel like today we are both like Buckle in yeah yeah today is not a tea day no unless it's a hot totty moment it's not yeah I could do a hot totty later yeah we may need to do that later M so um I'm just going to like from the jump so the second book in the series is called breaking the rules it's well maybe not obviously it's also by Lucy score
um and it was a real like abrupt ending in Cliffhanger from the first book yes and you're like how how are they going to land this how are they going to reconcile this m um because it was like he left essentially yeah like he ultimately saved her from her stalker um and she like had almost died was like by her side through the hospital and they like she like gets home and he's like you're damaged and you're toxic and I can't be with you y when really it was like a lot of his
self-hatred that he was projecting because he felt like he was supposed to keep her safer than he did right um but yeah so like it ends with like him drinking himself to sleep every night and her telling her dad she wants to go to college like yeah you're like what okay and so for for how it ended y'all I just need you to know okay so so the next book breaking the rules starts five years in the future and I think it just pissed Hannah off as soon as it did yeah it did it made me big mad
so there's like so anytime this happens in a book aside from like one that I can think of and I can't even remember the title of it aside from one every single time this happen happens where it's like if you would just communicate a little bit and like work it out it's cool but when it's past like 6 months of not speaking to each other over something that's easily solved I'm like this is [ __ ] stupid like right well and I I feel like there a sweet spot in books right
because you're like okay well maybe like an hour after that large of a conflict you aren't going to like reconcile but also we don't need to wait 10 years before you happen to cross each other on a sidewalk right yeah I'm like I'm not no well but this is also like okay and we're just going to jump in let's go we are just five years in the future got it Waverly is on a helicopter sure if you were for those who might not have listened to the first episode just as a
little bit of a reminder um Waverly is a beautiful actress uh child star parents are a-listers neppo baby situation yes um and so 5 years in the future from where the last book left us she is on a helicopter and she is bleeding okay and had to get stitched up and so we just know she's in the air she's talking to Kate who was her assistant in the first book and is asking um about Dante and we're like okay Dante like that had been like her former like co-star like what's
happening and she's like are there any bodies and you're like what the heck is happening like is this a bit are we in a scene is she from where the last book ended to just like starting here and you're like 5 years in the future she's bleeding in a helicopter and you're like okay we're we're really doing the most um as she's talking to Kate Kate is like yeah don't worry they're sending a plastic surgeon to patch you up so it doesn't look like you got shot and you're like she got
shot what the [ __ ] is she doing and this isn't like I tripped and fell and I have a cut she's an actress what is happening they tell her she's going to have to lay low in bise um there's worse places to lie low I suppose yeah and that they're like they're going to release a cover story and then all we know is that Kate is like sorry Waverly you're not going to like the cover story that they went with and you're like what does that mean that she had to go to rehab or something
great guess yes that is exactly what that means um apparently I was the only one asking what that means be so we now immediately cut over to Xavier um and he's watching the news and seeing on the news Waverly got a DUI and she's in rehab and he's like the Waverly I knew didn't drink she didn't drink like ever yeah because her mom struggled with substance use issues and so he's like something feels very out of place and something's definitely up here um we also are just getting a little bit of
like filling in what the last 5 years have looked like where um Invictus security Xavier and his business partner Micah's security company um is now wildly successful they've opened several offices so at minimum they have like LA and New York and I think London now um so continuing to expand um but throughout these last several years Xavier while never he has not spoken with Waverly has not reached out to her he has definitely continued to like keep tabs on her so we find out
a little bit more of what she's been to the last five years as well um she graduated from Stanford in three years with a double major oh excuse me look at her go yeah for real yeah I'm like what was the double major I guess it doesn't matter I don't know if they mentioned it if they did I definitely did not take note I'm not even going to pretend she said it's not relevant really there were a couple places as I was going through my notes that I was like huh huh why did
I feel like that was necessary I do that all the time detail is absolutely irrelevant because sometimes when I'm reading I don't know if it's relevant or not and so I put it in there and then I go back later and I'm like that is the most useless piece of information well and I know we've talked about this before but like some books that like you can tell they're dropping that one like innocuous plot point or just like random thing early on and then you're like this
is going to be huge Y at the 81 1% Mark of this book yes and then other books you're like oo this is going to be huge and then you're like and they never mentioned it never again never um okay what else is happening so Waverly had graduated with her impressive double major in three years um even while she was in school she still managed to like release one movie a year um with her co-star Dante and she has been all over the news because she's been partying with this like Russian ays named
Petra um and the way that Xavier kind of described her is like from what he has seen of her in the news she has become all of the things she despised about Hollywood growing up in it right and so I'm like I guess part of me is a little like what's the threshold because he's been watching her for years being like man she's just really becoming everything she despised but like now she like has a DUI and he's like that's the line like she was partying a lot but she
didn't drink like I don't know I was just well I could see it being like a DUI is not just dangerous for her it's dangerous for other people yeah and maybe so for him it's like the person that he knows would not risk other people in that way like maybe that's part of what it is I don't know I may be giving him too much credit but I'm like well cuz it's one thing to like get Smash Hammer drunk at a club when you have a driver or at home when you're not going anywhere it's totally different to
get behind the wheel I think that is also very valid well and especially when you're like she clearly has the monetary resources to have a driver take her home if she does want to go that hard yes yes um well all this to say Xavier feels like something is sus and uh calls in a favor to get a copy of the police report okay I'm like why is that the first thing you do I guess cuz he hasn't talked to her in 5 years I'm like maybe just call her and check in but if you
haven't talked to her in 5 years that would be more weird I think it's because this is how he's been keeping tabs on her for all of these years it would be more weird if he just called her hey girl saw you got that DUI how you do how have you been the last five years also the last five years is like one of my favorite musicals ever really um I don't know why I know it's not like it's not a top one for a lot of people there's something really beautiful about the storytelling in it to me but every
time I read the last 5 years as I was writing my notes I was thinking of the soundtrack a have you ever watched it uh-uh oh do you know the premise of it uhuh okay so the premise there's no actual dialogue everything is through song and story so like one song ends the next one starts but it is the r almost like an opera where it's all song no the songs have clear endings okay yeah um you're like this song is ending and I say that because it'll be like oh so the premise of The Last 5
Years is you have um dual perspective of their relationship that has uh started and now ended Over The Last 5 Years um the very first song is her perspective where she's at her house and she's like my marriage is over then all of her songs are we go in reverse throughout their story so like her songs all get happier to like the start of their relationship and then his songs all start really happy at the start of their relationship and then tell the Journey of like as like more and more tension
and issues have grown but like halfway through there's like a cross point right yeah it's very F really good yeah huh um so that's what I I'll have to find it somewhere the um the movie adaptation is Jeremy Jordan and Anna Kendrick oh okay yes Anna Kendrick's voice is a little bit nasy for my liking for choosing her to be the lead but she's also still a beautiful singer so I'm not really going to hold it against her because those songs are hard as [ __ ] and I'm just
sitting on my couch eating potato chips like crumbs all down my face you that was a little flat babe like okay buddy o who do you think you are right you're a little flat like when you watch the Olympics yes like can't believe you didn't stick that what an idiot people have been saying it for years I will Advocate until my dying day just put a normal person just throw a me on the I'm happy to be the reference point it will be a humbling moment where I'm just like with
a bunch of like inline skaters I'm going to get to like the what do they call it where they Sprint down and it's not the pommel horse but it's the thing that's like springy where they do flips off of it oh yes the gymnastics one yeah yeah I would like do a gentle job down and then like climb over over aop whip your legs around just hop off the other side stuck it with the handr at the end yes nailed the landing yeah I'll take my gold now thank you we would not thrive in that Ro but I would
I would be happy to offer my services just is a reference for what what real people look like while doing this okay so back into the book anyway um Waverly she I guess it's her house and B that she like bought a vacation place and so she's she's laying low there we also get a little bit more history um from her perspective where Over The Last 5 Years um her mom had gone to rehab went her parents went to therapy like her parents are in a far healthier place and still
together compared to where we started right in the first book um we also know that Marisol the family like their the family housekeeper I guess that she grew up with is coming to bise to check on her as well um and as we're like getting some like as she's kind of processing through and you're just hearing her inner monologue You're like okay so we know she's still an actress but there's something dangerous that she's doing on the side right what is this A-list celebrity
doing being shot and lying low in B right because lying about she's not like an adrenaline junkie it's not like she's like skydiving right yes so we do then have a flashback to five days ago not not a long flashback I'm I'm glad you didn't reread this book because I think you were so annoyed the first time you read it that it just started 5 years in the future and that she was shot and you're like what really you're like this is where we we chose to go like well and we talked about this before
especially because it happened on Alias where like when they had the season of Alias with like the huge Cliffhanger and you're like where are they going to land this like how are we ever going to get out of here and then they just like jumped a shark and jumped a few seasons ahead or a few years ahead into the next season right and I feel like that's what happened here and I feel like you were just so annoyed with how it started that you were like I can't suspend belief for anything that
happens in this book well and I think the two stories if they had been separate would have hit different for me potentially but because they like were trying to make them connected and they felt so disjointed because I read them back to back that maybe that was part of it for me so I literally saw it on Goodreads earlier I've read the series like three times now I like I read it once in like 2021 I read it once in like early 2022 when you and I had initially talked about outlining it and
then I reread it today or not well not today but for this before this um in 2024 and every time I've read it it has been a different experience and like different things have stood out to me and like the first time I read it I really enjoyed it the second time I read it I was so annoyed with him the whole time and this time like other like I don't know it's it's always fascinating to me like when you re you can reread the same book like especially a good Comfort read but like every time you
read it different details will stand out to you um I was not as annoyed with him this time as I was last time but I'm also wondering if I was so annoyed last time cuz you and I were texting about it and you were so pissed I tainted your experience for your second read maybe maybe I can own that you know what also probably tainted my experience of my second read that you were pregnant yeah like um rounding out my first trimester of just like horrific food aversion
oh yeah it was pretty bad wasn't it yeah like yeah not not the actual morning sickness or but just like the like what you could and could not eat girl yeah I remember yeah like we stopped buying groceries we're like there's no point that's true every time I was over here y'all had like door Dash or Uber Eats from like Chick-fil-A you didn't even eat chicken before you vegetarian but it's all this baby [ __ ] wants but I the same time I was like you know if my body is telling me I need
protein this badly I should probably give it some more protein I'm growing a human it's fine I can go back to not eating meat on the on the other end yeah so all right going back to five days ago in the book not in my real life Waverly is um with Dante and she got recruited when she was in college she or graduating from college um she was recruited by Dante to a covert government op yep sure mhm that only aist celebrities um were recruited to because aist celebrities have access to places
that other people don't I literally am over here like looking at you Bradley Cooper like like that's literally I can't okay no I'm with it cuz why wouldn't she be recruited into a yeah she for sure M so you'll hear them refer to um it as the studio because it is actually the op the the government operation that they work with is tied to a studio production called Target Productions so they actually do release movies but they like kind of use it as a front yes that is their
front um this is kind of like Alias though it really is recruited in College working for a front but technically it's real like they didn't kill your fiance but you almost got killed right right and that feels like enough of a trauma history it does to qualify you we allow it so the uh the studio if you will has tasked Waverly with befriending Petra the Russian ays um Waverly doesn't really know much more more about her op it's also funny because at Parts they're
like yeah she's just like collecting Intel cuz that's easier for her to get than other people right but then there are Parts where she's like I'm professionally trained to fight now you're like this feels diff not just like Intel Gathering right at least that was my thought I'm not a spy um so maybe it's not that Nuance maybe it's proactive maybe it's a proactive thing you know right in just in case she gets caught while Gathering her Intel fair enough way to give the book
more credit than you did two years ago I'm really trying you've grown I'm being intentional we love personal growth goals right um so while Waverly has been tasked of like befriending Petra both her and Dante are like does this like op feel a little fishy and like something's not quite right and like this doesn't feel like it's like the normal like assignments that we've we've taken on before and they're having this conversation as they're driving out to Petra's dad's like lake house at Lake
Tahoe where they're going to spend the weekend and like hang out with her question yeah so are Dante and Waverly in like a fake relationship they're spending all this time together or just Partners like is there any backstory there so that is a very great question in the news they are very tumultuous on again off again um but in the news like they are together and just have a very volatile relationship like one of the things that Xavier points out later is he's like yeah every time they
break break up he like [ __ ] someone else like a day later and he's like so how upset is this man actually about her so like when you actually look at the the details of it but I don't know maybe they're like that's just how AA celebrities date he's a dog like okay maybe raise the bar a little bit like not a lot but you know doesn't have to be underground it and yet somehow they're still tripping on it underground talent that is Talent so okay they are at Petra's dad's house um
and after dinner uh Waverly and Petra are like waverly's like hey let's go like take a walk on the waterfront around the lakefront like bring your security guy with us just like make sure we're we're good and Dante's like you know I actually need to call the studio really fast um I'll come and join y'all in a little bit so as they are starting their walk they hear gunfire start up at the house and W really just goes like full Spy Girl like full super spy full
Kim Possible Oh love that for her like it one of the security guys gets shot she's helping him escape with Petra in a rowboat on the like not a row booat that would not be AAL way to rbo in a boat with an engine sure sure and then like she runs back up to the house to find Dante but when she gets up there like she sees that like Dante is not there and the office that he had been planning on breaking into is open and so then she hears more people like breaching the house so she takes off out
the back and then calls Kate and is like I need you to get an extraction um I think I've been shot and so that's like the full flashback flashback okay that we have um do you have any questions about her covert spy life now that we we have the full flashback not at present although every time you say Petra so I can't remember if I told you this or not recently when we adopted our new dog Sophie her name was cleop Petra not not Cleopatra because she's a pet yeah
cleopetra but Matt and I have a niece named Cleo and so we decided that we should change her name I briefly considered calling her Petra that would have been a dope name that would have been super super cool and I'm brand for y'all yeah I I initially floated the idea of Helen because Sophie is blind Matt told me that's real [ __ ] up and said no and he said he said her name should be Sophie and so she is sof eyed Sophie sorry I just such a [ __ ] up joke but like also why we're
friends Matt was like babe that is [ __ ] up I was like but it's funny if it was a boy you could have gone Keller I know you get it but okay I had a cat growing up named Cleo Catra oh my God full circle that was we called her Cleo yeah and I may have told you this before she was such a fat cat and would sit by her food bowl and cry to the point that we were all like oh she needs to be fed no one's fed her breakfast that [ __ ] was getting four breakfast today she' just sit by the
bowl just a little hobbit yes she and we're like she's crying so much emphatically clearly she's starving no she was playing all of us my mom I was probably in like Middle School um like my mom made a like little M laminated magnet for the fridge that said like cat has been fed morning and cat has been fed evening and we would flip it so as soon as you saw that it was flipped you're like no you need to go back to being a reasonable size she was running game yes successfully um this is also
the cat that when we had posted an ad in the newspaper back at as you did to uh rehome a pet and um the first person who came to look at Cleo yes oh yes I do remember this part yeah um showed up 20 minutes early and when I opened the door the first words out of her mouth were I'm he about your puss and your mom wasn't home yet no my yeah my mom was not home I was literally at home alone I call my mom was like get the [ __ ] here right now like yeah like I'm like no I don't care
how much we don't like this cat anymore or at like the cat had been rehomed with us like I think we were doing someone else a favor at one point I don't know there was a whole thing not necessarily meant to be a permanent rehoming and just a big mess yeah cleocatra and cleopetra yeah more of our overlapping lives just casual so Waverly we're post we're back in B and Waverly is laying um just like by the pool with her eyes closed recovering from her gunshot wound and is uh just thinking
back on the last few days and then feels a shadow over her and when she opens her eyes is it Xavier what how did you know and and he's just like nice rehab Angel and you're like oh [ __ ] he showed up for the record I haven't read this book in two years so I am guessing I really don't remember I was like I've been right twice now shut the [ __ ] up I mean maybe in the recesses I remember something I mean this very respectfully and it's nothing about your abilities as a human I wouldn't say
they've been hard guesses like I wouldn't say anything happen has happened thus far that you're like wow how did I hard left what a plot twist that's fair that's very fair yeah and maybe you'll have some guesses like that as it go so not [ __ ] on your guessing I appreciate that I love that you're like wow giving myself some credit I haven't read this in two years and I guessed it was Xavier standing over her oh so we find out Xavier has been hired um by waverly's dad as security
and waverly's like I'm a grown ass woman I did not hire you get the [ __ ] out of my house I am not here for this you get off my property yes um and Xavier's like listen I know there's no DUI MH I'm going to figure out what you've been up to and I'm not leaving until I figure that out because clearly something's up and I care about you so much I will blackmail you into letting me stay by threatening to tell new sources that there wasn't a DUI and putting you on everyone's
radar which feels healthy yeah you know that's what you you love in a relationship I haven't spoken to you in five years let me declare My Love by threatening to burn you in a way that will destroy your life okay I feel the love I can tell something's wrong and even though I haven't talked you in 5 years I am going to fix it and if you tell me I can't fix it I'll go to the news and you're like what yeah we could have taken a different approach that is the thing that I think
really annoyed me about him it's just like I understand he knows he [ __ ] up we're obviously working on like reconciliation throughout this book mhm but I'm also like you're showing up with a lot of entitlement and privilege with like how you left this my guyh it's the entitlement for me like yes you haven't talked to her in Five Years bro like you don't like and like and I'm not going to lie I am good with like a slightly possessive Alpha lead uh when they're two possessive like
that isn't fun or cute or like a thing anymore and I feel like there are yeah where I'm like bro you haven't been around in 5 years mhm you do not have the right to do this and not just you haven't been around you like ripped her heart out and stomped on it and all over her character on your way out the door like yes well and so like he's telling her in this conversation like I've never stopped having feelings for you kind of deal he manages to like get close enough
and like sit on her like seat with her and he managed to like kiss her and she starts to lose herself in the kiss for a moment and then his hands go like on her sides and he accidentally like over her shirt like grazes her like gun her gunshot wound and so she kind of like gasps and backs up and it kind of like it's like a cold water shocked the system did we talk about the fact that my husband has started with the [ __ ] ice baths every day and I listen why
they're great for inflammation there are a lot of great reasons that people do them Hannah earlier this week with the weather we've been having he sent me a video where he had to get a hammer from our garage to break the ice on his ice bath cuz it was that cold he's said when are you going to do it with me I'm like I don't I don't I don't know if I'm an ice bath girly the face you're giving me as you my whole drive here I was thinking about how excited I am because I do selfcare
Sunday where I do an Epsom salt bath and like multiple face masks are involved and like it's a whole situation I have a whole routine and my whole drive here I was like tomorrow is self-care Sunday and you know what that means I'm like I got some pink Himalayan salt stuff for my Alum was like that's going to be good [ __ ] tomorrow like that's awesome and just the idea of instead of sinking into a very hot epom salt bath like sinking into ice intentionally is feeling very
jarring for me when I did my yoga teacher training literally a decade ago at this point there was a girl in it who she was the kindest girl but she was one of those girls that was like a raw vegan and like yeah yeah you knew within three minutes of meeting her she was a raw vegan at one point one of the dudes running the teacher training looked at her and he goes do you live on a commune and she goes not yet and I was just sitting there watching it's so pure it was incredible but she convinced
and like we were doing a lot of like our teacher training was Hot Yoga as well and so she was she convinced all of us by the end of this training that we should all be taking cold showers yeah and she wasn't like there like there are benefits there are so many benefits but I'm like when you go from 100 plus degree room to like to even lukewarm yes yeah like I'm like I'll I'll get there but it's going to be a journey like I cannot do this overnight okay but
anyways back into the book yes back into the book um he Xavier has his hands on her sides and she like gas when he like kind of feels the the wound and he like gets really gentle he's like oh my gosh did I hurt you and she's like you'll never hurt me again I just wanted to see your face the dramatic drama you're doing it on purpose I really am um yeah so yesterday I was on a link with a coworker who listens to the podcast and I had I said the word woof about something not work related and she
be she's listening to the podcast and now she goes what was the what was that word Chelsea what are we talking about I was like you [ __ ] and then we had a had a great laugh about it um then Kate and Marisol will get back to the house so it kind of ruins the moment anyway but they're also like the [ __ ] is aier doing here cuz they just gone into town to get supplies you know um Kate is then in waverly's room with her and is like are you okay like just checking in and waverly's like you
think I'm okay I got shot Dante is missing the studio has just told me I need to stay in B until they tell me otherwise and Xavier is here would you be okay I am not having a good time yeah yeah like 10 out of 10 would not recommend all of the current things on my plate Kate then is in the kitchen with Xavier and uh we get Xavier's perspective and he's like okay we made it through the initial reintroduction with less Bloodshed than anticipated we can only go up from here going to really
earn my way back and so then when Kate comes into the kitchen she's very defensive of her friend right just like starts laying into Xavier and he's like and like do you know how much you destroyed her like she like didn't get out of bed and marisel is like like to the point that Kate is laying in to Xavier to the point that Marisol goes hey Kate do you think Waverly would like being painted is so weak and like yeah like yeah let's maybe not like I get the point you're trying to make but let's
not paint Waverly in a poor because you're trying to make right let not her into all like all her [ __ ] yeah yeah and I'm like if if part of that was slightly hyperbolic to make him feel bad you know um Xavier then tells Waverly and not Waverly he tells Marisol and Kate that he's like listen I am staying I am going to fight for her I'm not going anywhere like I understand all of you have the right to be upset and like about how everything played out five years ago he's like but I'll I'll earn
my way back and I know she's in trouble and like I we need to figure this out and Marisol like gives them like a a slight hint You Can Tell She's Like a fan of Xavier but like she brings up Dante and it's kind of like yeah like wonder where Dante is except a little less obvious yeah wink wink put you're like you a real one Mario right thanks girl um Waverly ends up staying in her room during dinner cuz she's like not doing this [ __ ] I do not want to have these conversations we're not going to
have family dinner now that he's just shown up and decided after 5 years he's ready to be back in my life now well she probably wishes she was at the dinner because Xavier was telling Kate and Mari that he's going to marry her and then showed them the ring he bought the day before he flew to bise yeah like the confidence dare I say hubris of of someone big I know I haven't talk to you in 5 years I'm a buy a ring I'm like did that jewelry store also sell audacity the [ __ ] like are you
kidding me like what what bold move my guy like what an opener yeah so I know I haven't spoken to you in 5 years and on my way out I told you what a shitty person you are but now that I've had some some time five years to think about it you you did you want to get married I know you're also probably dating someone else from the research that I've done but like you down what but if you remember I dick you down better than anyone else ever had lest you forget lest you forget how good
I dick you down I went ahead and bought a ring 5 years too [Laughter] late Xavier and going into waverly's room to bring her some dessert and and he's like he's very is it his dick sorry not yet give it some time I was more going to point out that like he can clearly tell something is up because he's looking at her and he's like she's moving around like she's like he's like she's frail she's sleeping a lot he's like for someone who's been at on the beach and bise for the last 5 days you
would think that she would be feeling more energized but she looks not doing too great right now right the next morning uh he decides to make her breakfast and just like try and up the sex appeal so he's like I'm going to go shirtless with some like gray sweatpants sort of I'm like you can't I hope the bacon grease splatters your man boobs that's what I hope for you like cooking shirtless is unwise anyway it's not safe I mean at some level you're probably not
wrong um and not that women can't do all the same things men can do but I do think cooking shirtless as a woman it is it does it is a little different feels far more dangerous than being like a buff to no not the boobies yeah you don't want to lean over to check the heat on that pan No you don't sing a nip right don't turn too fast [Laughter] regardless Jesus Christ as they are so Waverly goes down into the kitchen and joins him for breakfast and they end up
kind of catching up about the last five years and she like she asks um because he had been very publicly dating I think her name was like kala I don't know c a l l a Kala I would guess kala right that was thought Double L feels like kala that's what kala kala kala feels truer I don't know really just making it all up at this point right um but she like Waverly ass she's like well there had been speculation were y'all ever engaged and he was like I he's like no we weren't
like it was a serious relationship but it wasn't you sort of deal um and she wasn't you though yes but like that's his energy this whole book and like that also though is a pet peeve for me in pet peeve for me in a lot of these books where it's like so disrespectful to all other women like yeah I [ __ ] her a lot but like she wasn't you babe so I will say kala Kayla whatever will actually show up later in the book for like a brief where you're like was this plot Point even needed kind of energy
yeah but I like I kind of liked her oh okay um in the F so yeah I I think like the way they talk about the relationship was one where like it was a really solid relationship and he could just never fully commit and get there more than it was like meant to be like the she just wasn't you but that's how it gets communicated when he's talking to Waverly so you're like well this just all feels a bit dramatic yeah and at breakfast he like once again is like I know something's going on with you and
like I'm going to help you and figure it out before before you can get hurt and she's like I already got hurt and I'm stronger now there's a lot of those like onliners and I do think that when I was going through the outline a lot of the plot in this book I'm like I can keep outlining this but at some point these conversations just become a bit super competitive repetitive I said competitive I meant repetitive I haven't even really Dr that much been super repetitive and you know at some level
Hannah they have been competing touche sure great Insight thank you I'm really doing well today on multiple fronts um Xavier is continuing to do research realizes that Dante has been missing since the same day waverly's rehab announcement went out so he's like the [ __ ] is going on with Dante like he is like legit missing but as he's doing um This research Kate comes down and grabs Waverly and is like hey let's get you upstairs um how did she say it I I think I wrote it down said something
like oh let's go upstairs and do your dress fitting in case we're back for that Premiere or that event or whatever and Xavier's automatically like you don't know when you're going back like why why don't you know when you're going back to LA is someone telling you you can't go back to LA like what's happening and they just kind of like s side step it and they're like oh haaha and just like go up to Waverly we have we have to go yes and just don't answer right and then as Xavier is continuing
to sit there and work while they were doing the dress fitting he's like hearing them talk but they don't realize that he can hear them and so Kate's like next time you get shot can you do it in a place that's easier to hide and wer waverly's like yeah I'll do my best huh ha they have real like don't be suspicious energy like don't be suspicious zavier is just like charging up the stairs at this point he's like the [ __ ] you got shot like bargees in demands to see the wound and is like
very emotional but then also I can't remember if he says it to her or just under his breath but like says something like you were supposed to be safer without me like that is part of why I like left you is because I like he didn't feel like had kept her safe mhm and so that was part of the guilt and why he left initially right I don't whatever your face holds doubt we'll ju we'll just move we'll just move yeah he Reb bandages her wounds and then I put she begrudgingly spoons with him okay I
think he just needed the the closeness the closeness after seeing she was shot yeah um but then the next day Mari leaves and they all go out for dinner DIN and they go to like this restaurant where he's like where are the menus and they're like we're in bise it's not that sort of restaurant we sit down they will bring us all the plate of food when it is ready right you will enjoy the food you get don't you worry right but they put a water and a beer in front of each
of them and um Waverly automatically just like slid her beer over in front of Xavier and he's like I [ __ ] knew those news stories were fabricated like she she clearly still does not yes has a Vindicated yeah moment they end up going for a walk on the beach and like they like it's more of like a okay I'll tell you what's going on if you tell me so like Waverly gives him the details without ever mentioning being a covert I was about to say assassin she's not killing
people that we know of right that's the third book I don't think I won't read it you will not you I won't read it there are a couple series that you've hated so much I'm like I'll read the next one and I'll just let you know yeah please do but then there have been a few other series that I've been like got to let Hannah learn this lesson for herself and vice versa yep yep we do that for each other there are some that like I'm going to save you this pain in others I'm like
I'm going to cause you well it's like oh my God this smells so bad sniff it like sometimes that's the energy when we're reading these books you got to try this you won't believe so they she I guess essentially if you are leaving out the covert spy aspect of it m you and your boyfriend were at your friend's place and your boyfriend and like you got shot in a home invasion and your boyfriend is missing it's kind of like for Z Year's purposes what the what the story
is but then he's also sitting there and he's like I still feel like details are missing mhm um but is also finding himself in a little bit of a catch 22 because he's like I love Waverly I want to win her back finding Dante will make her happy and get me points but also finding Dante means returning her boyfriend to her so yeah what do I want to do Rock and Hard Place yeah you find the missing [ __ ] human for the record right it's if there's a question of uh not quality of
life but just like Proof of Life yeah you find the human yes yes mhm MH MH just saying duke it out on the back end my guy but being like you know if I find him she might go back to him I'mma let him die it's like also not that's how we want to start this relationship with when you're all like I'mma fix it by letting your lover die like Okie joke but it does clear the way right you get it I do Waverly is now like [ __ ] this [ __ ] I've been sitting in bise no one's telling me anything the
studio is not communicating with me I don't care if I piss them off I'm returning to LA and I'm going to do it loudly so they know that like I'm doing what I want right um so Waverly and Kate and Xavier all land at like the private airtrip and like there's like photographers it's like there are lots of photos taken that are then also have like Xavier and Waverly right and they were very photographed before when he was her body body guard the first time five years ago because
there had been speculations about a relationship then and there was also the footage of him like crying and saying I love you as he thought she was dying in his arms which he then dumped her after but don't worry he he bought a ring before he showed up and B so it's all okay the look of frustration on your face yeah when they land Xavier tells the driver and he's like uh he's like oh go home and like however he said it like waverly's like we're not going to my parents house like
no your house and she's like why do you know the address to my house like and he got himself on like the gate access list so like when they get to the house he's like or get to the neighborhood and she's like the [ __ ] is happening you have not been here five years but and he keeps being like we're I'm going to get through going to help you get through all of this then we're going to [ __ ] go to Barbados bro it's been like three days yeah and we just left bise like I don't
I don't need to then go to Barbados I've never been to Barbados me either I have been to bise yeah that's where we went on our honeymoon I'm not saying Biz and Barbados are exactly the same I am saying they are like beach type destinations like both both tropical climates yeah yeah yeah yes so maybe take me somewhere a little different you know I'm not giving this man an inch no that's like I love when someone just annoys you and you're like really I just
went on a beach vacation try harder [ __ ] Barbados yeah just question that is that is who I am is that what you're like with Matt as well or is that just when you're Rie no it's just books It's Just Books yeah you're like it's absolutely Just Books yeah so Xavier then says something to the effect of like I don't know just as I said there are a lot of plot points that kind of become competitive and redundant and repetitive and redundant so yeah it's another like hey
I love you I'm like I know we're like we're back in La now like I love you I'm not going anywhere uh this will be easier for both of us the sooner you figure out that I'm not going anywhere what no sir that is not how it works but apparently it works for her because like all of this sexual tension it's like building between them and they start going at it um and then he also realizes around her neck the necklace she was wearing I honestly don't remember if I mentioned
this in the last review um but he bought her a good luck charm oh um so some more context not that it like super matters but if you remember from the first book when he'd been watching footage of uh her being a small child and like getting trampled by Paparazzi yes and like the shop owner had rescued her and he' given her like a coin or something that become her lucky charm and I can't remember if she lost it or he just wanted to update it or something but like he bought her a
replacement or another one when they had been in Greece I think maybe it wasn't from Greece it doesn't [ __ ] matter it does but she's still wearing it yes uh and he recognizes it for what it is and he's like I bought her that and she's still wearing it five years later I bought her a ring five years later too maybe she'll wear that soon uh she then gets a phone call and it's from the studio but she's just like oh it's a wrong number really it's setting up a clandestine meeting for the
next morning sure sure yes and so she's like I'm going to go to my bedroom and cool off now that like this phone call has kind of interrupted the sexual tension starting to like go at it sort of moment that they were having but when she comes out of her shower he's on her bed and she's like the [ __ ] and it's actually like a sweet like he changes her like w like dressing wounds again wound dressings dressing wounds wound dressings wound dressings yes there we
go I knew it was wrong the first time we found it with our powers combined we have had to and I think that's what leaves me concerned um but also while Waverly was in the shower Xavier started like snooping and going through her closet and notices like there's no men's clothing like for being in like a long-term committed relationship with Dante right there's no personal effects of Dante anywhere in her house and so he is uh happy about that but he also notices he's like this
is an Invictus security system the [ __ ] he's like I didn't put this in uh and yeah Waverly like ends up telling him that Micah installed it and he's like I can't believe Micah didn't tell me and at like one point Micah's like yeah uh you mean this aess celebrity gave us a second chance after she could have destroyed us publicly yep yeah I'm going to give her a security system and not tell you right she specifically said don't tell Dante thous or Xavier or whoever the [ __ ] no I keep
I've almost F him Dante like five times so I'm glad I'm not the first one to do it because I've done it in my head several times well in all of these books they are named Dante or Xavier or [ __ ] whatever Black Stone black St like black stone and black stone these are the the last name options you can have them separate you can have them together take your pick uhuh uhuh gray I'm reading one with a gray right now a lot of gray yeah I'm reading one with a gray right now it's
so hard to keep all of these books straight well because I'm reading one right now and one of the guys is Dante it's a reverse harm so there's Dante Logan and madic and so I just what book are you reading uh pretty vengeful Queen it's the third one the first one I think is um pretty dark vows I think yes okay I haven't read it I need to add it to my list though or should I not add it to should I add it to my list should I not add well I've been planning on adding it to my list but your face is
saying maybe I shouldn't well so I think last time we recorded we were talking about the nickname situation and how it's like you know the first and you can tell the energy of the series from like the the first time nickname is us the first like cutesy nickname and you were like yeah but like princess and the one I'm reading like she's actually a princess and I was like nope she's definitely a stripper like so it turns out by the third one maybe I'm wrong and I was like huh I see I see I
was like okay that's took a turn was Tate James involved with that no not in this one not as far as I'm aware you know ghost riter I should double check laws anyway Waverly gets a phone call yeah uh from her it hacker person sure sure um who is Chelsea from the first book who is zavier Sister yeah he has two sisters and uh one of his sisters is waverly's hacker uh but when like Chelsea calls her to check in she's like so I saw the photos of you and my brother on the
Airship are you getting back together like that love this yeah and waverly's like no he's helping me find Dante like I'm not I'm not doing this [ __ ] and I got to say so I think the tension for me with this one is I do love a good gravel Trope yeah at some level right um but this one like never really felt like graveling I was going to say he's not graveling he's just like I'm back babe you ready yes mhm and like let's just like ignore all of this other [ __ ] you're like this
feels not great yeah and we really feels so too because the next morning um she leaves Xavier a note that's like gone out to grab us breakfast when really she's leaving Before Dawn for her like clandestine meeting with Brad the head of uh Target Productions the CEO of Target Productions the studio yes and so when she goes to meet with him like she's trying to get some information as well so like he's pissies back from Biz um but like he also clearly doesn't seem to know where Dante
is is either and she's like what the where the [ __ ] is Dante at this point like something has gone seriously wrong like right because there was no body yeah there was no body he was missing by the time I like got to the house like what is up um Brad leaves and as he leaves surprise of all surprises does Xavier show up three for three on your guesses oh my God feel like I should win something on your a very difficult higher order thinking G I am very good at critical thinking it
said so on my report card once so did it really I don't remember but it sounded right when I said it I was going to say that's a great report card feedback to get I don't know it sounded right you know I feel like I have really great critical thinking in very specific categories and then there are other categories that like like I'm like I don't I don't know enough about the situation to know how to think about it critically yeah we're just flying by the seat of our pants
we're just hoping for the best so Xavier's like who the [ __ ] were you meeting with she's like what are you doing here he's like I put a tracker on your motorcycle who are you meeting with she's like you can't just put trackers on my [ __ ] man he's like can already did right and he's like you may as well just tell me cuz I already took his plates down and I'll run them so just tell me and like it's like kind of like like continuing like I feel like he's just like perpetually kind of
trying to blackmail her and yeah telling her what he wants to know and telling him right what he wants yeah there we I got it I haven't had that much to drink but I am about to drink a little bit more so we'll see how this goes yeah I mean I'm tracking mhm but it is very much like you are not trying to make up for anything here you are just bll in a china shop trying to like he's like she's in trouble let me fix it for her pick up where I left off and not yeah like with no I think that is
like the biggest frustrating thing is like with no real regard yeah for her or what she wants yes and so she does tell him she's like Brad is the CEO of Target Productions I was like trying to see if he knew about Dante's location and Xavier once again is like I can tell she's holding back I'm like okay but knowing she's holding back the way to get her to tell you what you want to know is not to threaten to go public with her Secrets right that's called shitty it is and not great in a
long-term sustainable relationship no he insists on driving her back to her place and it's like you aren't going back on your motorcycle whatever and he like pulls into a parking lot she's like where are we going he's like I thought you said you wanted to get breakfast so they stopped for breakfast and he's like well my reasons for coming here or wanting to do breakfast are are twofold um one there's a lot of people in this restaurant who have taken photos of us
that we've now taken photos with fans like you are very prominent very like MH difficult to get to is the point he's trying to make like right she is a big person the news and just like in society and like you you can't just like she can't just disappear or like be shot on the street like there are consequences 1,00% yeah and then the other reason and he's like yeah uh if I were your boyfriend Dante and I saw photos of my girlfriend being all like couply and cute with another
guy nothing would get me out of hiding sooner okay I'm like this whole like male competitive yeah I think that I see where like that got annoying and old and why that mhm with your frustrations with where the book started at like the five years and then what like some of his behavior choices throughout it yeah I do understand your frustration Kate ends up calling Waverly and is like the photos of y'all out at brunch uh with all of like your fans they are all over the
news like very prominent photos definitely got people attention um but Kate's also like you looked kind of happy in those photos yeah as an aside yeah you also looked like genuinely like you were having a good time yeah like oh like just want to let you know the photos did what he wanted them to do and so you looked you looked pretty content yeah how you been doing girl um Kate's a real one yeah she always has been from letting her sneak out yeah under her identity right um
Waverly though is like yeah the agency is not going to be thrilled with like those photos and like how prominent I am making myself um Kate asked how the meeting with Brad went and Waverly says that she has Chelsea looking into him and looking into um Petra's dad to trying to be like okay so like why why did we have this assignment in place the point and then Kate's like you know Xavier is going to be real unhappy when he finds out that Chelsea's working with you
right waverly's like yes and yeah like well what I enjoyed and like this I can't remember what series it was either but there was another one where uh it was a similar situation where the guy was like I'm leaving you like whatever and then all of his friends and family stayed in close contact with her and just never talked about about it and so everybody knew how she was and so she like showed up showed back up for whatever reason and everybody's like oh my God I haven't seen you since like two
weeks ago how are you do he's like what the like that's this energy and I really like it where it's like yeah everybody in your life has been like they get it and you don't yes they knew what it took you 5 years to figure out yep so when Micah by the time they get back to waverly's house not Micah when Xavier and Waverly get back to waverly's house Micah is there because Xavier called him to like get her motorcycle back to the house um and so waverly's like let me get some drinks
let's all sit out on the front porch let's catch up and Micah's like hey Xavier so glad that you had your vacation now that you're here I need you back into the office to work on a few projects and waverly's like I think that's such a great idea and you should definitely go to the office to help with these projects oh man that sounds really serious Micah and Xavier was like Micah didn't you tell me I should take vacation like I and he's like yeah I just SP like a long weekend in Aruba
you've been out for like a week it's time and Xavier sitting there he's like the [ __ ] is happening and he goes Micah let me see your phone and M's like can't man left with in the car so Xavier just picks up waverly's phone and then unlocks it and she's like how the [ __ ] do you have my my phone password and then sees a text thread between Waverly and Mah where she's like Mah get him out of my house I'm not employing him I'm not paying him he is squatting in my house come get your
boy oh my God and Micah like a like a real one shows up and is like okay I'll help but Xavier then is like okay if that that's how we're going to play it Waverly take your shirt off and waverly's like what and he's like fine lift your arms I'll take your shirt off and then he's like hey Micah see that gunshot wound that she has there was a home invasion like I'm not just going to clear out and so then Michel's like well looks like we're putting some invict security resources behind this also
sorry about your Lu girl I did what I could right yeah he's like I would literally have to chloroform him at this point his ass is heavy I I can't right and he's like I did try and get him out until I find found out that someone who pays us for security has been shot again well the first time she wasab she was stabbed injured seriously [Music] injured after this uh Xavier and Waverly end up going to dinner at uh her parents house because they do have a far healthier relationship now but it's
funny cuz when when uh Sylvia and Robert open the door and they see Waverly standing there and with Xavier they go Oh I thought you'd be bringing Dante and W's like [ __ ] yeah way to look out and Xavier's like appreciate y'all that one stung a little bit but then when like Robert and Xavier see each other they have this like big like man moment yeah man moment like the oneand clap hug situ and waverly's like the [ __ ] and Xavier's like oh yeah whenever I'm in town your dad and I grab a
golf damn it and she's like what the you you've been playing around of and he's like I mean he did save your life like yeah I I like him I like the kid like am I going to be pissed as your dad that this man saved your life okay you didn't last I'll still play around a gol right um but there was also kind of I felt like it was a a sweet moment at least in in my processing of it because Sylvia her mom uh is really nervous because of the news about the DUI and
going to rehab and she's like rehab is a really serious thing like like we want to support you like as someone who's gone through it herself and so waverly's also trying to like not worry her mom um and she's like no it wasn't like rehab rehab it was like stress life coaching sort of re she's like I was on a beach learning how to meditate I wasn't like and just trying to like spin it more that way um which I do appreciate because like having that be the cover story when substance abuse is like a
very rampant issue in your family like you know I was like you know I hadn't really considered how her mom would have like process that yes I'm like that's a big thing um but like Xavier is just like yeah we're we're like I'm I'm here I'm staying we're doing this and waverly's like we're not together and Xavier's like grabbing her her hand on the couch and she's like trying to pull it back him she like still no yes but he's declaring his intentions to her and her
parents at this point and it's like no I plan on marrying her as soon as she gives me a second chance the audacity was on sale at that [ __ ] jewelry store like I cannot the audacity must have been on sale that day like for real though that's my new go-to insult I can't wait to use it at work I'm so excited about this well I'm being for real though because like it's one thing to be doing that to Waverly it's a completely different thing to be doing that to her parents well and but he also
already did that to like her best friend and like the house manager that like she grew up with right so like I mean but Waverly didn't know that right was also true doing that in front of Waverly with her parents right yeah he's just out here telling anyone who will listen right [ __ ] the last five years I got this yeah you're like do you bro yeah do you got this and so when they go back to waverly's house that night Xavier now knows her alarm code and has a key and
she's like how are you doing this this is not cool my guy um boundaries right but like the conversation kind of escalates and uh like Xavier's asking things like do you feel for Dante what you feel for me and just like as it's like becoming more and more emotionally escalated like waverly's like you said I was too damaged and like it like doesn't fully like permeate or like yeah he like doesn't yes he like doesn't fully it doesn't click initially and then she's
like you said I was too damaged and made all of my deepest fears about myself come to life that I was too damaged to be loved right after I told you what they were you use them against me and like he has that moment where like it finally clicks like how he's like kind of shown up and like forc his way in but like being like Oh like this is where all of this resistance like why isn't she just like so happy to see me yes and like it finally clicking that she's like because
you literally told me no one would love me because I was too damaged right like right that is why this this will not happen um and then you have like a true apology from him and kind of like be like I understand now yes um but then within this conversation uh they talk about how many like it comes up like how many partners like how many people have you slept with in the last 5 years and he goes I've only been with two women same as you uh or like two partners same as you and she
goes the [ __ ] you mean same as me have youve been keeping tabs on these people and she's like is that why Trent like switched School mid semester and he's like he was still seeing his girlfriend on the side I had to protect you she's like I knew he was still seeing his [ __ ] high school girlfriend on the side and I handled it you did not need to threaten this poor college kid and he's like he's like no I just like had some people have a conversation with him it was fine and
she's like oh my God you are unhinged boundaries he has none boundaries but in the Name of Love he apparent like like no that does not change that this is not great but apparently it does for her because they end up having a pretty passionate kiss make out on the couch um they end up meeting with gwindel who was the publicist I think from the first book right and Aisha uh waverly's agent and waverly's asking for assistance with kind of spinning the whole DUI rehab situation to something they're
like wait you want us to spend that you went to rehab for a DUI but you came out on top in this situ like how are we right what's what's the end game here exactly um but part of it with all of the photos that have been coming up of Waverly and Xavier they're like okay we're going to use this angle and see what what we can make happen so they end up scheduling her on a late night show right um like a Conan sort of situation in my heart it was more Fallon but I can take Conan
no when I was reading and like going back through my outline I actually thought of I was like which late night person would it be and I was like I am personally partial to Seth Meers yes or like does Fallon still do the like I feel like there was that era of late night shows where like yeah all of All Guest hosts well I was going before all of the guest hosts back when like the game like all of the like the I don't know jeop like not yeah yeah password Puppy Poker I don't know like
the random like here's this like singing lipy syncing game right yes yes yes is that still the era of like I have no idea I've been I've been a bit removed for a while but yeah so like I kind of I kind of pictured it as like Fallon that they that she went to do the late night recording but on the drive there uh avor is like oh yeah I still remember the outfit you wore the last time you were on his show um because it was the dress he asked her not to wear from the first book when he was like
please for the love of God and me being able to stay professional this evening can you put on something less revealing please don't yeah so apparently she shortened that and wore it on the show um and then while she's out and like doing the interview they end up like surprising her and calling Xavier out of the Green Room so he comes on for more of the interview and then they end up like showing like a some clips from the like Abduction kidnapping when ganam got her like five years ago that's
[ __ ] up yeah that feels very like toxic Ellen degenerous [ __ ] right there you know what I'm talking about I do know what you're talking but that's what that feels like like no we're not going to make people relive their trauma on [ __ ] late night TV that's messed up dude well and like it really Maks like what's the current status of your relationship kind of yeah energy um but like I'm like man what an intimate just like I don't know society as a whole like that's what we want it's
like salacious content right but like the intimacy that comes with that that you're like this is like someone's actual life that we are talking about here right like we're watching a girl very nearly die in a man who cares for her yes watching his heartbreak and then we're going to play it for them to watch together and then ask if they're boning now like okay ew yeah yeah unintentionally a very fascinating commentary yeah um what no one else was thinking while they read this we can do that on a
different podcast right so after the episode um is recorded waverly's on the phone with Chelsea who called her with an update um because we find out that the time that Waverly got the assignment to befriend Petra uh aligns with when Petra's dad was asked to sell some of his pharmaceutical licenses um and he refused to sell them H yeah so like that's that's the detail that we have there so you're like there's something there like the timelines are overlapping but we don't
really know more right but then Kate texts Waverly that Petra is at a club yeah she's resurfaced Petra yeah so Waverly is like buckle up Xavier we're going clubbing and he's like I won't leave your side this time and she's like it's a bit too soon to make that [Laughter] joke you know considering the last time you I got ruied and you beat up a bartender and then I got stabbed and almost died IED yeah rub salt in the wound there but you know the likelihood of that happening
twice surely not the odds are very low never zero never zero never zero but very low yeah um Xavier is agreeable and is like yeah let's go to the club uh there is actually kind of like a sweet set like moment where Waverly is like hey like thanks for being like a really good sport about all of this and like going on The Late Night show and like going like all of these things and Xavier's like it comes with the territory and I want the territory so like which I'm
like that's a sweet yeah kind of we'll give him that yeah um but then I was laughing because Waverly then changes into all of her club wear that has like secret places for her guns and her knives and like all of her weapons straight up okay I know I've told you before my senior year of high school I worked as a personal assistant to the woman on the home shopping atwork yeah yeah yeah no idea what that woman is up to now in her life but for a good while she had a very successful business
called can can concealment where she made like women's booer and lingerie for gun concealment it's very Niche but you know when you find the right market for it yeah you'll be unstoppable cuz that's why I was making that face like what kind of club wear are you wearing that you can conceal a gun easily like knives I knives I feel like would be easier if your skirt like if it's not like tight if it's like it has some flare to it right I don't know like a thigh strap sure sure sure is her
dress long enough for I don't know well it is funny because at one point as they are walking into the club and like he has his hands on her waist and he's like what's under your jacket and she's like my wallet [Laughter] don't worry about it so and as they get to the club they're they get into the VIP section and Petra's there and waverly's like I need to cause a distraction so I can like get to her so she's like I know what I'll do she takes a photo of Xavier and posts it on like a
celeb spotting app and so like within 30 seconds the DJ is like we got a celebrity in the house and people are all like ambushing Xavier and she's like God speed and goes after Petra um you said you wanted the territory right this is the territory my guy Waverly gets to Petra and then Petra like sees her and it's like oh [ __ ] and kind of like runs and takes off and she's like the [ __ ] so she follows her and they end up in an alley and Petra's like I'm so like and I'm so sorry but
waer like what are you like what I just need the detail what happened yeah and right as she's like Petra's about to fill her in and she's about to figure out the details this like car of random Bros approaches and this like young kid gets out and he's like hey sorry it's like it's my first time doing this um and they're like we're not prostitutes that poor kid will never solicit again well especially he won't solicit because as this conversation is going two cars of like goons show up to attack
them so waverly's like Petra get in the car with them and so she like with the Bros with the Bros and then she's like you are not going to have sex with her you are just driving her home sends her off one of the cars of goons follows after her Waverly like calls the drive her driver like her and uh I think it's like one of the Invictus security drivers right what was his name Blake break break do I have break the driver it was Burke it was not break the driver little on the
nose break the driver I'm just going to I'm still he'll be breaking my heart he will be wow that is just vodka the bottom of that now you're getting to the bottom of God damn my iced coffee yeah doing great um so Waverly calls break AKA Burke mhm mhm and it's like I need you to follow after that car make sure like she's safe but like make sure that the car following them uh is not able to continue he's like I'm on it hangs up starts driving so then as Waverly is now standing in this alley
and she's like oh like four guys like okay can I can I take four on one Xavier shows up and he's like I'll even the odds like I got you so he like tries to stand he's like get behind me and she's like okay this is cute so they start fighting and then she clearly can like hold her own and she like who the [ __ ] are you like what is happening I thought I was coming to this alley to save you and you and I are like f yeah like maybe she's like am I not your future wife
[ __ ] like maybe these are questions you should have asked before you bought a ring just saying well okay so then waverly's like I need to find Petra right that is the only goal Hannah why did she take off running Petra was in a vehicle in a there were three vehicles in like a [ __ ] car chase call call break the driver yeah call hey break where are you at right give me a location at which to run to but like she's like I need to find her at all cost and just runs and so
Xavier's like okay I'll run after you very reminiscent of when she just jumped off the boat in grease in the first book I guess we're going for a jog yeah he's like okay our CL I guess I'll just chase you and some point I think they even kind of say like he's like are you into me chasing you cuz I think he's kind of like I'm into me it's a little bit of a primal Kink moment yes I'm into the chase I don't know if Waverly realized she's realizes she is a primal Kink or
just Xavier has a little bit of that within him I mean my exact notes say Waverly takes off running to find Petra with a question mark Xavier follows in a foot pursuit follows her through parkour sequence catches up to her pins her against the wall finds her weapons they RW dog it in the alley she screams she's his well orgasming he chants mine mine mine like a seagull from finding like as he's running into her he's CH mine mine mine mine [Laughter] like if that happens is that not like an
immediate Dismount like Get Away From Me Mine Mine Mine nope nope just really punctuating each thrust you know like the [ __ ] not the punctuation not the punctuation um okay they then go to like a nearby Invictus safe house where they keep [ __ ] sure and they have that like I'm going to [ __ ] you until there's nobody else right until you there's only me and then like there like there is no one else like breathy in his ear sort of like right right we we get it um Petra is forgotten good
luck babe but then he also they like [ __ ] until they fall asleep he wakes her up at like 1:00 a.m. so they can just like talk about like so you've been a secret spy like I'm I'm just like I'm sorry you couldn't let her sleep until daylight you you woke her up at 1:00 a.m. just like we need to talk well again that like that's the whole theme of his character his needs come before hers and everybody else's like what he wants yeah because but but when his needs are presented as all of my needs
are to take care of her and everything I do is for her then we give a pass to like the possessive Behavior I don't know she tells him about about her spy life I literally wrote after all the rigorous love making he wakes her up so they can talk she but he does get the details about like what actually happened with the shooting um and then when she goes to bed he like calls Micah to be like okay now that I have all of the details we can actually formulate a real plan now
that I like know what we're working with so I do understand how for him there probably is some relief that so far he's been like I just need you to like tell me yeah right right of course by the next morning cuz she did go back to sleep for him to work through the night yeah he woke her up she she told him all of the things she went back to sleep but the next morning he's like so you know this means we're back together right what that was your tcid agreement
when we banged in the alley and I said mine mine mine like did you misund understand remember when you said I'm yours while orgasming no takebackspace right we're in it now son yes the next morning um after that happens Micah and Kate show up as well so they are not they are now all on the same page and they are all plotting and figuring out how they're moving forward they they realized that Target Productions while it had historically started as like a legit
company and organization like government agency or working with the government yeah like Contracting with the government that Target Productions has started to take more and more like unsanctioned off the books like not quite the same legitimacy very much Alias sd6 yes sd6 core memories being I can hear the theme song right now Michael Bon oh oh I could rewatch Never Been Kissed soon cuz he's so good at that he's so cute that's such a pure that's a great movie Gary Marshall
did he I think he directed it or the I think he directed it I could be maybe he just wrote it I don't know Gary Marshall who's like siblings with Penny Marshall from Le and Shirley always been a big Gary Marshall fan did you know he directed Princess Diaries I did not know that but it makes me love princess diaries that much more there was actually you know back in the day when you'd have like a DVD and you'd have like the special features and things so I think and I could be
misremembering this Whitney hon and Julie Andrews well obviously Julie Andrews was involved with Princess I'm pretty sure Whitney Houston was a producer oh because there was a clip where when they were filming uh it was Gary Marshall's birthday and Whitney Houston and Julie Andrew sang him happy birthday together right and you're like even if it's like there's no heart like doesn't need to be anything fancy you had the two of them seeing you happy birthday absolute Legends done oh yeah
and that's why Cameo exists now now so we can all live that high on a far lower experience that so that way we can have George Santos sing us happy birthday I have been strongly considering getting Shaggy to dope of ICP to do happy birthday for my husband that's coming up absolutely you should I'm really thinking I'm going to do it oh he that's a solid gift he would be really excited he would be so into that he would he would never see it coming he wouldn't and he this episode probably won't air
until after his birthday so it's a nonissue corre not that he's gonna listen listen yeah the only reason my husband listens is to edit is because he manages our podcast for us bless pistol thanks fans um okay so they realize that the target Productions Ops were maybe not as on the up and up as they thought they were so Micah and Xavier are like okay we're going to have Invictus security uh go through every single op you did and confirm the legitimacy of it or not right um and then when waverly's
like yeah I have an IT person and Xavier is like uh I'd love to talk to them and just like extend the Invictus security resources so like feel free to make that introduction because I'd love to offer them like our support and waverly's like thank you so much I don't think I'm going to take you up on that offer but thank you so much cuz I can't tell you it's your sister right but thank you so much um and then as this is also happening Brad from Target Productions
calls her and we don't actually hear the phone call it's like the chapter end with like her phone ringing and then the next chapter starts like he wants you to do what uh he wants her to kidnap Petra okay cuz why wouldn't he of course um and that like that will prove her loyalty to Target Productions and kind of that sort of energy yeah um but waverly's like okay I had a spa day plan with my mom I can't cancel so hey Xavier here's all of the personal notes that I have taken about all of my
Ops I will give you all of my stuff to work through but I'm going go to the spa day with my mom see you on the flip side um also we really love this for Sylvia waverly's mom she's become a certified yoga instructor good for her so within her like Rehabilitation Journey one of like she teaches like a yoga class at the spa like once a week or like once a month or something like that that's so great yeah I really love the healthy glow up that waverly's par had in this book and that like well it
is obviously not the focus they did the work right they got a Redemption Arc yes yes and I I love to see people win even if they're fictional well and like the work is alluded to we don't know about it but it's obvious they did work it wasn't just like all's forgiven now and like yeah I just never T touched a drop of alcohol again and our relationship magically like fixed itself yeah not not how they present it and I do appreciate that as well like they present it as like we're 5 years down
the road we have been putting the work in for the Last 5 Years to change our circumstances absolutely um they end up having a really great like Sylvia and Waverly have a really great heart tohe heart about Xavier and uh her mama's Pro Xavier at some like it's like yeah like I love you and but like not not upset if he makes you happy right um but then also this is the part I'm like why is this plot Point here Kate calls her or texts her or something and is like Xavier's ex-girlfriend wants to
meet you okay so then they meet but the whole thing is like the ex-girlfriend is just like he's a really wonderful guy and I guess she's a she's actually a therapist she's a family I think she's an lmfd I think they said family therapist right so I gave her a license sure she's a fully credential she's a master's level clinician yeah here are the primary panels um but it's just like a sweet like kala was like yeah I loved him but like I wasn't you and she was like says
at one point she's like part of me hates you that like I wasn't you but part of me also just like really wants to see him win and be happy and um he's worth giving another chance too right so I guess that was the point of the plot like the just this little side thing was just more of like a even his ex thinks he's great like give him a shot yes but I'm like we literally don't hear she's not relevant anywhere else and I was like okay respectfully why the [ __ ] does
her opinion matter but also it's like minor Intrigue like oh the ex wants to meet is this going to be like a thing but like the ex doesn't show up again after this this is the the only thing the ex does she's like the only one I'm rooting for though call yeah I'm rooting for the therapist and no one else I'm rooting for calla and Kate and Chelsea I guess I am rooting for Chelsea yeah well and they allude to like her and Micah maybe no Micah's mared break the driver not break the driver
Malachi the FBI agent who will show up oh okay okay who also doesn't really matter so that's probably all you're going to hear about Malachi noted Xavier was able to confirm while uh does not know waverly's meeting with his ex-girlfriend that some of the missions did in indeed get a little sus with Target Productions like they started more on the up and up um but then kind of shifted over time to like corporate Espionage more type stuff um yeah I guess that's what I'm not
really sure what level we're we're looking at it seems kind of variable depending on on the person and yeah I don't know um but what Xavier does realize is as he's going through all of the uh stuff that Waverly gave him he sees her hacker like username handle and it's brat storm or something like that but it's like the nickname he gave Chelsea as a kid and he's like the [ __ ] um so my notes wait a minute wait a minute yes so he gets home and is like trying to like or gets to waverly's
house it's not officially so but it's trying to get Waverly to like admit right that he hir she hired his sister my notes literally say weird angry sex scene where Xavier gets Waverly to admit Chelsea is her hacker did he give her a front wedgie with her lingerie I feel that I don't need the answer to that question no I feel like it was like a yank and like a confess sort of but it worked for them I don't know okay it was weird to me yeah just like camel to's not
sexy camels are like the least sexy animal and camel toes no how can camels be the least sexy animal when hump is such a prominent word asking the hard-hitting questions on our podcast nailed it so because Brad D had tasked uh Waverly with kidnapping Petra she she's going ahead with this event as if like as if all is good with Target production so she accepts the task they sneak in with like the produce delivery or something but when Waverly makes it into Petra's bedroom Xavier is
with her as well at this point um guess who is in the bedroom with Petra is it Dante four for four W nailed it yes Dante is in the bedroom um and then Waverly realizes like oh that's why Petro was nervous at the club was because she's been borking right I'm sorry borking I did I was just going to let it ride you're far too good to me boning [ __ ] whatever word porking w so she doesn't know their relationship is fake she's been going on a Magic Carpet Ride with Dante every night um
and so Waverly realizes that but then what Xavier realizes is like watching this play out he's like Waverly is not that upset about finding her man in bed with someone else yeah she's not upset enough yeah cuz like there have been moments at the book that I just kind of like skimmed over where uh she's like he has clearly been figuring out things and picking up Clues this whole time but she's been alluding to like no I still have this relationship with Dante W Xavier has been like you and I
are together now right and she's kind of been using that as her like Shield yes a little bit of a shield um they managed to like get Petra out honestly at this point it feels like it becomes an ensemble like situ because uh Dante and Petra go with them but then the bodyguard who got shot at the start of the book and to I think or something like he decides to go with them as well because he's a big fan of Waverly yeah so they all saved her or she saved his life right exactly so they all managed
to like sneak out like Waverly speaking Russian and like talking to the people and like making everything happen and Xavier's like you speak [ __ ] Russian like like yeah Xavier maybe you just don't know anything about her I'm just saying there's so much energy behind that you don't even know her like I'm like we should really oh my God okay it's fine they take everyone back to Invictus headquarters to like keep planning um and Xavier has no patience for Dante uh
to the point that like Waverly pulls him out of the room and was like you need to get your [ __ ] together like we are trying to like we're looking for Solutions not problems right and that is not what's happening here so like if we don't have time for this yes 1,000% because I mean Xavier was kind of like yeah what have we been up to what you've been missing well maybe if you if you like your girlfriend Waverly she got shot and you didn't show up and you didn't like you instead you were [ __ ]
Petra while she's been what yeah far more of that right sort of energy but at this point Xavier has also like kind of put together that she has lied Waverly has lied about her relationship Dynamic with Dante right it seems like they're like finally together like Xavier and Waverly are finally together at this point like she finally relented well it's like he's just said it so much now that it seems like she's like I just I don't have the energy to argue with you right
now like we have other [ __ ] to do right yes exact it's the Sigh it's the Sigh for me yeah sure yeah so as we are getting more detail it seems about like what happened with like the shootout what happened with the pharmaceutical company um it is all tied back to like Petra's dad refusing to make that deal right um and Dante had like just made it back up to the house when they had been in Tahoe um and was breaking into Petra's dad's office when he got interrupted by her
like by Petra's security guards um and then they got interrupted by like people coming in with guns um and that once Dante made it out like with hert guards they've all been staying under lock and key until they could like confirm that they were safe um but Dante has also realized that he's like I've outlived my usefulness with Target Productions and I like need to stay low because right my life might not might have an end date right at the rate we're going yeah um they also then like
Loop in Petra's dad to make sure he's aware since it's his company they bring in like an FBI contact as I said just really rounding out yeah the ensembl of it all um they all end up in like a safe house together like all of them there's like 10 [ __ ] people in this summer camp yes um but Xavier I'd say like Xavier and W uh Waverly have both their solidifying [ __ ] and solidifying conversation where like while there have been some conversations about let gam before like actually having
conversations like true heart-to- hearts about that night and the trauma that happened and like but like one of the things that wly said is that Xavier's like I didn't protect you I didn't keep you safe and she's like Xavier I was bleeding out and like my life was fading like I was like it was you talking to me telling me to hold on that like kept me alive so she's like you did not just save me from gam like you kept me here at all so when you're sitting here
saying like if it weren't for me that wouldn't have happened she's like you saved me more than you realized she saved me right cuz this guy was coming after her no matter what yes yeah well and I think too that's also part of what irritates me not just with this book but with some of the Dynamics and other books as well where it's like he has made this completely about him and his own experience of that and not about her experience of and she's the one who got
stabbed exactly she's the one who almost died but he's made it all about himself yes under the guys that it's protecting her but it's really not it's just I'm going to be a martyr because I love you so much it's like okay buddy like [ __ ] off dude well and I I think that's my thing with this book where I'm like if we could just like roll back that side of it a little bit yeah I think I would have been less frustrated because I feel like if I can remove some of those
aspects I'm like it's a fun like I enjoy The Ensemble I enjoy the dialogue but just this like martyr hero who doesn't actually like think through anyone else's experience while playing the Martyr while he does everything for them yeah gets a little old well and it's you know like the hard thing would actually be sticking around while they're recovering from this trauma and being there for them and putting them first that would be the hard thing but they make it out like me being away from
you was the hard thing it's like okay okay like [ __ ] off yeah like be staying present and doing the work was the hard thing right um avoiding the work was the easy way for for the the woman to be alone and go through it and for you to show up five years later with the [ __ ] ring well hopefully she's processed her trauma by now so I can swoop back in uhhuh uh-huh uhhuh no not not a fan of that side of it so they end up starting to put their plan into motion to make it seem like
Pedra was officially kidnapped her bodyguard anelli calls hysterical deserves an Oscar kind of energy good for him yes we we're a big fan of this random Russian bodyguard I'm also rooting for Ani as you should yes um pet not Petra Waverly ends up on the phone with Brad and she's like yeah like it happened she's like but I want a cut of the deal that um and she's like I'll tra I'll give you Petra if you give me $25 million and he's like not as much as I wanted to spend
but bet right like ultimately sure there's some give and you drive a hard bargain so what as they put the spend in place all should be well however Brad is starting to become a little bit like unhinged and desperate right and um he has moov money to several offshore bank accounts um and Waverly is now under investigation with the FBI for Dante's disappearance because now they're like Dante is missing the last person who saw him was was his lady love yes was Waverly who's now with somebody else
very publicly yes but you are also seeing where like Brad is 1,00% planning on setting up Waverly as the fall person right for the whole all yes and like oh [ __ ] you're right this is not great yeah he's like trying to pin like all of the off books Ops on her as well yeah um things keep moving forward plot points that like don't super matter I don't know it's now the day of the exchange like this is like kind of the big finale right uh Waverly is supposed to trade Petra for this money this big
exchange is supposed to happen they clearly have this like huge plan in place but you're like not sure of all of the detail the details don't matter if you want the details read the book sure I know we do a lot of like like retelling and make it so you don't have to but it's going to get redundant listen here's the thing I feel like listening to me retell plot points I feel like the plot points are redundant to discuss right reading the book it didn't feel as redundant as
outlining the book that makes sense yeah yeah yeah well because it's different when it flows as you're reading instead of breaking it apart to discuss it doesn't flow the same I get it yeah so that's why I'm like ah okay uh so we're exchanging yeah they don't really the the details don't really matter enough I'd say the biggest detail for me is that like Xavier is like really nervous about how this day is going to like play out to the point that like he's stressing in front of people
and Waverly pulls them into the bathroom like the half bath just like off the kitchen in front of all these people and it's like we need like hey we got this take a breath take a breath we're good mhm we we are each others we had our solidifying [ __ ] we are we are together right we have got this um she tells him that she loves him which I think might be the first time that she told him that she loved him and then he proposes in the bathroom with the ring in his pocket yeah yeah no that that
happened Waverly uh is now getting ready for the op yeah and puts on the ankle tracker anklet that they gave the first book which for the record at some point Xavier's going to be like how's that thing still working I gave it to you five years ago and she's like I had M replace the battery last week so now it works again because I I thought of all of the contingencies I'm a super spy now I get it get it um so Brad is like cool we're going to meet at Grand Central Market
but then like plans are going to change from there right um and so there's like Invictus security people and FBI all scattered throughout but Brad is like plans have changed the exchange is no longer happening there there's like a Hollywood double-decker tour bus that's going to pull up out front take your coms out take like anything he's like I know I know you did not show up with nothing right I know you have backup whatever yes throw throw the mic in the garbage take out your comms and get on
that bus um but Micah like not Micah Xavier didn't know she was wearing the anklet so she does like the Invictus security like one long knock two short ones that's how you know it's an evicted security person she does that with her foot and then he's like we can track the anklet and I'm like why didn't you just [ __ ] tell him right for the level of op or Micah knew because he changed whatever yes I'm like oh in that moment when she tapped her foot you're like we should track her
anklet nah [ __ ] like okay maybe I'm getting a little over this book at this point I feel it I feel it you're like none of it matters so they get on the double-decker bus it takes them to like a movie studio set all of the sound stages and they like go into like a warehouse and Waverly is like don't you be like this is a bit melodramatic it's like a graveyard she's like I was like is it the set of like Family Matters I'm like imagining like a like a family room like
yeah different reasons for being melodramatic here um Brad is there sure yeah oh oh oh that's what I forgot to mention when Brad was like we're like changing the rule like go to Grand Central Market then wait forther instruction mhm he kidnapped syvia oh no like sends Waverly a photo of her mom drugged passed out oh [ __ ] yes so uh Waverly has Petra with her and they are now on on set at the graveyard I don't know sure um and then you get like Brad's whole like villain monologue and like
she like pulls out some confessions and things like and she she was like you got rid of Dante and he's like I did what I had to do like those sorts of things um then he's like okay just just give me the girl well plot twist we're gonna whip that wig off of Petra it's not Petra it's an Invictus agent Petra is safe with Dante making sweet love probably not at present and the only reason I know that is because it was part of the their plan is that because uh Brad's like yeah I'm
going to pin all this on you and like Dante's going missing then W Le's like you might want to open this celeb spotting app real fast and check that um where on the app there's like a photo it's Kate not Waverly but like of Kate with Petra and Petra's dad there's a photo of like Xavier and Petra and Dante and Waverly all together having breakfast being like these exes have stayed for like where you're like yeah clearly Petra and Dante aren't aren't missing oh everything's fine what are
you pinning on me yes there was there was no need for for the drama but then like as he makes a comment about like yeah and like you'll never see dantean I don't know Dante like are you sure about that and like he has shown up Dante showed up or Xavier showed up no Dante that was actually no touche well like Brad has like more goons that come out of the wood but the goons are actually all like stuntmen that have worked for his company that have not been the best
stuntmen um and then Dante's there like waiver like not obviously Waverly Xavier's there Micah's there the FBI are there the whole ensom appears you understand the assignment Brad runs out of the room Waverly pursues in a foot chase Xavier more foot chases yes Xavier has to chase after Waverly obvious because that's all that man does is run after her and he's into it he really is he probably had a semi the whole time I would imagine it's harder to run with a semi might have slowed him down a
littleit not as convenient he's like this is an inopportune time to pop funky little waddle like a Bowlegged moment why are you waddling like a penguin he's like don't worry about it why are you bowlegged do you have a pillow I can put over my lap while I run it's fine just hold my gun in front are we in a highspeed Chase or you just happy to see me oh no yes okay all right so we're chasing Brad yeah I don't however it plays out um Waverly like shines a flashlight in
Brad's face in the dark manages I don't know if she she shoots him he Brad shoots his gun it like grazes Xavier's arm they take Brad down sure the end not the end oh I was like well okay they wrap it all up and then so like a couple weeks in the future as it's being wrapped up Xavier is flying back to LA and when he gets there Waverly has left a note that's like gone on a vacation see you soon and he's like the [ __ ] you mean you'll see me like what and so uh he
uses his excellent detective skills to figure out where she went he flies and gets there is it to Barbados five out of five for [ __ ] off five out of 10 not five out of 10 five out of five I didn't mean to go from I would prefer five out of 10 to be honest you're like it feels more authentic to the situ but when he gets there and gets to the hotel and he's like where the [ __ ] is we and people like hi Mr Saint so glad to see you and he's like what do you mean you're you're
glad to see me and they're like if you want to go out by the pool and he's like what are you talking about then he starts to see more and more people and then when he's like Waverly I have been traveling for a week straight trying to get all this settled I just wanted to [ __ ] you in our house what and she's like well how was I going to get you to barus to surprise you with a wedding ha and and so yeah they get married in Barbados and she's wearing the white dress he bought her in Greece in the
first book and they live happily ever after okay okay so what's our raing scale here ankle monitors because no I've been thinking this whole time like what could we use as you're talking I'm like it was an anklet it was not an ankle monitor like like she's in drug cour cute anklet that had a tracker on it I'm thinking like a diamond like a a heart pennant and you're like I'm like the ones you have to like plug into the wall that you can't take off like the one
that lets you lets people know if you make it more than 500 yards from your front door tamperproof tamper okay anklets no I I really have been thinking this whole time like okay brunches I don't know condos in buies vacation homes in buies is that what we white white dresses uh private jets motorcycles good luck charm necklaces yeah you're right there's not like a yeah there's not a standout thing let's just go with B's vacation homes sure I'm sure hers is very large yeah so there's
probably only one so it's a should we do how many bedrooms in your bise vacation home yeah out of out of 10 bedrooms oh that's a big out of 10 rooms okay 10 rooms out of 10 rooms not all bedrooms okay 10 rooms in your B's vacation home mm how many rooms do you dedicate this book to chy okay my answer might be a little more forgiving than yours but let's see four bedrooms I was thinking three I wasn't I wasn't that much far off three and a half bath well here's the thing oh baths a half
bath well I'm adding a half bath onto the third room you know it has an on Suite three rooms one has an on Suite final offer um well and I know I kind of said this earlier every time I've read this book it has been a different experience and while there's a lot that like really frustrated me about Xavier and kind of his entitled Approach at the same time it's just fun like you know like I'm like you you're looking for some action and adventure you're looking for
some like cute Ensemble moments it's like the cast builds like okay like yeah a lot of what he did annoyed me and like so and I think that's where I'm like yeah four feels okay yeah well and I think that again like if these books had been separate yes it would have felt maybe different for me because the story of the second book is good it's interesting it's fun same with the first one it's interesting different to the first one you're like these feel like it feels forced like
slightly separate ideas that were worked into one duet right I would okay you know I'm going to say four rooms in a hot tub final off okay yeah I'll give it a little a hot tub a hot yes a hot tub with the bubbles on or no obviously bubbles can you have Z without jets in a hot tub you cannot yeah if you want J bubbles are required all right so Hannah's going three rooms and a half bath I'm going four rooms and a hot tub and a hot tub with the Jets on mhm mhm
final offer yes let us know how many uh hot tubs how many rooms how many whatever ratings we're choosing our own adventure with this rating system as we do every week but this one feels more than usual um let us know what you think yeah and honestly if you've made it this far we're really glad that you made it through both episodes of the of the duet yeah thank you for coming on this journey with us notably I feel like we had some better jokes in this one than
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