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A review by isitcake
Wrong to Need You by Alisha Rai
2.0
This was definitely my least favorite of the trilogy. Sadia is a single parent and in the first book she's bi. That doesn't really come up in discussion during her relationship with Jackson. She used to be married to Jackson's older brother Paul, who Jackson had a falling out with. She's been struggling to run the bar/restaurant that he owned since his death. Jackson showed up in town for the first time in years since all the drama between the Kane and Chandler families. He and Sadia were actually childhood friends, but he started liking her more. Seeing him again, Sadia struggles with her attraction to him. And it's not helped since it turns out in the 10 years that have passed Jackson has become something of a celebrity chef. He travels around the world doing popup comfort food and he has a huge following. When he sees Sadia is short staffed he becomes chef and runs her kitchen while she bartends. She also lets him stay at her house, because he's not really welcome at home.
The big secret is that when Jackson was arrested for setting the C&O store on fire, it really wasn't him It. It was Paul. A witness saw him, mistook him for Jackson, and Paul lied to Jackson saying he should take the fall because Sadia was pregnant with Paul's baby. This was completely false, an outright lie. Sadia didn't get pregnant until way later. And Jackson's mom helped convince Jackson to take the fall too.
Paul had left a journal detailing all of this to their Grandpa John (John Chandler?? the characters in these books are so fucking hard to keep track of. Don't even get me started on Sadia's family and her sisters who pop in and out of the book and I have literally no idea who they are nor do I care.). John gives that journal to Sadia to pass onto Jackson. Jackson reads it and doens't do anything about it. But after he was banging Sadia she discovers it in his room and the truth comes out. She's devasted that her dead husband was a liar, a bad person for letting Jackson take the blame and ruining his reputation in town.
Later on we learn that it was actually Jackson's mom who paid off the witness to recant their story, which dropped the charges against Jackson.
In the end it's still an HAE for her and Jackson, and her kid.
The big secret is that when Jackson was arrested for setting the C&O store on fire, it really wasn't him It. It was Paul. A witness saw him, mistook him for Jackson, and Paul lied to Jackson saying he should take the fall because Sadia was pregnant with Paul's baby. This was completely false, an outright lie. Sadia didn't get pregnant until way later. And Jackson's mom helped convince Jackson to take the fall too.
Paul had left a journal detailing all of this to their Grandpa John (John Chandler?? the characters in these books are so fucking hard to keep track of. Don't even get me started on Sadia's family and her sisters who pop in and out of the book and I have literally no idea who they are nor do I care.). John gives that journal to Sadia to pass onto Jackson. Jackson reads it and doens't do anything about it. But after he was banging Sadia she discovers it in his room and the truth comes out. She's devasted that her dead husband was a liar, a bad person for letting Jackson take the blame and ruining his reputation in town.
Later on we learn that it was actually Jackson's mom who paid off the witness to recant their story, which dropped the charges against Jackson.
In the end it's still an HAE for her and Jackson, and her kid.