Emma's age:
- Yes, she's a little naive. But she has sexual thoughts (touching herself twice while watching Zak's films.) She's not comfortable expressing these thoughts and is easily embarrassed about the possibility of anything more than kissing between her and a boy. This is consistent with a girl who is sheltered and has had no real friends for a while, quite possibly since around the time she started puberty, and no experience with boys. In sum, I don't find her unbelievable as a shy, sheltered, inexperienced 18 year old.
My thoughts exactly! I had wrote before about her, I've met that type of girl such as Emma and I didn't find anything odd in her: she has normal way of life, except hearing disability. Emma is inexperienced with men, but it will come with practice and years. She's such a tender flower, still unopened, fragile, scared by coldness and wind, hotness and rain... That's why she's so attractive to us - she's like clay, we have parts here that we can put on or pull off. And the MC will teach her to please him the right way
, of course, before that he'll give her a pleasure to know about her internal secret desires (Sex education above all).
- Charlotte being so anti-men yet working in an industry not only full of them, but full of the worst examples:
- Why she doesn't quit isn't entirely clear but my feeling is it's a combination of pride in her work and a commitment to caring for her family.
I think Charlotte has a duty as a mother to care about her family, she will do anything for them. And because of that she still in the modeling world (She can do this job perfectly well, why she should step away, if it brings a lot of money to her? And she didn't find a better job to do). So, she get some consequences and paying for that choice, but its her choice and she's trying to deal with it.
- Her thoughts on wanting Emma to be more outgoing, even being happy that she's thinking about boys, shows she doesn't want the level of isolation that may come with leaving the world of modelling. An isolation that would probably discourage Emma from trying to break out of her own.
She doesn't want anything bad for Emma only the good one. Any parent doesn't want bad for own child. I suppose, Charlie afraid to talk clearly with Emma about men, because Charlie has bad experience with men and doesn't want that experience to give to Emma (what will she tell her about that she doesn't know?) But Charlotte believes that her daughter will find her way in life and love, maybe Emma will get lucky in love? Maybe, it's a little awkward for Charlie, but she's trying to free Emma from her own problems with men, but failing again and again. They need some help both...
- While it's true that Lucy is the one who protects Charlotte, it would still feel like abandoning her amidst predators.
Yes, I agree with you completely, but Lucy is hiding in the shadow of Charlotte and that give Lucy definite consequences too: underrated, not well enough for men as Charlie, men choose her like the second after Charlie, if they failed to pick up. And that hits her self-assessment hard. I think that Lucy got worse problems than Charlotte.
2. Charlotte's "turnaround" in attitude toward the MC in chapter 8:
- This is very believable to me. While she was starting to trust him, this change follows from:
- her reaction to Kaylah flirting and his response to that - though I rejected Kaylah's flirting at her house, and would have hoped this would reflect in the scene following, where Charlotte thinks negatively about the MC because she sees him as going along with the flirting; I think she was starting to like him enough that she's hurt, even if just a little, by thinking he might start a relationship with Kaylah.
If that hot muscled man live in her house, he need to pay attention only to her... And I saw in this a bit of jealous, and I understand Charlie very clearly - that bodyguard will whip out his thick (I hope so
) Glock to deal with bad guys, threating to our sweet bun, and protect her from them and others. Actually, relationship between bodyguard and the principal/client are hot, full of passion and desire, but its doesn't last very long, because the only thing that ties them together is feeling of secure and safe - it's the first and important one step of the Maslow's hierarchy of needs - and constant being around side by side attract that people to move their relationships further, and they move, without knowing how deep will be that rabbit hole and what consequences will waiting for them...
- her worry that Emma is getting too close to him - consider that he's supposed to be temporary; whether Emma's attachment is seeing him as a father figure or romantic, either ends in heartbreak when he leaves.
Oh, it would be a huge drama to all participating sides of the conflict. We're moving very slowly to this, I believe it will be not soon enough, but it'll be for sure.
She didn't go completely cold, but she's having quite reasonable second thoughts about trusting him.
We're in the beginning of that way!
The women:
- Charlotte: The possibility of always having to prove myself is not appealing.
Oh! And in this case I would disagree with you, because such woman needs man stronger, than herself (not in physical way – it’s useless to compare man and woman, because man has on the 30% of muscles than woman, and has testosterone what give power to muscles). Such woman needs a partner, who will understand her and take her imperfection easy. Charlotte won’t be sit around, she understands her problem and she can deal with it, she will do anything for this, IF she really wants the MC being right beside her «not because it’s his job, but because it’s their choice» (Julia, I’m crying…
).
If she doesn’t – we can see a passionate all-consuming romance with gloomy end for them, as a couple.
Emma: O-o-o-ow, who is the prettiest girl in the world?