Every Part of You: Takes Me by Megan Hart

 Together, they were on fire. Apart, they’re miserable. Can Simone and Elliott find their way back to each other?

Bereft after Elliott leaves her, Simone is urged to find solace in a non-emotional connection with a stranger that leaves her body fulfilled but her heart still empty. When Elliott learns she’s been with someone else, jealousy prompts him to make a move on her, but passion is no longer enough. He needs to open up to Simone, who’s not sure she can accept even his sincerest apology. A final run-in with his father convinces Elliott he has to make amends with Simone, no matter what it takes.

Wow, I have a mixture of excitement at how this ends and sadness that it has ended.  I will certainly miss Simone and Elliott but they finally gave us the missing pieces that we have been searching for in this series.

Aidan is just brilliant as he sets up a session that will give Simone a taste of what she is asking from Elliott.  By the time she is done she will feel what he does when she demands him to hurt her.  She will see the mixture of control and despair that he endures doing those sessions.  She knows it is over between them but she still loves him.  Maybe it is time to pick up and move, clean break from not only Elliott but Aidan as well.

We finally hear what drives Elliott and his actions.  After coming face to face with the nightmare he calls father he realizes what he stands to lose in life.  He sees in his father’s eyes that no matter how hard he has tried to not be like his dad, he has become him in different ways.  Running to Simone to explain and beg her forgiveness he hopes that he can not only explain but make promises that he will be able to keep

I loved how this series ended.  It wasn’t highly dramatic but Lord we had drama and diva behavior through the series.  The way Megan ended this series seems to show how each character had matured during this process and I see it very fitting for an end of story.