The concept of this novella was cute - the Vega's birthday. But the timing of it was weird, because it's supposed to be during the events of Cursed Fates, but it was never mentioned at all, which seems odd.

And while I LOVE Geraldine, reading almost a whole novella from her POV was a little overboard with her crazy phrases and way of thinking. Like she was

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downright nasty to the heirs when they tried to have their own small party, and yet that would have been perfectly aligned with what the girls would have wanted and would have gone a long way to showing them that the heirs are not all they seem. Darius was absolutely crushed by her words, and it made me ache for him.

I know Geraldine was just being herself and didn't even realize what she was doing, but dang...