60 pages 2 hours read

Brynne Weaver

Butcher & Blackbird

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

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Chapters 17-21Chapter Summaries & Analyses

Chapter 17 Summary: “Beautiful Disaster: Rowan”

Sloane and Rowan continue having sex.

Chapter 18 Summary: “Detonate: Sloane”

Rowan falls asleep while he is still inside of Sloane, but Sloane cannot sleep. He wakes up and they have sex again. Sloane notices that Rowan got a tattoo of the raven drawing she left at his restaurant. Rowan says he would kill someone for Sloane or die for Sloane, implying that he loves her without saying the word “love.”

Rowan asks why Sloane did not leave after he killed Francis in West Virginia. He sensed that she wanted to. She explains that she felt like he needed her to stay, which was a refreshing and nice feeling. Sloane asks what Rowan said to Francis before killing him, and he admits he said Sloane was his. They go to sleep.

Rose did not mind Rowan and Sloane being loud because she has lived with a circus since age 15. Fionn looks like he did not sleep well. He says Sloane should take a couple of weeks off of work until her arm no longer needs to be in a sling. She also should have someone stay with her. She is about to volunteer Lark, but Rowan insists on bringing her to Boston to stay with him while her arm heals instead.