After seven years, Lark finally feels attracted to someone again. Why Dante? What qualities does he have that affect Lark? Did you suspect that Dante had met Lark before?
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After seven years, Lark finally feels attracted to someone again. Why Dante? What qualities does he have that affect Lark? Did you suspect that Dante had met Lark before?
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One of the things I liked about Dante was that he loved his brother. Despite his hurt over what happened with his girlfriend, he realized his brother had been right about her gold digging and was actually trying to help him.
When Lark told him she wasn't really Santini's girlfriend, he understood why his brother had set up the ruse (out of his love for Noni - another difficult to love character and one whom the family also mocked repeatedly) and was more sympathetic to him than to Lark who had "lied to his family." He wasn't willing to have a relationship with her without talking to his brother first.
He was probably my favorite character. Lark - who was so quick to judge "Dr. Satan" - was sometimes so smugly over the top morally superior to him that she got on my nerves.
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I knew immediately that Lark was going to fall for Lorenzo's brother and that was going to be the happy ending. I did not suspect they had met previously until Higgins kept reiterating that Lark had an unusual reaction to Dante every time they encountered each other. It was not the typical romantic attraction, so it was clear that she was telegraphing something else.
Their mutual attraction was entirely understandable since they were both in helping professions. They both chose careers that require a certain level of sacrifice, compassion, empathy, and the ability to compartmentalize & withstand stress. So they could relate. Dante recognized Lark immediately, so he was obviously touched by her distress and grief on the day she took her to the hospital. Lark did not come from a wealthy family nor did Dante, and nether of them was particularly interested in material things, unlike Lorenzo who tried to use his financial status to make people love him & fill voids in his emotional life. Higgins use of the hot fireman trope was very effective!
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