![]() ![]() Tristan Carter, the youngest of the Carter triplets, is deaf and has cerebral palsy and unfortunately has dealt with his fair share of insults and abuse from abled bodied people. Ashamed and embarrassed, he works hard to show him he's not that person as he starts to fall in love. However, a late-night dip at the penthouse pool leads to him hurling abuse and insults at poor Tristan Carter, the younger brother of his brother's future husband. While his parents and their lawyers work to make that incident go away, he's to lay low and work as an intern at the family company. We have Dominic, a young rich, and spoiled American college student who is shipped off to the UK due to a scandal at home. It's the second book in the Nailed It series and can be read as a total standalone. “We might not look like pieces of the same jigsaw, but his hand fit into mine like they were designed that way”Ĭloud Nine was such a delightful read. Tumbled headlong in love with him.īedroom eyes. Drank warm beer, chilled with my big brother. Worked out what I wanted to do with my future. I got a job, grew up, and learned some harsh life lessons. Except I couldn’t, seeing as I’d messed up there too. The kind of misjudgement that had me waking in a cold sweat, wanting to catch the next flight back to my pampered college life in the US. She forgot to tell me anything about those. A bit like the chicken and the egg.Bedroom eyes, that’s the name my mom gave them.Before I travelled to the UK, she issued me plenty of warnings: don’t look the wrong way when crossing the road, the first floor was the second floor, and no one would know what I meant if I asked for ranch dressing at a restaurant.īut the perils of shy, beautiful men like Tristan Carter? Men with walking canes and hearing aids and those damned bedroom eyes, hidden behind a curtain of silky blond hair? In the 1950’s, there was a TV variety show called “Cloud Nine”, but it isn’t clear whether the show or the currently numbered idiom came first. It wasn’t until the 1980’s that the number nine became predominant. Other versions found in print have been clouds 8 and 39. Cloud seven was the most popular version of the phrase for decades, probably related to seventh heaven. To make matters more confusing, the number nine seems to be a relatively recent arrival to the whole cloud saga. There are ten of them as well.ģ) In Chinese Han mythology, there are nine levels to heaven, nine being the highest, so this seems more fitting. Choosing a second best category to define the ultimate state of happiness seems illogical.Ģ) A second claim is that this refers to the ninth state of enlightenment in Buddism. But Iddy’s counted those. One extra fact seems to negate this explanation. In their categorisation of clouds, set number nine was the billowing cumulonimbus. On Cloud Nine has a number of explanations, with plenty of contradictory threads.ġ) It has been claimed that this is a by-product of weather classification, attributed to both the US Weather Bureau of the 1950’s and the International Cloud Atlas of 1896. Definition: To be incredibly happy/ to be in state of euphoria Example: After winning the lottery, being asked out by a supermodel, and seeing his boss fall down a mineshaft, all in the same day, Simon was on Cloud Nine. ![]()
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