I agree romance is boring, so so boring...
Regarding Mr. Howard,Gina and Emily story and the part of text you publish in the post... i have to confess i didnt feel that feeling of wanting read more and more as long as i read it.
Perhaps in the next chapters the action take another direction, i read about what you wrote in that way and... it can be good but as always if it has points of creative story, nowadays a lot of is being written about that... but just the same
And i'm not saying more dirty, crappy or weird (for me it's not interesting) just... original situations out of the conventional texts that are written.
Anyway cheers as always and i'm pretty sure in these next days you have more spare time your story will be great.
And.. eyy it's great how you talk in the voice of the men there, how you make that efford in trying to think as him!