The Belle and the Beard

After reading [b:The Spanish Love Deception 54189398 The Spanish Love Deception Elena Armas https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1610900883l/54189398.SY75.jpg 84555384], I couldn't get through another book with needlessly combative main characters. In both these books, the mcs interaction was almost exactly like thisheroine: I have a problem but I absolutely don't want your helphero: you obviously need my help. Take it!heroine: no, absolutely not!rinse and repeat about 200 times until the hero helps the heroine and then although she's upset it works out in the end.I truly don't understand why these authors kept putting their heroines in positions where the heroes would continually violate their wishes and this was framed as a good thing? In these situations, the heroine is being so needlessly stubborn in the name of feistiness that the heroes' overbearing actions seem like common sense but I hate the implications of this. I'm very uncomfortable when people's explicit wishes are ignored so I particularly hate it when authors construct situations where ignoring someone's wishes is the right thing to do. Don't see myself finishing this.