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DITW 14-17: Odyssey 12
🕑 Added 2024-05-18 19:27:45 +0000 UTCKimmy sipped her water, psyche roiling and eddying, but only showing calm on the surface. She said, “Who’s with us?”
“I told you we had business here today. That wasn’t a joke.”
“Okay. So what’s the business?”
Devlin made like he would answer, but paused as they both heard a door opening down the hall. He held up a finger like she would know in a second anyway, and they listened as the clop of shoes came down the hall to the main room.
A man emerged from the hall and stood under the square archway between the foyer and the living room. He was young and well-dressed; a man not dissimilar to Devlin. Despite the suit’s quality tailoring, his muscular bulk was noticeable.
Devlin said, “Kimmy, this is my buddy, Glenn. We went to university together. I told you about him before.”
“Glenn, nice to meet you,” she said, leveling her eyes on Glenn’s crystal blues.
Glenn stepped down into the living room and shook her hand, his hand huge but soft and warm. “Hi, Kimmy. I believe I spent some time with your husband.” His voice was deep but creaky, like he held it tight in his chest and only let out a little air at a time.
“With Josh?” Just uttering her husband’s name sunk her heart. Not only had she wounded Josh with her own weapon, she had thrust him into Devlin’s dark and dangerous waters, thinking he could swim with sharks if he only tried.
“We met him for a Jay’s game,” Glenn said, then winked at Devlin. “I think we kept him out of trouble.”
Devlin said, “We had a good time that night.”
Glenn still held her hand, looking at her again. “I liked Josh. Josh is a good guy.”
“He really is,” she agreed.
Glenn stayed smiling, putting his hands in his pockets. Devlin said nothing. She said, “What’s the business we’re doing?”
“You know the business, Kimmy,” Devlin said.
And she figured she was in trouble. The business. The business she’d exposed to Devlin’s dad. The reason she was here. Devlin and Glenn were going to pummel her, throw her on the bed and fuck every hole, cackling and laughing and punishing her the way she deserved. And she deserved it. She’d done awful things.
Then Devlin stepped away, heading for the passage into his kitchen, stepping down, waving like they should both follow. “You see, Glenn’s my deals guy. My money man, my main business hombre.”
Kimmy followed, stepping into the kitchen where sometimes she would reheat her lunch after having lunchtime sex with Devlin Stone while Josh was busy at work being a good husband. Glenn followed behind her.
Devlin turned when he reached the kitchen table and put out a hand, gesturing at a spread of books and papers and ledgers and file folders.
Her lips slimmed and her breath held choked in her chest, her neck tight, heart racing. All this paperwork. Evidence. It would outline and trace her transactions out of Devlin’s shell corporations into other shell corporations, back into Stone accounts, and then into her pocket to buy extravagances. Just for the thrill.
Devlin said, “This is the game plan.”
She looked at Devlin, and he smiled. She said, “What game plan?”
“Jesus, Kimmy, what game plan? What game plan do you think?” He looked at Glenn and said drolly, “I’m sorry, buddy. She’s usually on the ball.”
She said, “I wasn’t aware that Glenn knew what you are talking about. What are you talking about?”
Devlin braced his weight on the kitchen table, big hands spread out on the wood, his tie hanging down. “The vision. The game plan.”
Glenn stood beside her. “Devlin says you’re on board. He wants to take a sideways turn with the transport business.”
She nodded once, her mind racing ahead through possible chess moves, seeing no way this conversation would trap her into admitting she’d stolen money. “I’m on board,” she said, in a calm and rational tone, looking at Devlin. She wanted to say to him how he didn’t know what he was doing. Wanted to tell him he only wanted to start his own company so he could tell people he’d done it. He didn’t want to run a company. He didn’t have the brain or the drive. He was twenty-nine with the brain of a twenty-one-year-old. Young, dumb, and full of come.
She turned her head toward Glenn. “And you’re the main business hombre? Is that a C-suite position? I’ve never heard of it.”
Glenn smiled and assessed her with humor. He five-finger pointed toward the kitchen table and its array of business paraphernalia. “That’s the plan all laid out. The plan as Devlin sees it. We’ve worked it out. We used some of your ideas and then added a few twists and turns. Devlin wants me to run you through it, get your perspective.”
She said, “And then?”
Glenn shrugged, looked at Devlin, and then back at her. “Then we sign some papers.”
Devlin nodded, saying, “Contracts.”
*
It took Glenn about an hour to run through all the paperwork spread on the table. He held her hand through a guided tour of spreadsheets, projections, and analyses. Sometimes, he would double back and ask her pointed questions, making sure she was following along. Did Devlin not tell Glenn how they’d shared some of this information before? Was her involvement in this scheme as big a surprise to Glenn as Glenn’s was to her? Devlin had crafted his plan with two separate parties, and now he’d brought them together to see how they might interact. None of what Glenn showed her was surprising. It was all stuff she’d pre-considered or had already discussed with Devlin. Some things Glenn showed her were her own ideas. Devlin had taken them, given them to Glenn, who’d polished them, and now showed them back to her like they were his own. But she said nothing, only nodded and looked keen. In the end, with no more papers to turn over, no more spreadsheets to withdraw from a manila folder, Glenn showed his hands; he’d presented the case. What was left?
She gestured to the paperwork and asked Devlin, “Where does this leave us?”
Devlin said, “Where do you think it leaves us?”
“That’s why I asked, Devlin. Everything here is in place. It all makes sense. But why here and why now?”
“Because we’re moving forward,” Devlin said. “Much sooner than I expected.”
Again came that sharp feeling that this was a put-on. This was Devlin and Devlin’s father working together, creating some scenario where they would lull her into indicting herself.
She said, “And what do you want from me?” and then corrected herself. “What do you need from me?”
Devlin and Glenn shared a look, and Devlin crossed his arms and regarded her. He said, “A commitment.”
“What kind of commitment?”
Devlin said, “The written kind.”
And she said, “Like what? Sign in blood?”
He said, “That would be wonderful, but more dramatic than I need it.” He lifted a pen and passed it over to her, a Mont Blanc, the kind of pen one reserved for special events like this. She took the pen but didn’t remove the cap.
She said, “There’s one thing that’s missing.”
Devlin said, “What’s that?”
She said, “Glenn. Where does he fit in? Because before today, you only vaguely referred to other parties. Who is Glenn, and what does he want?”
Glenn laughed and shook his head. “I’m not part of it. I’m not looking for any piece of this. I just want the peripheral business. I’m not on the board. I’m not involved. I’m putting some money in and I have some others who want to pitch in as well. But I’m only, I guess, what you would call a consultant in the matter.”
Devlin said, “So what do you think?”
She said, “I wish I’d known what I was coming here for today. There’s a lot to go over, and Glenn did a great job explaining it, but I’m not signing it until I have more time to go through all this paperwork.”
Devlin nodded. “I understand that. That’s good. I kind of expected it, but you understand . . . the game plan can’t leave here. I can’t let you leave the apartment with this paperwork. If you want to read it, you have to stay here to do it.”
She thought for a long moment with both men staring at her, then placed the pen down on the kitchen table. “I’m going to need a little time.”
Glenn said, “No rush. Doesn’t even have to be today.”
Devlin interrupted him. “It would be better if it was today.”
Glenn looked at Devlin and said nothing. Then he nodded. “Well, I guess I’ll get going. You’ve got everything you need. You two need to work out what you’re going to do.” He extended his hand toward Kimmy again, and they shook over the kitchen table.
*
Once Glenn was gone and they were alone, standing together in the foyer, she said, “That wasn’t fair, springing this on me. Why now? Why today?” She studied his eyes, looking for a tell, looking for a giveaway that this was part of a game—no, an entrapment; a snare. But even if it was a trap, the response wasn’t so simple as walking away from the trap, turning her back on it and leaving it still triggered. It was imperative she understood the trap’s mechanism.
“I told you. I’m moving my timeline up.”
“But who is Glenn? Tell me who he is.”
“I trust Glenn. You don’t trust him? His family’s mega-rich. He went to St. Andrews, U.C.C. . . . I met him at U of T. What are you worried about? He’s not on the board. Glenn’s not part of the business at all. He’s an investor.”
“I’m not on the board, either.”
“I know. I didn’t ask you to be. I just want you by my side. I want you working for me. That’s the only commitment I’m asking for.”
“That’s what you want me to sign?”
“That’s it. Sign a statement of intent.”
“That I’m legal counsel, is that it?”
“You’re not telling me you want to stay with Stone?”
“I’m not telling you that.”
Devlin studied her with calm resolve, then cocked his head, showing soft sympathy. “Am I putting too much pressure on you?”
“You know how much my life has changed this summer.”
“I know you still want what I want,” he said, and stepped into her space. His arms went around her middle and he held her close to him in an unusual embrace.
“I do,” she said, the bitter lie staining her tongue. “I really do.” There had been a terrible point where she had convinced herself she wanted this, and that seemed incomprehensible now. She only held a desire for Josh.
Devlin said, “Trust me when I tell you I know what I’m doing. You trust me, don’t you?”
“Of course. Of course I do.”
Devlin lifted her face, holding her jawline in his huge hands. “And you wouldn’t lie to me?”
The question caught her off guard, and she scrunched up her nose. She had no answer. She was used to Josh’s request for the truth, for an assurance she wasn’t lying or betraying him. But never from Devlin. Devlin’s nature wasn’t like Josh’s.
“Why would you even ask me that?”
Devlin sighed, his hands returning to his sides. He stepped back. “I’ve never let a woman get so close to me before.”
“Oh, bullshit,” she said.
“What don’t you believe? That I haven’t let a woman get close, or that you are the woman I let get close?” He smirked to one side.
She said, “I don’t like you when you’re wistful. I like you when your confidence is colossal.”
“You think it’s weak when I ask if you’d lie to me?”
She raised her chin, narrowing her eyes on his. “You sound like Josh when you do.”
Devlin laughed and turned away, heading down the hall toward the bedroom. Any day of the week she would have followed without question, but today she stood frozen to the foyer floor, afraid of what might happen next.
Devlin stopped and turned. “Aren’t you coming?”
“I already spent an hour here. I should get back to the office.”
He frowned, puzzled. “You’re not coming to the bedroom?”
“I should go.”
Devlin raised his eyebrows, put his hands in his pockets. “I think you want to come to the bedroom, Kimmy.”
“I want to. I just don’t think I have the time.”
He smiled wider. “When you see what’s in the bedroom, you’ll make the time.”
“What does that mean?”
He smiled and turned to walk down the hall again. “Come and see.”
He kept walking. She called after him, “What do you want to show me?”
Devlin paused at the bedroom door. “You wouldn’t believe it if I told you. You’re going to have to come and see for yourself.”
Comments
Bill F Protagoras
"It is the cause, it is the cause, my soul,— Let me not name it to you, you chaste stars!— ' It is the cause. Yet I’ll not shed her blood; Nor scar that whiter skin of hers than snow, And smooth as monumental alabaster. Yet she must die, else she’ll betray more men."
Bill F Protagoras
"Should I repent me; but once put out thy light, Thou cunning’st pattern of excelling nature, I know not where is that Promethean heat That can thy light relume. When I have pluck’d the rose, I cannot give it vital growth again."
Kat
I think keys to a new car or a house deed. He thinks she’s pregnant with his kid, and that they’re in this together to torture Josh. She told him so. Even though he’s a meathead, I think he’s developed some feelings for her. Imagine how mad he’ll be when he finds out she’s been sort of playing him, and telling his dad that he’s incompetent. I don’t know how Kimmy’s going to get out of her schemes without losing everything.
Andrew Mellein
Keys to her new car?, Money?, A new house deed? Only the next chapter will tell us!
RCH
Kinda late to the comments: I don't think it would be Amy in the bed room even Devlin said she was crazy. I don't think it would be any of Josh's circle. OK I just read the last part of the chapter again here it is: "He smiled wider. “When you see what’s in the bedroom, you’ll make the time.”" It's a what in the bedroom not a who in the bedroom. A thing.
Andrew Mellein
I am hoping the next chapter pops up soon! This chapter ending was very nerve racking!
Bill F Protagoras
Now that, Mike, really would be both genre and mind bending if effective!
Mike Monroe
In the bedroom is mountain ash...to trap Kimmy inside!!
JL23
Yeah, while he’s not perceptive enough to understand why Kimmy needed and wanted the control, power and sex…he was perceptive enough to know she did want it. And it wasn’t something Josh saw or ever contemplated. So he could still have the ability to hit on something that can make her return to wanting it. I just think at this point, Kimmy is now perceptive enough to know she’s never going to be able to convince Josh to join in her this, at least the version of it that she was setting up with Devlin. So I wonder if she does fall back into it, if she ultimately decides the only option is to cut Josh loose and let him live his own life. I also wonder if circumstances around Devlin’s job offer and the money theft is going to force her into a corner where she feels like she has no other option but to cut him loose. I could envision the scenario where the price for Sr not pressing charges is that she has to go with Devlin and be his “inside spy” so to speak. I think she might feel too ashamed to explain the reasons why she’s still working with Devlin, and may take the easy way out of pushing Josh away for his own well being.
L_S87
Agree, JL. The Kimmy we see in this chapter makes it clear, internally, she wants nothing to do with Devlin. For multiple reasons, some selfish as she's afraid of what he'll do about her theft, but also not interested in his physical touch, though she's allowing it to keep up the charade. The question becomes, how insightful is Devlin going to be in what he shows her. He's typically a meathead, but he does sometimes have flashes of insight, especially into what makes Kimmy tick. If he shows her something she really wants, what does she do? Or if he shows her something she normally would want but now doesn't, what does she do? She's somewhat trapped due to her own past actions. Hence the "I have to" to Josh. She could very well do something Josh would find awful merely to save her own skin, while truly not wanting to on the inside, feeling she's making the best of a bad situation. Then again, the devil is still there. Josh's almost watery grave has certainly changed her outlook significantly, but will that hold when she sees what's behind that door? She's stressed as hell and we all know Kimmy's favorite way to relieve stress.
JL23
I do think most of the "material" things he could be potentially ready to offer probably would have successfully tempted the Kimmy that existed as of early Saturday morning. The Kimmy that got cold water thrown in her face after Josh's own cold water experiences seems to be different, but this is the first test to see if she's truly changed her outlook IMO.
Bill F Protagoras
Sniper with a silver bullet? Wolfbane! I'm afraid to ask. My parents always assured me... No news is good news!
Bill F Protagoras
It's always darkest before the dawn! Although I have never noticed any direct confirmation that this is the case!
Bill F Protagoras
Hopefully the adroit mastermind is brewing something that will spark a powder keg full of Josh's righteous indignation... or start a slow smouldering fuse. It could just be a sculpted ejaculating fountain of Devlin in his finest hour!
Bill F Protagoras
Definitely Kat... knowing Devlin it will be something HE thinks she wants... something that would tempt her... and as so many of the temptations he has previously, successfully, offered have been to his OWN taste... we can expect some clumsy short sighted ploy. After all what can he offer that rivals the magical bounty of his orbed sceptre... something vain, shiny, unworthy or unseemly. Or something he wants himself!
Tim ziegler
KT change of subject what happened Warlock Wolf?
Bill F Protagoras
The Kitty basket room that everyone sees as evidence of the drab life Kimmy would be justified in leaving behind... She fled it... wanting to lose it in the rear view mirror. Good luck with that Kimberly! Might just as easily remove a deeply rooted tree...
Bill F Protagoras
"Her pussy had been conditioned to behave for Devlin." Duplicitous Devils
Bill F Protagoras
“You didn’t get what you wanted last night?” “From Josh?” She shook her head no. “You need a real cock.” “I need a big cock. Not his little dick . . .” “You’re a wild horse, Kimmy.” She raised her chin, looked at him through narrowed eyes. “I am.” He chuckled, cocked his head. “But I’m still going to break you.” Wednesday, August 12 Deep Secrets .
Bill F Protagoras
“Yeah, you’re going to come,” he said, poking and prodding again, cock head throbbing. “Oh my God . . . oh my God . . .” “I’m going to come inside you so deep Josh will never find it, it’ll be our secret . . .” It was an awful thrill to hear something so terrible and sexually devious. “Deep, where Josh can never go,” he said. “Oh fuck, I’m going to come." Sinner Monday, August 10.
Bill F Protagoras
"Oh God dammit, poor Josh. Oh God, how could she do any of this to him?" Sunday, August 9 Kimmy. Demons "If you bully him—or have someone else do it—I’m out. Out of Stone, too.” “He drew that out of you. When he’s weak, his wife is strong.” Isn't this the origin of her marital role? It's origin being Devlin's laughable theory that rather than the rich and privileged coercing the poor, the poor offer their fealty like feudal serfs, not like wage slaves, or women yielding their sexuality and pride for sub par wages. The wages of sin are the petit mort, the petty death... multiple. The well fed and well off getting first prod at the pussy. "The reason then that Devlin would take her out after work was because he wanted Josh to know: Josh, I have your wife after work. That’s your time, buddy. But it’s my time now. Yeah, I could fuck her at lunch, but I need you to know I’m fucking her . . ." Was Josh wrong? And if you're right can it be ascribed to paranoia? In this book Devlin tries to foister the exact opposite of Heraclitus's theory of logos on Kimmy. "Yeah, she was skinny, she was long-limbed—but her ass wasn’t flat, it was round. She bit her lip, seeing that hunger growing in him, his stern expression glowering at her naked body like he wanted to punish it. Punish it because it was too good to be true. 'It affected him. And he didn’t like to be affected.'" Monday, August 10. Kimmy. Sinner.
Kat
Glenn was one of the guys, along with Rumble, that Josh met at the bar (Chapter 4 Updike) in Book 9. He was in a couple chapters. Devlin had Glenn and Josh smell his drink in the bar, after having spent the afternoon with Kimmy in his apartment beforehand. He told her that he wanted to wear “her scent” when he went out with Josh.
JL23
I’ll have to go back and read that passage from the Jays game. I don’t recall Josh interacting with anyone named Glenn, though it’s possible we did and I didn’t make the connection at the time. Also possible we just didn’t see it, and that doesn’t mean it didn’t happen. He certainly didn’t seem to give off a vibe he knew of the full relationship between Kimmy and Devlin, but he could have just been good at not revealing it. Devlin obviously seems like the type who would brag to all his friends that he was sleeping with the wife of the guy he invited to the game.
JL23
She did ask for a nice car before. More I think about it, unless it’s Amy I don’t see how it could be another person. Also, unless I’m mistaken, Glenn was waiting for them in the bedroom when Kimmy first shows up, it didn’t seem like he was waiting in the living room. So if someone else was in there, he almost certainly would have known.
Kat
I wonder if Devlin has something planned regarding Kimmy’s baby. She promised him that she’d make Josh raise it, and stay home and do the housework. Maybe he bought them a house? He thinks the baby is his, and that Kimmy is into doing everything he wants.
Bill F Protagoras
Why Yoda?
JL23
I guess I thought the stealing money was part of the plan, but the last few chapters have shown it wasn’t at all. And yeah, now she’s kind of out of moves, or appears to be. Either she gets fired/arrested or is forced now to take the job with Devlin (which pushes Josh further away from her). But again, let’s see what the rest of story holds.
Bill F Protagoras
KT... Haven't noticed any errors.... but I have checked.
Bill F Protagoras
Devlin might not want to put a ring on Kimmy's finger... but through her nose to lead, and secure her by... well... Also he'll want some movement on the domestication of Joss... and his commitment as housewife... Devlin's imagination brooks no delay. What he wants, he needs it yesterday... How long has it been since he's whetted the tool of his privilege on HIS lover's grindstone? How long since she has graced her man with her submission. For men like him... Power is like... Use it... or lose it! Kiss the ring! If the Grand Poobah isn't meddling...
Tracey52
I love that this is a more complex book with more than just sex scenes strung together. It’s one of the reasons I read KT. There’s plenty of the other pulp out there. After the nuclear bomb that was the hotel room, we are now dealing with the fall out. I’m fascinated to read who survives, who doesn’t and what the long term injuries are. This will be one of kt’s great works. It took time to win me over because it’s so dark but I’m all in now. However, I agree with the other comments that it would be different if we weren’t reading a chapter or two per week and had the book.
Jim
Thanks for the comments. I was expecting some mild abuse, but the comments made in response to my post are fair and I accept them of course. I have been following KTM for years now and have subscribed to the Patreon community almost since it started and have no intention of unsubscribing. I know there will be some delicious, angst ridden, material to come and I shall be patient.
Chris K
True LS. True.
L_S87
This is another one of those format things, something I fell prey to just a few chapters ago. I'm thinking we wouldn't feel that way reading this start to finish. It was only a book ago we got *very* raunchy when Kimmy, Devlin and Josh were together. The challenge is, that happened a few months ago for us. If you read this as a series, it would feel much more immediate, and I think this would come off more as the extended epilogue it's meant to be. As KT points out, a lot of this is written as page turners, it just doesn't feel like that because sometimes we only get a chapter in a week, so it feels like *forever* since something highly sexual has happened. I love where KT has gone with this, simply because cutting things short wouldn't have done the series justice, for me. But that also means that those who are here for the raunchy stuff are having to slog through all the emotional stuff I love to get to what they enjoy. I have faith KT will give us something before the end of this. Who that involves, we'll have to wait and see.
Pete
Jim, I too miss the raunchy stuff. KT is so skilled with it that she's become my go-to author for cuckold literature. As you said, she has no peers.
Andrew Mellein
Kimmy is already far to gone at this point for Josh to take her back. He doesn’t even like sitting with her. I think the marriage is over. Might as well hop on Devlins Johnson🤣🤣
CSH
Well at least somebody will get laid.
Chris K
Honestly, that's why I'm hoping Devlin gets Kimmy in the bedroom. Regardless of everything else with the story, they do have great sexual chemistry together, and it was the meat and potatoes of the story for a while.
Jim
OK - I am going to say it as nobody else is. Perhaps I am on my own here anyway and I am going to get flack for this, but these last few Chapters have been, well, Meh. Yeah, I want the raunchy stuff back. KTM is a brilliant writer and makes the characters real and three dimensional. This novel has now become a vaguely intriguing, psychological, quasi-crime thriller which is interesting enough - but has been woefully short of sex which, let's face it, is why most of us are here. It's erotic literature where KT excels and has, in my view, no peers. By the way, Learning Lessons is great - but I read that years ago.
Tracey52
I think Kimmy really wants to destroy Devlin, and being privy to these plans could be her bargaining chip with Devlin’s dad. She would appear serious that she doesn’t want Devlin anymore. It will certainly be a test of her resolve.
Tracey52
I don’t Think It’s a Person in the room. Devlin would be too Worried Somebody Would hear his plans. It’s most likely something to sweeten the deal like keys to a new car perhaps? Of course Devlin will try to sexualize it.
Andrew Mellein
At this point does she still need to be working for Stone LLC? They already know she stole money. If she's trying to ruin Devlin it's a cockamamie plan at best. Also I see daddy Devlin as siding with Devlin over her. So yeah, she didnt have a good plan.
Andrew Mellein
Whips, chains, hot wax, and large dildos (LOL!)
JL23
The other thing that’s apparent now is that as much as she talked about it, and we speculated about it, Kimmy never really had a grand plan to destroy Devlin. She basically admits it here that up until recent events, she wanted what Devlin is offering her right now, the only difference was getting Josh to be a willing participant. Her stealing money was never really about ruining Devlin with his father, or even avenging Josh. It was to prove she could, and to feel superior to Devlin. And honestly to probably make her feel better about what she was doing with him and to Josh. That’s probably been apparent for a while, but this was kind of the first time I really thought about and realized that. And I doubt she has any plan now, it’s more about survival for her, to avoid jail and to try and avoid the end of her marriage.
Tracey52
Devlin wouldn’t risk a person who might overhear the plans. Something to sweeten the deals. Perhaps new car keys? Devlin will try and sexualize it though
JL23
I don’t know it’s entirely clear how many more books there will be. KT did say 1-2 more when we actually voted, but when she first brought the topic up of extending the series, she also said she felt that Kimmy and Josh’s story was “barely half over.” That would indicate more than 1-2 books. I don’t see 12 more, but maybe more than 1 or 2. To me, it feels like 1 more book. Seems like the ending to this one is going to be where Kimmy reveals the cards everyone is holding, whether that’s Devlin, Sr and even Josh. We kind of see what Devlin wants now, though the next chapter probably provides more info. We seem to know what Josh wants. The last big missing piece is what the father is intending to do with the evidence she stole money. What does he want to get from that? Once we know that, then to me the last book is about her navigating three pretty distinct visions to try and get the ending she wants…which is her still married to Josh, and raising a baby together. But every writer has a different vision, so there may be more stories to be told.
L_S87
Andrew, you have a great point. My desire to "wrap things up", as Chris pointed out, in regards to Amy, or have a major confrontation vis a vis Josh, had my rather focused on this having to be someone. But its more likely Glenn was the only someone, hence why Devlin wanted no pregnancy conversation. Glenn bringing up Josh kinda makes me wonder if he did so because he just saw Josh, and Josh is the one that's there, but there are SO many reasons why it makes no sense for Josh to be there that I find it would be odd for him to choose to be. So CSH is right. We just need to wait for the next chapter. But, I love the speculation. The waiting is torture sometimes, so filling it with rampant, unfounded, ridiculous speculation is the perfect thing to do. Right? I do like the 3 tickets to Cayman idea. "Let me fuck you on the bed while you stare at the tickets imagining me doing it again in front of Josh while on that beach". Completely ignorant of her lack of desire to do so. Thought to be fair to Devlin, he rarely deserves it, but in this case there's not really any way for him to know all that's transpired over the last couple days.
Kat
I don’t think anyone is in the bedroom either, Andrew. I think it’s some ploy to get Kimmy into the bed with him, per usual.
Andrew Mellein
I speculated on money because I don't think there would be anyone in the bedroom after Glenn was there. I imagined a bunch of cash as a way for Devlin's forked tongue to seduce and lure himself into Kimmy's panties. Afterall he thinks (maybe he is right) Kimmy is the mother of his child. He could talk about how they are a team and doing this together and they could have all that cash. Maybe Kimmy will go for it after all she does love money enough to jeopardize her future and Josh has been understandably been cold to her. Plus she is hooked on Devlin's big cock and balls. But if she does this especially after being at the hospital with Josh. She might as well kiss the remnants of her marriage goodbye. I think the next chapter is pivotal.
CSH
This is well constructed and moved the plot forwards. Let’s see what the Devil is concealing in his lair. Hmmm.
CSH
Maybe it’s Hyun. I mean everybody else got mentioned except maybe Karina, maybe it’s Karina. Or maybe i’ll wait till the next chapter and see. I like the idea it is a thing and not a person. A pile of cash or three tickets to the caymans.
Chris K
She might find a dick saber!
Andrew Mellein
How many more books are there?
Andrew Mellein
Kimmy when going into Devlin’s bedroom only pain you will find.
Chris K
I'm sure Amy will come in, but hiding in the bedroom while there out there doing paperwork? Maybe not? Along with Amy, I also want to see the whole Hyun thing get revealed. It's been driving me crazy.
JL23
Yeah, that’s a great point. Could definitely something like money, or documents from his shady investors indicating how much money they’re willing to invest, rather than another person. Since he still thinks Kimmy is 100% on board and excited to be with him, it could just be he then wants to “celebrate” with her.
Andrew Mellein
His fantasy was deluded because Kimmy was cheating on him. I actually like that for the most part he hasn’t turned into a typical cuckold like so many of these other Hotwife and cuckold novels.
L_S87
That's a great point, Andrew. Here i am, insisting it must be this person or that person, but hell, it could be anything, something inanimate that Devlin thinks will get him back in Kimmy's panties.
Andrew Mellein
I don’t think anyone’s in the bedroom. I imagine a big pile of cash is on the bed. Maybe it’s Devlins way of seducing his way back into Kimmys good graces. However for Kimmy to go back into Devlins bedroom is akin to cheating. Karina had Kimmys number.
L_S87
Chris, KT has said this is going to be 1 to 2 more books, so we know a wrap up of some sort is coming. That doesn't mean the story finishes with "The End" but it does mean this story line will "wrap up". For me, I want part of that to include an explanation for Amy and how she fits into this. Now, that doesn't mean this must happen for things to wrap up, or that I think it's the end of the world, only that Amy is a missing piece that I think makes sense to explain, especially given the part she played in several scenes.
Chris K
LS, why do you keep saying everything is going to be wrapped up? We don't know how much more is store for this. If everything just ends Vanishing Point style, that would suck. It's all going play out organically
L_S87
There are a number of interpretations for "dark" here. KT typically writes willing cuckold and the darkness comes from the wife deciding to move on or reduce their relationship in some significant way. This is the opposite of that, and in some ways much darker, due to how unwilling and unknowing Josh has been to the process. Not to mention the near death as Glaucon pointed out. Ultimately it's all up to one's interpretation of what dark is and what it means to them in this context. And we certainly have more room for darkness in the coming chapters. Sort of depends on if KT envisions a happy resolution for Kimmy or a complete downfall.
L_S87
Read my mind, Chris! I want the good stuff! Though Glenn's involvement here is interesting, especially their discussion about Josh and how that made Kimmy feel. Plus it did a good job of moving along the side story of Devlin's scheme to do his own thing.
Bill F Protagoras
I disagree, for Kimmy the main course is Glenn's document. But if the devil gets his due... what will we be proven to have been yearning for in the darkmost nooks and crannies of our hearts? Might Kimmy now have no choice but to peer through a glass darkly? And then face to face.
L_S87
It would be interesting, but for me, break the series, because it would be so contradictory to the last few books. Hell, he just walked off a pier to his death and only survived by a minor miracle KT gifted him to get away from being a cuckold. It would be extremely odd for him to suddenly be okay with it a few chapters later. I do think, however, there is space for Josh to exhibit his darkness in a different way. There are a number of reasons he could be there, many of them not good for Devlin or Kimmy, regardless of the lies he may have told Devlin to get in the door. I've always thought Josh would be more receptive to Kimmy's desires if she'd chosen anyone but Devlin. And been more truthful up front. So I could see a scenario where Josh decides to remove Devlin from the equation through his own machinations. Again, unlikely, because Josh just seems to want to be shut from this and simply wants Kimmy to prove, through actions, that she does too. We'll find out in a few days. Honestly, for me, I'll be disappointed if it's not Amy, mostly because we haven't seen any sort of a way to wrap her into this in a meaningful way so we can close the book on her involvement, especially the why. Devlin's statement somewhat implies Josh, but again, regardless of what BS he may feed them, I just don't see a 180 in his stance on the two of them. Unless its to say they can have each other, here's the divorce papers, I'm out.
Bill F Protagoras
And our author gives with two hands, and Devlin despite the insecurity his surprise reveals is going to use all the formerly tried true skills he has kept hidden in his bag of wickedness... whatever he needs to dull the edge of Goodwife Chang's legal acumen... allowing her master to melt her body in the crucible of lust... an aperitif for a dark alliance. Things have changed but Kimmy faces strange conflicting needs.
Andrew Mellein
Can you imagine bundling Devil in the Waters into one book volume .With still more content to go. It must be the War and Peace of cheating wife novels. (LOL!)
L_S87
I can see it being Josh as a confirmation of Kimmy's activities. He lies to Devlin about why he's there so he can confront Kimmy about her continued infidelity even after saying no more lies. But, it could also be Amy, or someone else even. Though the bedroom, to me, points to it likely being Josh or Amy. Just like last chapter, it makes more sense for it to be Amy, at least to me. If the intent is for this to be sexual. Plus, it makes sense from a wrap up perspective for Amy to be reintroduced. It will be interesting to see how the paperwork goes. And if what, or who, is in the bedroom is intended to push Kimmy to sign.
Andrew Mellein
Devil in the Waters is KT's darkest book in my opinion. Her previous dark book in my estimation would be "Learning Lessons". And that book started off as a Hot Wife novel but reverted to cuckoldry with Jess doing it with Tyler behind Pete's back in their own home. Glaucon your correct that Josh had no say in the matter with Kimmy and her sexual proclivities. So when you read it you feel like your getting kicked in the gut. I myself enjoy the darkness of it! While I enjoy some Hotwife novels including KT's I feel they can be a little played out with the hubby being a little to wimpy and letting the wife walk all over him. Basically doing whatever she wants. With cheating wife/cuckold books which are lesser published than hotwife books the situations are darker because the wife is doing it without the husbands consent. This book is masterful because we don't have a wimpy cuckold in Josh he basically throws a chair at Devlin and abandons his lying, cheating wife. He doesn't fall over and accept his cuckoldry like some lesser cuckolds in any cheating and Hot Wife books. Josh who may have some form of a kink fights back with whatever means at his disposal. That's what makes this series masterful in my opinion.
JL23
I’m wondering if it’s possible the father makes the trap tighter, in that his plan could be to use Kimmy as a spy in Jr’s endeavor, and use the threat of exposing her embezzlement to force her to comply.
Bill F Protagoras
So I was right, Devlin wanted some confirmation something binding more binding than a tie... a secret marriage, an alchemical wedding... but I didn't think of Glenn. People are like Chekhov's weapons... they signify. This is the kind of trap I envisioned... a modern parchment, as Kimmy notes that like a diabolical parchment signed in blood declares intention as ironclad as gloomy promise for the afterlife... or more so. As a lawyer Kimmy knows like a printer's devil to examine ever word as though it were fine print... This is a trap that might require a serious sacrifice for Kimmy. God's a gonna trouble the waters.
Glaucon
I don't know if I'd consider any other book or series by KT as dark in the sense that 1. Josh isn’t really consenting to the scenario in a meaningful way (in the few KT books that start this way, the other party generally comes around pretty quick). 2. There is strong emphasis on the humiliation angle, both in who Kimmy is cheating with and how the parties in the affair talk about and treat Josh. 3. Compared to the few other darker KT books, this one really asks the reader to live in the long-term pain and psychology of the characters, even if only as a consequence of being a much longer book. Also, there’s already been an extended sequence dealing with the subject matter of suicide, which is a pretty damn dark topic for erotica.
Pete
Noticing today that DITW has a subtitle of "a dark cuckold series." I had seen it before but never reflected on it. There are other KT series that involved much more intense cuckoldry than what we've seen in DITW, yet I don't think any of them bore that subtitle. If this IS a dark cuckold story, and those were not... Does that portend the coming of darker, not yet seen, elements into this series?
Pete
Arguably the first 'devil in the waters' was Josh's fantasy about being cuckolded. I'm wondering what became of that devil. Will he resurface? And if he does, has he become weaker or stronger? He's been such a prominent presence throughout this series, I feel like we should see him again.
JL23
So turned out to be a player off the board of course. And ultimately just an appetizer to whatever Devlin has in the bedroom. Amy? His father? Josh? Doesn’t seem like it’s related to dad, since they’re talking about breaking away from his company, and I don’t know what other kinky sex game he thinks would lure Kimmy in further at this point. Could be Amy and the threesome they missed I suppose. I don’t think it’s Josh, unless there’s a lot of the story and their relationship we’ve missed. So I’ll stop speculating and wait to find out. I found it at least encouraging that Kimmy seems in no way to be getting sucked back into wanting Devlin’s plan (and to hook up with him), and she’s thinking of Josh throughout this chapter. We’ll see if that holds when she sees whatever Devlin has in the bedroom. I still believe if she engages in any kind of sexual activity with Devlin here, there’s pretty much no hope for the marriage.
Chris K
Lol! It's good! It's really good!
KT Morrison
Ha ha, sorry!
Chris K
Oh come on with these damn page turners! 🤣
