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Devil In The Waters, Book 6, Chapter 1 (complete)
🕑 Added 2020-07-02 00:00:02 +0000 UTCThe fight had probably really begun on Wednesday night when she’d scolded Josh for not getting Friday off work. Josh had overreacted—in her opinion—like he was stressed out by the whole process of this impromptu vacation. She’d even chided him, saying, “Maybe it’s best if we don’t go at all,” which made Josh acquiesce.
“Of course I can get the day off, Kimmy,” he’d said then, “I just didn’t get a chance to ask today. Hell, maybe I’ll just call in sick on Friday . . .”
“Right,” she’d said (maybe too snidely), “and come back on Monday with a tan?”
That’d calmed him, getting him working to make her less mad. “Like I said, I’ll get the day off. I’m going to Cayman with you. Don’t worry.”
“I just don’t understand how it’d slip your mind to do it today.”
“It didn’t slip my mind. Whenever I swung by Harjeet’s office, he was busy with something, and I never got a chance to connect with him.”
“He has email, Josh.”
Josh’d said, “I like to meet with my boss when I need something like this.”
Now it was Friday night, the sun gone down, and they were far from home. All the way in the Caribbean, on the island of Grand Cayman, the inside crook of the West Bay curl, at a four-cottage estate. Each of the four cottages shared amenities like a main house, a bar, a gym, a swimming pool, but they were completely separated by gardens and lawns, and each had access to the sandy beach, a short walk through a barrier of evergreen thickets and towering palms.
Through the door to the bedroom, she said to him, “I’m sorry, Josh. Can you please come out now?”
She stood in the hall outside the bedroom, leaning on the wall; Josh was in there by himself.
It took him a moment to answer, but finally his voice from the other side: “I’m fine, Kimmy.” Though his tone didn’t sound fine. Surly. Which she supposed was better than being hurt. Because she did feel as though she’d hurt his feelings. Now he said, “It’s not like I’m sulking or anything. I’ll be out in a minute, I just need a bit to get my thoughts together.”
She said, “I didn’t mean it the way it sounded.”
“I know,” he said, his tone firm and flat.
It had come out of nowhere. They’d taken an Uber to the Toronto Island airport, their bags taken for them and loaded on the small private jet Stone Brokerage had arranged. Everything had been fine. An amazing flight. One they had to share with two other lawyers unrelated to Stone, but the lawyers kept to their sides of the plane after some brief small talk, and it was practically like her and Josh alone on a private jet. They had champagne. They had brunch. Grapefruit and crepes and chicken salad. They fly into Owen Roberts on Grand Cayman, disembark into that hot baking sun, and Josh isn’t giving anything away like he’s about to unload on her. Maybe she could see now there were some things that had made him stiff on the plane ride, but she’d just chalked it up to her husband being a little miffed that it was his high school bully who’d arranged for them such an amazing adventure on a private plane to the Caribbean . . .
They took an airport limo north from George Town up to the northern point of Grand Cayman, dipping into the east side wilderness of West Bay. The estate where they were staying was spectacular, the airport limo coming in between iron gates that opened for them, winding through a perfect asphalt strip that toured through the property to get to the main house. They checked in, took a golf cart to get to their cottage, this beautiful turquoise A-frame with bright white trim and Caribbean wooden shutters, manicured gardens, all the insides painted in tropicals, pale leather furniture. She was walking around astounded, but it turns out Josh was preparing himself to get it all off of his chest. He did, and then she’d said the thing that had made him so mad. And also divulged that she knew more about what was going on than Josh thought.
She tapped the door again with her fingertip, saying softly, “Come on, Josh, come on, baby . . .”
***
The idea to bare it all to Kimmy had come to him in bed the night before they left for Cayman. Laying in bed with her, the two of them tucking in early, no hanky-panky just teeth brushing and cuddling up before falling asleep, preparing for their big day. Kimmy was snoring in no time—well, not snoring, but lightly puffing sleepy air—and he lay there thinking how he’d almost gone through with bailing on this trip to Cayman.
One side of him was explaining to himself that it was a middle finger to Devlin (Fuck, you Devlin—I’m not riding in your stupid plane to go to your stupid company’s villa . . . no, your father’s company . . . Out of principle alone, I turn my back on your offer). And at its face value, maybe that was a valiant move. Maybe that had merit. But he had to come to realize there were things luring him in that direction of abandoning the trip that weren’t so wholesome or noble. There was something about it that made him feel a certain way. An unexpected way.
But the thing that had flipped this whole comprehension of relationships, the three-way vectors running between him and Devlin and Devlin and Kimmy and Kimmy and him were turned on its head by the realization that what kept his bond strong with his wife, with his beloved Kimmy, was the honesty. That was what had saved them. Dishonesty was what had put them in jeopardy. And he’d engaged in dishonesty because of a sick lurid thrill. Because he was so ashamed to share the truth with Kimmy because she would reject the arousal it presented her twisted husband.
Only, a glimmer of that truth had been revealed, and he discovered that his Kimmy wasn’t so alarmed by the weird thing that nothing but bold outright honesty would make them strong as they could be. He had to divulge to her—as embarrassing as it may be—the cavalcade of truths that he’d obscured, stepped in front of them, waving his hands to block the view, saying, “Nothing to see here.”
So the plane ride had been fraught with twisting emotions. He’d just about chewed a hole in his cheek (and the grapefruit they served sure did make that sing sounds of complaint—the champagne soothed the sting). By the time the limo’d taken them to the Stone Brokerage’s fancy-schmancy turquoise villa with all its top-of-the-line amenities and its ocean view, he was a bundle of nerves. And he countered the nerves by saying stupid things. Looking out the window in the grand A-peaked main room with its towering mango-painted wall and its inset fireplace, looking out the window with his hands in his pockets and complaining about the view. He’d said, “Barely see the ocean.” Then: “Is it the ocean? I guess it’s the bay, really, isn’t it?” Taking the villa down a peg or two. Then the more bizarre concepts came. Wandering around saying to Kimmy, “Wonder how many secretaries Devlin’s fucked on this couch.” What an ugly thing to say. And Kimmy, maintaining her smile, patient with her disgruntled husband, nodding, saying, “I don’t think they always get this cottage. There’re four cottages here . . .” Like that made a difference. All right, whatever number of secretaries Devlin had fucked on this estate, divide it by four, divide by the number of couches and beds in the villa, there you have your number. Kimmy was good at math, he didn’t have to do that for her.
Then he was going even stranger and lower. “Probably his dad, too. His dad’s a real piece of shit as well. Wonder how many times he cheated on his wife? Not that Devlin’s mom was a treat by any means . . .” Kimmy still staying all smiles, the polite and professional wife. Her complacency began to irritate him. Almost as if her not joining in on his shit-kicking was somehow approval for her boss’s behavior . . . And shit, here he was, piling it on again. Making things worse. Steering his cart from the path of truth onto the rough terrain of belligerence and lies and future trouble. Then when he began with her, trying to be real and honest, it all came out too fast in a jumble of emotions, everything that had been weighing on him, everything he’d hidden from her . . .
***
An hour ago, this was how it began.
In the kitchen, he watched Kimmy pour two short crystal glasses of some high end whiskey, smelling the whiskey one more time before plugging the decanter closed with its jewel lid. She passed him his glass, held hers up and they clinked them together, the crystal singing a high heavenly note that soured his disposition again. The fine things collected by those Stone men. Maybe Kimmy just another thing to add, another notch on Devlin’s belt. He sipped the whiskey and it burned. Kimmy enjoyed hers, set it down, pushed against him like she wanted to squeeze all the bitter badness out of him. That was when the emotion welled up inside him. Regret and shame, worry that his bad demeanor was ruining his wife’s great gift. She’d earned this. Earned it and made sure he was there. Wouldn’t take no for an answer. Told him outright she wouldn’t go if he wasn’t coming. And this was how he treated her. He had to give her a gift bigger than what Devlin could give. Honesty. As difficult as it may be for him, the thing he needed to do was present to her the truth. But where to begin? He started by saying, “We should talk.”
Off to a terrible start. Even he knew that. We should talk sounds like there was trouble coming. But he didn’t want it presented like trouble, no sir, he wanted it presented as a good thing. Here’s this burden I’ve been caring, I’m going to release it and in releasing it, there’s a hidden burden on you maybe you didn’t even know you carried, but we’re going to push it off your shoulders, too, and it’s going to make both of us better. But it wasn’t the best sentence to start with.
“Talk about what?” she’d said, and instantly she was nervous. And in that darkness of his mind, now he wondered what she was so worried about, and started imagining she was worried that he was going to talk about breaking up, maybe putting things aside for a bit, and that made him wonder why would she think that? Was there something she was guilty for? Something weighing on her? Flashes of meanness crossed him then, and in the wake of his stupid opening statement his lips were twitching, and he couldn’t help scowling.
She’d said, “Did I do something wrong?”
“Oh God, no,” he’d babbled, feeling his eyes swell. The idea that her feelings would be hurt by his rudeness or brusqueness or inarticulate nature hurt his heart. “God no, Kimmy, nothing like that at all. We need to talk. I need to come clean . . .”
“What did you do?” she said, her chin dimpling.
“I didn’t do anything,” he said, “it’s not like that. There’s so much . . .” And then he was talking fast, his hand rolling and rolling, trying to hurry up his own words like now that it started he couldn’t wait to get finished. “There’s so much that’s weighing on me, and I just keep it hidden, I let it fester inside me, I don’t talk about it, I tell myself it’s for your sake, that I don’t want to put this burden on you, that maybe I’m imagining some of the shit, but there are things that I shouldn’t hide. You’re my wife and I love you, and even if these things are embarrassing to me, maybe I need to tell them to you . . .”
Though her posture softened, her features stiffened. She licked her lower lip, her brows lowered as far down as they would go. “What are you hiding from me?”
“Kimmy, again, it’s not bad. It’s not something bad. Not something I’ve done, just things that in the past I never wanted to talk about. I let them sit there in the dark, and you’re forging ahead, and I’m pretending like they don’t matter but they matter . . .”
She said, “What is it?”
“I don’t know how to start this,” he said, now rejecting the whole idea and wishing he’d just come to the Cayman Islands, enjoyed this villa, did dirty things with his wife in every room, defiling the couches in his own way instead of lamenting how Devlin had done it. Instead, he’d thought it was a good idea to be truthful . . .
Kimmy, reading his mind: “Be truthful, Josh, tell me the truth.”
“Let’s . . . Let’s grab our drinks. If you don’t mind—maybe something a little sunnier?”
“You don’t like the whiskey?”
“Something sunnier, something fruity . . . this won’t be the happiest talk, and I don’t want my mouth to go dry and only have this firewater . . .”
“Is it bad?”
“The talk? I don’t know if it’s bad, Kimmy,” he’d said, looking away. “But it’s honest.”
“Okay,” she said, trying to make the best of it. She opened the fridge, said, “Pineapple? Rum? You want an alcoholic drink?”
“You know what—just Cokes or something easy.”
“I can make things in the blender here,” she said, pointing at the Vitamix and the Cuisinart gleaming on the polished counter. Was she stalling? Why would that make you mad? Why would he even think she was stalling? Now he was offended that maybe she wasn’t so eager to hear his truth. Maybe his truth was only important to him. But if that were true, how low would that be? Kimmy wasn’t like that . . .
He rubbed his eyes, said, “Yeah, you know what, let’s make proper drinks. You don’t have to have rum. I think I’d like to have rum . . .”
At least that brightened her spirits for the moment, and they worked together (though stiffly), getting frozen pineapple concentrate, rum, tequila, lemon juice, grenadine, a touch of coconut milk into the blender. Made themselves proper frosty drinks, and suddenly the proposition of what he was about to do didn’t seem so bad.
But he’d forgotten the enormous weight behind the words he was going to utter.
And he’d never anticipated Kimmy’s terrible response . . .
Comments
Michael Monroe
I do like how this story is ..but I also do have sympathy for Josh....His wife is a monster in training...their is no redeeming qualities to her , Devilin and it seems Amy as well...Because birds of a feather flock together...I don't think Kimmy is Josh loving wife ....she is two faced and a liar...Josh is not a whiney wimp....when someone goes something like he has it is not easy to tell...do to Judgement of others....it also seems he was correct not to share with Kimmy as she side with his abuser. I love K T writing...the angst and emotions it makes you feel.....mark of a great writer!
CSH
This is the part that made me think of the HS issue: “Kimmy, again, it’s not bad. It’s not something bad. Not something I’ve done, just things that in the past I never wanted to talk about. I let them sit there in the dark, and you’re forging ahead, and I’m pretending like they don’t matter but they matter . . .”. To me this is the perfect opportunity for Josh to come clean about HS and Devlin.
RCH
Glaucon, I don't think it too late for a HS revelation it could be coming up in the next chapter. We may get it in Josh confession with Kimmy.
Chinookfan72
To be honest James the endings to these stories are the least of my concerns. As long as it makes sense I’m fine with however KT wants to wrap it up (just as long as we aren’t getting there any time soon.) What I meant by tragedy is reading a story with a fatally flawed protagonist. I personally don’t get any joy in reading about a dirt bag only to see the dirt bag get their due at the end. Especially in long form like this. To me that sounds masochistic to pain myself for multiple books just to get some catharsis in the end. I’d rather spend my time reading stories that provide pleasure along the way.
JamesIsAsleep
At the risk of sounding trite, certainly repeating myself but it's not really just about tragedies and happy endings for me. At the end of a story I dont want to necessarily feel hopeful or hopeless, I just want to feel. KT has talked about the boxer analogy, if she keeps hitting us in the same spot, (i.e. always writing a happy ending) we'll put our guards up and her blows won't hit home. Better to just go with the flow of whatever the story shes has for us and knock us the fuck out.
Chinookfan72
That intrigued me too, I would very much appreciate KT exploring this more throughly in the future.
Chinookfan72
Glauc, sorry for any confusion in reading my responses in this chain, but I’m not making any assumptions. Everything I am writing is from my personal preference. I freely admit there are people who like tragedies, but I am not one of them when the tragedy is combined with erotica. CHS, I am not trying to convince you I am right. My sole intention here was just to answer your original question and then provide some insight into why I think the way I do as well as answer your follow up questions. As for the POV, you are correct there is more than 1 pov, but just because you are a pov character does not automatically make you a protagonist. This isn’t to say you are wrong if consider Josh one, however that isn’t the way I interpret the story. Personally, I read Josh like I would read the cops POV in a bank heist movie.. I need the insight into what they are thinking, and what they know so I know how much trouble the protagonists are in. However, just because I have their pov doesn’t mean I am emotionally attached or supporting their cause so I would never consider them a protagonist.
CSH
I think it’s a real loss in terms of establishing tension and motivation for Josh. It’s definitely late but I’m not convinced it’s too late. Since they’re obviously about to discuss the fantasy of Kimmy with Devlin it seems appropriate for her to ask further why Josh obsesses over it. In fact, Josh laying this on Kimmy now would be perfectly in character as Josh is always a couple of steps behind when he should say something. She’s mentally committed to the affair so it wouldn’t stop her or alter her behavior, just make her feel really ‘bad’ for betraying him and that might just add to the thrill for her and for Devlin when he unapologetically confirms it’s true.
Glaucon
To me there’s an underlying assumption in some comments that seems to imply you can only enjoy stories where the protagonist "wins" – but people love tragedies! At the end of the day we all have our personally preferences, but my favourite cheating stories, at their core, are about eroticized betrayal. I love a story where the husband/BF is a good guy, and has justified animosity towards the other man, to me it just makes the betrayal more powerful!
Glaucon
Personally, I think the story could've greatly benefited from more HS backstory, but by now we're a little past the point where its inclusion feels right.
Glaucon
Personally, I think the story could've greatly benefited from more HS backstory, but by now we're a little past the point where its inclusion feels right.
Wess
Lively discussion. I like all these angles. But I still think back to that talk in the storage container when Kimmy admitted to the thrill she got from doing things with Devlin right under Josh's nose. Now that's the woman who intrigues me. Is it getting darker in here?
CSH
Yeah, I agree with this. The whole point originally was to try to understand the Josh character’s behavior by referencing his past. I like the fact that all three main character’s are multifaceted and that they change and develop over the course of the story. Kimmy is finding where she wants to be but Josh is still struggling. I also agree that Devlin’s character is slowly softening, at least from Kimmy’s POV. .
JamesIsAsleep
Basically, with a KT story, I find myself simultaneously being angry and cheering on both Josh and Kimmy's actions in this story. Aka, a job well done.
JamesIsAsleep
I've said this many times but I enjoy KT's characters being morally gray area, from the protagonists (wife and hubby) to the, I guess I was about to say antagonist but let's just say 'other characters.' None of them being beyond reproach, but also not being so obviously morally bankrupt that you dont care if bad things happen to them. As that concept relates to this story, I'd say that we achieve sympathy with Josh, as well as resentment. That's good to me. The female characters always have an inherent problem in KT's stories, because they will inevitably have to do something that society deems immoral, so KT's characters will always end up playing from behind. But once again KT has created a situation where sure wifey is being bad, but not so far afield that you cant respect her. Devlin is interesting because he started off, in my eyes, as easy to pin down. Pure evil. It could be Stockholm Syndrome but KT chipped off some of the edges of that opinion as the pages have gone on. The point is, KT's strength has always been making human characters getting caught up in a wild scenario. Beyond that I dont think theres anything else I could ask KT for as a writer, best to let her work her magic.
CSH
Unless I missed it, we have two POV characters in the story as written. And though I understand what the point of the story is for you, That’s not it for me. I think we are reading different stories. If it were the single faceted tale you mention there would be no reason for two points of view at all. Anyway, we are not going to agree or convince the other so, nuff said. It will probably please both of us in the end.
Chinookfan72
That’s a good point Tracey, I never considered a burn the bitch fan as I am personally not partial to those types of endings. You are also right that there are multiple different endings possible and I’m sure However KT decides to take the story it’ll be enjoyable (all preferences aside).
Tracey52
Liking the discussion. You could enjoy the story under the circumstances you describe Chinookfan 72 if the husband ultimately gets the upper hand or rewarded or gets justice. This could be burn the bitch ending, unlikely for kt. It could be everyone ends happy ie Kimmy becomes a hotwife and all is forgiven. Could be the Cherry Blossums finish. Kimmy loses Josh and realising what she has lost. Could be a Keely scenario. Josh finds his ideal girl and all happy but separated. I sure kt will find an even better ending. No pressure kt
Chinookfan72
I’m not sure I follow. I’m literally just saying KT should keep Josh as is instead of having to get additional back story to try and make him more likable. Josh isn’t really acting any differently in this chapter than he has in other parts of the previous books. He’s pulled everyone of these moves already, they are just condensed into a single chapter instead of spread over 5 books. The point of this story is to hear the tale of the wife who is cheating on and humiliating her husband. If I like her husband, then why am I okay with her cheating? Even worse, in order to make the husband more likable, I’ve got to read about how the guy the wife is cheating with is a horrible human being and has ruined the husband’s childhood/life. Personally for a story to be enjoyable I need to be able to support the protagonist and to me this story has a single protagonist, Kimmy. The narrative tension is all the second guessing, cover up etc. that Kimmy is doing and it’s more than sufficient to carry an erotic novel. Is it enough to carry a suspense novel, no.. but that isn’t why I’m here. It’s like Dexter, you can only support Dexter because he is killing horrible people, if he was doing those things to people you liked you would not support him or his actions. I’d imagine if you see a Josh the protagonist/co-protagonist then this would be unenjoyable for you. However, I really don’t see how anyone can enjoy a cheating wife story if they are reading it as the husband being a protagonist.
CSH
I’m cool on the HS thing and was asking to see what others thought. But I don’t think the story would be at all bearable if Josh was the cypher you seem to want here. If Josh is worthless and weak so to speak, really what’s the point? For me the story is only interesting because she loves him, he’s an intelligent nice likeable guy and yet she still cheats on him. Wife cheats on her asshole husband, or her weak vacillating husband no one likes, honestly, so what? Who cares? There’s no narrative tension in that at all. Anyway we have different views on what makes the story enjoyable. To each their own. I think we both are enjoying it in our own way.
Chinookfan72
yeah I agree with Tracey. I don’t want any more HS back story, i’d argue what we got was too much as is. Personally Josh being likable and sympathetic detracts from the story not adds to it. The erotic parts of this story is Kimmy cheating on her husband. If Devlin is a monster then by association so is Kimmy since she is choosing to fuck him repeatedly instead of being faithful to her good guy husband. This detracts from the erotica, in my opinion, because who cares about two horrible people having sex? Conversely, the majority of folks here voted for this story to be darker. Now, there are many ways to make the story darker, but for me, I voted that way because I wanted KT to turn up the depravity of Kimmy and Devlin’s sexual encounters (turn up the Josh ridicule, include Josh unknowingly in the sex acts etc.) and for a Kimmy and a Devlin to increase the humiliation of a Josh. By Josh being less sympathetic, this makes it easier for me to enjoy these storylines. If I liked Josh I wouldn’t want him to be mistreated. Furthermore, if Devlin is such a monster then why would Josh not tell his wife prior to the reunion about his prior issues with Devlin, knowing full well Devlin would be at the house party. (why associate with a monster if you have the ability not to?)Secondly, why, if Devlin is such a monster, why wouldn’t he object to Kimmy a job with him when he had the chance? If your wife is about to take a job with a horrible boss, you have a moral obligation to tell her what she is getting into. The fact he didn’t do either of these things suggests,to me, that even if you can explain away his reluctance to have altercations, Josh ultimately isn’t sympathetic since he’s had more than on3 chance to stop it.
CSH
Fair enough lol!
Tracey52
That would a downer. I want erotic fantasy not psychological counselling.
CSH
Josh is in danger of becoming a totally unsympathetic, whiny, bitchy loser. He is especially annoying here, even to himself, unable to express his thoughts and fears to his wife, too weak to confront his wife’s behavior, he conceives of his love for Kimmy as an excuse to have her walk all over him. Plagued with self-doubt, he blames himself for literally everything, and he’s a coward. In other words he’s a fairly realistic depiction of a lot of people, lol! I think what’s lacking in the story is connection of Josh’s behavior to the relentless bullying at school. Lots of this is a response mechanism. Especially the self blame. Maybe we could hear more about how they constantly teased him for having a small dick or how Devlin did some really awful thing to him directly. Suitable recounting by Josh to Kimmy of traumatic events in HS would allow the reader to sympathize and understand his behavior that is now seen as annoying. This trip is the right time. Josh wants to discuss Devlin and his fantasy. He can tell Kimmy more about why it is so awful to contemplate. Otherwise, it begins to reflect more poorly on him than on Devlin. If he’s going to tell Kimmy the truth, he should tell her the truth. Forcing Kimmy to confront the real truth about Josh being undeniably victimized in HS and then having her again rationalize continuing to victimize him would be a further step in her corruption and seems in character at this point. It would also bring home the enormity of Kimmy’s betrayal. Meanwhile, Josh has secretly fetishized being the victim. Perhaps Josh and Kimmy could agree that her humiliating him about his inadequacies compared to Devlin is some sort of twisted therapy for him. It’s not just to excite him, it’s to help him confront his past. I could see Kimmy going for that and it’s also a good justification for Josh to wallow in his pain. It would all be a fantasy, right? Should there be a further recounting of events in HS or not? Is it too early or too late? Not needed? What do others think?
JamesIsAsleep
Happy Independence Day to my fellow Michigander and American fam and Happy Canada Day to Chinook, Glaucon, and KT.
JamesIsAsleep
Excuses Devlin could make to end up crashing the trip ... Devlin is in a traveling Reggae band, "I totally forgot to tell you guys that on the weekends I travel to different islands in the Caribbean, also do you mind if I take the other bed? Trust me you won't even know I'm here, dont worry" Total comedy hackneyed plot where Devlin claims to have taken the wrong flight, "Shit, did that say Cayman Islands? I thought it said Calgary! Oh well, were you gonna finish that because I'm starving?" Maybe he plays a good samaritan, "Kimmy you left your thong in my apartment, oh wait you werent wearing anything *dad joke laughs at his own humor* that's funny ... wow look at that view, isnt it beautiful?"
Wess
OK, Josh isn't my favorite character. Hiding in the bathroom sounds like a real weasel move. But we don't know what Kimmy said. Did Josh confess his fantasies about Devlin and Kimmy? Did Kimmy respond with something like she could make that happen? Her willingness to take fantasy to reality might have crushed him. I kind of like that he is finally getting upset over what could be going on. Maybe the dude will step up. Show a little backbone. Or not. KT has so many moves it's impossible to know. I love that.
CSH
That would make sense, he tells her he thinks about it all the time and she offers to make his dreams come true. Then he hides in the bedroom.
Chinookfan72
LOL, that is pretty much what I was thinking.
DavidnDaria
Here's what we think: Josh is going to spill the whole shooting match. The bullying aside, he's going to tell Kimmy what happened that night with Devlin, but he's also going to say that it's what Devlin told him he said. Kimmy on the other hand, is likely to tell Josh he got his wish. Six books in and the tension is at its peak. Back to the hole. Y'all take care and for those of you in the States, have a safe and happy Independance Day. For those of you in Canada, we hope you all had a wonderful, safe time. For those of you elsewhere, enjoy your days! Live in the moment!
RCH
See, this is what I'm always saying about KT's pulling stuff out that we can't predict! Good, very interesting! Yes, Josh is acting like a little bitch. Perhaps the problem is during one of his numerous beatings his testicles got damaged? Not putting out the testosterone they should!
Tracey52
I think he tells her he fantasises about her having sex with Devlin and she says I know (and will).?
Chinookfan72
these are good questions and I have no idea. I also have no idea what Kimmy’s response could be that immediately makes him lock himself in the bedroom, nor how Josh’s headspace changed so much from the end of book 5 til now.. There was no indication whatsoever at work on Wednesday that his reluctance to go was anything other than to feed his kink.
CSH
So after reading this a second time, I’m not sure where this is going. Is he about to tell her about HS? Or just about his developing fetish of her with Devlin? Or both?
Chinookfan72
I’ve disliked Josh pretty much from the beginning, but god damn did Josh’s human hemroid setting get turned up to 11 in this chapter.. Fuck I can’t stand people that act like Josh. If I were Kimmy and the bitch boy went to sulk in the bathroom I would have just called Devlin and told him to get security to throw Josh off the property.. If he wants to be a bitch he can be a bitch somewhere else.
Glaucon
Just noticed "Fuck, you Devlin"
JamesIsAsleep
God this is like Game of Thrones all over again (back when it was good), where an episode would come and go and the thing you're anticipating is just alluded to constantly until the episode ends and you have to wait until next week. Love that by the way, afterall there was a reason why GOT was considered the best show in history before D&D fucked everything up in the last season. So Josh went with Kimmy but not before apparently dragging his feet with work and then, when he gets there, being a little bitch baby criticizing everything he sees because of his grudge. It will be interesting to see just what could have set Kimmy off so bad, considering whose semen she had to flush out just a few days prior.
