Devon is so very bored. Most people left for spring break, and even
that restaurant that sells every kind of food is closed. So very
bored. Seth called earlier looking for Jon. When he found out his
son wasn't there, he quizzed Devon on her views of various things for
about half an hour. That didn't last long enough to stop her
boredom, though. Devon tried knitting a sweater, and learned that
she was terrible at knitting. After her cat unraveled it, she was
able to throw the whole thing away. Also, as part of the boredom,
Devon realizes that she misses Jon. So much. She finally (finally!)
realizes that she's in love with him. But he “clearly” doesn't
want her long-term and she doesn't believe there's only one man for
each woman anyway. She tells herself there's other men, but knows
how heartbroken she'll be to live somewhere that's not with him.
Devon decides she can't think about that, and focuses on making
herself a chocolate cake instead.
While that's baking, she goes out to get the mail and chats with the
landlady a bit. They have to live in the Midwest. They're talking
about the weather and Devon says, “If you don't like it, wait a
minute and it will change.” Anyway, Devon offers her landlady and
her husband a bit of her chocolate cake. Yay, cake! This woman
doesn't even approve of married couples spending a night apart.
Certainly old school. Anyway, as she's flipping through the mail,
Devon finds an envelope for her from the dean of that graduate school
she applied to. Everything else forgotten, she makes her excuses to
the landlady and heads inside, dropping Jon's mail on his desk.
Devon cautiously opens the envelope with a knife, rinses the knife,
puts it away, and slowly starts taking the paper out of the
envelope...
Then someone rings the doorbell. Oh, hello Margo. Come to be a
manipulative jerk, have you? Margo says flatly that she's going to
marry Jon. I wonder if Jon knows about this. It's a political
arrangement, because Margo's dad is a Senator, or some other bigwig,
and Jon needs the support for some reason. Margo doesn't believe in
love and does believe that Jon will have all kinds of mistresses.
She'll probably have....misters? Not sure what the term is for the
men a woman has affairs with. Anyway, Margo does a thorough job of
telling Devon that she's just like every other girl Jon has had a
fling with and that there's nothing different or special about her.
Margo must not be aware they're in a romance novel and Devon is the
main character. Oh, and Margo tells Devon this so she won't get hurt
and she'll just let him go when he breaks it off and not try to get
revenge. Rude.
Margo leaves and Devon debates about whether Margo was telling the
truth or not. As we've seen, “telling the truth” is very
subjective in this book. But Devon doesn't think she's worth Jon's
attention, so she decides that Margo is and that she needs to kill
this thing she and Jon have going. She pulls her overdone cake out
of the oven and decides to look at the letter from the grad school.
Her life is just about her now, so she needs to know what she's doing
with it... Oh hey! She got in! Her free tuition is only for
undergrad, so she's got a money problem, but she's determined to fix
it and go to grad school. Somehow.
That evening, Devon falls asleep on the couch but wakes up when she
hears some suspicious noises. Yup, that's the back door and
someone's walking across the kitchen floor. Please don't put more
traumatic things in here. I've just begun to accept what happened
earlier. Oh good, it's Jon. Devon is super happy to see him and
he's happy to see her and suddenly they're in the middle of the room
trying to get as close to each other as they physically can. They
both say how much they've missed the other and it's not long before
they're on the floor of the living room, both of their sweaters off
and Jon's undoing the buttons on her blouse. Devon is quite happy
with this. Jon says something about how Devon has found a great new
way to celebrate. She asks what they're celebrating and he lists a
few things, including his new job...
Wait. What? He's working for Bob Dickinson? That's Margo's dad, by
the way. Margo must have been telling the truth and Devon doesn't
want to have sex with him if he's just going to abandon her. So,
Devon tells him to get off of her. He is confused, and admits that
he didn't plan this but he's enjoying it. He asks what happened
because she was enjoying herself before. Instead of explaining,
Devon just says that she changed her mind and that if Jon doesn't
stop, it's rape. Oh hey, she does know that word. Jon does stop.
(Thank you Leigh Michaels, or Leach Michaels' editor for deciding two
attempted rapes were enough for one story.) He also tells her that
when she does change her mind and want to have sex again, she'd
better be damn convincing. He goes up to his room to unpack and
Devon chides herself for thinking she was different and that Jon
really loved her.
Because telling him why she wanted him to stop would have made too
much sense. I don't think he's on board with marrying Margo. If
anyone, I think he'd marry Devon if she'd have him, but she doesn't
ask because that would make the book end much more quickly. Instead
she just assumes and makes them both unhappy. At least if they
talked it out, Jon would know why she was mad.
My guess for the next chapter (the penultimate chapter)...the teacher
Jon was covering for will return and Devon will miss Jon more than
ever while trying to keep herself separate from him, somehow it will
come out that Margo either lied to her or that Jon changed his mind
about marrying Margo, Julie might have to push Devon to actually talk
to Jon about this, and Jon will reveal that he is one of the
assassins sent to kill C.J. and his kids but now that he's met Devon,
he can't go through with it.
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