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Devil in the Waters, Book 8, Chapter 4
🕑 Added 2021-05-01 00:00:01 +0000 UTCThings had been fine between them since they got back from Cayman, but it seemed like they’d both been too busy for each other. No bad words exchanged, but sometimes when it was quiet in his office he’d wonder if Kimmy resented the things he’d encouraged her to do this weekend. That would make sense. What kind of wife would respect her husband harboring such strange counter-intuitive fantasies? Did Kimmy do it because they were both so turned on, but once she got back home to their apartment, started to consider how weird it had been?
From the bathroom now, she asked him, “What time is it?”
He could see her putting on eyeliner in the mirror through the half-open bathroom door as he lay on the bed with his iPad. He told her it was five-thirty.
Tonight she was going out for dinner with Hyun. A Girl’s Night, because Kimmy hadn’t had one in a long time.
“I better get moving,” she said.
“You’ve got lots of time. She lives around the corner.”
“I don’t want to be late.”
He said, “Now you’ve got your own Meyer like you wanted, you don’t want to let her down.” Kimmy had lamented to him she had no more confidantes, that her schedule conflicted with Karina’s and that she wished she had someone to talk to. He’d asked her about what, and she’d said, “The things I don’t want to tell you.” Then she’d laughed at his speechlessness.
“I’ve always liked Hyun,” she said, jabbing the eyeliner brush back in its sleeve.
“Yeah, Hyun’s cool,” he said, fingering through an iPad game where you had to shoot apples with a bow and arrow.
Kimmy appeared in the gap, leaning an arm on the doorjamb. “Why don’t you go hang out with Meyer and Sophie?”
“I told you, he’s going out to Kingston with her to visit my aunt and uncle.”
“What, you’re not welcome there?”
“I am, it just seems like a father-daughter thing.”
“You don’t want to be Uncle Third Wheel?”
“No. Why are you getting so dressed up to go out with Hyun?”
“I’m not getting dressed up. I’m not wearing anything yet.” All she wore was a baggy black tee-shirt, her long skinny legs bare below its hanging hem.
He said, “You’re putting on makeup.”
She laughed at him, disappearing inside the bathroom again, saying, “Lipstick and eyeliner, Josh, is hardly putting on makeup.”
It was closer to it than not putting on makeup. He could hear her slipping on her clothes behind the open door.
What the hell was wrong with him? He still couldn’t shake suspicious thoughts about Kimmy, even though they’d come so far since the weekend. Or at least he thought they did. The truth was, they hadn’t discussed a thing, and he’d worried she was having second thoughts about all the stuff he’d done with her. But this concern he had over her makeup had nothing to do with Hyun and everything to do with Devlin Stone. A tantalizing suspicion his wife was only telling him she was going out with Hyun, using Hyun as a decoy so she could go have dinner with Devlin. That was the heart of his dark thoughts. It was so all-consuming he had to twist even a night out with their niece’s mother as sexual.
It looked like this perversion was here to stay for a little while. Fuck, what if it was forever?
Now she appeared in the doorway wearing her outfit and he wasn’t unconvinced she was going out to fuck Devlin. It was an outfit stylish enough and easy enough to remove should she end up hooking up with his high school bully in some hotel room here in Ajax. Kimmy getting a good, deep-dick fucking, then sliding home again with stories about Hyun she’d made up.
“You look great,” he said, his cock throbbing and thickening. He raised his knees.
Kimmy looked beautiful in an oversized white sweater that hung off one shoulder; the sweater was short enough you could almost see her bare stomach. The skirt she wore was long and flowing, midnight blue, pleated, with a thin belt closed by a small gold buckle.
“With white sneakers. What do you think?”
“Amazing as usual.” She’d really upgraded her wardrobe since working for Devlin. And he wondered if she wore panties and a bra.
But of course she had. Why couldn’t these thoughts go away?
If this kink was here to stay for a while, he was going to have to convince his wife to re-engage with it. If he didn’t, it was going to wreck him. Wreck him because he could not stop thinking about it. It was a sexual obsession ever since she’d experimented with it a little in Cayman. Now he was back, he looked to chase it away for Kimmy’s sake, but the darn little gremlin wasn’t afraid of him. It would only trot away a few steps, then linger and work its way back to whisper these kinky what-ifs in his ear.
As Kimmy disappeared into their closet looking for her shoes, he shoved away the iPad and got up, adjusting his pants. He’d got erect from those what-ifs.
He joined her at the closet door, Kimmy at the dresser putting things in a small black purse. A new one, Chanel. She’d told him Devlin hadn’t been to work all week, said he was out in Kingston. He had to believe her, but it seemed strange. Devlin had thought that Josh and Kimmy had been trying to engage him in a threesome, and that kind of thought in a guy like Devlin’s head would have him sniffing around Kimmy’s Toronto office on Monday morning no matter what pressing work called to him in Kingston.
What would keep him away?
Maybe he wasn’t away. Maybe Kimmy was lying.
Lying because she was fucking him? Or maybe lying because she worried her husband was going to feverishly hound her about whether she could see Devlin’s cock through his pants. Maybe she had come to her senses and wanted to avoid her husband’s kink because it freaked her out.
Kimmy said, “So what are you going to do tonight? It’s Saturday night.”
He shrugged. “Order in. Play some video games. Watch a movie.”
She avoided judging him, instead just snaking a hand around to scratch the nape of his neck while she kissed him. “Have fun,” she said.
It wasn’t the most exciting Saturday night he had planned, but he would have fun.
They walked together down the hall to the front door. She kissed him again, and he stood in the doorway as she walked down the hall to the elevators, that long skirt swishing around her legs. She waved as she stepped into the elevator. When she was gone, he closed the door and locked it.
Even though Kimmy was just going for dinner with Hyun, he was going to enjoy hanging around the apartment tonight, imagining she was out for a secret tryst with Devlin Stone.
At first their meeting seemed awkward, but once Hyun had served dinner Kimmy relaxed. Things didn’t seem so stiff once they’d both finished their first glass of wine.
Originally her night out with Hyun was supposed to be for the two of them to go see a movie, maybe go out for dinner. Two days after they made plans, Hyun had texted how she had a bunch to do on Saturday and maybe would be too tired to go out, and how about she made dinner, and they could relax and talk.
That had been fine with her. It’d be nice to relax outside of the house. It had been a very long time since she’d gone out with Karina. Their schedules conflicted. Plus, there was a certain guilt associated with Karina because Karina knew what happened at Tiffany’s party and was keeping it from Josh as a favor to her. And even now, Karina thought Kimmy had told Josh what happened. And she did, but not all the way to the truth, her curling stone skating the length of ice to land six feet out from the bull’s-eye, sitting on the outer blue ring.
So a night out with Hyun was perfect. Josh had his cronies. Guys he could talk to. What would he tell them? No way he would tell them about all his freaky predilections. But what would he tell them? Did he talk about their sex life? Probably. What would he say? What would she want him to say?
She and Hyun sat at the kitchen table in Hyun’s apartment, and it was a pleasant set up. The lights had a dimmer and were set low, flickering flame light from a half dozen candles on the table. Hyun had made some spicy kimchi jjigae, served with jasmine rice, kimchi pickled eggs, and a light and vinegary dongchimi on the side, and she kept telling Hyun how amazing the stew was. And it wasn’t lip service. It really was maybe some of the best she’d ever had.
She wiped her mouth now and a little under her eyes. The spice was getting to her in the best way, and it had them both giggling.
Bowl empty, she sipped her wine and asked, “How’s Sophie been doing?”
“Great, we went out this morning and got all her back-to-school things.”
“What grade is she starting?”
“Three.”
“I can’t believe it.”
“Me neither.”
Hyun talked about how scary it was to send a child off to school, and then they shared info about their own first days of school. Kimmy made fun of her sister, saying how her sister was so frightened on the first day, she bawled and threw herself on the floor.
Hyun chuckled through her nose, then held a napkin over her mouth so she could keep laughing. She said, “Let’s hope Sophie doesn’t give me any trouble like that.”
“Something tells me Sophie is going to love going back to school.”
“I hope so,” Hyun said, picking up a scrap of cabbage and popping it in her mouth.
“How’s school going with you?”
“Good,” Hyun said. “A lot of work, but two years from now I hope to get out of night shifts. That’s where I’m at right now, dreaming of a time I can work a nine-to-five.”
Kimmy waited a beat, picked up a quarter slice of radish in her chopsticks, then waited for Hyun to look up so their eyes would meet.
She said, “What about your guy friend? How’s that going?” What was the point of having girlfriends if you couldn’t talk about guys?
Hyun look puzzled for a second, then caught on. “Oh, that. No, that’s . . . I think that’s over.”
“Oh, I’m sorry.”
Hyun shrugged and said, “No, it was me. My decision. I think I lost interest . . .”
***
Later on the couch, with the dishwasher running, the candles put out and new ones lit on the family room coffee table, they drank the wine she brought.
Hyun had something weighing on her. She would go to take a drink, then change her mind and rest the goblet in her lap.
They sat close together on the sofa, and at last Kimmy said, “What is it?”
Hyun looked caught, her mouth paused open a moment. Then it closed, and her brow furrowed. She sipped her wine and set it down on the coffee table and pulled back her hair—still styled the way Kimmy had done it for her a few weeks ago. Then she let it down and stared off at a point on the floor a dozen feet out. “Earlier you said . . . You asked about my guy friend at school.”
“Yeah?”
“It’s not a guy.” Hyun didn’t look up, eyes still lowered to the floor. She leaned forward, collected her glass and held it in her lap again, swirled it nervously, the wine spinning in the glass’s bowl.
It seemed so obvious, but it took two or three seconds for it to sink in. At last, Kimmy said, “Oh, ho . . . Okay.”
“I haven’t told anybody that I know.”
“You haven’t told anyone?”
“Yeah,” she said, smirking and rolling her eyes up to the ceiling.
“Really? I’m the first one you told?”
“Obviously some people know,” she said, indicating women Hyun had been with.
“Oh,” Kimmy said again now, voice lower, her understanding of the whole thing deepening. “Does Meyer know?”
Hyun didn’t answer, but shook her head.
“Is that what happened between you two?”
Hyun looked up, but not at Kimmy, off to the side. “Meyer didn’t think I was . . . passionate.”
“And you weren’t passionate because . . .”
She shrugged her shoulders. “I don’t know. I guess it had something to do with it. But . . . It’s not as though I didn’t like Meyer. I loved Meyer. I guess I still do in a way.”
“And he still doesn’t know?”
Hyun looked exasperated—not at Kimmy, like at the situation—and sagged into the couch’s corner and looked up at the ceiling again. She said, “Meyer thought I was having an affair.”
“He did?”
“You hadn’t heard that before?”
Kimmy said no.
“I wondered if he told Josh.”
“If Meyer told Josh, Josh would’ve told me.”
“Not that it matters, anyway, I guess,” Hyun said, and took a long drink of wine.
Kimmy drank as well, her heart rate picking up a little. Josh had Meyer and Steve to confide in. People he could look to for advice and angles in situations that affected him. She had no one. Only Josh. There were things she couldn’t tell Karina. She wouldn’t talk to her sister, she couldn’t trust Amy. . . . Who else did she have? And she needed someone.
“You can tell me about it,” she said.
Hyun chewed the inside of her cheek for a second, put her wineglass on the coffee table. She sat upright again, tying her hair behind her head. She folded her arms and lay back in the corner. She said, “I didn’t really have an affair.”
“But kind of an affair?” She smiled, making it sly, wanting Hyun to know she could have a confidant. Kimmy would be Hyun’s confidant, because she wanted Hyun to be one for her as well.
“It was . . . I don’t know, I guess you’d call it, like, from here,” she said, tapping between her breasts with her two middle fingers, then re-folding her arms. She wore no bra under her white three-button top, and in the light cast from the candles, Kimmy could see her nipples. It felt very tragic and yet inspiring. Hyun was beautiful. She had perfect skin, a cherub’s face, and the most beautiful eyes. The way she sat, with her bare legs and feet under her, made her look young and innocent. Hyun was troubled by her own actions. Kimmy was troubled by her own actions. They were two of the same, though their circumstances differed.
“You can tell me,” she said again, wanting to be a source of comfort for Hyun.
Hyun looked her way, still chewing her cheek. She said, “I think I fell in love with someone. A woman . . .”
“But nothing ever happened?”
“Nothing ever happened,” Hyun said. “This woman doesn’t even know.”
“But once you and Meyer divorced, you didn’t pursue her?”
“I don’t think she feels the same. Plus, she’s with someone.”
“A man?”
Hyun nodded.
“Oh,” Kimmy said. “That’s too bad.”
“I know it is,” Hyun said. “But anyway, nothing ever happened.”
Kimmy sipped her wine, contemplating if she could ever divulge her own misdeeds. Her own affair. Hers not of the heart at all, but lower and baser. Dirtier.
“Nothing ever happened,” Hyun said. “But I wanted it to.”
“Even though she was with someone?”
“I wouldn’t have told,” Hyun said.
Comments
Mike Monroe
Yeah...This is very concerning...I hope all is well and we will hear from our Queen ..but has anyone read anything new ...I just finished Summer Swing by Ben Boswell..and now starting. A lockdown affair from Max Sebastian...both really great authors who definitely can spin a tell of our Variety.
RCH
I'm thinking the same. I fear the worst! KT I hope you are ok!
TF
To stay or not to stay, that is the question....guess I will continue for June in the hope that KT is ok and will be back.
CSH
I share your concern but don’t know what to do other than express our support and wish her the best. KT, we hope you are okay.
RCH
CSH, it just concerns me that KT just dropped off line in the past she has let us know that was going offline for a bit. the only exception was wen KT got the Covid but with in a week or two she let us know what was up. It's been 4 weeks so something I fear has happened that she can't communicate.
Wess
CSH
She’s had long periods of absence before. She needs time to face what she’s dealing with and will return when she is able and ready. Meantime she should just know we support her and wish her well.
RCH
Does anyone here know KT? I want to call out the RCMP to do a wellness check on KT but how? I would say she is located in the Toronto area due to her knowledge of the area. I'm starting to fear the worse.
RCH
Amen, to that Glaucon! Wish you well, KT!!!
Glaucon
Wishing you well, KT
BNR
KT! We miss you! And you are on our minds and in our hearts! 💞💖💕♥️💞💙💞💖♥️💕💙😍
Mike Monroe
Yeah...This getting a bit scary. Its been quite a while since last update from KT...Hoping all is well!!!
Simoee
KT? You ok, lady?
RCH
Okay, now I getting worried! KT if you can let us know your alright.
CSH
We hope you are well.
RCH
Yes, it's getting a bit concerning not hearing a thing from KT in more than a week.
BNR
I just hope KT is safe!
RCH
As CSH said I hope everything is okay! Perhaps KT has taken a few days in some exotic location for research on where Devlin is taking Kimmy next! Perhaps it'll be some remote Nova Scotia hotel well stocked with single malt scotch. Keep your receipts and log your contacts KT so it's deductible.
CSH
Hope all is okay, KT. Reading through this chapter again, I like the level of self awareness shown by Josh.
RCH
Sybil maybe. It's the dichotomy the Asian cultural suppression of the individual accomplishment. Kimmy strived to do well school and did very well. It's never enough she is in competition with her sister it's a never ending battle. At the same time don't bragging about your accomplishments be humble. That's the Asian side of Kimmy the western side wants to stand up and show the world look what I did look how accomplished a lawyer I am! Look at the me look at the sexy hunks I'm attracting despite my small chest!!! Eat shit you big breasted popular girls! Roar!!!
Tim ziegler
Maybe there’s a little Sybil in Kimmy.
CSH
Hadn’t thought of it that way. Good point.
RCH
Is it confessing or is it a twisted form of bragging? Look at her reaction now when she is getting attention from Devlin and other males. She is the ugly duckling that has suddenly become the swan. She likes the attention and the validation.
CSH
Even the urge for a confidante seems a bit sudden. Eight books in and she hasn’t given the slightest hint she needs a confidante. She doesn’t even feel that guilty for deciding to “break” Josh. Now she has an overwhelming urge to confess? It just seems a bit out of character.
RCH
CSH, there may not be a sexual thing between Hyun and Kimmy. It's possible that Hyun may become Kimmy confidant? While it would not surprise me if Kimmy had a bi thing with Hyun I agree it would be problematic with Hyun's possible romantic feelings for Kimmy.
RCH
I'm too small to be a devil, more of an imp!
RCH
KT likes chaos!
KT Morrison
Ha ha, yeah, I kinda do!
KT Morrison
LOL, I'm so glad to have you two devils around!
CSH
I know I’m in the minority here but I think this leading to some sort of sexual thing between Kimmy and Hyun is problematic. I do get the “Kimmy becoming the sexual goddess” kind of appeal of it. It could be great for psychological effect all around, she could even tell Josh and work it into the “fantasy”. But an affair like that inside the story we have would require it to take over the narrative for a while. I fear that could send the main plot off the rails. Hyun is ‘in love’ not just hot to trot so it would be a bit much. Waiting to see, and keeping an open mind as KT has successfully worked through similar tricky points in the past.
RCH
All joking aside what is happening with Devlin? Is he and Amy in communications with each other? Are they running something on Kimmy? If so why what does Amy gain from all this? While a Devlin is rare there are men of his caliber available to her. I can't see why Devlin has put Kimmy on the back burner. Unless he could possibly be maneuvering to make his break from Papa Stone's firm and go independent? I would think her would need Kimmy to help with that. There can be a number of complications involved with higher placed corporate officers leaving with client list employees etc. You would need top legal counsel! Of course the simplest way would be a tragic accident befalling the older Stone's. Devlin is capable of this! That surely would make this a dark story! Headline: Kingston Wig Standard "Search for Mr. and Mrs. Stone Continues" The light aircraft piloted by Mr. Stone was reported overdue. Witness report seeing a light aircraft hitting the waters off Point Traverse Ontario in an uncontrolled manner. The Stone's are survived by their son Devlin...
RCH
Oh, yes this is only the beginning! I see a surveillance drone to watch her perimeter etc.
Donkatsu
If custom carpet care is good enough for Maggie and Keely, then it certainly is appropriate for the very mostest, deviousest, connivingest, and plotting and planningest of all of KT's gals. Please forgive my overuse of superlatives. KT, do you see what kind of nonsense ensues when you deprive us? Do you really want this idiocy to continue?
RCH
Earlier I think Devlin's size was compared to Kimmy's arm? Well Hyun and Kimmy are similar in size and Kimmy likes it DEEP!
RCH
Tim, do we? Maybe I think this maybe Kimmy exploring the bi-side! I can see a possibility that Kimmy is Hyun's long term love interest. I would like to know why her possible bi-ness lead to divorce? The way Hyun expressed some love for Meyer you would think that they would have worked something out? It's 2021 their generation is more open minded about things. As BNR states below KT is going to mess with us! If Disney ever redoes the "Mr. Toads Wild Ride" at Disneyland I what it renamed KT's Wild Ride! Well it maybe too adult themed for Disneyland!
Donkatsu
Thanks for the insight, RCH. Apparently, it takes the experience of the ages (aged?) to work out the fiendishly complex maneoeuvres such passions are likely to entail. She will need additional devices as well, with more robust security than the ones Josh knows about, as Josh probably has some capabilities in this regard, thought clearly not enough. The devices will also have to have different levels of access to the CRM database so that if Josh manages to breach one of the known devices he will only see ordinary activities, not the fun stuff. Josh already has had some inkling/suspicion about panties, so that will require higher level workarounds for Kimmy to maintain plausible deniability.
RCH
Donkatsu, this is going to require major resources! I would say CRM software running in the cloud APs on her phone, tablet and laptop. It may require an additional secretary to help with data entry too.
RCH
It's interesting this is something that was hinted at earlier. Meyer said that Hyun had possible sexual identity issues. CSH you were wondering how long Kimmy and Hyun have known each other? I would say since Hyun and Meyer met or after they were married. Josh and Meyer seem close so Josh would be in on Meyer's love interests.
Donkatsu
This is going to get very complicated. Isn't Kimmy going need some CRM (customer relations management) software to make sure the trysts, business meetings, travel for business and monkey business, backstories, location of clean lingerie, matching of same with what was seen earlier in the day by whose ever's opinion counts at that time, and all the rest are made consistent for each partner. That sort of software tends to be expensive, so it would be better if she could get Devlin's firm to pay for it, but the expense might have to be hidden as airline FCUs for her important international meetings in London, Seoul, Buenos Aires, Capetown, and wherever her fancy takes her. On the other hand, I imagine one of our resident software geniuses could provide her with a beta copy (oops, did I say that?) of Software, AG's latest.
BNR
My dirty mind goes one way, but my suspicious mind always knows that KT likes to FUCK me in the HEAD, HEART, & SOUL!!! <3
RCH
And the plot thickens!
Tim ziegler
I guess we know we’re this is headed!
CSH
We don’t know how long they’ve known each other do we? Curioser and curioser.
