DITW 13-3: The Balance of Arcane Arithmetic
Added 2024-01-27 03:45:01 +0000 UTCThe disparity was shocking and brutal, and she hadn’t expected such shame to shine so brightly in her eyes, especially with the grotesqueness of the display. Two cocks, belly to belly, both hard and aroused just for her. These were the endowments of the men she shared her sex with. Two different men with two different sets of needs, two different sets of provision. Unequal in physique and unequal in psyche. Two life forms with masculine instruction, two growing trees that extended canopies to soak up the nutrients, whose shapes and doctrines were formed by the pressures around them.
Devlin’s cock was a monster that dwarfed the thing that Josh had. Almost twice as long, but it was the girth, the heft, that delivered the most lurid of thrills—seeing her husband humiliated by what her secret lover had fucked her with, over and over, and again and again. That disgusting, meaty thing that hung between Devlin’s legs had delivered her indescribable pleasure over the summer and into the fall. And Josh attributed its size and power to her infidelity; that his wife’s wickedness was borne on the mighty zeppelin Devlin Stone fucked women with.
And right now, her lover’s big cock seeped more excitement from his deep urethra. Devlin loved male dominance—but if he thought Josh drew the domination to himself, Devlin couldn’t recognize his own excitement. His own canopy growing to and fro and seeking to claim from thin air the things it needed to survive. Devlin needed Josh, and she’d been the bait. A strange disappointment bothered her. She hadn’t expected to ever feel let down by Devlin. Not emotionally. But why would she ever have wanted him for more than the job and the cock? There had never been anything significant between them.
Devlin loomed over Josh the way he sometimes loomed over her. She would lay prostrate on a bed, and Devlin would assume his masculine pose over top of her, displaying his might, his muscle, his overbearing cock size. Dominant. It made Devlin hard as steel to prove himself better. It was pathetic; Josh had never in his life claimed to be anything more than who he was. He was no offence to Devlin Stone. If Devlin sought dominance, why pick on the meek? But then again, he’d used her as bait. Maybe she’d seemed meek, too.
The sight of Devlin’s lubricant dripping on Josh’s cock skin, rivulets streaming her husband’s shaft, drove an erotic spike into her. Josh lay with unamused expression, blank as a mannequin, under Devlin, and Devlin shifted his hips to slide his big slippery cock all over Josh’s much smaller one. Seeing the two cocks together was driving her wild; gears turned low in her engine and worked to squash the grapefruit of her sex like a juicer. She could feel the renewed trickle of her arousal.
She inserted herself into the hot spectacle, sitting on the bed beside Josh, getting close to both men, almost face to ear with Devlin, who looked down on Josh, like a homoerotic tiger. “It’s so hot to see your cocks together,” she said, seeking their attention. She slipped a hand between their bodies and ran finger pads over both their slippery shafts, making sure they each got equal time. “He’s so big, Josh. Look how much bigger he is than you.”
Josh said nothing, but couldn’t hide his arousal. His cock twitched and flexed, and he produced a stream of pre-cum. Both men’s cocks shone like they’d been dipped balls deep in a jar of oil. To see two straight men endure such strange closeness, and to have their cocks rubbing together this way, got her heart racing. She stretched her grip to hold both shafts together and tried to stroke them. Both men’s breaths deepened.
Devlin grumbled, low and lusty, “Kimmy loves my cock, Josh.”
She flicked a thumb over his plump, slick cock head, then down to tease Josh’s. Josh’s eyes stayed on Devlin, talking to her, though, saying, “You know he told me to wear your panties today.”
Her teasing thumb slowed, and she regarded Josh. “I’m not surprised,” she said. “ Why would you ever talk to him in the first place?”
Devlin sniggered. “I’m right here.”
“I don’t care if you hear us talk,” she said. “We talk about you a lot.”
“I’m sure you do,” Devlin said. “I heard you two through the window in Cayman. I thought for sure we’d end up in bed like this that night.”
Kimmy ignored Devlin, trying to stay connected with Josh. “Remember when you had them in the car? Outside Hyun’s?”
Devlin said, “The panties?”
“Yeah.”
Devlin sniggered again. “Was he wearing them?”
Kimmy scoffed, exhausted by the juvenile taunts. “He doesn’t wear my panties, Devlin.”
“Oh, yes, he does,” Devlin said, smiling at Josh who still showed no expression. “He wore them to my apartment.”
She removed her hands from their joined penises, and stared at Devlin’s profile. This handsome, brutish thug who spoke the language of the bourgeois but was more comfortable in the guttural tones of knuckle dragging troglodytes. How had she ever permitted such a snake to slither beyond her doorway? “The night he found them?”
Devlin said, “The night he came to see your picture.”
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It was better out in the open, anyways. What shame was left? He’d been played and teased and tormented and humiliated until shame meant nothing. He could roll shame around on his tongue like a word that’s lost its meaning. Shame? Is this shame? What was shame anymore?
Devlin planked over him, him with his pants down, Devlin naked. His wife was just toying with their two members, breathless over the wonderful size disparity. She was naked. He’d watched her have sex with the enemy.
Kimmy now had shrunk to the head of the bed, looking small and thin, but her face stern, her eyes narrowed into black lines. He’d say they were closed but for the flinty light reflecting under her lashes. She said, “What picture?”
She’d asked it before but could never have figured the truth from the careless overheard taunts.
Devlin said, “What was the picture, Josh? How would you describe it?”
“Get off me,” he said, plain and simple.
“Come on,” Devlin said, “we’re both about ready to pop. I think Kimmy wants to see my massive load coat your whole little dick.”
Kimmy said, “Get off him for a second.”
Devlin sneered and licked his lower lip, retreating from over top of Josh, slipping to the side to lean next to Kimmy, one elbow down on the bed, his massive round shoulder up to touch his ear.
Kimmy’s eyes were on him now. “What picture, Josh?” He’d known her a long time, and though she sounded calm and looked inscrutable, there was a tightness to her tone, a fumble in her pronouncement.
He sighed and sat bedside, got to his feet so he could pull his pants up. The craziest thing was that in all this drama, all this torment, the bullying, the revelations, he was so hard and upright he couldn’t do up his fly. He sat back down in his expensive pants, his erection sticking up out of the fly. “What kind of picture do you think it was, Kimmy?”
Kimmy looked aside to Devlin and Devlin showed the scolded puppy look, unbothered that his summer lover had caught him being a bad boy. And yet, he thought he read more in that look; that it was the expected act of the roguish alpha male, but he didn’t want Kimmy’s scorn, nonetheless.
Devlin rolled his head on his muscular shoulder, whispered to her, “I told you that you were taking too long with this. Josh was ready for so much more.”
Kimmy said, “What did you do?”
“He sent me a picture.”
With a new edge to her tone, Kimmy said, slow and measured, “I understand that, Josh, but what was the picture?”
Devlin said, “It was a nice one. Classy.”
Kimmy stared at Devlin, fully inscrutable once more.
Josh let her off the hook. “Your face wasn’t in it, Kimmy.”
Now she steadied her gaze his way. “What was in it, Josh? What was in the picture?”
He took his time answering, glad Devlin didn’t interject. “You with your legs open. That was the picture. Your skirt up, your legs open. Your pussy, Kimmy. You let him take the picture. Were there so many pictures you don’t remember which one it could be?”
Devlin pondered to himself. “I’m not even sure it was you, actually, Kimmy. Could have been anybody.”
Kimmy stayed focussed, eyes blazing black and alive. “You sent my husband a picture?”
Devlin looked at Josh. “I know he got a picture. I’m sure of that. Because he started begging me for more and more.”
Kimmy said to Josh, “You did?”
Devlin said, “How could he not? Whoever was in that picture, she had the prettiest pussy anyone’s ever seen.”
Kimmy stroked her cheeks in slow drags with one long-fingered hand, lost in deep concentration, her eyes now faraway and not laser-beamed on either of them.
Josh said, “It was you, Kimmy. It wasn’t anyone else. It was you and you were on some kind of bags or something, like in a—”
Devlin interrupted. “He didn’t get the pussy part of the picture. I’m not sending that in a text. I’m not stupid.”
Kimmy’s eyes roamed Devlin, from his glossy hair, out of place from hot sex, down his muscular body to his huge cock, still rock hard and ready.
Josh said, “That’s why I went to his apartment. To see this picture. See if it was really you.”
“Kimmy, he was invested. He would have done anything to see it. You underestimate what a player your husband is. He’s into this.”
Kimmy shook her head, eyes distant again. “Why would you do any of this?”
Devlin shrugged his shoulder, head bobbing along with it, saying, “Shine a light on the truth, help you both find the right balance. Sometimes that takes temptation. You know, put things right, let Josh know it was okay to step back, let him know it was okay for you to step forward. Your relationship doesn’t have the right balance. Anyone could see it.”
Kimmy showed no expression at first, then her pretty features tightened into incomprehension. She looked at Josh again. “And he told you to wear my panties?”
Devlin smiled, eagerly waiting to hear Josh admit it.
“Amy told me to,” Josh said. “Amy was the one who texted me, she was the one who told me to wear your panties.”
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I would remark, that one day, when talking to a woman about the Buffy the Vampire Slayer TV series that my daughter had introduced them to during weekend sleepover in the mountains, I mentioned I was constantly astonished about the selective amnesia adults developed about their schooldays. She, a schoolteacher herself, looked at me askance, so I said they forget how horrible school is... and she gave me a further skeptical smile... and even after I said bullying for a start... she presented a vision of how great school was for her. Later, when our kids were being tormented by their classmates for being 'guiris' she changed her tune. Just to point out that for some people apparently bullying happens to other people. When my pupils in school innocently mentioned I was a foreigner I would look at them in puzzlement and say, "No, I'm not... I'm English." Then I would say," You are the foreigners." But they would protest, we are in Spain. Then I would point out that all people who were not English were foreigners no matter where they were at any given moment... QED. Nowadays that would be considered bullying. There was me thinking it was education. Special thanks to George Mikes, anglophile and pisstaker of the English (now Brits) in his out of date hilariously clever "How to Be an Alien" for supplying me with a teaching tool. One man's stick is another man's carrot... that's the sort of thing you get bullied for in the showers...
Bill F Protagoras
2024-02-01 13:12:19 +0000 UTCI agree with and confirm all you say with regard to the UK, adding or rather further emphasizing social class, racism and religion all of which bend and bow down sex! I just lost some personal 'nostalgia' of own my due to an urgent phone call and clumsy mouse hunting. I'm glad not to have memories of bullying on two continents... though I am curious to know where you would prefer to be bullied... no offense meant in Liverpool grim humour serves for all occasions. As for the links between puberty, sex, violence and the price of fish, apart from personal experience, I would recommend "Our Kind: Who We Are, Where We Came From, Where Are We Going by Marvin Harris, in fact, just for entertainment ignoring the trove of knowledge he acquired, and contributed to, I would read any of his books. Bullying, like the poor will always be with us, though it could and should be lessened and discouraged. Though it has many more facets than we have focused on. One really important one being the way society functions... “To be GOVERNED is to be watched, inspected, spied upon, directed, law-driven, numbered, regulated, enrolled, indoctrinated, preached at, controlled, checked, estimated, valued, censured, commanded, by creatures who have neither the right nor the wisdom nor the virtue to do so. To be GOVERNED is to be at every operation, at every transaction noted, registered, counted, taxed, stamped, measured, numbered, assessed, licensed, authorized, admonished, prevented, forbidden, reformed, corrected, punished. 'It is, under pretext of public utility, and in the name of the general interest, to be placed under contribution, drilled, fleeced, exploited, monopolized, extorted from, squeezed, hoaxed, robbed; then, at the slightest resistance, the first word of complaint, to be repressed, fined, vilified, harassed, hunted down, abused, clubbed, disarmed, bound, choked, imprisoned, judged, condemned, shot, deported, sacrificed, sold, betrayed; and to crown all, mocked, ridiculed, derided, outraged, dishonoured'. That is government; that is its justice; that is its morality.” But no fear we live in democracies, although Proudhon's opinion of democracy might not be as high as you imagine... Whatever happened to setting a good example? Or that panacea 'the birch.'
Bill F Protagoras
2024-02-01 11:32:59 +0000 UTCIt might be Josh’s but I’m still convinced it Devlins. Bad people win bad prizes! And Kimmy is really bad and wicked!
Andrew Mellein
2024-01-31 14:57:08 +0000 UTCPete, I know that sort of thing can be difficult to relive. Josh has to do that each time Devlin opens his mouth or inserts his cock in Kimmy. I am sorry for what you had to go through with your team mate. It is not clear whether adding girls to the mix makes things better or worse - both, probably - more to fight and bully about, less time for the bully to do his worst. No question about how Josh's time on the receiving end, with apparently no revenge of any sort during all of HS, left him with some scars and problematic attitudes toward people and events. We had a spitter when I was in elementary school; he walked the opposite way to Jr HS. He was a lot bigger than the three of us and used to bash us with his green bag after he spit on us. We finally ambushed him with pebble filled snowballs, lured into the ambush by the smallest of the three; we exhausted all our ammo. The only way out is through. Funny thing was that nobody saw it, but everybody, including my 6th grade teacher knew about it, including the bully's name. Even before social media information networks were efficient and timely.
Donkatsu
2024-01-31 01:09:55 +0000 UTCWell said, Donkatsu. Sensitivity Alert: If you're triggered or sensitive to true stories of intense bullying, please read no further. I attended private high schools, both in the US and Britain during high school. Maybe for this reason, maybe not, I had the dubious fortune to meet many bullies. For those who may not know, another element of bullying among boys can be "nut-crushing." A larger boy pins down a weaker one, grabs him by his balls, and squeezes as hard as he can, over and over again, often for several minutes. Boys love fights, so bystanders will often cheer the fight on. "Boys don't cry" was a strict rule unwritten rule, so the boy on the bottom often tries desperately not to cry. Unable to escape, he just needs to take it. Inevitably the bully isn't satisfied until the loser cries out loud enough in pain enough times. The bully feels like an alpha, showing off his dominance, and the loser is publicly and painfully humiliated. Boys don't rat on one another, and the loser may become a frequent target. So one boy may be subjected to this by one or more bullies many, many times. One bully was very popular and was on the school's wrestling team with me. During practice, guys dreaded wrestling him. He'd hurt you any way he could, and you guessed it...a common move of his was the covert nut crush. Very strong, he'd often pin you down on your stomach, and somehow manage to grab and crush your nuts, either directly, or by gripping your elastic uniform very close to your balls, and wedgie-ing it (pulling it) fiercely, so the fabric did all the work. Sparring matches didn't end till you were pinned on your back, so he'd make you hurt and suffer as much as he could before flipping you over and pinning you. Lastly, this was by no means the gamut of bullying techniques. Some boys were ridiculed and laughed at by entire groups of their peers on a daily basis. For months. One boy was spat on publicly, by multiple classmates, while others looked on and cheered. And, much worse was done to other boys...things I won't relate here, as there's no semblance of a polite way to mention them. My apologies if anyone feels I've overshared, but I just wanted to illustrate just how brutal and intense bullying between boys can be during that peripubescent stage of development. I don't think it's often talked about. And I think receiving that kind of treatment frequently, during the time when one's sexual drive is first emerging, can shape and lay the foundation for "kinks" or what some might call "perversion."
Pete
2024-01-30 23:41:47 +0000 UTC😂
Kat
2024-01-30 14:49:25 +0000 UTCAt this point Josh would be better off leaving, even if Kimmy has his offspring. She’s just a liar, cheater, and manipulator!
Andrew Mellein
2024-01-30 13:37:29 +0000 UTCWe don’t know for sure at this point. Kimmy needs to go on Maury!🤣🤣 “You are not the father”
Andrew Mellein
2024-01-30 13:33:58 +0000 UTCNot convinced, but I re-read everything after Christmas and I did think "coulda happened right here." Truth is with that title!
Bill F Protagoras
2024-01-30 12:43:52 +0000 UTCWell, most likely, but can’t rule out Devlin, which is the real issue.
Tracey52
2024-01-30 11:48:52 +0000 UTCAgreed
Tracey52
2024-01-30 11:47:55 +0000 UTCI went back to read the ending of book three because of the photograph of kimmy in the shipping container in Hamilton. I am convinced that Kimmy and Josh conceived their child in the final chapter, Upper Hand.
Steve McCarty
2024-01-30 10:51:55 +0000 UTCSteve is his best friend from work. Meyer is the cousin.
Chris K
2024-01-30 01:13:03 +0000 UTCThink you mean Meyer his cousin
Mike Monroe
2024-01-30 00:27:51 +0000 UTCDo you mean Meyer?
CSH
2024-01-29 22:23:59 +0000 UTCYou are right. I didn’t think of that part where she tells Josh that she’s more evil than he knows. I’m convinced something happened after she was in his apartment with the replica. She’s essentially been conspiring against her husband throughout this whole book with Devlin, and on a sideline with Amy.
Kat
2024-01-29 21:12:11 +0000 UTCDevlin put the card there on the day he visited Kimmy. He texted Josh that evening to taunt him about it.
Kat
2024-01-29 20:48:05 +0000 UTCIt’s all in Keely Book 1.
Kat
2024-01-29 20:47:05 +0000 UTCDid KT ever explain how Maggie and Max finally broke up? At the end of Maggie. He gets back together with her giving her back her ring. And then it jumps foward and she is marrying Cole! Does it explain it in Keely?
Andrew Mellein
2024-01-29 17:20:00 +0000 UTCJosh's friend.
Chris K
2024-01-29 12:32:51 +0000 UTCAgreed ..Maggie on steroid..maybe they are related!!!
Mike Monroe
2024-01-29 09:46:28 +0000 UTCSteve?
CSH
2024-01-29 05:48:15 +0000 UTC🤣🤣🤣
Andrew Mellein
2024-01-29 03:40:56 +0000 UTCAM: We had quite a lively discussion of Cole and Carol and Maggie at the time. He will have to produce cash flow for the old man's hedge fund or it will be Dubai, Mumbai, or bye bye for Cole.
Donkatsu
2024-01-29 03:29:10 +0000 UTCDoes anyone feel like Steve could be a player in the game? He seems awfully in love with Kimmy. He always defends her, and deflects Josh's notions that she does any wrong. He also helped in a major way with the surprise party, getting Josh worked up and nervous. And then there was that awkward slow shoulder squeeze he gave Kimmy at the bar. Maybe a stretch?
Chris K
2024-01-29 03:18:57 +0000 UTCWho put Devlin’s business card in the desk in book 1? It was before Devlin came over Josh and Kimmys apartment offered her a job and began fingering her!
Andrew Mellein
2024-01-29 01:16:06 +0000 UTCNice write up, Kat. I also wondered if Kimmy has perhaps been both meeting with and conspiring with Devlin since the return from Rome. It would definitely fit Bill’s sense that Kimmy has a reason to consider herself more wicked than Josh could accept. The intentional conspiracy and planning involved is inherently evil. Those two scenes you mention did come off as implying there was something that would be returned to later. It’s useful you went through the timelines. Still, there’s skips and incongruities in the text occasionally as it’s pretty long and I’m sure KT writes some parts then decides to leave them out, etc. It’s hard to tell. But, yes, makes sense to me.
CSH
2024-01-29 00:32:02 +0000 UTCMakes me wonder if the first failed pregnancy was Josh's in the first place!
Chris K
2024-01-29 00:25:27 +0000 UTCIt is significant. I keep wondering how did she make it through 27 years without this evil, conniving person showing? She has so many lies to hide, and so many stories to make up, it wouldn’t surprise me at all to find out something else. It’s going to be fun finding out.
Kat
2024-01-28 23:46:38 +0000 UTCI know KT is sill working on Keely which is sort of a prequel in the middle. But I could totally see a sequel to Maggie where these characters lives ended up after being married.
Andrew Mellein
2024-01-28 23:08:42 +0000 UTCKimmy is just a more effed up version of Maggie! By the way off topic- does anyone think that Maggie and Cole’s marriage is going to last in the future ? I felt that Maggie had a real relationship, history, and love with Max (even though she cheated on him) and with Cole it was just lust and sex! In the future I can see her marriage not working (even with a new kid) and her trying to get Max back. Unfortunately he moved on with her assistance to her friend Keely! Still a more redeemable character than Kimmy!🤣🤣
Andrew Mellein
2024-01-28 22:55:30 +0000 UTCAnd yet the almost panic that Kimmy showed when Josh went to Rome and then when he moved out of their home makes me very suspicious. There is some vital evidence to explain why she is behaving like Ms Hyde. Like how could so many people not have recognized her as the egotistical monster she so frequently presents herself as,.. It's significant that Quinn, a new acquaintance, is not so easily taken in by her!
Bill F Protagoras
2024-01-28 22:17:56 +0000 UTCI can’t help thinking about alternative paths. The gaps in the story leave my mind to wander. I don’t think Kimmy’s cheating on Josh with Devlin will be the thing that breaks Josh and makes him leave her. It’s all of Kimmy’s lies, deceptions and unkindness that is going to do her in. If it was just the sex, even with Josh’s bully/most hated person on the planet, they might be able to have a HEA in the end. Josh, while still in pain, is enjoying everything he’s seeing. If it was just an affair, he might agree to future sessions with Devlin and Kimmy. Josh loves her, I believe that. Kimmy IMO has a real skewed view of what love is. She needs Josh, but can’t actually love him, because she’s too selfish. You can love someone and cheat on them. You can love someone and lie to them. You can even love more than one person. Kimmy has cheated and lied to Josh, but with such treachery attached to her actions. A person who is desperately in love with someone doesn’t mock and laugh at them behind their back. They also don’t conspire with their bully to do things that they know will hurt their partner. Kimmy has been working with Devlin, not with Josh. The game with Josh was a lucky convenience for her. That’s why I wouldn’t be surprised if Kimmy somehow had a hand in some of the texting, or at least gave the crucial information to make them real for Josh. I’m looking forward to seeing how KT weaves all of this together
Kat
2024-01-28 21:28:18 +0000 UTCI don’t know, I’m still waiting for details to fill in the gaps in the story. I’ve been wrong so many times about what might happen next, so who knows? It’s fun to speculate.
Kat
2024-01-28 20:45:29 +0000 UTCDitto. Ta!
Bill F Protagoras
2024-01-28 19:56:04 +0000 UTCLed Zeppelin is a paradox, an oxymoron they use heavy metal to make music that can fly.
Bill F Protagoras
2024-01-28 19:36:11 +0000 UTCSame. Thanks for the heads up. Didn't get a notification
Chris K
2024-01-28 18:17:09 +0000 UTCDevil in the Waters bk 12 is available to buy for Amazon kindle! I snatched it up and added it to my KT collection. Love the cover KT! That’s my favorite image of Kimmy!
Andrew Mellein
2024-01-28 16:13:26 +0000 UTCGood stuff Kat! I also tend to alternatives. We are here for KT, not Agatha Christie with some trite though clever, complicated explanation. Raymond Chandler didn't even know how Marlowe found out who dunnit in the Big Sleep... and KT is an Elmore Leonard fan... in his books you get more 'whose gonna do somethin about it' than 'who dunnit'! I note you too are following 'the Kimmy has done things so wicked they would alienate Josh' spoor! Also the reason why Josh gets hard when he thinks of a competitor fucking his mate is that it is an evolutionary trait which improves the survival of his genes... which means the end result happens when something irrational causes an automatic response to become a reason... but that is all so cerebral that it would cause coitus interruptus... we shorten the boring shit to taboo kink and all that nasty stuff... and life goes on with a certain degree of probability. Well, that put the brakes on my chubby!!! Also it's a good trait because even when Kimmy sheds her skin like a treacherous snake while she endlessly comes on Devlin's dick Josh still wants to fuck her... but none of that matters because they love each other! The question of love I leave to someone even more foolish than me!
Bill F Protagoras
2024-01-28 13:19:38 +0000 UTCMaybe the texts came from Kimmy since the start? Devlin still taunts Josh quite a bit from his own number, so why would he also text him from a private one? Devlin is too proud of the dickhead that he is to hide his taunts.
Chris K
2024-01-28 03:26:43 +0000 UTCAlternative thought here. I just reread some of the chapters in Netoromanza, and it made me think of another path here that doesn’t involve Amy. It’s after Josh comes back from Rome that he starts receiving texts from the unknown number. I still believe all the texts were from Devlin. Devlin knows that Josh found the panties and knows all about his kink, thanks to Kimmy. We still have no official confirmation about who it was that entered Devlin’s condo when Kimmy was naked in his bed. Devlin knows about the replica, and that Kimmy used it in his bed behind Josh’s back. The story then just flips from Chapter 15 and Kimmy in Devlin’s condo, to Josh meeting Devlin to see the picture in Chapter 16. There are a lot of gaps that haven’t been filled in. There’s also the time in Book 11 when Kimmy goes to Devlin’s condo late at night looking for Josh. The chapter ends without knowing if she knocked on his door or not. Yes, Kimmy is acting shocked about this picture, but I wouldn’t put it past her to be involved in this with Devlin. Kimmy knows how obsessed he was about her panties. Josh even said it himself, that she was the only one who knew about his obsession with them. If you go back to chapter 19, Heavy Cargo, even the wording of the unknown number text sounds like Kimmy. “I want to see your little cock in them,” sounds exactly like something Kimmy would have said to him at night in bed, while playing their game. I’m probably wrong, but I’m still not convinced that Amy has anything to do with this. She’s been a minor character throughout 12 books. I think it would be more sinister if it turns out that Kimmy was involved in this somehow. It’s been said before that both Kimmy and Josh are unreliable narrators. Kimmy has been in a desperate state since Rome to keep her marriage together. She also has a kink that she needs satisfied, as well as, wanting to keep her job and rich new lifestyle. This situation right now in the hotel room with Devlin and Josh is all her dreams coming true. At this point, though, panties, no panties, Amy or Devlin, it really doesn’t matter. Josh knows most the truth. He’s seen it with his own eyes. Another guy would have bolted for the door after finding out everything his wife has done, with his bully of all people. Kimmy only wants sex with Devlin for his dick and because it turns Josh on. Devlin only wants sex with Kimmy because he loves to torment Josh. He gets off on it. In my opinion, Josh is clearly in the driver’s seat here, if only he had enough sense to realize that. Josh is the one who determines where the story goes, because both Kimmy and Devlin need him. Josh’s kink may have been predetermined, but it took Devlin and Kimmy to really make it an obsession for him. In a way, Devlin is right that they all need each other. I wish Josh would realize that he needs these two the least.
Kat
2024-01-27 22:29:19 +0000 UTCNow we know that Josh knew that Amy was behind it and was in communication with her! I wonder how that’s going to play out with her and Kimmy. Amy wants that threesome long dead for some reason!
Andrew Mellein
2024-01-27 19:11:31 +0000 UTCDevlin uses Kimmy to get at/to Josh... Amy wants to get at Kimmy and, if we are to believe recent events... Devlin by using Josh... also she may be jealous because she believes there is a thang between Dev and Josh. Though I don't know 'how' she could've got hold of that idea!
Bill F Protagoras
2024-01-27 19:10:21 +0000 UTCYeah ..I agree the true villain ...the Big Boss has not been truly revealed. So many directions this could go. Josh may still not be a willing participant fully in this plot. He shows flash's off growing a pair but then it kind of fizzles. As much as I want him to get some measure of payback to the school yard bullies ..I am not sure he will..it's will he or won't he. KT is a master of deception right now ...full of left and right turns with maybe a U turn in there!
Mike Monroe
2024-01-27 19:09:36 +0000 UTCA lot of great insights... Though I'm convinced Amy is pushing some schoolkid issues like the rest of them. I think we've seen she likes to seed dissension, to snipe, to be vindictive but 'has made herself' too much of an outsider to take control. She is evil through the banality of her objectives... not through her successes. She's gonna blow shit up not get the whip hand. Maybe I'm wrong, there are still plenty of unknowns... but that's how I judge Amy by her past actions. The gaps and hollows in the story Kat notices are gates or portals, to wormholes through which KT travels to pull the plot together by links unbeknownst to the reader. There may never have been an omniscient narrator, but storytellers have always had guile.
Bill F Protagoras
2024-01-27 18:52:53 +0000 UTCHe was on board and he was there right before he went to Rome. Then he found the panties on the couch.
Chris K
2024-01-27 18:50:20 +0000 UTCAgreed 👍
Andrew Mellein
2024-01-27 18:28:59 +0000 UTCDo not necessarily agree this could have taken place earlier. Josh's biggest foe is his lack of confidence on socio-sexual situations. It has taken a lot of work by a lot of bad people to reel him in and make him own his kink. He could still go off the reservation, though.
Donkatsu
2024-01-27 18:21:40 +0000 UTCThe excess and parties of Led Zeppelin have nothing on Devlin "mother fucking" Stone! (LOL)
Andrew Mellein
2024-01-27 18:02:39 +0000 UTCThe only question I have is why didn't Amy and Devlin reel in Josh sooner? Like at the party? He obviously loves the humiliation and if Kimmy is game you know Josh would be into it. Maybe it's because of the bully thing and it's a man he hates. But Kimmy gaslighted Josh in the direction of Devlin through a couple of books. I just feel that we had this whole infidelity saga with Devlin. But Josh could have easily been brought in sooner. Now that we are here Josh has easily capitulated to Kimmy's demands and humiliation by comparing him to Devlin's cock. I may be wrong we will see where the next couple of chapters go. Maybe Josh is not fully on board. Who knows?
Andrew Mellein
2024-01-27 18:00:00 +0000 UTCSo it appears while Devlin , Kimmy and Josh where playing checkers ...Amy was playing chess...the puppet master behind the scenes. So the long ago attempted setup for a 3some in HS...was a long regret for her and through her Devlin...A itch left unscratched. Tiffany party the perfect way to reintroduce the idea... especially since Josh being a light weight not being to hold his alcohol. Perfect opportunity to plant seeds in a depressed and vulnerable Kimmy suffering from loss of the thing she wanted most a child. Emotional and lost ..Amy has a way for her to find herself..get you some Devlin...he is huge and what you have to play with is just a toy....Hell Josh might just be into as he knows how much you are feeling the loss...You can convince him after some time he ultimately wants this for you. Is Devlin the King in this game Amy has Rigged for her and Josh the pawn..or is Josh the King because inorder to get them all here he has to be okay with this ...after all Kimmy after what you been through you deserve it! What a truly diabolical and evil person Amy is ...Is it the jealousy of the relationship that Kimmy had with Josh or was it just a hateful person wanting misery for her so called friend to join her lonely existence from afar! Also I agree no straight man wants to be anywhere close to being that close to another's member . What is up with Devlin?? As kids say today..he is doing to much!
Mike Monroe
2024-01-27 17:41:13 +0000 UTCAccording to one of his letters he and Fanny snogged a lot... Keats claimed a thousand kisses but that can be put down to poetic license, so he could wish they could make it one thousand and one!
Bill F Protagoras
2024-01-27 17:30:09 +0000 UTCSomeone should have told the band then, There are three images of flying Zeppelin's, one admittedly was the Hindenburg, with repetition on a few covers, if they chose them because of the group's name that was duplicitous! Also the metal out of which it would be foolish to make Zeppelin is lead... led would rise as though it were an airy nothing... my real secret identity is Procrustes!
Bill F Protagoras
2024-01-27 17:10:59 +0000 UTCAssume you mean Devlin's anthem is this kind of Zeppelin, but it doesn't fly, it is made out of lead: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HQmmM_qwG4k
Donkatsu
2024-01-27 16:38:22 +0000 UTCI like these. Especially the observations on bullying which certainly at the high school level often included sexual elements. Devlin certainly has that. Devlin has been living the high school life all along though so one should have expected him to retain these tendencies. The origin question - well Josh shows the seed of it really early on, and Kimmy jumps on it and begins cultivating it immediately. Some plants require careful cultivation and Kimmy put in a lot of work on Josh. But there was something there to start from. It was not created entirely by her, she just helped it grow and shaped it to her needs. the manipulation theme has been a competitive sport for these characters from the beginning. God help us from the types who want to be in control, and they all three have that in excess, even Josh, who wants to top from the bottom.
CSH
2024-01-27 15:15:13 +0000 UTCMaybe Josh is right that Kimmy's wickedness was swept aloft by Devlin's Zeplin powered dick!
Bill F Protagoras
2024-01-27 12:21:39 +0000 UTCIt is surprising that neither of the men has cum from all that friction and the earlier build of tension. Origin question: without Kimmy's affair would Josh have developed his kink? How many of the principals believe they are manipulating one or both of the others (Amy obviously thinks she is directing the three of them). Each has a moment in this chapter where he or she realizes that someone else is controlling a lot of the flow of events - and then that thought evanesces. Mostly OT, but pretty accurately recalled from childhood: there is often an erotic element in bullying; the taunts are inevitably sexual once the boys start to mature; at the end of a fight the bully is on top and the victim has to "give", the fight is only over when the loser gives up to the winner/bully who is actually sitting on him; the victim cannot run away from the fight, at some point he has to man up, even to be beaten and humiliated [this is all in the pre-firearms, pre social media era - those two factors have changed the game qualitatively]. The only way out is through - gotta get a pretty girl to reject the bully and choose the victim, gotta succeed in one of the manly arts or activities of HS. Pretty much describes Josh and Devlin.
Donkatsu
2024-01-27 11:52:19 +0000 UTCPerhaps self deception on Kimmy's part... over estimating her own pulling power.
Bill F Protagoras
2024-01-27 11:39:17 +0000 UTCGood interpretation.
Bill F Protagoras
2024-01-27 11:34:37 +0000 UTCI almost let it go without saying but Josh continues tight lipped, understandably resentful and reluctant to engage emotionally with his wife... which does not augur well as Amy is probably spiteful, even venomous toward him, and at the very least hostile... A wicked messenger like the one Dylan advised, "If you cannot bring good news then don't bring any." Amy seems more like the kind to run her mouth off in a text... and not being scrupulous about the truth! Someone who might have access to Devlin's apartment ,or might be as much of a nut job as Devlin has implied!
Bill F Protagoras
2024-01-27 11:31:01 +0000 UTCKeats was quite the poet, tormented by sex and impending death. Two other things that go together like a horse and carriage. Although in their case you can have one without the other. I hope poor Keats got his end away...
Bill F Protagoras
2024-01-27 10:36:39 +0000 UTCSeason of mists and mellow fruitfulness, Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun; Conspiring with him how to load and bless With fruit the vines that round the thatch-eves run; To bend with apples the moss'd cottage-trees, And fill all fruit with ripeness to the core; To swell the gourd, and plump the hazel shells With a sweet kernel; to set budding more, And still more, later flowers for the bees, Until they think warm days will never cease, For summer has o'er-brimm'd their clammy cells.
Bill F Protagoras
2024-01-27 10:26:02 +0000 UTCThere's much hinting in this instalment that Devlin's summer love lease may be coming to an end and that was even before the ascending bitch discovered he had overstepped the mark. Also Devlin is showing more humility and deference as though he senses the shift of power... Hinting at an inverted pride... one were the dynamic lioness rules her pride of self-involved mates competing for her attention... and a hint that Devlin may find his smug lazy dominance in jeopardy. Just a current in the air or wish fulfilment. Who knows, Kimmy could become a less dangerous and cruelly whimsical Rachel Webster with a smaller more civilized pack perhaps... In truth, a Devlin less scheduled for replacement. Different hunting grounds different ecosystem... just spitting on a few ideas probably... Summer's lease hath all to short a date then comes the season of mists and mellow fruitfulness... Autumn or Fall as those of a puritanical bent know it.
Bill F Protagoras
2024-01-27 10:22:10 +0000 UTCKimmy's nemesis a bitch without being a goddess! So I was wrong, it's even possible she's not an embittered lackey... we'll have to wait... it would be easy to fall into the trap that Amy must be the hidden mastermind, because Devvy is an out and proud Neanderthal... But Neanderthals have run all sorts of important things throughout history... notably recent history, much to our chagrin and our threatened future existence! PS there is no evidence neanderthals were stupid, their dna still exists in the human genome, Kimmy may have some...
Bill F Protagoras
2024-01-27 07:15:27 +0000 UTC"This handsome, brutish thug who spoke the language of the bourgeois but was more comfortable in the guttural tones of knuckle dragging troglodytes. How had she ever permitted such a snake to slither beyond her doorway? “The night he found them?” Phew! Close call! Still you know that thing KT has about consistency, Donkatsu. One of the things that is indispensable to the plot of Cherry Blossoms, a corner stone to ad hoc realism.
Bill F Protagoras
2024-01-27 06:39:43 +0000 UTCKimmy stayed focussed, eyes blazing black and alive. “You sent my husband a picture?” Obviously you thought you were talking to Cordelia but Goneril, or Reagan is on the line!
Bill F Protagoras
2024-01-27 06:23:13 +0000 UTC"And yet, he thought he read more in that look; that it was the expected act of the roguish alpha male, but he didn’t want Kimmy’s scorn, nonetheless." Aaaah, is Devlin concealing a crush... too 'little' too late, Mother Fucker! Then again what Kimmy thought makes me uneasy. Worrying about her taste... lets put it down to baby hormones... we can always use that as a further excuse for what passes for thought in their pretty little heads.
Bill F Protagoras
2024-01-27 06:16:33 +0000 UTC"He’d known her a long time, and though she sounded calm and looked inscrutable, there was a tightness to her tone, a fumble in her pronouncement." The astute detective discretely wraps his clue in his hankie and slides it in his jacket pocket.
Bill F Protagoras
2024-01-27 06:08:09 +0000 UTC“You know he told me to wear your panties today.” And the little one snitches such are the fetters of childhood. Freud got it all back to front. Men don't want to fuck their mothers (usually) they want the women they fuck to spoil and nurture them... and women, best let them speak for themselves... if they want.
Bill F Protagoras
2024-01-27 06:02:34 +0000 UTC"Devlin grumbled, low and lusty, “Kimmy loves my cock, Josh.” Like a jealous sibling he plucks at the hem of her attention so little brother may recognize who she loves best...
Bill F Protagoras
2024-01-27 05:50:22 +0000 UTCAnother amazing chapter, KT! More crucial details are being revealed, and Kimmy seems to be thrown for a loop here. She gets off on Josh’s humiliation by Devlin, but when it affects her in any substantial way, suddenly it’s not appropriate. All throughout the books, Kimmy has acted above it all, believing she’s better than Devlin, smarter than him, and stronger than Josh. We might be witnessing the beginning of Kimmy’s downfall. Her over confidence throughout this whole story is about to bite her in the ass. Devlin has played her, like she’s been playing Josh. She thinks she’s better than that because she supposedly loves Josh so much. The only one here who has nothing to lose is Devlin. He’s just having a great time bullying and playing both of them. KT, it’s awesome how you’re weaving all the loose ends together!
Kat
2024-01-27 05:34:12 +0000 UTCWith her gentle hands stimulating her kind of growth from the not so secret coddled stores beneath the roots of her trees' surge potential bearers of the fruits of her inscrutable designs... who here might forbid her anything? Some overbearing permeating invasive though intangible ancient male presence rejected, and ejected from the primaeval ooze... don't forget to flush... and put the lid down... she asks 'nicely', and for once it obeys.
Bill F Protagoras
2024-01-27 05:18:14 +0000 UTCImagine if the baby is Josh's. The poor kid is already getting beat up by a bully!
Chris K
2024-01-27 05:13:27 +0000 UTCKimmy's refractory lapsed garden flows down the page like the flow of tree tapped syrupy sap, lubricating and seminal for all germane to her demonic self-made paradise... not lazy on her pedestal but labouring in the mulch growing her pair of disparate trees together ready to harvest the fruits of creation, no docile helpmeet she... holding close the mystery of her new life and mistress of arcane strategies and cunning conceits.
Bill F Protagoras
2024-01-27 04:51:19 +0000 UTCI can’t wait till the pregnancy stuff comes out too! I have a feeling this is what will burn Kimmy! Just like Geoff and Nia in Blossoms which almost destroyed that marriage!
Andrew Mellein
2024-01-27 04:44:45 +0000 UTCWhat a great ending to that chapter. Josh showing he's not as slow, dumb or submissive as Devlin seems to think he is. Or Kimmy, for that matter. The last half of that, the dialogue, Kimmy clearly remembering the past, trying to recollect when such a picture was taken. Devlin interrupting Josh to not give too many details. Makes me wonder if the picture truly was her, but Josh would know that part of her well, so I'm thinking Devlin's distraction was due to how and why it was taken, rather than any deception of who it was. Could be wrong on that. As they both noted, there was no face. As to Josh and Devlin and their dick play, I see this totally different then others here. While the image is homoerotic, the reasons behind it are not, imo. Josh isn't interested in Devlins dick other than the emotions evoked from Kimmy enjoying it so much, comparing them, finding Josh inadequate. This only happens because Kimmy is there, watching, touching. Wanting. As for Devlin, he's not attracted to Josh, he's attracted to bullying Josh. Touching Josh's dick with his doesn't turn him on, showing how much bigger he is, how much better he is, to Kimmy, while demeaning Josh, THAT turns him on a whole hell of a lot. Bullying Josh with his big penis, saying awful things about how small Josh is while in front of Kimmy. Forcing Josh to submit to his big cock, that's what does it for him. That's why he wanted Josh to suck his dick. Dominance, not attraction. Attraction to making Josh submit to Devlins proper place. Between Kimmy's thighs. And what neither Josh or Kimmy seem to get is that, yes, bullying Josh turns him on, but that's not the play here. Beating Josh, forcing his submission, beats Kimmy. Devlin can't beat Kimmy in a fair fight. She's too strong. She was right about that, at least. But Devlin knows Kimmy's weakness. Josh. Conquer Josh, conquer Kimmy. As awful as she is, she still loves him to an unnatural degree. Twisted, dysfunctional, fractured. But still love, if her own version of it. And Devlin can leverage that to twist her into getting what he wants from both of them. But it requires Josh to play ball. And he's not. I wonder how they both react to Josh's revelation?
L_S87
2024-01-27 04:36:23 +0000 UTCSo the truth about Amy comes out! But still can't wait to see how Kimmy explains being pregnant with a 50/50 on who the dad is. Or how she seduced Hyun to use a safeguard to protect her lies. And Josh still thinks this all started in Cayman?
Chris K
2024-01-27 04:22:37 +0000 UTCHmmm. Well Amy is back in the mix. That’s going to complicate things. If it’s true. Devlin could have just lied to him. So many lies it’s hard to keep up with them. “Devlin needed Josh, and she’d been the bait.” Bingo! “If Devlin sought dominance, why pick on the meek? But then again, he’d used her as bait. Maybe she’d seemed meek, too.” Why pick on the meek. Uhh.. let me just mention one word to you Kimmy: Hyun. “To see two straight men endure such strange closeness, and to have their cocks rubbing together this way, got her heart racing.” I’m calling bullshit on this one. How ‘straight’ are these two guys? No judgment, but Josh is likely straighter than Devlin. Devlin has clearly done something like this before. Awful lot of conversation for people fucking each other.
CSH
2024-01-27 04:19:18 +0000 UTCI loved how the chapter started one way and then evolved into this conversation and then became something totally different where all these revelations came out! Kimmy is totally over Devlin at this point as the chapter highlights she just cares for his big cock that's it. By the end of this chapter and revelations of the photo were revealed I bet she wished she didn't have anything to do with him! But I still think Kimmy is going to get burned when all is said and done. As for Josh I like how is revealing this information and thus destroying this weird relationship Kimmy, Devlin, and now Josh have going on! Cant wait for the next chapter!
Andrew Mellein
2024-01-27 04:17:43 +0000 UTCHelluva chapter KT! This is the one! This is the one has got the all the revelations I have been waiting for! I think Devlin's goose is going to get cooked. Now Kimmy knows the truth about him and Amy conspiring to twist up her and Josh's relationship. I cant wait for the next chapter! This time I don't meant that lightly. When it got to the ending it was perfect! Bravo!
Andrew Mellein
2024-01-27 04:07:10 +0000 UTC