Summary

Chapter 28 opens with Sol holding Jottie's hand during their third movie in two weeks, and she is growing accustomed to this honest man who makes her laugh. She notices that his employees like him and thinks that he has Macedonia in the palm of his hand. When he kisses her in the department store, she worries about Felix finding out and also thinks about her last kiss from Vause, but she banishes them both from her mind because neither of them are honest and she deserves to live happily.

When Jottie and Layla visit Mr. Russell in Chapter 29, he is disappointed by the lack of drama in the encounter between Jottie and Anna May Bowers, the fiancé Felix jilted to marry Sylvia, and as he tells Layla about Macedonia's history, he mentions that his house is haunted. Jottie recalls how Felix used to...