Summary

Chapter Seven opens with a text exchange between Kate and Pyotr, with him asking if she is at home. Kate is at work and the two Emmas at the school are staging a wedding for the ballerina and sailor dolls. Kate now wears her great aunt’s diamond for an engagement ring. She decides to tell people at the school that she is engaged. Her co-workers ask about him and she tells them he works in her father’s lab. She tells the kids in her class as well. When Adam hears he asks if she is jumping into something. She shrugs and hints that it may not last forever; Adam is surprised, regarding marriage as a “covenant” (121).

Later, Kate and Pyotr stage photos together. Bunny watches Kate and Pyotr doing dishes together and is confused by how they seem to have changed...