Summary

In Chapter 26, When Beck calls Joe to help her shop at Macy’s, they wind up in the dressing room with Joe giving Beck oral sex. Afterward, Joe tells Beck, who has been complaining about needing a job, that she can work at the bookstore. Joe also hires Ethan. When Joe tells Beck about Ethan and his way of talking in exclamation points, Beck suggests they should set him up with her friend, Blythe.

In Chapter 27, Joe is happy having Beck working with him. They are surprised that Blythe and Ethan took to each other and are going on dates. One day when Beck arrives wearing what Ethan describes as a “slutty gray slouchy sweater” (238) he asks her to go home and change. She leaves and then sends Joe a picture of her breasts. He tells her she is a bad girl and...