The Divorce Party by Laura Dave

Author:Laura Dave [Dave, Laura]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi, pdf
Publisher: Penguin Group USA, Inc.
Published: 0100-12-31T22:00:00+00:00

Gwyn

It’s not that she is entirely unfamiliar with the Internet, but she never had occasion to learn about it in too much detail, to use it too regularly. So when she found out for certain about Thomas and Eve, it was Gwyn’s sister Jillian who did a Google search on Eve and sent Gwyn the results. (Who wants those kinds of results?) It isn’t a good thing to have too much information. No one probably thinks of that today, but Gwyn still thinks you are better off with less information. Especially because once you start to look for it, it is because you hope you won’t find it.

And then you do.

The Google search of Eve Stone revealed things that served only to make her more human, more real: Eve Stone. Full name: Natalie Eve Stone. Graduated from Pacific Valley High School in 1997. (No record of college.) Moved to Santa Barbara, California, where she lived on a street called Foothill Road, worked for a catering company, a dog-walking service, a restaurant called Firestone’s. She had another address, after that, in Oxnard— under Natalie Eve Stone—maybe there was a man she lived with there, a man who supported her, because there was no record of employment. No record of employment anywhere, again, until she landed on the east end of Long Island and opened Eve’s Kitchen.

It seems like she’s gone by Eve for a while now, maybe more than awhile now. Gwyn doesn’t know what made her decide to change it. The Internet didn’t tell her anything about that.

Or this: she was Thomas’s student. Eve was Thomas’s continuing education student—third on the wait list, the last one he let into the class. If Stephanie Golding hadn’t dropped out after the first class, Gwyn wouldn’t have this problem. She’d have other problems, certainly, but not this one. And the thing is, if it wasn’t actually happening to her, this problem could be out of a bad movie of the week. Where a man is supposed to be one thing. Like: bad. So they have the bad man screwing around with his student, just so the viewing audience can be clear. Hate this guy. He’s the jerk. Like it is ever that simple, for the people who actually have the job of hating him.

These things came back to her: The night after she went to the meditation center and she found her husband not present, she decided she needed to figure out the truth. She went back through it in her mind, when it all began, that first conversation with Thomas in the bathroom, which took place right after Thomas’s class on a Monday night. So the next Monday night she went to the college herself and saw Thomas and Eve outside of the library.

From the back, they didn’t look so ridiculous. From the back, she could see how he fooled himself that they belonged.

He was helping her load boxes into her van, his hand hovering right above her ass, reaching for her. Like he was the one with something to prove, like he was the one who was going to have to earn her.

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