Submit: The Dining Club: Part Seven
2 stars. This review also appears on Steamy Guys After Dark.
Even though what happens in this novella is not my cup of tea, I'm glad that Grace seems to come to terms with exactly why she's trying to be successful at The Dining Club--it's all to make David happy.
She wondered how she'd ever let it come to this. How she, Grace, a well-respected theater director who'd been in the Sunday Times list of most promising new directors the year before, had allowed herself to be in this position. Tears of humiliation and disbelief filled her eyes.
"What's the matter?" asked David quietly. "If you want this to stop now, all you have to do is say so. That one word will end it all. Say 'stop' and it's over, Grace. You must choose to do this yourself."
"For us," she replied, struggling to regain her composure. "This is for us."
"But the choice is yours. Now do you want to stop?"
Grace shook her head.
"You have to say it."
Her tongue moved over her dry lips. She hadn't come this far to be defeated now. "I don't want to stop," she said clearly.
I was pretty shocked by Grace's words at the end, and I can't really say what else happens here without giving everything away. I'm pretty sure this was my favorite of all of the novellas, even though I didn't like anything that happened in it. One more to go.
