Chapter 14

Turns out that Jackson finds Evely's reaction to another woman making breakfast for her fiance quite unbelievable. It takes a little bit of hinting, but Evely finally gets it and scurries off to make breakfast for him as well. They proceed to overact and pretend to be a normal couple, which is uncomfortable to them but must be believable enough because his mom keeps trying to find ways to make them stop. Grandma joh loves it though, but everyone else just looks uncomfortable. Jackson and Evely head out to La Mure together with a cute, coordinated bowing routine to the joh matriarchs. Once they're gone, mrs Rose laments how Jackson is now acting so foolishly now that he's in "love." Grandma joh lectures her two daughter-in-laws about how being smart and foolish separately is easy, but knowing how to be both at once is hard. Then she adds a somewhat loaded statement about how they shouldn't be too petty (with each other). If they're not careful, they'll end up pushing the debts they owe