CHAPTER 12 ENGAGEMENT, A WEDDING AND SOUL-SEARCHING

     During the Thanksgiving/Engagement Party, Devlin didn’t expect to be asked as a chaperone to Rain and Ami. He was enjoying dancing with Mabel and then was pulled aside by Ali and asked if he and Mabel could chaperone Ali’s lady love whom he jilted just to satisfy his honor. Devlin wanted to pound Ali at that moment. First, he was engaged to a woman not Ami, next he asked him to be a chaperone, just when he was having the night of his life. Mabel no longer withdrew whenever he kissed her probably because of the hundred kisses she owes him but she also seemed to be more at ease with him. True, he wouldn’t break his promise to himself of not taking Mabel against her wishes but he will enjoy whatever liberties he can take within acceptable places of course. A Filipina seen in public being kissed and manhandled is considered by some as a loose woman. He did not wish that for Mabel so he tries to corner her where nobody can see them. It