God Ain't Blind (39 page)

Authors: Mary Monroe

“I thought you wanted to work on that,” he said, giving me a puzzled look.

“I did. I mean, I do. But like you said, this is not something that I can fix on my own. We both need to work on this.”

He let out a heavy breath and rubbed the side of his neck. “Let’s go with them. If we can’t mend things on a beach in the Bahamas, we can’t mend things nowhere.” He dipped his head and looked at me, with his eyebrows raised. “I just hope I can trust you down there around all them handsome young men. . . .”

I was not surprised to hear Pee Wee say such a tacky thing, and it ruffled my feathers, to say the least. But these days he wasn’t making half as many crude references to my affair as he used to. “You don’t have to worry about that,” I insisted. “Not in the Bahamas, or anywhere else.”

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I finished putting the leftover food away. We went upstairs at the same time to decide now what to pack to take to the Bahamas next month. It was going to be hard for us to act lovey-dovey while sharing the same beach house with my parents. But if he was willing to try, I was, too.

Reading Group

Discussion Questions

1. Annette had an affair because she thought her husband was no longer attracted to her. Do you think if Pee Wee had told her up front about his medical condition and its affect on his sex drive, that she would not have had the affair?

2. Annette’s dramatic weight loss and extreme makeover made her much more attractive and appealing. However, she did not encourage other men to pay more attention to her. Do you think that if Louis Baines had not pursued her so vigorously, she would have remained faithful to her husband?

3. Most con men don’t care what a woman looks like as long as she’s a cash cow that he can milk. But since Louis didn’t know that Annette had money until he got to know her, do you think that he had some feelings for her in the beginning?

4. Do you think that Louis would have initiated the affair a year earlier when Annette was still grossly overweight and plain?

5. Annette was reluctant to have an affair with Louis. Rhoda badgered her to do it until she did. Do you think Rhoda should have shared the blame for the mess that Annette got herself into?

6. When Jade returned home after flunking out of college were you surprised that she had not changed for the better?

Were you surprised that she still had so much contempt for Annette?

7. Pee Wee was still angry with Jade for harassing Annette the year before and refused to have anything to do with her. After the way Jade taunted Annette at the mall, do you think that Annette was a fool for agreeing to attend Jade’s wedding?

8. Jade was the daughter from hell. But Rhoda still doted on her and bent over backwards to plan Jade’s unexpected wedding.

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DISCUSSION QUESTIONS

It was important to Rhoda for Annette to be on the guest list. As soon as Jade saw that Annette was among the wedding guests, she greeted her with a few more insults. Do you think that it gave Annette some pleasure to be the one to drop the bombshell and inform Jade that her Mexican fiancé had run for the border an hour before the wedding?

9. Jade was so stunned to hear that she’d been jilted; she urinated on her beautiful wedding gown. Her meltdown was so severe she had to be hauled out of the house on a gurney and rushed to the hospital mental ward. Annette felt sorry for her. However, she also felt that Jade got what she had coming. Did you feel sorry for Jade?

10. Annette was devastated when she found out why Pee Wee had stopped being affectionate with her. But Pee Wee was more devastated when she told him that she was having an affair with Louis. If Louis had not tried to blackmail Annette when she severed their relationship, do you think that she still should have told Pee Wee about the affair?

11. Annette was furious when she overheard Louis talking about her like a dog on the telephone to his real girlfriend. If you were in a similar situation, would you leave quietly and with some dignity, or would you get loud and violent like Annette did?

12. Not only did Annette jeopardize her marriage, she risked losing her job. Embezzling money from her employer to give to Louis was way out of character for her. Did Annette’s behavior surprise you?

13. Do you think that Annette’s marriage can be restored? Do you think that she no longer deserves a good man like Pee Wee? Since Annette had accused Pee Wee of having an affair so many times before she got involved with Louis, would you blame him if he had an affair now?

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