Chapter Sixteen Summary

Chapter Sixteen is another very short chapter. Portia is worried about her business. Heath is with Annabelle for a weekend and Portia can't stand it. Why had he gone off with her? Portia is still dressed in church clothes. She started attending church for business reasons but found that she discovered some bit of peace for her inner being at the church. Back at the office she couldn't stop thinking about Heath and Annabelle. While she tried to keep her mind on finding a match for Heath, she couldn't keep her mind away from the evening with Bodie. She kept telling herself that she had allowed herself to be degraded by him. However, she couldn't stop her admission to herself that she had wanted to be taken. She had felt like he had treated her tenderly. She picked up the phone...