Shatter Me- Chapter Fifteen- Let's Just Add Blackmail, Shall We?

This chapter begins with Juliette having another pleasant flashback.

"Why don't you just kill yourself? someone at school asked me once."
Really warms the heart, doesn't it?

She wakes up again in Warner's bed. Better get used to it...or not, because it won't come up for a couple hundred pages.

He's finally allowing her to return to her room, after forcing her to eat some food, and as she walks out, she can see all the soldiers are truly afraid of her, hardly able to hide it. He's still being an ass, so he's all smiley and irritating, explaining that to "protect" her he had to force her to almost kill poor Jenkins.

He gets really, really close to her in the elevator before his mood turns on a dime for what won't be the last time, and he gets even closer before hissing that she's naive and threatening, etc., etc., victimizing himself by saying he's trying to help her. I do love irony, and it's pretty obvious in this scenario. 'You're so naive, girl I'm trying to get you to fall in love with me through beatings and perviness and torture of my own soldiers.' 

It's getting just as tiring to point out Warner's idiocies as it is to point out Hector being a terrible father. Uncomprehending is basically his middle name. 

He tells her to go back to her room (which she wanted to anyway) and, as a goodbye, tosses in some blackmail. Adam's been injured, and he's saying that it will continue unless she behaves.

And yes, this is blackmail. Wikipedia says that blackmail doesn't always include money, just threats unless a demand is met.

This chapter ends with Juliette silently promising to behave for Adam's sake, so Warner doesn't kill him. Well, this was a joy to read.

Spring Break is over. Unfortunately, we must return to the mundanity of the middle class, the monotony of responsibility, the lifelessness of subordination. 

This includes less frequent posts. However, I will try my best to post at least once every two days from now on. Thus said, Chapter Twenty-Eight of The Night Circus, with help of unconventional prioritization, should be up before midnight on Thursday.