Chapter 10
Rehearsals gained momentum throughout the week, improving Paul’s moods exponentially. Jack and Betty still snipped at each other, but that was to be expected, and they never let it get in the way of working. Sweet kept everybody in line and smoothly combined his vision with Paul and Jack’s various suggestions. And Jack managed to drop all of the habits that drove Paul up the wall. He still had the tendency to leer at Paul when he thought nobody was looking, and that sly, knowing gleam never quite left his eye. But Paul could deal with both of those things. Especially since Jesson had backed off, as agreed, and Jack had buckled down, as agreed, and everything was flowing like clockwork.
For the most part, Paul did his best to keep his distance from Jack, and Jack seemed to resp
