by oneagainst
Haha, "Jodie enters the chat" is right.
I like the little emotional roller coaster when Jen's mother is revealed. First, oh, Staunton's protecting his wife! Aww. But at the cost of his daughter. And his career stands to benefit (or at least not suffer) as well. So I went on a long trip and got right where I started, as far as the moral valence of his character is concerned.
It is interesting to think about an alternative world where he decides to let that video leak. To explore the difference between a male politician cheating on his wife and a male politician being cheated upon. We don't hear much about those.
Good chapter, Jen's reaction makes me a little uncomfortable, let's keep in mind that she did something similar. Of course, in some aspects the circumstances were different, but she seems a little hypocritical to me (those details make her more human on a narrative level, I like it a lot).
Speaking of Lily, it seems to me that it will be a little difficult to give her a proper ending, although she has already been defeated and a possible development opens up with her as Cassie's submissive, I don't think it would be consistent to keep her in that "position" no matter how much conditioning she has. She has a difficult personality and if we want congruence it will be a little difficult. Personally, I want to see in detail how Cassie trains Lily without losing anything along the way, perhaps with the occasional jump in time to see her development. ha ha
I see Lily more as a switch.
PS: I understand Jen's reaction: she is angry with her father and it is normal for her to confront him like that when she thought that it was her father who was unfaithful to her mother.