CHAPTER 2: COMFORT2. Devon Devon was completely mesmerized by Jade. On the outside, she looked pretty ordinary—long, brown hair and green eyes, something in between slim and slightly overweight—with normal, unremarkable clothes and features; but on the inside, he found her to be quite a flamboyant character, full of factoids and some real intellect, funny and intelligent, with a life philosophy that he very much liked. And that was the grim side of her he liked most: she embraced life for what it was, having no illusions about it, yet she did not seem to be much of a pessimist. She was not quite a realist either, nor was she an optimist. She was a person with multifaceted characteristics that perfectly lived in symbiosis with one another. And that was something he had never seen in any wo