It startled me as a reader that Anita was expecting to be smacked around by both JC and Richard.

Good. My point has been made, then. Thing is, we can't know how the curse affected Anita. By her thinking, even for a second, that either of them (hell, any of her four men) would be angry at her for the curse, we start to see that she's really, really fucked up.

Which she is. But she's a highly functional fucked up girl, so the repercussions will not be immediately obvious.

Thanks for your comments, and I hope your data behave today.