Interesting that there seems to be some brain left here after all.I read some of these comments, and it amazes me that people just seem to completely overlook that in the first chapter Vivian was fucking her husband's boss within 10 minutes of being at his house and less than 10m from her husband, if you don't think a woman that would do this (no matter her reasons) is a total slut and unhinged I don't know what to tell you. You have completely misread what kind of person Vivian really is from the very start and are now complaining that you missed these very obvious signs and expected something completely different to happen. Mind boggling.
The same applies to Hutch, in my eyes. We didn't see much of him in Chapter 2, but what we did see, along with Chapter 1, is that he's closely monitoring how far Vivian will go, so he can hopefully strike mercilessly back when the point comes where he realizes Vivian is a lost cause. I can't and won't believe that he's just a dumb cuckold who lets anyone do anything to him until I see it. But as I said, I think Hutch's character is much deeper than most people realize yet.