Choosing Her Lover

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And I think, that is that….

Until, at six pm, just as I am about finish for the day, Ben marches in again. “Come on,” he says. “I want you to come with me.”

“Come with you? Where?”

“Up to Mike’s place.”

“What? You want me to go there? What for? I barely know them.”

“Mike’s not at home. He’s working late. I want to catch James and Charlotte in the act, and I want a witness, so the bastard, and the bitch can’t deny it when I confront them.”

“Ben, you can’t do this. And haven’t you forgotten something? James Alexanders is my boss. I could lose my job…”

He stands, arms akimbo. “Fuck you, then. I’m going anyway. If you won’t come with me, I’ll go by myself. I’ll take a camera.”

Jeez…. I’d better go with him. See if I can stop him doing anything too stupid….

“Alright. I’ll come with you. Let me get my stuff and clear up my desk.”

fetch the car and pick you

Then Charlotte…. No reply…. Francis maybe? Still no reply. It’s too late in the day. No-one’s here.

mouth dry, I give it another go: “Ben, this isn’t right. You can’t just barge into someone else’s

snorts. “What are you talking about? We’re discussing a man fucking my brother’s wife. Of course,

think you

suppose you think it’s okay for my her to make a fool of my

us out of the City and up the mountain. The views are

hotel, ‘Life and Beauty’. It’s

says Ben. “But I don’t

the rear and through gardens which are a mixture of well-kept and maintained, and hopelessly

a mixture of old and new, dilapidated and restored. Standing over high meadows overlooking a lake, the position is incredible. In any

hisses Ben, pointing, “the

back, but he ignores me, walking quietly to the front

Oh, please be locked….

and the

me on the threshold. “Are

shake my

at me. “I know where you stand, don’t I?” and he