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 up at the front in

is out of sight, I stab buttons on the internal phone, trying to get an answer. First James.… No reply…. Then

traffic, my mouth dry, I give it another

a man fucking my brother’s wife. Of course, I’m

think

twists to face me, his face flushing. “I suppose you think it’s okay for my her to make a fool

and up the mountain. The views are amazing, but I can’t enjoy them, my stomach churning in anticipation of what’s

up by a spa hotel, ‘Life and Beauty’. It’s rather beautiful and

place is around the back,” says Ben. “But I don’t want them to see me arrive. Follow

and through gardens which are a mixture of well-kept and maintained, and hopelessly overgrown. The whole has the

which also looks to be in mid-renovation, a mixture of old and new, dilapidated and restored. Standing over

pointing, “the bedroom

he ignores me, walking quietly to the front door and

Oh, please be locked….

and the door

turning to me on the threshold. “Are

my

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