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

is out of sight, I stab buttons on the internal phone, trying to get an answer. First James.… No reply…. Then Charlotte…. No reply…. Francis maybe? Still no reply. It’s too late in the day.

get in. Staring into traffic, my mouth dry, I give it another go: “Ben, this isn’t right. You can’t just

he snorts. “What are you talking about? We’re discussing a man

think you

suppose you think it’s okay for my her to make a fool of my brother?” Then he turns to face the traffic

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

a spa hotel, ‘Life and Beauty’.

place is around the back,” says Ben. “But I don’t want them

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

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

“the bedroom

ignores me, walking

Oh, please be locked….

turns, and

me on the threshold.

my

you stand, don’t I?”