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.”

car and pick you up at the

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. No-one’s here.

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

about? We’re discussing a man fucking my brother’s wife. Of course, I’m

think you

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

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

and Beauty’. It’s rather beautiful and

“But I don’t want them to see me arrive. Follow me. It’s

of well-kept and maintained, and hopelessly overgrown. The whole has the look of ongoing

new, dilapidated and restored. Standing over high

“the bedroom curtains are

hang back, but he ignores me, walking quietly to the front door and turning the

Oh, please be locked….

which turns, and

me on the threshold. “Are you coming or

my

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