The Night Lovers by Ausin Mitchell - HTML preview

Chapter Two

 

On Wednesday, Greg and Merryll met for dinner. She chose rice and

peas and chicken while he chose curried goat and white rice.

“I choose here because I know how fast people are. I don’t want them to run to Winston with a story that I’m sleeping with you.”

“Here was the right place to come.”

“I like you, Greg, but I want to know how you feel about me.”

“You’re a very beautiful and sexy woman. Any man who gets a chance to go to bed with you can consider himself lucky.”

She laughed but continued to eat her food.

“I’ve heard so much about you and Sue. If and when she returns home, will you be going back to her?”

“I’ll agree that our break-up was all my fault. But my understanding is that she’s engaged to a Jamaican man over there.”

“So, are you jealous or anything like that?”

“No, I’m not, I went to college, got my degree and am making the best use of it. I want to start something with you, Merryll.”

“On my side, you understand that I have my husband, so I have to be very careful. That’s why I was asking about Sue. What about your baby mother, Deanne?”

“We’re hardly on speaking terms. I just give her an agreed sum of money every two weeks.”

They made a date for Friday night at the same hotel. That Friday

night he took her twice. She climaxed both times, thrashing around on the bed and calling out his name as she rode out the waves of ecstasy engulfing her body.

“You’re such a virile young man. I think you could last the whole night. From I saw you, I knew that I wanted to do it with you. You haven’t disappointed me one bit.”

“You think I didn’t see you wiggling your hips at me each time you came out of the pickup.”

She laughed and said.

“These are the kind of things women do to entice men.”

It was his turn to laugh. They returned to the hotel on

Saturday night and did it again. Again, he took her twice. He wanted them to spend the night making love, but she said she had to go home to her children. They did it again Tuesday and Thursday, but she told him that they had to tone it down as Winston was due home shortly.

“We can’t do it when he’s on the island. I’ll find out what his plans are. We can schedule our lovemaking around them.”

***

On Monday of the next week, he saw Harlene.

“You’re along with the nurse from the clinic,” she told him.

“Yes, we’re friends, but that doesn’t mean I can’t be friends with you.”

“If you want me, you will have to leave her.”

But he refused to leave Merryll to be along with Harlene. Merryll

was home the next day when her cell phone rang. Harlene was on the line.

“How can I help you, Harlene?”

“Why are you along with my boyfriend, Mrs. Dacres? Why don’t you stick to your husband and leave him alone?”

“I don’t understand you. Which boyfriend are you talking about? If you mean Greg, yes, I’m seeing him.”

“You’re much older than him Why don’t you look somebody in your age group?”

“Please get off my phone and stop talking foolishness,” Merryll told her and ended the call.

***

Greg was in his small office in Keswick when Merryll called him.

“Are you sleeping with Harlene? She called and told me to leave you alone.”

“I’m not seeing her. I don’t know why she would call you and tell you any such thing.”

“Just warn her for me or else I’ll just stop sleeping with you.”

***

Half an hour later, Harlene called him.

“Greg, I told you already that I won’t talk to you until you leave Merryll.”

“Why did you call her?”

“To tell her to leave you alone.”

“You think I can’t talk for myself?”

“I didn’t say that. Ok, so why don’t you tell her?”

“Do you fancy a fight with her over me? She has beaten a lot of girls over her husband.”

“I’m not afraid of her,” she said and ended the call.

***

A week later, Winston left for the Cayman Islands again. That Friday night Greg and Merryll were basking in the afterglow

of their lovemaking. He had taken her two times already. She had climaxed both times, digging her nails into his back as she rode out the climax. Outside they could hear the rain which had just started falling.

“I have another month on the island. I’m really going to enjoy it. I want to know about you and Harlene. She called me again to tell me to leave you alone.”

“She’s just a young girl who doesn’t know what she wants.”

“I hope you aren’t fooling around her.”

“I just talk to her. I’m not going to bed with her.”

“From now on we can spend the whole night up here. We can spend half the night making love.”

That month they spent at least three days at the hotel making love. They were Wednesdays, Fridays and Saturdays.

“Oh God, Greg, you’re so virile. I wish I could just spend the whole night with you, but I have to get in before my children wake up.”

“You’re a sexy woman, Merryll. These young girls can’t match you in bed.”

“That’s because I know what to do and I love sex so much. I know that while I’m in Cayman, you’ll be playing around. I can’t stop you but remember to use protection.”

“I’ll wait on you.”

“No, I don’t want you to blame me. I think you and Sue are destined to be together.”

“Who and me did you say? If you mean Sue, you’re crazy. I

haven’t spoken to that girl in years.”

He took her and her children to the airport that Sunday afternoon.

***

That night Harlene called him.

“Your woman has gone away and you’re all alone and in need of female company.”

“Do you want to come over to stay with me?”

“You think I want her to fight me?”

“She can’t do you anything.”

“I’m still not coming over. Because you need a woman, you’re inviting me over and when she returns, you’ll just tell me to go. I’ll come over to your house, but it’s just to talk, nothing more.”

Harlene was over at his house and they were talking. Outside it was slightly drizzling.

“Everybody knows that you were sleeping with Merryll. The two of you were at the River Road hotel every other day, even when her husband was around. The poor man, he didn’t know what was going on.”

“Don’t you like me, Harlene?”

“Yes, but like I told you. I don’t want to be sleeping with you and as soon as she returns to the island, you cast me aside.”

“How about us going partying this weekend?”

“Ok, I’ll go with you.”

***

Friday night, they went to a party in Keswick. She wore jeans, a tank top and slippers. He wore a polo shirt, jeans and sneakers. He bought food and drinks for both of them and they sat and had it. They started dancing again. He dropped her home at around two o’clock that morning. They made plans to go out Saturday night.