The Night Lovers by Ausin Mitchell - HTML preview

Chapter Four

That same afternoon, Deanne was at her office where she works as a pharmacy assistant in Linstead when Merryll called her.

“Deanne, I heard that you’re calling my name. You’re saying that I ran left my husband to come and sleep with Greg. I’m just on business out here and he’s a good lover, so naturally I have to look him up. Since he and you are no longer together, I don’t see why you have to be criticizing me.”

“I heard that you told people that the child I have for him wasn’t his. Why don’t you stay in Cayman instead of coming out here to fast with people? I know when he gave me my son. You should mind your own business and go back to your husband and leave him alone.”

“By the end of this week I’ll be gone. So, you, Harlene and Reta can have him.”

“All I want from him is maintenance for Roger. Harlene and Reta can fight over him all they want.”

“None of you girls can stop me from enjoying myself with him,” Merryll said and ended the call.

***

Merryll had just finished talking to Deanne when Reta called her. She was now sitting in one of the veranda chairs. Reta was in her small office as canteen administrator.

“Merryll, I want to know about you and Greg.”

“What do you want to know?”

“It seems to me that the least opportunity you get, you run leave

your husband to be along with him. Give the man a break and go back home. He can’t satisfy you again?”

“Obviously you want Greg. I didn’t look him, it was he who looked

me. Anytime I come out here, I don’t have to send for him, he runs to me. It means that I have something that he wants.”

“Have you left your husband permanently to be along with him?”

“Why are you fasting in my business, Reta?”

“Because I want Greg. You had better say goodbye to him when you

leave this time. I’m going to give it to him so good that he won’t remember who you are.”

Merryll burst out laughing.

“You don’t know what you’re talking about. I’m giving it to him so good that he’s already begging me to stay the entire month. Harlene tried to hold on to him and couldn’t. They had several sexy weekends between the River Road and the Hill View hotel.”

“She’s just a little inexperienced girl. I have lots more experience than her.”

“We’ll see about that,” Merryll said and ended the call.

***

Tuesday night, Greg and Merryll were at Witty’s pub and she was telling him about the calls she had received from Harlene, Deanne and Reta. They were sitting on stools outside the bar and sipping champagne. She was dressed in a-cut-off-jeans-shorts, a blue blouse and slippers. He had on a-short-jeans-pants, a sports shirt and sneakers.

“Harlene told me about what you were having nearly every night I was away. Reta said she’s waiting for me to leave the island so she can start giving it to you.”

“Harlene got angry and left me. Reta and I are just social friends.”

“As soon as I leave, they’ll be fighting over you. What I fear is that

you might not want me again. Both of them are very sexy looking. They’ve promised to give it to you so good that you won’t remember me.”

“You’re a sex bombshell, Merryll. Neither Harlene nor Reta can match you in bed.”

“I thought you had never slept with Reta.”

“I have never been to bed with her, so I don’t know how good she is. I’m just speculating, that’s all.”

They went to Walters’ night club before returning to sleep at the Links hotel that morning. It was a whirlwind of activities for

Merryll. At nights she went partying with him. They slept at various hotels, but by Saturday she was gone.

***

Two weeks before Merryll returned home, Sue returned to the island. Greg heard that she was an accountant and was working in Kingston. He also understood that she was engaged to a Jamaican man. She was living in Keswick with her mother, Valery and her sister, Alia. He had seen her driving around in the village and to work. He heard that her fiancé, Phil Distant, had also returned home. He lived in Kingston and was also an accountant. He heard that they worked for the same company.

“I heard that they’ll soon get married,” Easton told him. He was the man who had told the lies on her. He was now a taxi driver.

“She’ll never look in your direction again, Greg.”

“I’m not concerned about her.”

He even saw her shopping in the village, but she paid him no mind. He didn’t think she was making more money than him.

***

The next week, Wednesday night, he received a call from her. He was in his vehicle going home. She was also in her car going home.

“Greg, how are you? Do you have a woman by the name of Harlene?”

“I’m seeing her.”

“Tell her not to call me again. I’m engaged, I’ll soon be married. I know that you’re along with Reta too. Before I returned, you were all over the place with Merryll. You have a child with Deanne. You’re really running it hot.”

“The women just like me, that’s all. As for Merryll, she can’t get enough of me. Since she returned to Cayman, she calls me every day.”

“When is she returning?”

“Maybe next year. But I can wait.”

“Are you sure about that? Anyway, you just told me that you were sleeping with Harlene and Reta too.”

“It’s nothing like what I had going on with her,” he told her and ended the call.

***

Sue was still in her car ten minutes later when Deanne called her.

“I understand that you’re back in the island. Is it true that you’re planning to return to Greg?”

“I’m so in love with my fiancé that I wouldn’t bother to look at any other man. Why are so many of you fighting over him?”

“All I’m protecting is my son’s money.”

“Well, Deanne, I have no intention of being along with him again,” she said and ended the call.

***

Later that night, Reta called her.

“Sue, I understand that you have left your fiancé and are on the way to being along with Greg again.”

“Nothing like that has happened, Reta. I’m still in love with my fiance, Phil and we’ll soon be married.”

“That’s not what I heard. I’m told that he and you have broken up and you were calling Greg, begging him for another chance.”

“I want you girls to leave me alone. I have my fiance and I have no interest in Greg,” she said and ended the call.

***

Just as Sue was leaving work the next evening, Merryll called her.

“Sue, I understand that you’re back home and that you’re looking Greg again, is that true?”

“Of course not, none of it is true. But if it was even true, what could you do about it?”

“You’re wasting your time. When I’m back home, he’s mine. Sue, don’t try it, because even if you get married to him once I’m back I would take him away.”

“I wonder what you have giving him that no other woman can give him?”

“Ask Harlene and Reta why he abandoned them for me the last time I was out there,” she said and ended the call.