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Chapter Six

An hour later, Merryll called Harlene.

“I heard that you’re claiming Greg.”

“We’re back together, again. He told me that it was a mistake to have gotten involved with you.”

“I bet if I come out there now, he’ll run to me. I’m trying to get him to come over here to spend some time with me.”

“I’m going to ask him about it and tell him not to go.”

“He can’t resist me,” Merryll said and ended the call.

***

Sue and Phil were in his bedroom in Washington Glades off Washington Boulevard. They had just made love and were basking in its afterglow.

“I know you want a lot of sex from me. You wouldn’t mind if I could live with you.”

“I can’t see why you can’t stay with me instead of driving all the way back to Keswick.”

“But don’t I spend weekends with you? I mean I don’t sleep over, but what I give you I think is enough.”

“Yes, but when you leave me like now, I get lonely.”

She left him and drove home. After she reached home and ate her dinner, she sat in her room thinking. She was worried that having too much sex with him might make him get too used to her and leave her for another woman. She suspected that he had re-kindled some old relationships he once had. She knew that he went out with friends, partying every night. She was sure that he had brought home women to sleep with at the apartment. She had never gone there and found any female clothing.

***

After Sue left for her house, Phil ate some food and began thinking. He couldn’t understand why she couldn’t stay with him. When he was sure that she had reached home he called her.

“I’m just doing some reading before I go to bed. I really miss you.”

“I miss you too, but I’m not prepared to live with you until we’re married. Both of us are in good jobs, I don’t see why we can’t set the date.”

***

Monday afternoon, Deanne was at work when Merryll called her.

“Deanne, I heard that you went partying with Greg. I even heard that you went to sleep with him afterwards. I thought you said that you had your man and you were only looking money for your child.”

“I’m free to go out with him. Even if you were out here you couldn’t stop that. Merryll, you aren’t easy. Imagine, you’re in Cayman and

want to stay there and plan his life for him. Why don’t you stick to

your husband?”

“Leave my husband out of this. I’m not the first married woman to have a lover. You behave as if it’s something strange I’m doing. I heard that Reta went partying with him too, but I will deal with her.”

Deanne burst out laughing.

“The man has needs, how are you going to stay where you are and help him?”

“I gave him enough sex to last him until I can arrange for us to meet again.”

“You aren’t easy that’s all I can say,” Deanne said and ended the call.

***

After she finished talking to Merryll, Deanne called Reta.

“Reta, why did you go partying with Greg the other night? I’m warning you to leave him alone. We had broken up, but now we are

back together again.”

“Ask him who’s his woman these days and he’ll tell you that I fit that bill.”

“We’ll see about that. I know that he wants me. He has already given me a child. As far as I’m concerned, he’s just using you.”

“That’s what you believe. Just you wait and see, Deanne. He tells me and everybody that I’m the one he loves.”

“He’s only fooling you up Reta,” Deanne said and ended the call.

***

Friday night, there was a party being kept in Norris. Deanne came there alone and saw Harlene in his arms, dancing. When the song finished playing, she confronted her.

“Harlene, why don’t you leave him alone, girl? You boasted about the number of romantic weekends you spent with him. Yet when Merryll came out here, you couldn’t do anything. He simply abandoned you for her.”

“If he wanted to sleep with her, I can’t stop him. Any woman he wants to sleep with, I’m not going to stop him. All I do is make sure that I don’t have unprotected sex with him.”

“I’m now sleeping with him again. I think he’s paying you to sleep with him. You say that you’re a nursing assistant and look what you’re doing to supplement your income.”

“I give my body freely to him. He’s not paying me to sleep with him.

I know that you accept money from him for your son and yourself.”

Greg returned and stopped the quarrel.

***

Harlene was at her house the next morning. She had just eaten her breakfast and began tidying up her room when Reta called her. Outside, light rain was falling.

“Harlene, what a way you get brave. Now that Merryll is away, you can do anything you want. Girl, Greg is mine. He’s just using you, that’s why he’s paying you to sleep with him.”

“Reta, I’m not selling my body to him. I have never slept with him and he has to pay me,” she said and cut off the call.

Other Books by Austin G. Mitchell

 

Collection of Short Stories:

 

Bring Back the Good Old Days

Going to the Bushes to cut Firewood

Waiting to Cross the Bridge

Better Days are Coming

Going Into the Hills to Teach

I’m Back From the Hills Now

The Worst is Over Now

Taking a Short Cut Home

 

Novels:

Undercover Soldier-Part One

Undercover Soldier-Part Two

Uptown Lovers-Book One

Uptown Lovers-Book Two

The Downtown Massive-Book One

No Tears for Sonya

Sleeping Love

Hot Nights in the Hills

The Money Found in the Canvass Bag

The Hardest Way Out of Love

Backwood Lovers

Daytime Lovers

Games Lovers Play (Love Games)

Cheating Lovers (Love Cheats)

Sleepless Nights in the Hills

The Marge Vincent Story

The Zenya Bernard Story

 

My blog: stredwick.blogspot.com

 

My email: glengoffe1@cwjamaica.com

 

Austin G. Mitchell has written more than eighty short stories. He

has also written several plays, poems and novels. He has

attended several writing workshops. Several of his short stories have been published in newspapers in Jamaica. He’s an avid reader of Western and Historical fiction. He also enjoys watching Western & Nollywood and Jamaican movies. He’s an accountant by profession.