Kiss Mommy Goodbye by Joy Fielding

Author:Joy Fielding [Fielding, Joy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Romance
ISBN: 9780385669849
Publisher: Signet
Published: 1981-01-01T05:00:00+00:00

She was packed, and waiting for Victor on the sofa when he finally got home. He looked around the living room, saw her suitcases, and walked over to the bar to fix himself a drink.

“You want one?” he asked.

“No, thank you.”

He poured himself a tall glass of scotch and walked back to where Donna was sitting. “I take it this is some sort of goodbye scene,” he said.

Donna’s voice was quiet. “I’m leaving you.”

“I kind of thought that’s what you were going to say.” He took a long swallow of his drink. “The children?”

“They’re with Susan.”

“Susan?” He shook his head. “I should have known she’d be behind this.”

“Susan had nothing to do with this. I called her this afternoon when she got home from work and asked her to look after the kids for a few hours till I spoke to you.” She paused. “She was very surprised.”

“But delighted, I’m sure.”

“I don’t want to argue about Susan, Victor.”

“I don’t want to argue at all.”

“Good.” Donna stood up. “I’ll call a taxi.”

“I’ll drive you.”

“No.”

He put his drink down on the glass coffee table. “You won’t let me do anything for you?”

You’ve done enough, she wanted to say, but didn’t. “I can do things for myself.”

“No one said you couldn’t.”

You really don’t understand any of this, do you, Victor? You have no idea why this is happening to you.

“Can we talk about it?” he asked.

“I have nothing left to say.”

“Do you think you’re being fair?”

“I think so. Yes.”

“Six years of marriage and you have nothing to say?”

“I’m sure we’ve said it all, Victor.”

She moved toward the phone. He grabbed her hand.

“Donna, please. What can I say?”

“Nothing, Victor. There’s nothing you can say.”

“I’ve said I’m sorry. Christ, how many times have I said I was sorry? I’d do anything to take back that night—”

“It wasn’t that night, Victor.” He looked surprised. “I thought for a long time that it was. But it was only a small part of everything else. Maybe even the least of it, I don’t know.”

He obviously had no idea what she was talking about. “Is there someone else?”

Donna looked into Victor’s blue eyes and saw images of Donna. “No,” she said. She and Mel had not seen each other in several months. By mutual choice, they had decided that if she were to end her marriage, it would be because it needed ending and for no other reason. Mel had been the catalyst, but he was certainly not the cause.

She was walking out on her marriage because the hope she had felt rekindled inside her body that first afternoon with Mel had flatly refused to be buried again under Sisyphus’ mighty rock. If an endless challenge with no hope for the future was Sisyphus’ idea of a good way to spend eternity, well, that was fine. To each his own. But she wasn’t dead, after all, she had discovered, and she was getting out of hell.

“I’ll let you know when I’m settled,” she said. “You can come see the kids.

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