Not Playing the Game by Jennifer Chapman

Author:Jennifer Chapman [Chapman, Jennifer]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Endeavour Media
Published: 2018-05-19T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Ten

That Sunday Arthur made a mistake. The pride he thought he had conquered, the ‘showing off’ he had always despised in others, got the better of him and he took Mickey to see his old ladies.

Of course, she was surprised and impressed when he told her, in the most modest of terms, about this charitable activity.

‘There was no reason to tell you before,’ he said, ‘and I’m only telling you now because I can’t visit them tomorrow. I have to go to an auction.’

This was a lie, but not a troublesome one. He wanted her to see him in this surprising light and the old ladies to see him with a young and attractive woman; but more particularly, it was Matron who needed a jolt.

Mumsie Matron had been getting above herself lately: she’d started making demands of a sort he found not only tiresome but disgusting. He’d noted the first danger signals some while back; she’d brushed against him in her office during the tea ceremony, and done this more than once. She’d become distressingly coy too much of the time they were alone in too greater contrast with the manner in which she addressed him in front of the girls and the other staff. She was a frustrated woman, he could see that, and sooner, rather than later he was going to have to set her straight – before she said something really foolish that would freeze him up and result in her despising both of them. He’d gained the upper hand with her, but he knew it was a delicate balance and all too easily she might turn on him, the full weight of her bullying nature reminding him of why he was there, maybe using it as blackmail.

He’d developed a recurring nightmare, so vivid maybe it had really happened. Matron’s huge breasts, as big as cow udders, suffocating him, and the great hole between her legs, sucking him up, devouring him. She smelt of disinfectant and stale urine, the constant, all pervading odour of the nursing home. But Mickey – Mickey smelt of talcum powder and youthful juices – that was when he was aware of her in their lovemaking.

And love her, in his own menacing fashion, he did. It was a burning, engrossing love though he did his best to hide the extent of his passion, fearful that if she saw it too clearly she would lose interest. He couldn’t allow her to see any weakness or uncertainty because his hold over her was based entirely on his seemingly insular strength compared with the mass of uncertainties and confusions he encouraged her to indulge and explore in herself.

She used him and now he was using her. He saw the dismay in Matron’s face the moment he introduced her, Mickey, his ‘friend’. Anybody else doubtless would have assumed there could be no more to it than friendship, so disparate were they in physical attractiveness, but then Matron was besotted by him and therefore jealously suspicious.

‘May I

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