The Adventurers by HAROLD ROBBINS

Author:HAROLD ROBBINS [ROBBINS, HAROLD]
Format: epub, pdf
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Published: 2010-06-29T16:00:00+00:00

INTERNATIONAL PLAYBOY-DIPLOMAT

NAMED AS CORRESPONDENT.

In Rome, where Dax lived under special diplomatic immunities, he had been charged with conducting an affair with the wife of an Italian count. She handed the paper back to her father. “Dax will be pleased,” she observed dryly. “At least they got in the word ‘diplomat.’”

Her father stared at her. “Is that all you have to say?”

“What more is there to say?”

“He is making a fool of you. Of me. Of our family. The whole world is laughing at us.”

“He is a man. When a man is away from home only a fool would expect him not to get involved with women.”

“He’s not a man,” her father retorted angrily, “he’s an animal!”

“Papa, why are you so upset when I am not? He is my husband.”

“Do you like this kind of notoriety?”

“No, but I have no control over the headlines. What would you have me do?”

“Divorce him.”

“No.”

He stared at her for a moment. “I don’t understand you.”

“That’s right, Papa, you don’t understand me. Nor do you understand Dax.”

“I suppose you do?”

“In a way,” Caroline answered thoughtfully. “If any woman can really ever understand the man to whom she is married.

“Perhaps Dax is an animal as you say. Press the right buttons and he reacts. I’ve seen it. To hatred and danger with violence; to pity with gentleness and understanding; to a woman …” She paused, hesitating a moment, then added almost apologetically, “I can guess though I’ve never really been a woman for him. To a woman he reacts like a man.”

Her father was silent for a moment. “Then you’re going to do nothing?”

“That’s right. Because, you see, Dax knew all this and married me in spite of it. It was the only way he could help me, and for that reason alone I would never ask him for a divorce. If he wants one, I will not object. But until he does, the least I can do is keep my end of the bargain.”

But that became more and more difficult as time went by. Dax’s return hadn’t made it easier for her. It was one thing to hear about something happening three thousand miles away, another to find yourself living with it. The day-by-day infidelities. Caroline would have had to be superhuman not to feel resentment.

The recent affair in New York, for example, with Mady Schneider. The silly little fool had gone so far as to leave her husband and take an apartment in a hotel, telling all her friends that she and Dax were to be married. Somehow the papers had got on to it and one of the reporters had come to their apartment. He had caught Dax and Caroline in the hall, surrounded by their luggage, just as they were leaving for Palm Beach.

The reporter was obviously embarrassed. He cleared his throat finally and asked his questions. Dax had smiled easily and turned to look at Caroline before he answered. “I’m afraid you’ve been misinformed. Mrs. Schneider and I are good friends, that’s all.

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