The Couple In The Cabin by Hurst Daniel

Author:Hurst, Daniel
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Daniel Hurst
Published: 2022-10-20T00:00:00+00:00

18

DOMINIC

I’ve just finished telling Kamilla the story of the time Grace locked me up in a hotel room for over two hours while she went out and had dinner by herself, and as I expected, the reaction to the tale is not a positive one.

‘You have to be joking? She actually did that?’

‘Yes.’

‘And you stayed with her?’

‘I was upset and angry at the time, but I understood that Grace was too.’

‘But that didn’t give her the right to tie you to a bed and leave you!’

Kamilla is right. It was a terrible reaction by my wife to how I had treated her that day in Bath. Yes, I’d promised her a romantic weekend only to leave her while I went and dealt with work, but there was no need to handcuff me to a bed. Shout at me, sure. Call me a workaholic. Tell me you deserve to be treated a little better. But don’t treat me like a damn prisoner. But that’s what my wife did.

And now she has done it again.

‘So what happened? She just came back from dinner, uncuffed you and said sorry?’

‘Well, no, not exactly. She didn’t apologise.’

‘What?’

‘She never said sorry. She just acted like everything was okay.’

‘And you let her get away with it? You didn’t tell her that she was crazy and that you might leave her?’

‘No.’

‘My God, how weak are you?’

‘Hey!’

‘No, I’m serious! It sounds like Grace gave you a pretty big warning four years ago, yet you ignored it. Even better, you thought it was a good idea to start having an affair, knowing full well that if your wife found out, she might not react in a healthy way!’

‘How the hell was I to know she would lock us away if she caught us?’

‘Because she locked you away once before! If you’d left her then, as you should have done, then we wouldn’t be in this mess now!’

‘Oh, come off it! You wouldn’t have looked at me twice if I’d been single.’

‘What are you talking about now?’

‘I’m talking about the fact that you clearly have a thing for older, married men. Call it a fetish or whatever. But I know why you like me, and it’s not just because I’m reasonably handsome for a guy my age. It’s because I’m taken. You got a thrill from having another woman’s man. So, if I hadn’t been with Grace, this affair would never have happened. Therefore, me not leaving her after she tied me to that bed in Bath is irrelevant.’

Kamilla tries to deny it, but I just shake my head and toss the screwed-up note into the air a couple of times. I regret telling her about what happened in Bath now, but I regret not taking that incident more seriously at the time too. Kamilla is right. I should have reacted differently once Grace had returned to the hotel room and taken off the handcuffs. I should have been stronger. At least threatened to leave her. But maybe my other woman is right.

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