The Do-Over (A Romantic Comedy) by Kathy Dunnehoff

Author:Kathy Dunnehoff [Dunnehoff, Kathy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Blue House Publishing
Published: 2011-05-28T04:00:00+00:00

They'd cleaned up the mess in silence. Not the good kind of silence that the long married sometimes had when each was satisfied with the company of his or her own thoughts. They worked in the silence of the wildly uncomfortable long marrieds who couldn't find ease if their lives depended on it.

She washed her hands at the sink, slowly, like killing time would help. She scrubbed at the grit of clay under her nails, between her fingers, beneath her ring. She linked her fingers in the bubbles of dishwashing soap, and her wedding ring slid up to the knuckle and down again.

She'd not even noticed her ring in the time she'd been in Canada, probably hadn't noticed it in longer than that. It possessed a comfortable silence of its own. She noticed a thin red scratch on her finger running just beneath the ring, so she slipped it off, set it on the windowsill above the sink and ran warm water over her finger.

"I think we should discuss your previous statement." Dan's voice came from behind her.

She reached for the cheery red kitchen towel and dried her hands as she faced him. "I didn't announce you were being audited by the IRS, Dan. I just said—"

He held up a hand. "I heard what you said, Janie. It just took me by surprise, that's all."

He'd been surprised that his wife wanted to have sex. That didn't seem like a good sign for either of them. "You didn't get any of the clues?" She indicated her cleavage and legs.

She watched the defensive look he wore anytime he was called into question start its march across his face. "You've been dressing like that ever since you ran off to Canada."

"I've only worn this bra twice!" She thought about it for a moment. "Three times. But I didn't have perfume on before."

"Forgive me for not putting that puzzle together. I'm a guy, Janie."

"No you're not and while I'm here everybody calls me Mara."

He took a step closer. "Not a guy?" He began to circle the room like a pacer with an inner ear problem.

She rounded out of the kitchen, pushed her breasts out, and yelled. "A guy would have been all over this."

"Oh! You have experience with that now, too? I thought you'd switch teams and just made out with girls!"

"Renny is a woman." She cringed as the words left her mouth. What kind of defense was that?

"What kind of defense is that?" he yelled.

Dan yelling at her wasn't going to get either of them where she wanted to go. She raised both hands chest high and slowly lowered them, breathing out as she did. "We've lost focus here. This isn't complicated. I want to have sex. With you."

He snorted, and she ignored it. "I don't see why we can't. We're married. It's not like we haven't done it before."

He dipped his head to the floor, but she couldn't tell if he was contemplating the offer, or collecting himself for the next round of lesbian accusations.

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