The Innocence has Gone, Daddy by Drew Launay

Author:Drew Launay
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: relationships, incest, spain, nerja
Publisher: Drew Launay

Julie had got out of the pool and was lying down sun bathing. She had a beautiful figure, far better than Sue. Inherited from himself then? He had a good figure, so they kept telling him.

He sighed.

It could still be re-lived, re-felt, the heaviness in the stomach when he had gone back to the Rectory after a month in London alone. He had walked the long way round from the station to avoid the village, paused by the river and looked at the familiar scenery. He was not sure at the time what he had wanted. The idea of a baby appealed to him in a way, to be able to say he was an expectant father would have had its kicks, to join the army of parents with all their problems wasn’t that appealing, but he couldn’t desert Sue at the moment, he couldn’t say OK, if that’s how you want it and just leave. He had to make sure that she was sure, that it was her decision not her father’s or mother’s. And he had gone up the drive and stood in front of the door not knowing whether he should go in as he always had, or ring.

Humiliating himself in front of the power of the church, he rang the bell and the Canon himself came to the door. It was possible that the door might be slammed back in his face so he blurted out the rehearsed line quickly.

‘I’ve come to say goodbye to Sue.’

The Reverend Herbert Hales said nothing, but turned on his heels and walked away. As he turned to go into the study he pointed to the drawing room, ‘She’s in there.’ And disappeared.

She was sitting in an armchair reading the Daily Express, smoking and having a cup of coffee. She looked up and put the paper down, surprised to see him.

If he had not felt humiliated by the father, he felt something close to it from her. A hardness somewhere, a sneer, a resentment, a holier than thou expression. She was in a position to be high and mighty about the whole Gregory affair, she had the comfort and security and tradition of her family behind her.

She won the staring match and he looked down, then quickly out of the window.

‘May I sit down?’ he asked. It didn’t come out as sarcastically as he meant it to, it sounded more as though he was begging.

‘It’s over Jey, if that’s what you’ve come to discuss. Mother and father think I’m dreadfully upset. I am, but not in a maudlin way, not in any way you can come along and comfort. I’m upset because I’m disgusted by the whole business. I’m going away. I’m probably going to Canada to live with Molly, and I’ll probably have the baby there. You can get a divorce on the grounds of desertion if you’re clever enough, but Daddy’s solicitors aren’t exactly the worst, so maybe your friends the Gregorys can help you out of this one. You’ve got money to fight if you want to fight, but you’ve had me .

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