The Tutor by Daniel Hurst

Author:Daniel Hurst [Hurst, Daniel]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Daniel Hurst
Published: 2021-01-13T22:00:00+00:00

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NICK

You can’t beat the endorphins that you get from a good run. I’ve been out here pounding the tarmac for forty minutes, and I feel great. My heart rate is up, my adrenaline is spiking, and the dopamine hit is making me feel better than I have felt in months. I can’t believe I stopped doing this. I should never have quit running. At least I’ve got back into it again now. It’s the best way of making yourself feel good naturally.

Okay, so maybe the second-best way.

I’m trying not to think about that other thing that people do to get a natural high. One, because I don’t get to do that so much these days and two, I don’t get to do it with the people that I want to.

Picking up the pace, I turn the corner at the top of the street and move onto flatter ground. I like going this way because of the hill that I am forced to climb, but I’m glad that I have reached the top now. I’m over halfway, and it won’t be long until I’m back at home with my feet up. By that time Petra will have left, and I won’t have to worry about bumping into her again.

I’m not the perfect husband, but I’m trying.

I haven’t cheated on Amy since my mistake with Tina ten years ago. While I like to think that proves that I have learnt my lesson and have become a better husband, I am also aware that I haven’t exactly been tested in all that time. I have worked from home ever since I left that office where the fling with Tina had begun, which means I have hardly been around another woman besides Amy since then. We have a few friends that we meet up with on occasion, but I have never looked at them in the same way that I looked at my former colleague, so I have never been tempted at all.

Not once.

Until now.

Petra is the first woman that I have been around since Tina who has made me feel like I did back then.

Alive.

That is why I am out of the house now. I need to avoid her while she is around so that I stop having those thoughts and feelings. Give it a few weeks and she will be gone, and then I can go back to normal because normal for me does not involve running up a damn hill on a cold Tuesday night.

The only problem is that her lessons with Michael last for two hours and I can’t realistically keep running for that amount of time. Even in my fittest days, which were a long time ago, I could never have hoped to keep jogging for that long. That means I am going to have to go home while she is still there. It shouldn’t be a problem if she is in the kitchen. I can just go through the front door and straight upstairs. I missed her arriving at the house, and I will stay up there so that I miss her leaving.

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