The XYY Man by Kenneth Royce

Author:Kenneth Royce [Royce, Kenneth]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2015-10-27T16:00:00+00:00

10

Should I hit him or not? It was a measure of my condition that the thought flashed at random. Panic. Then I had a faint whiff of perfume and my legs weakened in relief.

“Come on, Spider,” she said, as if I hid from her every day. Then she walked into the room. I could have killed her had I the strength. Her fur coat was on her arm and she draped it over an armchair as she went past, making no attempt to look back but knowing that I was watching her. I closed the door.

“You should have warned me you were coming back earlier. I might have hit you.”

She looked back over her shoulder, smiling, her eyes challenging. “Ray would have been madly jealous had he known I intended to come home.”

I sat in the empty armchair. “Why? He has nothing to fear from me.”

Sally sank on to the settee, slipped off her jacket, revealing a thin, tight, fawn sleeveless jumper. She took time provocatively fluffing out her hair with calculated movement and crossed her legs, ensuring I got good value from them. “It’s not you he’s worried about, darling. It’s me.” The endearment was a tossaway as if she had once been in theatricals. Later I learned that she had.

“I don’t understand.” I understood only too well. She eyed me brazenly. Now that Ray was absent she made it clear that she had made up her mind about me. I could not understand why she was so cheap, so disloyal to Ray.

“He’s not exactly a find, is he?”

I did not answer, knowing that I would be implicated if I did. I wondered why she had married him and saw part of the reason when she suddenly got up, went to the sideboard and returned with a half bottle of gin, two glasses and tonic water. Before sitting down, she produced two folded newspapers, tossing them over to me. I had made the headlines in both The Standard and The News lunch time editions. It was alarming to see it in banner headlines.

She went past me again to sit down, every move feline. designed, carefully enacted. She poured two drinks and passed one over. I put mine on the floor.

“Cheers.” She relished a half glassful before focusing her very blue eyes on me once more. “You know why I came back?” She indicated the newspapers. “With that hanging over you I thought you might like some light relief.”

“What do you mean by that?”

She stared, amused. “What do you think I mean by it Don’t be so bloody innocent, life’s too short,”

“I have a few basic rules which I find help me get along. One is I don’t sleep with married women. It may be naive but it keeps me free of complications.”

Her glass stopped half way to her pursed lips. “Get you.” Then she laughed, throwing her head back and showing a good neckline. What was it that made both she and Ray so verging on the decadent. Did they do it to each other?

“Married?” Sally laughed again incredulously.

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