Wicked Game by Unknown

Author:Unknown
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781911420576
Publisher: Canelo
Published: 2017-11-14T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eight

The Hedge

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‘I just need to get out of the City and do something else as soon as I can,’ said Al. ‘You two managed it, didn’t you?’

Al sat at the kitchen table at Rob and Georgina’s house just outside Totnes in Devon. Since their move from London, Rob had been lecturing in economics at Exeter University and Georgina had started her own interior design company. Al hadn’t seen them for a couple of years and when he had told them that they both looked great when they met him at the train station earlier that day, he had meant it. They did look great and he took their lack of reciprocation to mean that he didn’t. He knew he didn’t. He was drinking more than he should; he spent very little time at home because of all the overseas travel that he found himself lumbered with and when he was at home, it was almost impossible to sleep on account of little Felix, now two and with a healthy pair of lungs that he was only too happy to exercise at three o’clock in the morning. Things were difficult with Krystina too. He had worried that she had suffered from post-natal depression but whether she had or she hadn’t, there was no avoiding the fact that she had changed. Their marriage had entered a new phase. The passion was gone. On the occasions they had made love since Felix was born, it was quick and perfunctory. Their intense sexual chemistry had ebbed. Was it because they were parents now?

‘It’s bloody difficult to re-acclimatise,’ said Rob. ‘I look at my pay slip from Exeter and it looks like they’ve missed off a digit. It just doesn’t look right.’ Al watched the look that Georgina and Rob exchanged as he said this. It was something that they had clearly discussed at length but a collective decision had been made. It was the right thing for both of them and it was the right thing for the twins that Georgina was carrying following a successful IVF procedure. They were a family unit. A decision had been made and Al had no doubt whatsoever that it was the right one for them. It was a decision he would dearly have loved to have made too. But Krystina didn’t share the desire he had to escape from the industry. She wanted him to get out from Hartmann Milner not because it was killing him spiritually – which he felt it was – but because she thought that he could earn more elsewhere. Al giving up working in the city and taking a massive pay cut was unthinkable. She would have found the merest suggestion of it very threatening. To Krystina, it would mean that Al no longer wanted to be with her and Felix. It would be tantamount to telling her that their marriage was at an end. What Al earned was the money on which their lives were secured.

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