Maid For You: A Romance For Men by Virgil Knightley & Peter North

Author:Virgil Knightley & Peter North [Knightley, Virgil & North, Peter]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Royal Guard Publishing LLC
Published: 2024-06-26T00:00:00+00:00

Arthur

He had just been getting settled in his chair when he heard Sansara’s cry from the kitchen. Arthur’s heart had lurched at the sound, his instinct to protect responding immediately to the woman’s fear, regardless of the state of his body. He wheeled himself into the kitchen as quickly as he could, worried that she’d hurt herself.

“Sansara, what is it?” He asked, finding her staring at the refrigerator door like it had leaped up and bit her. “Are you okay?”

“I… I think so,” she said, but her voice shook with fear. “But, Arthur, is this your wife?”

She pointed at a picture from the year Tanya’s team had won their regional soccer tournament, which Megan had insisted on being in because she’d ‘heroically’ driven Tanya to every one of her practices and games and felt she’d earned the trophy almost as much as her daughter had.

“That’s Megan,” he said, then he emphasized, “My ex-wife. Why do you ask?”

As Sansara described her experience in the market, and her shock at finding the woman had followed her all the way to Arthur’s door, the irritation Arthur had felt that morning grew into something darker. Had he not had the frightened phone call from Tanya last night and the unhinged conversation with Megan that morning, he might not have believed it was possible. Now it was clear he had to take this shift in behavior seriously.

“I’m sorry, Sansara,” he said, meaning it. “That should never have happened. I don’t know what’s wrong with her that she thinks it’s okay to behave that way. From now on, I’m coming with you when you go out.”

Sansara turned to him, tears in her eyes. She wiped them away with a shaky hand. “You don’t need to do that, Arthur. I’m sure it’s no big deal. Maybe she was just… curious about your new situation.”

“It is a big deal, and it’s wrong,” he insisted, hearing the doubt in Sansara’s voice and knowing she was much more unnerved than she was letting on. “Megan is harmless, but she can be selfish and cruel when she gets it in her head that someone has wronged her. I’m sure she’s just trying to intimidate you.”

Sansara sagged onto her tail, sitting lower than she usually did, and laughed nervously. “Well… it’s working, I guess. She sure gave me a scare.”

Worry flashed through Arthur’s mind, followed quickly by outrage that Megan would stoop to this level. It wasn’t enough that she’d left him, now she was trying to prevent anyone else from supporting him, too? A person would think it had been her life that had been ruined by the accident, her body that was crushed beyond repair, rather than just her selfish ideal of having a perfect trophy husband. What did she think he was going to do? Wait around for Megan to change her mind?

Arthur was certain of one thing. If Megan thought he’d let her scare Sansara away, she had another thing coming. He’d do anything he could to make sure the lamia woman felt safe, including extra trips out of his home to protect her.

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