The Moon Is Watching by Cloake Adam

Author:Cloake, Adam [Cloake, Adam]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Published: 2018-07-15T16:00:00+00:00

She and Greg were married ten months later. The ceremony, held in the registry office on Grand Canal Street, was attended by more than a hundred people. Following their first kiss as a married couple, the new husband and wife turned towards the room to absorb the swell of applause. The first person who approached them, quite naturally, was the man standing on the edge of the front row. Daniel took them both in his arms, squeezed them, and planted a kiss on each cheek – first on Laura’s, then on Greg’s.

“You two kids are going to be great together," he said to them.

They both thanked him warmly, with an even bigger hug, before moving on to accept individual congratulations from the rest of the room.

It had taken a few weeks for Laura to settle into the reality of her decision, and the impact it would have on the three of them. When she entered Daniel's house that day last winter, her anger had abated, but she still needed to discuss the situation with the two men inside. They were both shocked and embarrassed when she strode into the parlour, her keys gripped tightly in her fingers. For a moment, Greg said later, he had believed she intended using them as a weapon. To Laura's eyes, the look of horror on both their faces had been almost comical, but she needed to remain stern and resolute.

She learned that Greg had bumped into Daniel at a party two weeks after he had first met Laura, and a relationship had grown between the two men. Greg was emphatic throughout that he was in love with Laura, and that this would not change. It was an emotion which, for him, had started early, and had developed quickly, unlike with any other woman in his life. Nevertheless, he was equally unable to stop his emerging feelings for her father. They continued to meet each other in the city, at least once a week, usually in a men’s sauna.

Despite the potentially hurtful nature of these revelations, Laura was convinced that Greg had been honest with her about everything else. After all, they had both agreed to keep silent about all their outside liaisons.

And, of course, she was naturally secure, as she always had been, in the honesty of her father, the man who had helped raise her.

The three of them had discussed the situation in detail, and eventually had reached a compromise solution.

And so, the young couple had married, confident that they would be together for life.

A few days after the wedding, they began a two-week honeymoon in Hawaii. When they returned, Greg spent six nights of every week in the bed he shared with Laura, as excellent a lover to her as he had ever been. And every Wednesday evening – while Laura hosted Ian or Roger – Greg drove out to the farm in Meath. There, he would spend the night in Daniel’s large mahogany bed, wrapped in the older man’s arms.

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