The Saline Solution(The Vassi Collection #3) by Marco Vassi by Unknown

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Language: eng
Format: epub

But they have not the slightest hint that they are doing business. She is in the toils of the myth of relationship, and he conspires to support that lie; it is his security as well as hers.'

It was most difficult to probe into the structure of the life they had with each other and light up the basic weaknesses without doing damage to their optimism. But my objectivity ended where my erection began.

'Would you rather die in the arms of the woman you love or in the expansion of your most cherished thoughts?' I asked Francis.

He shot a glance at Bertha.

'You can plead the psychic Fifth,' I said.

He winced at the sarcasm in my voice. With the woman there he would have to fight with one arm tied behind him. But that fact was exactly what I wanted to attack.

Bertha sat at the other end of the round table, drawing obscure multicoloured patterns with a felt-tip pen. Her mouth tightened around a wide smile. 'I'll let that one pass,' he said. 'Your point.'

'Well, then, what's the point?' I countered. 'You're a paradigm maven. I offer you a superior model, or at least demonstrate the obsolescence of your current one, and we can sit and rap about it for hours, but when bedtime comes you take the chick upstairs and I pile into bed alone.'

'Where's Lucinda?' Bertha asked, not raising her eyes.

'I hope she's in the city getting fucked,' I said. 'She was beginning to act as though I were the only man in the world. And you know how much of a drag that can be, don't you dear?'

Francis lit a small cigar. 'I'm not bored with monogamy,' he said.

I refrained from adding, 'So long as you have your women on the side, the ones you never mention to Emily Trueheart here.'

He picked the thought from my brain. 'I've made that scene, I've had as many as three women at once.'

Bertha looked up sharply. 4Where was that? Who were they?' she said rapidly.

'Don't tell her,' I said. 'She'll use it against you.'

'Tell me,' she said.

He hesitated, uncertain. 'It was at Antioch, and it lasted for eight days. It was all I could do to keep the three of them in equilibrium.'

'Was one of them special?' Bertha asked.

Francis looked like a cat with a firecracker up its arse. 'Yeah . . . well, there was Amy, and then she had two friends. I've mentioned Amy to you,' he said to her.

'You didn't tell me this,' she said.

'Well,' I purred, 'look how you react.'

She hated me for a brief second and then turned to Francis. 'Amy's in Mexico now, isn't she?'

'I haven't heard from her for a few months,' he said. 'I think she's living with some cat down there.' Bertha relaxed, and returned to her drawing.

'Three at once?' I said. 'What was that like? I've been with three, but only when there were other men. I've never had more than two to myself.'

'Well,' he said,'I'll have to tell you about it sometime.

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