Pearls of Love (Episode 23)



At her bungalow house we sat at the bar and drank while we discussed business. Discussing business with her while having drinks was becoming exciting and interesting than any other thing mattered.

I asked why she didn’t get married and she said she didn’t get to meet the right guy. I wondered about the guy she introduced to me several years back. I wondered why most ambitious women don’t get to meet the right guys, is it busy schedules, rugged and rough pasts, or pride and lack of confidence in men.

She asked if I had discussed the business with Ann and I told her I hadn’t. I didn’t feel like to discuss Ann with her. I later told her how I had been feeling about her for a while. She also told me that that she had not been able to get over me even after several years, she added that she could have proposed the business to someone else, there were lots of multimillionaires she had in her list, and she could even take the business up all by herself with a bank loan.

We ended up in one of the hotel rooms were we had lots of fun! But unfortunately I discharged just before I could penetrate her. I felt very embarrassed about it and I think I saw a smile on her face after this happened, and I was very upset about this. I think I was taking too much drinks, it affects sexual performance in a lot of ways.



‘Sorry about that, I guess I am tired’. I told her, unable to look at her.

‘Never mind, we can try it again’, she said and went down to work on me with her mouth and hands, but I didn’t just get my erection back. I later dressed up and forgot about it all.

Later at the office, I couldn’t concentrate on anything and was not only pissed with myself, but with Ann, and with Rica and with everybody. Something was wrong with me. Maybe I needed to see a doctor; I went over to the fridge and took a bottle of star.

Now the guilt has returned again, another cheat on Ann and it made me feel very stupid that I couldn’t even do it with Rita.


Shortly after my drink, there was a call from Rita.

‘You didn’t say when next we would be seeing?” she asked.

‘Can we meet again this night?’ I asked knowing I shouldn’t do it.

‘Are you sure it’s right, what about Ann and your kids?’

‘I won’t be staying long’. I told her.

I didn’t believe I could do what I was doing. I was never out at night except if Ann and I had to go out together or I hadn’t returned from the office late, but here I was planning to go out with another woman in the night.

Who cares anyway, it was what I felt like doing, if I cheat on my wife one time in my marital life what was so bad about it, when some men do it over a thousand times. This was my feeling at that time, but it was a big mistake, a mistake of almost a life time, because I was lusting after another woman who did nothing to discourage me.

“So when are you coming?’ she asked and I just imagine how she felt.

“Seven, we’ll go to Rocky and take some drinks. I paused. “Then we can talk about us’.

“Us, you say?’ she asked

“Anything wrong with that?’ I asked in return

“Oh, not really, I just asked’.

I called Ann to inform her I wasn’t going to get home early.

“Ann I’m staying out late tonight’.

“It’s almost every night now”, she said. I wasn’t sure if it was a complaint.

“The kids hardly see you these days”, she continued and it really irritated me. What was she complaining about? I thought I was doing my best, being the best husband and father and at the same time the most successful man in the world. What was her complain for, I wondered. Won’t the kids grow up to be proud of their dad for achieving so much? I guess they will get more prestige than I do, but I was the one sweating for it, to make the name for them to be proud of.

“Can’t I do my work?’ I asked.

“I’m not saying that Dan, but the kids don’t even see you again. They need their dad too’.

“I’ll spend Saturday with them’, I told her.

“Okay’, she replied flatly and I knew she was angry.

“Anything the matter?’ I asked

“No’, she replied and hangs up.

I was at the office until about half past six, and then drove to Rita’s beachside bungalow. She was waiting for me at the lounge. Dressed and ready for us to go out. I was excited; I think she was really enjoying the whole thing just like I was.

We drove around town, seeing the beautiful evening. It was a very wonderful experience. We talked about all things, from business to romance, to sex and all of that. We finally drove down to a quiet beach, it was eight then, the whole place was quiet except for the sound coming from lovers’ also stealing time out at the beach. You can easily see some shapes with the moonlight.

We sat down at the beach and talked about the dreams we had for ‘Dove’, that was the name we were giving the company. It all sounded like a great dream, and I’d love to be lost in dreams like that. I saw myself climbing the ladders of fame to the sky. And I closed my eyes, enjoying every moments of it.

“Dan’, I heard her call ‘you are lost’

“Hmmm,” I nodded “I was thinking’

“Don’t worry; your dreams will come true’.

“Amen”

“Dan, you have to get back home, your family’. She said.

I got up and she did too.

“Dan, you don’t have to frustrate your family. I know, you are a good man’.

“It’s not easy’, I told her

“I know, I felt it too, but they are more important to you then I am, you know?”

I think she was right.

“I think I’m in love again,” I told her

“I think I am too, but it can’t work. Ann loves you and the kids do too.’

“So what do I do?” I asked her

“Let’s be good friends” she replied. “Let’s not start what we won’t finish”

“It can’t work unless you are friends with Ann’. I suggested

“No I can’t. I cannot stand seeing you two being together. She will know’.

I thought over this.

“Can I kiss you?” I asked.

She nodded and we were there sucking each other’s tongue as if our lives depended on it.

“You have to go’. She suddenly pulled off.

We went back to the car. By the time I got home it was past nine, the kids had slept, Ann had gone to bed too. I went to bed beside Ann without eating.

Our bodies didn’t as much as get close to each other not to talk of touching at any time all through that night.

Ann woke before I did in the morning and when she woke me up and I saw her, I knew she was ready for a war.

“Dan, I think you are seeing someone’.

“How do you mean I am seeing someone?’

“I think you’ve being seeing this Rita person’.

“Of course I do, I told you we are going into business together’. I paused “and we a finalizing plans, anything wrong with that?” I asked her.

“I don’t mean that, I mean I think you two are seeing, and moreover I don’t think I like the business thing. You didn’t ask me if I liked it”, she complained.

One thing I know about Ann is that; she wouldn’t stop at anything to get anything she wanted. I didn’t say a word.

“I’m I being treated now like a moron. I know longer mean anything to you’, she nagged.

“What’s all these about’, I asked my voice a bit high

“Dan, Dan what are you doing, what are you doing to us. The kids don’t see you again, I don’t know you again. You stay out at nights. You don’t talk to us again, is it this Rita?’

Now I was beginning to get really irritated at the mention of this “Rita”

“Can you please stop brining her into this?’

“Why won’t I involve her?” she ranted. I have always thought a time will come when this will happen, Dan’.

Now I was upset. She was rather talking too much now. She was trying to say in an indirect way that she had never trusted me, in spite of my devotion to her.

“Okay Ann, Okay. Yes, you are right. I have been fucking her, so?’ I found myself responding in such a manner, because I was angry with the way she was going about it. After all, it wasn’t as if she caught me in the act, so why all the grumbling.

She looked at me disgustedly, sighed and left the room. After I had gotten over myself, I went to Peter’s room. I talked to him but he was repulsive, somehow I didn’t care I left his room and went to Pat’s.

“Daddy, do you hate me too?’ she asked after we had chatted for a while. I was stunned and felt guilty. I knew Ann must have started feeding them with talks. Women, they are not different. My mom was like that when we were very young; she made me have a wrong opinion about my dad and at a time, I was almost seeing him as a monstrous being. Even when I got older I still love my mom more than I love my dad but I had learnt to develop a new kind of special respect for my dad. I guess if Ann made the kids to dislike, someday they will get to realize just how much I had always loved them, just like I got to respect my dad when I was getting older.

“You know I can’t hate you my angel’, I told her.

I took them by myself to their school that morning while Ann went on her own to her place of work.

It was a Friday the next day and I wondered how I was going to spend the weekend. I decided to stay back at the office to work.

When I got home that night Ann had withdrawn into her shell. She served the food and went straight to the room without saying a word. Somehow, I didn’t care; I wanted to be alone too.

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