- Loving Wives
- The One
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Damn it, I wasn't even a better lover than a fighter.
His handsome face didn't look as pretty any more, his blood splattered lips twisted into a hideous scowl. He was taller, heavier and had a longer reach than me, but I had taken a few punches in the last month or so and was prepared to give as good as I got. I considered my beating would be cathartic. He held his fists up too, comfortably, moving his feet well as he circled me, our eyes focussed warily on each other. Damn, he was probably coached at public school and may have regularly kept up practicing since.
"Roger!" the shout came from nowhere and took his attention away from me just for a moment. He looked to his right, then a flash of silver hit him hard in the face. This time he went down for the count. Natalie knelt sobbing by her prone lover.
I turned to face Lesley. She held up my mangled laptop.
"Sorry, I'm right-handed," she said, by way of apology.
"Nothing that can't be replaced." I shrugged as I relieved her of the wreckage.
"I'll call my next appointment and reschedule for the morning." She hauled out her phone from her bag. "I expect your Mum still serves up fish fingers and alphabet spaghetti for the kid's tea?"
"Almost every time," I said, "Perfect comfort food."
"I haven't had a fish finger sarnie with ketchup for years. Does she... you think... keep a large stock in the fridge?"
"There's an Iceland store on the way to the multi-storey. We'll stock up. Better safe than sorry."
"Great." She found the entry she sought in her phone directory and launched the number.
"Don't make that appointment too early in the morning," I said.
"Mr Jones? Lesley... Look, something unexpected's come up, so sorry... Same time tomorrow afternoon?... Great. See you then... Bye!"
She put the phone away and looked at me with those soft grey-blue eyes again.
"Introductions are in order, I think," she said. "Meet Hubby, otherwise known as Roger, my husband, soon to be ex-husband. Roger? Oh, he's still out for the count. Perhaps, Alan, you can recommend a good solicitor?"
"I have her card on me somewhere," I said. "I look it out for you later."
"Thanks," she smiled.
"So, he wasn't 'the one', then?" I ventured as I held out the crook of my arm for her. "Still looking?"
"He wasn't 'the one'. Not for a millisecond, never in a million years. I settled, Alan," she said as she tucked her slim elegant arm in mine and we moved purposefully towards the exit. I took out ten, changed my mind and made it fifteen, and handed it to the hovering open-mouthed Rosamund.
"Am I still looking?" Lesley continued, "I've never stopped... for twenty years I've tried to find 'the one'... again."
The end.
- COMMENTS
Oatmeal196923 days agoI enjoyed that, adultery and paternity aside, it was a second-chance romance given to two people not over each other. thought it was cute.
Anonymousabout 2 months agoGreat story. Heartbreaking for Alan. Also for Lesley but she finally found her "one" again after 20 long years.
My only critique would be why the author chose 20 years of separation. Maybe cut it down to half that and make the kids younger. Suppose though might reflect on custody.
To be fair, she did him wrong when he asked her to marry him. But he also did take her for granted and 5+ years for a commitment is playing with fire. Not to mention, as devastated as he was to just go ahead with a 'drop the mic' exit and flee around the UK is cowardly.
Moreover his griping that he waited 39 months, while she only waited 14 months is laughable. She realized the next day that she f$cked up and searched all over to find him. His mother stonewalling her killed her son's chance at happiness for two decades. 14 months vs 39 months is largely similar in that she seriously tried and finally realized she had lost him for good. He too longer to lick his wounds. And look where that got him: Natalie, the corporate slut.
Contrary to the consistent misinformed trope on this site, people with little to no sexual experience prior to marriage typically remain fulfilled with their marital sex life much longer than there more experienced counterparts. The correlation is opposite of ehat
many LW stories on this site contend; i.e. the more sexual experience a spouse has prior to marriage, the more rapidly they becomes NOT satisfied with their marital sex life. It isn't rocket science people.
Lastly, if he had gotten engaged to Lesley on their 5th anniversary of dating, we have no.way to know if she would have cheated on Alan or not going forward. The cynics will say she was a virigin before Alan and she wanted strange. So maybe she would have.
To be fair I think some of that was mindless babble on her part as she re-evaluated their relationship and got cold feet after he did not propose to her two months earlier. Who knows. However, the opposing view is it appears she was always faithful to Roger, despite her sex appeal, trusted him, despite his 12+ year affair with Natalie (basically Alan was a "cover" husband, raising Roger's children), and the fact that she really loved Alan, missed him deeply as she realized he was gone and could not find him, looking for him for a year, before giving up, and her comments at the end of the story.
A guy like Roger, haughty, arrogant, narcissistic, from old money could never be the "one" for anybody. Her relationship with Roger was based on sex first (great sex!), then evolved, and she got pregnant with Belinda. He may have been banging Natalie well past 12 years. She talked herself into thinking she had found the "one" in part because she already lost the "one" in Alan. However, when she first chatted with him and he asked her if she found the "one", she of course affirms that she did since she wanted Alan to feel bad about what (in her mind), he had given up 20 years earlier, because (a) woman scorned and all that and (b) she had been living with what she saw as abandonment (somewhat misguided).by Alan for 20 years. Think she can be forgiven that. Great story. 5 stars.
lc69hunter2 months agoShaking my head at the little weak boys who somehow equate the sperm donor with fatherhood.
inka22223 months agoWow, the man-hating assholes saying how the ending was "happy" (right, him never having real children but wasting his time nannying another man's kids is just that), the story "wonderful" and such are out in force.
inka22223 months agoSorry, 1 star. Yeah punching the ass was neat for 5 seconds, but he STILL WON ALL THE MARBLES. He has 5 or 6 kids with 2 women, and wont' pay for that in any way. The shitface whore won't pay for her treachery in any meaningful way, never mind like she deserves (with her life AT LEAST).
