He knew that he made good money.There seemed to be enough for them to take a vacation every year.A nice one, too, where all he had to do was show up and have a good time.Again, she more than likely got someone to do that for them.He thought his wife was lazy as fuck and didn’t understand when she harped on him about doing more around the house.He paid for it and all the food.The least she could do was mow the lawn when it was time and take out the trash can.He did bring it back up to the house when he was outside.What more did she want from him?Everything apparently.
Wondering how he could get his wife to pay for an apartment for his mistress—he loved the sound of that when he thought about it—without her pitching a bitch about spending money that they didn’t have.She’d just have to make it work out, that was all, and when she did, he didn’t want to hear about it again.He’d have to lay down the law.
Hitting his wife had never been anything that he did.He was tempted at times, just to pop her in the mouth when she started feeling like she was being taken advantage of.He didn’t understand where that was coming from.He took care of her needs when he was in the mood.Here of late, he’d not been in the mood; he wanted Elaine.She was going to be his mistress as soon as he got her to take back this having him arrested and put in jail.It wasn’t a good beginning for them when she’d done something like this to him.
David knew nothing about having affairs.He’d been afraid of his wife finding out.Well, now that she’d left him high and dry, he was willing to forget about what Elaine had done to him for a little extra pussy.He giggled when he thought of that word.It was one of the words he’d never allowed to be said in his life.That, nor the word fuck, except for the day that he’d taught Elaine a lesson.
Sitting on the side of his cot, he had to wonder who had taught whom a lesson.When she’d slammed his head into the car door, he’d been sure she was trying to kill him.He certainly had enoughof a headache from what she’d done to him.And for what reason?He’d only been trying to teach her a lesson in going out with someone when he had not given her permission.That was one of the things that he’d read about mistresses, they weren’t supposed to do shit without the man’s permission.
Pretty on his arm when he had to go to functions was one of the things they were used for.Of course, something fresh to fuck, he giggled again.Elaine wasn’t doing anything that she was supposed to do with him, and he wondered if he needed to make her a list of things she was allowed to do and not do.Right at the top of the list would be beating him back.That was for the birds, and it hurt too.There was never any mention of him being hurt by his mistress in any book that he’d ever read.And he’d read up on it a great deal.
“She is going to have to be nicer to me.”He didn’t like talking to himself, but since he was all alone and there wasn’t anyone in the cells next to him, he could talk as much as he wanted.His head hurt too much to be thinking all the time, and that was her fault, too.“Did I make a mistake in thinking she’d make a good mistress?”
He didn’t want to believe that.She was beautiful and smart.Someone with whom he could hold a conversation sometimes when he wanted to talk.He knew that she’d been in the service, which might account for her being able to get in a few blows of her own when he’d been trying to teach her a lesson.He was going to have to tell her not to use that stuff on him again.It was too painful and wasn’t fair that she knew more about beating people up than he did.David was going to knock that right out of her head and soon.
He actually thought it would be nice to have someone that he could knock around when he was having a bad day.Just a few jabs to the face and he’d be in a better mood.Not, however, if she was going to be hitting him back all the time.As he’d said, it wasn’t fair that she knew more about how to do moves than he did.
“You have a visitor.Did you want to see him here or in one of the rooms?”He said he could see him here; he was comfortable.“Well, just so you know, we record your cell too.So you’d better not say anything that might get you into trouble with the law.Mr.Erickson insisted on your knowing that right up front.”
“You can’t record me unless I say it’s all right.”He told him that it was one of the rules he was told about when he was brought in.“I don’t care.I don’t want anyone recording me when I’m having a—who is this person anyway?Why did he want to see me?”
“You knocked around his wife.”After the man left him, he was still pondering who he’d knocked around that was someone’s wife.The only person that he could remember in all his life was Elaine, and she had not been married.He knew that for a fact; it was on her application.When the man came down the hall, he had a chair with him, and David wished that he had one.
Sitting on his cot wasn’t all that comfortable, nor did he like sleeping in the bed either.He wanted a nice desk, too, so that he could write up things when he thought of them.Thinking without notes had never been his strong point, and he wasn’t sure how some people thought on their feet when he’d heard that odd saying.
“David.”He said his name was Mr.Sheen.“You’re in no position to tell me what I can call you or not.So I’ll call you by your first name because it annoys you so much.I’m here to talk to you about Elaine.She and I are going to be married soon, and I wanted you to be the first to know.”
“That’s not possible.Not only that, but as my mistress, she won’t be able to stay with you when I have her locked up in an apartment that I’m paying for.”He asked him if he’d really lock her up.“Yes.She’s not shown herself to be all that trustworthy when she’s out and about.Dating you is just one example of how she’s not playing fair when I’m going to be footing the bills for her.Of course, she’ll have to be the one doing the bills.I don’t want to be bothered with that.”
“So you think she’s going to want to be your mistress after you beat her to snot?I doubt there is anyone who would agree to be your anything after the way you treated Elaine.She certainly isn’t going to be willing.”He said that he’d have to pop her around a bit to get her to agree.“Pop her around a bit?The last time you did that, you nearly killed her.I heard that she got in a couple of good hits herself.Are you still pissing blood?”
“No, the doctor said that she’d damaged my kidney a bit when she kicked me.I won’t allow her to do that again.She fights dirty.”He nodded but didn’t say anything else.“Why are you here other than to lie to me about having her as your wife?I’m going to keep her well as my mistress, and there will be no time for her to be married to you.You’ll just have to take it back if you’ve asked her already.”
“I’ve not asked her yet, but I’m going to today.She’ll say yes because she loves me.She doesn’t even like you, so it’s doubtful if you asked her nicely to be your mistress, she’d agree.”He said he had a good job and was considered a good catch.“You had a job.The board of Education fired you the day you were arrested.They’ve also done an extensive background check on you and found that you’d hurt women before.”
“That’s all water under the bridge.She wanted some time off to get married, and I didn’t have a sub lined up to take her place.She argued with me, and I can’t stand that.”He asked why he’d not had anyone there for her.“Not that it’s any of your business, but I forgot about it.She didn’t need to get married anyway.She was a good teacher, and we all know what would have happened had she gotten married.She would have wanted time off to have a baby, and that would have been something else that I would have had to do.No, she was better off not getting married.”
“She did get married and has two wonderful kids.Last I heard, she was no longer teaching but talking to others who had been abused by their bosses.That would be about you in the event that you didn’t get that.”He waved him off and asked about his job.“You’ve been fired and will no longer be able to have any sort of teaching position at any school so long as you live.You might say that you’ve been blackmarked against.”
“What does Elaine get out of this?Hopefully, she got herself blackmarked, too.”He told him what was going on with her job.“That’s not fair.How does she get to keep her job?”He thought about that for a moment.“I suppose that it doesn’t matter as she’s going to be my mistress anyway.Having her work would be something that I’d have to keep an eye on her all the time.That’s not going to work when I’m paying for everything.”
“You have a real hard on for her being your mistress, don’t you?Why?It’s doubtful that you’d be able to survive when she was pissed off at you.Which would be all the time if you pull that crap on her like beating her up again.”He said that she’d learn.“Doubtful.The only person that would have to learn would be you, and it’s doubtful that you’d learn all that much when she starts laying down the law.”
“We’ll see.”He told him it was all water under the bridge anyway, as she wasn’t going to be his mistress.“Again, we’ll see.I know what women like her need.I suppose you’ve been pampering her with her every whim.I’m not going to be doing that, so she might as well get that thought right out of her head.”
“Like I said, the only person that would learn anything by this supposed relationship that you’ve made up in your mind is you.”Erickson stood up, and so did he.“I only came here to tell you that she’s going to be my wife soon, and for you to back off.Not that I think you’ll be getting out of jail in the near future.”
After he left him, taking his chair with him, he thought about what he’d said.Not getting out of jail soon was something that bothered him.How was that possible?He’d done nothing wrong that would warrant him being in trouble.Like he’d been thinking all along, she’d beaten him up as much as he’d done her.However, she was free to go about her business like nothing had happened to him.
Then there was the fact that he thought that he was going to marry her.That wasn’t right, as he’d wanted her to be his mistress all along.Since she’d first come into his office.He knew now that he should have made his intentions clear then, but then she might not have taken the job.Some women didn’t want to be reminded that they needed a man to take care of them all the time.He’d have to think on that some more to get it in his head how to best figure out how to make sure she understood that he’d been there for her first.Damn it all to heck and back, this wasn’t fair, and he didn’t like it.
~*~
Elaine was getting around well now.Walking the hallways, she could get about halfway around before she had to turn and walk back.She’d forgotten about that on the first day; that however far she walked, she was going to have to walk back to her room too.She’d had to have them take her back in a wheelchair because she’d been so shaky that she knew that she’d fall if she had to go back the way that she’d come.
She could see now, too.Not all that much, but enough to know that she was walking on a tile floor that was green and white and that the halls were the same color.Seeing Knox was a real treat as well since she’d been missing him so much when he’d been gone.Today, he had gone to see David, and she wondered how that had gone.
He was going to tell him that they were getting married.He’d never asked her if she’d marry him, but if he had, she’d say yes.They’d become very knowledgeable about one another, and she loved it when he told her stories of Martha.She sounded like the type of person that she would have liked and more than likely loved as much as she had her own mom.Her mom had passed away when she was thirteen.
