You can read the signals correctly and still get the message wrong
Maybe You Should Knock
Home Spun Tales (Variations on a theme 1)
BEAUREGARD LAID HIS FINGERS on the hotel room door knob. His other hand held the passkey which the clerk had passed him after a fifty-dollar bribe and a whopper about his wife losing her key and taking his from his suit.
He paused for a moment to consider the consequence of his actions. His heart beat like a war drum, but his discovery forced him to burst into the bedroom and confront her. He didn’t want to believe Susan was sleeping with Jill. His business partner and his wife?
He’d stumbled onto the receipts when Susan left the wrong spreadsheet in a public folder. Six hotels booked for “client consultations” the same times Jill left to meet with her “local explorers” club.
Beauregard paused for a moment to consider the consequence of his actions. His heart beat like a war drum, but his discovery forced him to burst into the bedroom and confront his wife.
He slotted the card and burst into the room. “Susan, I can’t believe you’re sleeping with Jill.”
A blonde pulled her head above the covers, her face flushed with rage and disappointment. Given the drape of the bedspread across her breasts, the blonde was built too. She held up her hand to silence him and grabbed her phone. “Susan, Jill, you never told me this would be a four-way.”
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Wry noir author Phillip T. Stephens wrote Cigerets, Guns & Beer, Raising Hell, the Indie Book Award winning Seeing Jesus, and the children’s book parody Furious George. Follow him at Phillip T Stephens.
