INTRODUCTION
Widower Paul Wright created rather a sensation when on the day after his son graduated from college he married a woman unknown to his two children and wider family and his friends.
Philip said to his older sister Penny, a lively blonde know-all attorney aged twenty-six, "This is a bit of a shocker."
"Yes, she sniffed, as they rode in a cab behind the cab carrying their father and his two best friends to the church. "I'm still highly upset and to think he's been fucking that bitch probably before he began proceedings to divorce mommy. A pox on him."
"What's that?" asked the new science graduate, acutely curious.
"It's a curse I think. I've read about it in novels merely as an utterance in Shakespeare used a form of it. It's probably meant to have an ethereal rather than a literal meaning."
"Do you really want something bad to happen to dad for having it off with this woman when he was still married to mom?"
"Philip I have just explained although I presented my comment more or less as a curse it was meant to be taken literally."
"Eh? Then why don't you say what do mean?"
"Oh god Philip. Let's talk about something else. What do we call this woman?"
"Eh?"
"Christ Philip we can scarcely call her Mrs Wright."
"Got you. We should insist on calling her by her first name no matter how old she is."
"Good because I was already thinking that. We must stand together on this and if she objects we'll quietly tell dad it is either her first name or we'll simply call her Bitch."
"Eh?"
"God Philip and you are supposed to be educated."
The marriage was conducted before a clergyman, his assistant, the organist, the bride's parents, Philip and Penelope, their father's two friends and two friends of the bride.
The bride arrived and Penny almost wet herself because the bitch looked only a little over thirty.
The ceremony was mercifully short without singing and only one prayer. Paul then introduced Petra Williams, a lecturer in computer graphics, who was now Mrs Wright the 2nd to his family and Petra introduced Paul to her parents and her two friends and the bride and groom. The newly-marrieds then left without advising anyone where they were going and when would they return.
Family and guests stood around awkwardly until Petra's father, who was looking somewhat shell-shocked, was prodded by his wife and said, "Okay everyone, let's find a bar; the drinks are on me."
As everyone trooped out of the church with David and Phyllis Williams in the lead Penny, who was still getting over the latest shock, said to Philip she couldn't believe it.
"Believe what? People get married every day."
"Oh fuck me," Penny groaned.
One of her father's friends took Penny's other arm and smiled, saying perhaps he could assist her.
The guy said to Philip, "Drop back and talk to Mr Chaplain while I assist your sister deal with her emotions."
Philip did that and later he saw Penny leave the bar with that guy that Les Chaplain said was Leroy Evans. Penny didn't return home until 9:00 next morning and when Philip said she looked a wreck she told him he would too if he'd been totally fucked.
Philip thought that was very rude of his sister talking to him in that manner.
Nine months later Penny married a junior partner in her law firm, Jack Leighton, whose father was Silas Leighton, one of the senior partners. Penny had told her stepmom that this was an auspicious move because it was likely Mr Leighton would be bullied by his wife to promote Penny as a junior partner. During those nine months Penny and her new stepmom Petra Williams had spent considerable time together and had become very close.
Too close actually.
CHAPTER 1
In a corner of a bar on Friday night occupied by attorneys from Baldez, Leighton Zeiss, LLP, Jack Leighton from the Litigation/Controversy department looked around for someone to fuck although that usually was termed looking for someone to take to dinner.
Jack's generally dismissive gaze fell upon Penny Wright from the Real Estate department and his dick stirred, signaling have a go man. Slim Penny had great legs; that he already knew and that she was loosely dating Ben Shanks, manager of the Real Estate department. It had to be 'loosely' because Ben had a wife and a kid.
Just as he was staring, making that assessment, Penny turned and their eyes locked and he almost heard his dick yell Yes!
Jack winked.
Blondes generally blush and Penny was no exception. Jack assumed her thighs were now pressing together and she was surprised they were doing that and would be left mystified. Jack wasn't to know Penny almost had gasped aloud oh jumping catfish the smoothie Jack Leighton was interested in having sex with her and that it was a convenient hit because her manager/boyfriend was taking his wife to the ballet that evening.
The smoothie slid up alongside Penny and said taking her glass from her, "What are you drinking?"
"Water," she said, and took her glass back from him saying it was half full.
"Or half empty," sighed Jack, thinking he'd blown it.
She giggled and said he was funny.
Funny? Oh hello, Jack thought. She can sense a dick on the rise and is coming down to his level to assist such a bumbling fool.
"Dinner?"
"And then what?"
Jack felt as if he'd thudded into a street pole. How the hell to reply appropriately?
She waited.
He stalled wondering which of seven responses suggested by his brain to use but the first choice of 'We'll then go to my apartment and look at the goldfish' was scarcely the right response to make a woman keen to down her panties.
Jack wondered about 'Then we'll do what you suggest providing it's filthy' and looked down to see she was tapping one of her red shoes. He decided to be reasonably neutral but with a touch of suggestiveness, 'We'll then go to my apartment.' He looked up, mouth open ready to deliver, and found she'd turned and was now conversing with Suzanne and Paula both from Insurance/Reinsurance who were bi-sexual and Jack had taken both to dinner together and then on to see his goldfish. He peeled off to the right and listened to Arthur from Aviation and Melanie from Estate Planning arranging their next naughty weekend. They explained to Jack although they lived together they enjoyed going away for the occasional weekend and pretended they were committing adultery.
After two minutes listening to that crap Jack decided to find another bar, but not a gay bar, and get drunk.
"Wait up," called Penny, coming out behind him. "I hope you didn't forget we have a dinner date and then to go back to your apartment on some pretence that you failed to deliver on?"
"Oh no I was just stepping out to get some fresh air."