PROLOGUE
Westoby Jones left his mates at the café and walked down Sixville's High Street. He was happy. The sun felt good and he began to whistle in his contentment.
He didn't see the girl, at least, until it was too late. He knocked into her and sent her flying to the pavement.
"Oh, bugger...I'm so sorry. Let me help you up." He entreated, reaching out a hand.
She clasped his arm and righted herself. Her hand stayed where it was and began to squeeze hard.
Westoby looked at her. She was blonde, and dressed in gingham. He thought to himself that she looked like Doris Day.
Doris Day who had been shot repeatedly in the face with a nail gun.
After getting over the shock of her numerous facial piercings he noticed a strange distant look in her hazel eyes.
"Are you all right? Do you need a doctor?" He asked concerned.
"Cassandra?" The girl whispered.
"Erm...my name's Westoby..." He replied, beginning to worry that she was on something.
"She saw the future but wasn't believed..." The girl rambled. "God...sorry...I...I'm all right." She said, shaking her head.
"Are you sure? It's just I should be going..." Westoby asked, a little unsettled. He had no experience with freaks like this, especially not junkie ones.
"My name's Low." She introduced herself. "I'm fine, honestly, though you might not be."
Was she threatening him? Westoby looked around him at the busy small town street bathed in broad daylight.
"Er. I'm glad you're okay. Bye." He said, and walked off at pace.
FOREWARNED
Helena Jones poured Alice Deeds a cup of tea. Her best friend took it with a smile.
"Are you getting all English now? I thought it would happen eventually, being married to a Brit..." Alice teased.
"What! I just like tea. There's nothing wrong with getting into some of the things that your husband likes." Helena responded, defensively.
Alice laughed. She was used to Helena's insecurity.
"You'd think after five years living with you he'd be a caffeine addict, like the rest of us..."
They both looked out of the living room window at Westoby. He was mowing the back lawn, bare-chested. He was a thirty-year-old hunk, tall, with a hairy body and just the right amount of muscle.
Aretha Franklin's Respect was playing on his portable radio.
"You know what they say. You can't change a man. Luckily, there's nothing, nothing, I want to change about him." Helena giggled.
Alice's eyes narrowed, imperceptibly.
"Oh, you can change a man, though only negatively. You can make him worse..." Alice told her friend, a smile twisting her lips as she flicked her gaze back to Westoby.
"Why would anybody want to do that?" Helena asked, puzzled. She loved Alice, but didn't understand her sometimes. Her friend's love life, despite all the years they'd known each other, was pretty much a mystery.
"Not everyone is happy to settle down in conventional married bliss, you know." Alice said, surprising Helena with her vehemence.
"Alice! Why'd you say something like that?" She exclaimed.
"I'm bored of you and everything you stand for." Alice said, surprising herself this time. The statement was true, but she hadn't known she was harbouring such resentment.
"....." Helena failed to say.
"I'm going to get Westoby to fuck me." Alice informed her friend, running with the spite, now that it had been released.
"That's not funny." Helena moaned.
"I meant it seriously." Alice said, superciliously.
"Alice...take it back..." Helena pleaded.
"I won't. It's true. I'm going to seduce and fuck your husband." Alice said casually.
"I want you get out of this house, right now. Right now!" Helena shrieked at Alice.
"I'm going. Say hi to Westoby for me." Alice said, smirking as she left via the front door.
Helena sat there, astounded. Her tea got cold as her head filled with images of her man sweating and heaving in bed with Alice. She felt nauseous.
Westoby would never do that to her. He had left his homeland to be with her. He loved her; she knew that for certain.
She decided that what she was feeling was horror at how little she had really known Alice. She was upset at the loss of that friendship, not worried about her husband's fidelity.
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Westoby walked in, wiping his sweat off with his T-shirt.
"I thought Alice was staying for dinner?" He asked, innocently, when he noticed that she wasn't there.
"I asked her to leave. We've...had a...we're no longer friends." She eventually found the right words.
Westoby was silenced by shock but went to hug his pale and ashen wife.
"Would you like a cup of tea?" He enquired.
Helena let out a little bitter laugh and kissed him. He could sense the need in her lips: the need for him to shut up.
He stroked her hair as their tongues collided and spun in each other's mouths.
She was desperate to dispel her sickening thoughts and to replace them with Westoby, her man who would never cheat. She undid the buttons of his jeans and pulled them from his hips.
"Do you want to go to bed?" He sighed, his lips tingling.
"No."
Westoby understood. He wanted his wife to feel better and unzipped her floral summer dress, letting it slip to the floor.
"Let me take care of you." He requested and Helena nodded. He nibbled her earlobes in a way that he knew that she liked whilst his hands worked at the clasp of her bra.
Her breasts were freed and Westoby took time to pay attention to each pert nipple.
"Mmmmm..." Helena groaned and Westoby smiled. He loved Helena's athletic body and the way that it responded to his touch.
He was tender and intimate as he removed her panties.
"I love you, Helena. I love your naked body." He smiled as she lay down on the carpet.
He reached into the pocket of his discarded jeans and pulled out his wallet. He removed a condom and glanced at Helena.
She watched him, breathing hard, as he rolled the rubber over his hard cock and spread her legs.
He slid on top of her and she sighed at the comforting weight of him.
Westoby reached down and guided his penis into her comfortable pussy. She wrapped her legs around him possessively.
He looked down at her. This was all about her, the woman he adored needed him right now.
Each gentle thrust elicited soft whimpers of pleasure. His pace was slow and steady, each penetrating deeper than the last.
A sad look crossed her eyes but Westoby noticed and kissed her. When he opened his eyes hers were shut with ecstasy.
He panted against her neck and rubbed one palm over a sensitive nipple.
"Hmmmm...I'm nearly there, baby..." She yelled out.