Engineer Mike Giles and wife have been unable to start a family and neither will undergo tests, fearful of being identified as the problem party. Gloria takes a lover leading Mike to suspect her motive is pregnancy. The tip off came from his wife's sister Liz. He sneakily identifies this bastard before deciding how to deal with it.
FOUR
Nancy had gone back to her cabin when I awoke to the alarm at five in the morning. She'd slept with me for most of the night and then left discretely. We pretended that no-one knows we sleep together, but of course everyone on-site knows because we are a close-knit work group.
A code exists without anyone publicizing it or enforcing it. Nancy could walk along the 2.7 mile construction site with her tits hanging out and it would be doubtful anyone would do anything but blink, as she was branded as 'Mike's girl'. Honorable men honored the code because that's how they do things whereas men who'd rather like a piece of Nancy knew if they touched her and she complained they'd have a visit from me and the result would not be pretty.
Everyone knows the stories of drunken brawlers who'd been put to bed, literally by me β often hospital beds. In the toilets of the machinery workshops is a newspaper cutting of the battered face of Big Irish MacKellar β teeth missing, cuts everywhere; MacKellar, is still in prison.
That horrible incident centered on a young administrative assistant on a project under my supervision going missing, and was found battered and sexually interfered with, although not raped. Suspicion fell on everyone but after lengthy investigation the police was stymied.
One night MacKellar, drunker than usual, mentioned the young admin assistant's name and claimed he'd "messed her up a little". No one believed him until MacKellar pulled out the missing silver clip the woman had worn around her pony-tail that day. "I couldn't fuck her, I was too drunk," bellowed MacKellar.
Fred Stockman called me.
I entered the room, dressed in a tracksuit and wearing working boots.
"Sorry boss for messing up Jenny a bit but there's nothing you can go about it β rat on me to the police and no-one in this industry will trust you to ramrod a job."
"You're going to pay for this, MacKellar," I said and space around us quickly cleared.
MacKellar looked almost twice as big as me, and knew it, grinning and licking his lips. I went in and kicked at his right kneecap, only grazing it and the big Irishman laughed bullishly and threw a looping punch to knock my head off but missed.
I kicked his other kneecap and everyone heard bone crack and MacKellar roared with pain. Then I drew from my pants pocket an assault weapon given to me by a friend who trains in martial arts. Its two eight-inch pieces of black metal are linked by a short piece of chain.
I went for him. There were five sickening cracks of metal hitting MacKellar's face, administered in almost a blur and he crashed to the ground.
"Fix it up for me boys," I said walking out through the silent throng.
The police and press were called and arrived almost together. They entered the deserted recreation room to find MacKellar unconscious, with a note pinned to his chest stating, "I'm guilty of messing up Jenny van Den Burgh."
At least thirty-five men witnessed that beating and the police questioned everyone on-site but couldn't find a single witness and everyone had an alibi.
In next morning's regional newspaper the heading on the page 3 story above the pictured beaten face of MacKellar was:
Brutal Beater Surrenders to Police After Mysterious Accident
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That incident earned me a lot of respect but my family and friends never got to hear about it. In fact I'm not a violent man, which is why I've not tried to slap sense into Gloria to break her pulsating desire to get pregnant, a pressure within her that's threatening to blow our marriage apart.
It's now three months since she'd refused to have sex with me and now appears to have taken up with another man, supposedly to get pregnant. I groan whenever thinking about this, knowing how stupid we are.
Stupid?
Well, I think so and realize Gloria's thinks the exact opposite β that she's attempting to carry out her reason for being a reproductive female, which is to bear at least one baby and alleges my bloody-mindedness is frustrating that mission.
My restraint has been such that I did not jump on her lover the other night and beat the crap out and her as well, the treacherous bitch.
Because my work project passes hard on the boundaries of two churches, we don't work Sundays. On that free day I usually walk the 2.7 mile site looking at everything, which takes some time, and then I take a nap and go out to early dinner and get back by seven when Nancy usually arrives from spending the day with her folk. We lounge around fucking and talking and then have supper at eleven and the project crews resume at midnight and it's all on again until midnight Saturday.
At the end of every second month, a relief engineer comes in and I get a week off, and now this was my first visit home since I began on the bypass contract.
I'd called Gloria giving my ETA as I didn't want to walk in and find her humping. She sounded warm and pleased to hear from me.
"Get that little bushy box of yours all hot and ready," I said, trying to sound as normal as I could. There was no indication that her legs would open for me, but actually I wasn't too sure I wanted a hairy cunt any more. I'd gotten used to Nancy's completely bald one which meant not having to pick hair from between my teeth.
Hmmmm, I thought. Sounds like you no longer find your wife desirable? That rattled me, I was close to making a definitive judgment and wasn't sure I was ready for it, mainly because I still have no proof that Gloria is having sex with this Mercer bastard for fun or really is attempting to have him impregnate her.
I thought about that one deeply and the light bulb popped alight over my brain and an idea was born. I'd need Liz's cooperation; that could be given unselfishly, or perhaps it may require taking her out to lunch while Gloria was working as marketing manager for J B Homewares.
FIVE
Gloria came running out to meet me as I rounded the rear of my 2002 Chevy Silverado 4WD, its black metallic paint and matching tonneau cover looking travel weary, not having been washed for a fortnight.
"Your truck's filthy," was her greeting.
She looked a litter thinner, a little stressed which was something. I kissed her, grabbing an ass cheek in one hand and a thrusting in the other to secure a boob, just to show her I still cared.
"Let's go inside; the neighbors," she said.