I decided to split the last part into two chapters.
Enjoy and comment as appropriate.
LB
Previously
Saskia looked over at her mother as she drove away from the cottage on the Monday morning and still couldn't gauge how the weekend with Alex had gone. Rowan had been quiet when Saskia had pulled up but had a glow about her. She gave off the air of someone completely and utterly relaxed.
Her daughter considered it a positive result that she wasn't morose and depressed or spitting feathers so it could not have been that bad. She hadn't asked the specific question as she assumed that Rowan would offer up the information voluntarily but that had not been forthcoming. She could not wait any longer.
"Well ... how did it go? Did the pair of you get along? I had hoped that Alex would still be there when I came to pick you up so I could see the interaction between the pair of you, but I guess he has to go to work."
Her mother looked over at her with a dreamy expression.
"It was fine dear. Yes, he had a meeting so had to leave quite early. He woke me up when he pulled out ... the boy has no consideration for anyone."
Saskia caught the slight upturn in her mother's lips and tried to work out what the enigmatic smile meant but was at a loss to understand. She pressed on with her interrogation.
"So, what did you do, just sit and talk or did you do stuff together? Did you use the facilities ... it is a wonderfully equipped place don't you think?"
Rowan's voice was full of innuendo.
"Oh yes, dear. We used just about every thing they had to offer. I can't think of any facility we didn't use. In fact some of them got used more than once. We did lots of physical activity and I can't say that I've ever felt so thoroughly fucked ... err ... I mean knackered after a weekend of activities."
The small giggle that accompanied that statement sounded odd to Saskia's ears but then the whole of her mother's behaviour was decidedly odd. The aura of sated calmness about her was unnerving and had never been witnessed by her daughter before. Rowan stretched languidly and gave a small grimace and whimper which set Saskia's thoughts flying off at tangents.
'If I didn't know better I would say she got laid this weekend.'
She shook her head to try and dispel that thought.
"So what did you do? You can't just have sat and talked for the whole weekend? Did you play tennis, swim, go for a walk ...? Did you invite anyone else over?"
Rowan turned to her daughter and smiled sweetly.
"No, of course not. It was just Alex and me and we had a lot of quality time together ... alone. Now you know what it was like when you used to come home from school and I'd ask what you had done and you would say '
not much
' or a '
bit of this and a bit of that
'. Suffice it to say that Alex and I had a wonderful weekend together and have sorted out our relationship ... "
Rowan paused and Saskia looked over at her and caught sight of her mother biting her lower lip with an expression of utter bliss on her face. The expression was gone as soon as Rowan realised that Saskia was looking at her. She cleared her throat and continued in a neutral voice.
"We will be seeing more of each other ... in fact I might go and stay with him for a while ..."
Rowan trailed off once more and Saskia glanced over again and saw her mother looking at her with another goofy expression.
"Well, I'm glad if has sorted out the problem between you two."
Her mother smiled happily.
"Oh, it certainly did that.. You were right by the way ... I think I would give him the same description you did ... 'pretty much the real deal ... in terms of what I look for in a guy'
...
all that has done has shown me that your Dad and I have some issues ... we may not ... umm ... "
Rowan coughed as she halted but otherwise seemed unfazed by the fact that she had started to say something indiscrete. Saskia was perplexed by the linkage between the comment about how perfect Alex was and her relationship with her husband and it set her mind racing.
'What the hell have they been talking about ... what the hell have they been doing?'
Saskia looked over at her mother who was far too calm and relaxed and had a sudden insight which left her reeling.
'OMG... Fuckkkk! Come on there has to be some other explanation ... but she said there was no one else there over the weekend ... and she shows all the hallmarks of having been laid ... Alex was the only one there ... fuckkk ... there were signs from before ... their attitude to each other after the night before the wedding ... and then he got that chubby when he saw her in my sexy dress that night ... then Mum's attitude over him going off with Emma ... Jesus ... the jizz on my dress was because they were fucking at the wedding ... it was nothing to do with Emma ... they have done it before!'