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Chapter Eleven -- I had sex with your brother
Gwen confesses that she had sex with Roger's brother.
"I slept with your brother," she said not wasting any time and coming right to the point.
An altogether different reaction that he had than she had, when he confessed that he slept with her mother, sister, and best friend, her words felt as if she hit him with a baseball bat to the face. Her confession shocked him as if he had just stuck his finger in an electrical socket. With him nearly short circuited and his brain beginning to smoke with rage, he sat there in stunned silence staring at her. She watched his reaction to her sexual confession in the way that he watched and waited for her reactions that never came to his sexual confessions.
Obviously, just as she was playing an April Fools' joke on him when she said that her mother, sister, and best friend hate him, she was playing a joke on him by saying that she slept with his brother. Ha! Ha! Very funny.
In the way she always got him before, she almost got him again. Obviously the only reason why she said she slept with his brother is because he said that he slept with her mother, her sister, and her best friend. Playing along with her, he figured that this was her April Fools' joke played on him after his failed attempt in trying to play an April Fools' joke on her.
Still, even if her sleeping with his brother wasn't true, her confession that she had sex with his brother was more than disturbing. The image of her rolling around naked in bed with one of his brothers was enough to give him spasms of lunacy. He never could imagine her naked and having sex with any man, especially with one of his brothers. There was just no way she'd sleep with any man, never mind with one of his own brothers. In the way that she was a virgin when he married her and in the way she's so morally good and so virtuously pure now, he's the only man that she's ever been with sexually.
She's not a slut. She's not a whore. She's never chased after men in the way that other woman have chased after men. With all of his friends marriages ruined and even his brothers working on their second wives, they have the best marriage. Loyal and faithful only to him, she's his loving wife and he's her devoted husband. It hurt his head and pained his heart to imagine her having sex with anyone but with him.
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William Faulkner wrote his novel, As I Lay Dying, derived from Homer's The Odyssey, while envisioning a woman, his wife, watching him die.
"As I lay dying the woman with the dog's eyes would not close my eyes as I descended into Hades."
Gwen stared at him in the same way that he imagined the woman in Faulkner's novel stared at her husband. Indeed, if he was dying right now, not the thought he'd want to have, his last thought would be his beautiful wife having sex with one of his brothers.
As if he lay dying and was taking his last breath in a hospital bed, she continued to maintain constant eye contact with him while holding his hand. In the way that he had watched for her reactions to his sexual confessions of bedding her mother, sister, and best friend, and for the angry reactions that never came, she watched for his reaction to her confession. Was she telling him that she slept with his brother as her April Fools' joke to get back at him because he confessed that he had sex with her mother, her sister, and her best friend?
Obviously, especially with her mother, sister, and best friend hating him, she must have known that he was playing an April Fools' joke, or at least trying to play an April Fools' joke on her by telling her that he had sex with her mother, sister, and best friend. If she didn't sleep with his brother and if she didn't believe that he had sex with her mother, sister, and best friend, he felt so stupid that she turned his joke around on him and got the better of him yet again. Never could he ever get the better of her. Always she got the better of him. Always his practical jokes backfired on him.
It was bad enough that she played an April Fools' joke on him by having little and/or no reaction to him confessing to having sex with her mother, her sister, and her best friend. It was bad enough that she played an April Fools' joke on him by telling him that her mother, sister, and best friend hate him but to tell him that she slept with one of his brothers too just wasn't right. In the way that he went too far by telling her that he had sex with her mother, sister, and best friend, she went too far by telling him that she had sex with one of his brothers.
She'd never have sex with one of his brothers. There's just no way she'd ever have sex with any man but with him, never mind having sex with one of his brothers. Besides with her home all the time working, how could she have the time to have sex with any one of his brothers? And where would they have sex, in their bed? In the way his joke fell apart so soon, her joke was falling apart already too. He didn't believe that she had sex with any of his brothers for one second.
With her his virtuous, faithful, loving wife, who always played a practical joke on him that he'd routinely fall for, she finally screwed up in telling him a joke that he'd never believe. He'd more believe her if she told him that she had sex with someone she knew from high school and that she bumped into at the supermarket than telling him that she had sex with one of his brothers. In the way that he'd never betray her by having sex with her mother, her sister, and/or her best friend, none of his brothers would ever betray him by having sex with his wife.
Still upset with her telling him that her mother, her sister, and her best friend hated him, these April Fools' jokes were getting out of hand. There was suddenly too much meanness to them. He wished he had never started this by telling her that he had sex with her mother, her sister, and her best friend. With these April Fools' Day jokes taking on a life of their own, he didn't know what to believe.
Based upon her calm and understanding reactions to his sexual confessions, with her surely not believing that he had sex with her mother, her sister, and/or her best friend, he had a difficult time believing that she had sex with any one of his brothers. Nevertheless, in the way that his brothers always stared at her, drinking her in and undressing her with their eyes as if she's an ice cold beer on a hot day, he wouldn't put it past one of his brothers trying to have sex with her. Just as she's already admitted to understanding him wanting to have sex with her mother, her sister, and/or her best friend, he'd definitely understand his brother wanting to have sex with her.
Look at her. So sexy, a natural blonde beauty, she's gorgeous. Only, even though he'd understand any and all of his brothers wanting to bed her, they had better not. She's his and his alone. What God has joined together let no man put asunder, not even one of his brothers, especially one of his brothers.
Maybe one of his brothers forced himself on her and tried to have sex with her. When she really didn't consensual have sex with one of his brothers, maybe that's what she means by having sex with one of his brothers. With men always trying to get lucky with a beautiful woman, as long as he wasn't successful in his attempt to bed Gwen, he wouldn't blame any and all of his brothers for trying to have sex with Gwen. Only, she'd never have sex with any man but with him.
With men always bragging about, exaggerating, and making up their sexual exploits, yet it's one thing for him to lie about having sex with the three women in her life and it's another thing for her to tell him that she had sex with his brother. Now he didn't know what to believe. In the way that she didn't believe him, somehow, with him so gullible, he believed her. He didn't want to believe she had sex with his brother but with all things possible who knows?
Other than a warm smile and compassionate understanding, it was bad enough that she gave him no reaction to his sexual confessions of sleeping with her mother, her sister, and her best friend. Now with her playing a joke on him by telling him that she had sex with one of his brothers that crossed the line of sexual appropriateness. Not amused in the least, it wasn't even remotely funny to tell him that she slept with one of his brothers. Just as she was obviously playing a joke on him by telling him that her mother, her sister, and her best friend hated him, she was no doubt playing a joke on him that she slept with one of his brothers.
Yet, why would she even say that? That's not even funny. With her knowing how jealously possessive he is, her telling him that she had sex with one of his brothers was just being mean and nasty. Even if she didn't have sex with one of his brothers, she's already implanted the image of her having sex with one of his brothers in his mind.