Free Man and His Free Wife
“So, that was when you started suspecting Maurice and me!” Vera sought to know from Rudolph.
“Deny that you haven’t been sleeping with The Monster!” Rudolph snapped to promptly tear into pieces any of Vera’s planned drama of innocence.
From Twenty-Two-Year-Old Vera he simply received. “Is there any need to fight down your suspicion already A Hard Rock?”
“Forget about your Hard Rock Rubbish and now listen to me very carefully” ordered A Dismissing Rudolph getting ready for some lengthy counseling of his Vera wife but Vera herself had chosen to be some obstinate mule with her mimicked brays that meant she would not be listen very carefully. The next moment she had got across to Rudolph her observation that he had recently formed the habit of asking her to now listen very carefully, even when his true intent was to say things a lot careless!
“Sharrap! I say… And again, I say listen very carefully; very attentively!”
This time, magically, there was no Vera Challenge to Rudolph’s Peremptory Command, except that she had before keeping quiet half –shouted An Irritating Go Ahead’
It was almost Rudolph’s keen wish to let Vera understand that he could keep hating her for sometimes granting him Useless “Go Ahead” to make speeches he would still have delivered. Perhaps, later in the day, he will raise the topic. Now, Vera should understand that when a young bachelor is awkward enough to tell a married woman “it’s like you’re mad!” expecting no sharp reaction nor counter-insult from her and in the end none is handed to him, he has been having raunchy time with her.
“Papa Freedom!” came the upset voice of Vera, soon after Rudolph had sold his Hypothesis. “It is now clear this phone conversation isn’t helping both of us!”
“And Mama Freedom, I’m sure Maurice – my tenant- freely sees you, each time I travelled a distance long or short!”
A jolting enough attack on A Married Woman’s Fidelity. Vera could not quite cushion its impact, for from her end there was a pause. When she reconnected it was a candid advice to Rudolph to thank his God that her phone had yet to be installed A Voice Recorder capped with “Lucky idiot!”
“I? A lucky Idiot?” Rudolph still pressed from Vera for double confirmation. Unflinching Vera was regretfully talking about not being afforded the sweet chance of meeting a lawyer with Rudolph’s taped voice for damages-claiming law-suit under Defamation.
“Oh! Was that what you had in mind and I became A Lucky Idiot?
Rudolph had made sure Vera heard an enquiry that was spiced up with hurting laughter. On her part, Vera could swear that Rudolph knew about his idiocy with a sharp clarity.
“And if I should be An Idiot, then for Four Years you’ve been married to one!” Rudolph said to point out for The Records, his laughter gaining a pitch. On this Vera would not hit her head let along split her skull, as it had been the common blunder made my women of The Present Twenty-First Century! A Concerned Rudolph or A Mischievous One felt he should disclose to Vera that it was high time he saw A Psychiatric Doctor and made sure she directed the hospital bill to him or Maurice?
“The Fool that you are! You’ve been avoiding your Waiting Bed in St. Nicholas Asylum…. I pity you.”
Again, Rudolph felt that he should take up the point he had made earlier that did surely bite Vera like a snake! The point about a bachelor being vulgar enough to tell a married woman the rubbish, which Maurice had uttered as late as 10:45pm, nobody else in their yard.
“I guess it didn’t occur to you - The Adventuress that you are – that I could still show up at that rather late hour!”
Rudolph’s face was a lit-up fire of victory, in his mind a wicked hope that Vera would be toying with ideas of suicide… Preferably rushing into a kitchen for a life-ending stab with its sharpest knife! And indeed Vera was brooding over suicide! Death from self-inflicted wounds! But not her own suicide. Mr. Rudolph’s rather!
“Honestly, Papa Freedom is wasting Suicide Time he badly needs,” Vera opined, urging Rudolph to end a life that had become plain punishment to him…
“Maybe later, Vera… But first, I shall kill you like A Rat for being an Unfaithful Wife.”
From Vera Rudolph got Exploded Laughter and “A Dreamer Middle Name!”
“You see,” began Rudolph with a sense of triumph I’ve just been proven correct that you’ve been cheating on me”
Once more, he went back to that Late Night of a February Friday 2020, claiming that as dark as it had been, he still saw Vera’s Ashamed Face twist and her Heart jump!
“And you simply remained A Spectator… I should’ve said Coward!”
A decided suppression of anger by Rudolph for an important correction. His wife Vera did not see it then but he had unfastened his trousers belt for a flogging of the hell out of both her and Maurice.
“Sorry! You weren’t keenly watching me at the time.” Rudolph told Vera in a voice filled with pity.
“Oh! Now, I remember it!” shrieked Vera “Except that I thought you’d done so, because you wanted to urinate – Pass out water?
“Me!”
Rudolph was visibly surprised, and disclosed by wondering aloud why one would want to pee at an upset moment and he was not diabetic. In her reply, Vera chose to express her own wonderment that a man wanting to discipline his Unfaithful Wife with his belt finally postponed it indefinitely!
“Well I’d reasoned – Mama Freedom – that your private part belonged first and foremost to you – not to me, really… and that singular point enough reason to restore to my trousers their belt!”
Unbelievable Stinging Vulgarity!
Vera could not hold back a virulent curse on Rudolph for his Rotten Imagination and its display, afresh recommending A Psychiatric Doctor for him.
Totally ignoring her, Rudolph remembered that he had all these while been picking from Vera’s End sounds much like that of a woman either underneath a man or on top of him, both of them naked and joined together!
“I…I beg your pardon, Papa Freedom?” from An Immeasurably Surprised Vera, for in reality she had been stark naked and conversing from the arms of Maurice, also without clothes! In her great disturbance, she did not know when she aborted the call, her Samsung phone switched off too!
Husband Rudolph’s curiosity about Vera’s exact immediate preoccupation was aroused to its furthest and for this reason uncoiled from the sexual embrace of his own Laura Naked Partner… Touching deep moans of “Oh! My God with his head in his hands and “Vera has just confirmed what I’d said testily by suddenly switching off her line!”
But not quite five minutes later, A Now-Separated-from-Maurice Vera redialed Rudolph and he quickly picked the call but with “The Angriest Yes?”
Completing overlooking this, Vera took up the subject of their son’s Nursery School Fee for two terms…
“You know I shouldn’t be training Freedom alone or should I?” Vera tried in her calmest opinion-seeking voice.
“Well, The Two Things I know are that, unfailingly, God is going to take your soul and that I’m no longer picking those sounds I’d heard.”
Sorry for Husband Rudolph. He had married an as much hating Adventurous Wife. Vera did not fail to call him “Nincompoop!” and advise him to start liking those sounds, he claimed he had heard and for the last irreversible time switched off.
In less than sixty seconds, Rudolph had become, once again, a man in clothes and with a responsible look, visibly ready to dump or just leave his Lover.
“Then, you’re through with me,” The Twenty-Two-Year-Old Thing remarked.
‘A Yes!’ from Rudolph without looking back at her nor at The Hotel’s Bed.
“And where to?” she politely bothered to ask, half-counting well-earned money…
“You might understand: wherever there’s a tree and a rope!”
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