Steven was always good at playing hide and seek as a child. Keeping very quiet, listening for sounds of his mother and sister. He always enjoyed playing the game and now at 38, he was still quite good at it.

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Sophie Louise Beard

        Steven was always good at playing hide and seek as a child. Keeping very quiet, listening for sounds of his mother and sister. He always enjoyed playing the game and now at 38, he was still quite good at it.

        Silent. Patient. Straining to hear the others in the house. Trying to hear what they were saying, what they were doing. The teasing laughter, the sensuous sound of forbidden kisses, the creek of the wooden stairs as the couple made their way upstairs.

        This was no childish game. This was reality. The adult version of the innocent childhood game with his wife Marie, the whore.

        Steven had suspected her for some months now, but had never been able to prove anything. The interrupted phone calls as he entered the room and the distinctive smell of men’s after-shave in her bedroom. But she would always make an excuse and would say every time ’you’re just being paranoid‘.

        They had separate bedrooms now. Separate lives. That’s the way Marie wanted it. The concept of love was over to her. Maybe that’s why he started to suspect things, even imagine things.

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        They had no children to bind their marriage together. He always wanted children, a girl and two boys he imagined himself fathering, but birth control was too easy for women these days and men had no way of knowing.

        Marie had decided her life was too busy for children and based it around work or her ’career‘ as she called it. She was even to idle to clean the house so they had a cleaner, Kelly, a lovely girl, always happy and cheerful. Marie was also very flirtatious, encouraging the obvious males around her. They all played her game. Who ...

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