249 wivesbehavingbadly

. marin blew into the cappuccino and the resulting ruffle on the froth mirrored hids frown . he looked worn out and angry . a dot of shoving crfeam nesting behind his left ear skewed his  confornist businesslike appearance .
"martin . this looks bad ."
"it is ." he picked up his cup and put it down again ." paige and i have split up   ." he admitted ." or , rather , she has told me to go ."
" what ? she hasn't said anything to me ."
natuaally , that was neither here nor there to martin . he raised his eyues and looked directly into mine ." you know the expression blow in the solar olexus ? it doesn't describe the half of it ."
a picture of nathan sitting in the blue chair  , dead , swam into view ." actually . i have some idea ."
"yes , of corse you do , i was forgetting ." he frowned and the hollows under his eyes looked alarming . this was a man who was hoping to be mistaken  , who was grappling with a mystery he suspected he had no hopes of solving .
' how long has it been brewing then ?"
h e shrugged ." who knows what goes on in my wife's mind ?"
i searched for a clue to paige's decision . had martin beaten her up ? demaned that she become a sex slave ? i  tried the obvious line ." you can go a little mad after having a baby . i think i did . you feel so unsettled and unsure ."
"paige ?" he said ."nefver ." yet his bewwildrment and hurt  were so profound that i could almost touch them ." paige feels that i don't pay enough attention to the children but apparently demand too much from her . she says she has enough children to look after and needs to concentrate on them . according to my wife , i get in the way ."