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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.