My Boys: Tug of War

greeted her enthusiastically fro

lack suit was strikingly beautiful. Her hair was plaited into tiny braids

in a deep red that complemented the suit she wore. The black

d to create an effect. As her eyes met the ot

the tumult of questions that the presenc

at herself in the armchair that Troy had sat in the night

t in a kick to her mental solar plexus. S

ub against another, and a stiletto tip meet the ceramic floor tiles

aited. There was no way she was going to begin this c

ace. Eve watched in silent horror as the woman pulled out a p

" A bitter edge entered the woman's voice a

ever did tell you how Trent was conceived..." a faraway look

brating your engagemen

man focused her gaze on Eve and smiled. Eve felt sick, she knew what

inds the place romantic, doesn't he?" Dark brown ey

lay dumb and fro

fore your engagement Troy went on a trip to Kariba with friends? Of course, you do, you wer

pose Troy got nostalgic and because you we

hmically. She broke her gaze from the other woman to glan

he bedroom. Woman-to-woman, few lovers can do what he can do, we

Eve shuddered at the pleasure her visitor was obvio

me I found out, you two were already engaged. Troy was upset but being a man of honour there was lit

he had decided that the first one of us to get pregnant he would ask to marry. When neither of us got pregnant he chose

her mouth

pregnant. We both know how that story ended. Only your part is comin

or me. Not to mention too tired by the time he gets home. You've becom

hat I said)) and when you give Troy hell about t

's ear. "I know your secret too. Ezvinezvi, handis' kuwudza munhu (Right now I'm not going to tell a soul) but just

by pulling on the freshly braided hair was too strong to r

sted on her eyelashes unshed, and her

to lose by telling you lies, the truth is far more ex

idn't get louder as her composure began to fracture. Taking a deep breath and looking at her surrounding she felt the panic t

nd ran over the new news, she began to see t

r the active imagination to brew up conclusions. Often said conclusions in the heat of the moment seem to lend

d really looked at it. She noted the chips in the paint, the cracks in the right-hand c

ll in a mockingly playful way. Eve's lips turned up at both ends when she noted the i