He says Dom is really irritable—well, more than usual—before games.’ She paused but Lani said nothing, just continued tapping her keyboard. ‘K...rl thinks it may be messing up Dom’s concentration. He’s let in more goals than usual lately.’ ‘That’s not my fault.’ Lani went absolutely rigid and Dee realized what she had accidentally implied. ‘I know, Lani, I know,’ she said quickly. ‘That’s not what I meant. It’s just that he thinks you were good for Dom, that the two of you were good for each. " He seemed to be a nice man, so I went a bit closer. I looked at his penis again and thought Wow. It had blue veins all along it, and the knob thing at the top was a sort of reddish purple. He wrapped his fingers round his penis and started to sort of rub it back and forth. It seemed a funny thing to do. Then he started to move his hand faster and faster. He made funny grunting noises and his eyes were closed and I thought he was in pain. Then suddenly he seemed to stop and then a big spurt of. ’ ‘Are you in town long?’ Was she fishing for something? I should just lie and say no, but it was against my nature to be deceitful. ‘For a while.’ Around this time I noticed her smell. That mix of shampoo and perspiration I had gotten so used to all that time ago made memories flash through my head. I also noticed she was wearing the earrings I had given her for our 7th anniversary. Why had she kept those? I had divested myself of such items of sentimentality when I moved. Memories can be a. She wouldn’t have a way to get back in if she had locked it.I went straight to my bedroom and spotted clothes in a pile on the floor at the foot of my bed. I hadn’t left mine there. Thanks to Katrina, I was in the habit of leaving my clothes in the hamper in the bathroom. Besides, these were women’s clothes. I stepped further into the bedroom and someone was curled up under the covers, her near-blonde hair was all I could see of her.The hair was too dark to be Faith’s, and I didn’t know anyone.