An online novel by Gillette Edmunds

Sonya laughed this off. “We’re waiting for him to get his first hard on,” she replied. “Then I’m going to teach him what to do.”

Connie also called Michael the ‘pest.’ The year before Michael and Sonya’s marriage, Connie and Sonya bought this two-story house on the beach island. Sonya paid $100,000 down on the $200,000 house and Connie was to make the payments on the mortgage. Connie had only the small income from her father’s estate and she rarely kept a job. When she missed a payment, she turned to her current boyfriend or to Sonya. Then Sonya and Michael were married and Sonya moved out of the house. Michael came to Pensacola to explain to Connie the advantages of renting out the three extra bedrooms which would help Connie make her payments and allow Sonya to depreciate her half of the house and get some tax breaks. Connie had gone on and on about independence and the creeps that would move in and concluded that Michael only cared about tax breaks for Sonya and not about Connie’s privacy. And the ‘creeps’ who did move in, usually relatives or friends of the current boyfriend, moved out when the boyfriend was gone. She blamed Michael for their leaving her house, not paying rent, and for their intrusion on her privacy.

“Michael was boring,” Connie said, “but Charles was a true sleaze.”

A strip of wild grasses ran in front of the deck and behind the wide, white beach and the blue ocean with roaring, breaking waves.