Opposing Forces

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them?”
     
    “I can’t put my finger on it but they seem just wrong.  I don’t think it’s drugs, but they just seem to loaf around all the time and do nothing.”
     
    “I consider myself to be an expert in loafing around, Mother.  I’ll go down to the lake and see him. I can then give you my professional opinion.”  His younger brother always seemed to be associating with the wrong people, ironic considering he himself was an officer of the law. It was a challenge but he was hell-bent on straightening his errant sibling out.
     
     
    Bettina looked at her reflection in the mirror.  She might be almost fifty-four, but she certainly did   not look it.  Her long brown hair was tied up into a chignon, her make-up was discreet and her Chanel suit showed off her slim figure.
     
    She sat at the table in her kitchen studying her perfectly manicured nails, waiting for Hubert to return.  Her meeting with Michael that morning had been very productive and he had drawn up the terms of their divorce.  If Hubert agreed to everything, it could proceed with minimal fuss and upset.  The last thing he needed was a public and messy divorce. She personally no longer gave a damn and the only thing stopping those wonderful pictures she had taken from going to print were her children.  Steffen especially would be humiliated, not at his father’s indiscretion but the fact that it was made public.  Sabina would be mortified and Heinrich, well he actually would think it rather cool.
     
    She heard Hubert come through the front door.  Picking up the legal papers, she intercepted him in the entrance hall.  He wore that hard, emotionless expression she was so used to. She handed him the papers.  “Some light reading for you, my dear.”
     
    “Is this about yesterday?” he asked coldly.
     
    “I hope she was worth it because, as you will read, it’s going to cost you a substantial sum.”  Bettina returned to the kitchen to collect her coat and bag.
     
    Hubert glanced down at the papers as he followed her into the kitchen.  “This is a joke, right?”
     
    She looked at him with ice in her veins.  “The joke is having a man of your age screwing a girl young enough to be his daughter.  Intern was she or a prostitute?”
     
    “She was an intern,” he muttered.
     
    “I no longer care. I’m tired of you thinking you can fuck anyone who takes your fancy and there will be no come back.”
     
    “Bettina, this is ridiculous.  We have not had an intimate relationship for near on twenty years.”
     
    “Probably because you have not shown an ounce of interest in your wife for near on twenty years. I bore your children and that was all I was needed for.” She turned on him with such hatred in her eyes.  “Have you any idea how humiliating it is to see my husband jump into bed with cheap tarts again and again.  I stuck by my marriage vows, and trust me, over the years I’ve had some very tempting offers.  Now I’ve had enough, Hubert.”  She picked up her things.  “I’m headed to Lucerne for a few days.  I’ll be back in time for my birthday dinner with the family as planned.  I’ll tell the children about the divorce afterwards.”
     
    “For Christ’s sake, woman,” Hubert shouted at her. “I’m not going to give you a divorce. Just sweep it under the carpet as you’ve always done.  I’ll buy you whatever you want.”
     
    She dealt him a heavy smack across the face.  “How dare you,” she yelled back.  “I am not like your whores who you can buy off with a sparkly object.  What you will be giving me is a house and damn good retirement plan.”
     
    He snorted loudly.  “In your dreams. You walk out on me and you get nothing.”
     
    “With the evidence I have of your string of indiscretions, you’d be lucky to keep the clothes you’re wearing. Contest one thing in the settlement and the pictures I took yesterday will make the front page of all the national newspapers, along with a
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