Part 33 (1/2)
”You're confusing love with fucking Just because we fuck great together doesn't mean we have to fall in love”
”But I do love you,” she insisted like a child
”Good,” he said ”I want you to love me but don't fall in love with me”
”Do you love me?” she asked
”Yes,” he answered ”But I'm not in love with you”
”I don't see the difference Are you in love with your wife?”
”No But I do love her”
”Then I don't see the difference”
”Give yourself time,” he said ”You will”
She was silent for a moment ”Why do you stay with her if you're not in love with her?”
”We're the saround, same ideas It's easy I'd never fit in your society and you'd never be comfortable in mine And since there's no e can spend the rest of our lives in bed, it just won't work”
''You're wrong,” she said ''You'd fit in very well anywhere Uncle To and worked his way up He fits”
”Our basic philosophies are different,” Daniel said ”I've seen my whole family die because of men like your Uncle Tory because of so called company policy I could never be a part of it”
”Maybe if you were you could change it”
He laughed ”Now you're being naive, and you know it It isn't only your Uncle Tom or any one man that makes the policy It co called stockholders' profits They put pressures on that you either go with or they find soe the policy, he wouldn't last a week in his job He has no o hat he wants -that is, if he wants to change anything-than the man in the moon”
”I still want to marry you,” she said
He took a hand from the wheel and placed it over hers ”It's beautiful the way it is,” he said quietly ”Let's keep it like that”
Her voice was suddenly tense ”I want to fuck I saw a sign for a hotel about ten ht”
”But I have to be in Chicago in the ”
”I don't care,” she saidljjrshly ”I want your cock inside me”
He looked at her, and after a et to Chicago until late the next afternoon
go Now he's waiting for a strike call so that he can teach the union a lesson”
'It's that bad, is it?” Murray asked
Daniel nodded, taking another drink ”Maybe worse”
''How did you find out so ?”
'' Froirl?”
Daniel nodded ''She also works in his office”
”Does she knoho you are?”
”Yes”
”Then ould she talk to you?”
Daniel was silent He took another drink
Murray stared at hi it on you”
”I don't think so,” Daniel said ”She wants to marry me”
”Does she know you're married?”
Daniel nodded ”That doesn't bother her She thinks divorces are easy”
”And what do you think?”
Daniel shook his head ”I' to be a father I told her that She says she can wait until I'm ready”
Murray was silent
Daniel continued ”You said I could go ho to leave toht now,” Murray said
”You gave me your word,” Daniel said
Murray nodded ”I did”
”Then I'ain His face was drawn and white He began to tap a pencil against his desk ”I'm under a lot of pressure to call this strike”
”Don't do it,” Daniel said ”Reo about Bill Foster Don't start a strike unless you know you can win it Now you're ready to do the sa And there's no way you can win this one”
'You really believe that?”
Daniel nodded silently
''daers ''Everybody's after o, and they're bla Even theits momentum The men want action”