Dawson's Web

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Authors: William Hutchison
him a liquid-warm kiss. “I don't know what I'd do without you.”
    Randy caught it all on camera.
    Hans pushed her away. “I don't know what your game is young lady, but I’m not playin’. I had a bitch of a day yesterday and your car problems are not my problems. And I'm not going to make them my problems. Move back a little bit, please.” He thrust the car key into the ignition, seemingly peeved but simply playing the game—and playing it rather convincingly.
    “Make yourself useful, now. Find a car parts dealer near here on your phone.”
    She was stunned by his icy rejection. It made the hairs on the back of her neck stand up. There was more to Hans than met the eye. She sensed he could be as bastardly as he was charming. If this were going to play out in her favor, she’d have to use caution. She immediately started to search Google for auto parts stores nearby.
    Hans saw the immediate change in her demeanor. He had purposefully over-reacted to her advances and it had the desired effect. Still, he felt bad about what had happened.
    “Look, I'm sorry. I had a shitty day yesterday. I was trying to help you out, so when you came on to me, it caught me off guard. I didn’t know how to respond.
    ”Let's start this over again, if that's okay?”
    Charlene cast a glance up in the direction of the apartment where Randy was getting this all on his camera. She didn’t look at her cell phone
    Hesitantly she nodded in agreement. But she wasn’t going to let Hans off the hook that easy. He was a catch and, although he seemed interested now, she wanted to make sure of it.
    She began her act.
    “Okay. Look I don't know what happened to my car, and I don't know what I was thinking when I kissed you. I’m a very physical person and I have this audition later today, and I really need this part. If I don’t get it, I won’t be able to pay my rent and then I don’t know what I’ll do. And then you came along, and it got my hopes up, and I knew everything would work out. That’s why I kissed you. I’m so thankful. And now I’ve gone and screwed it up again.”
    Tears began to run down her cheeks as she continued to apologize. “I just want to get my car working, get to the interview and get the job. If you can help, maybe later I could make it up to you. I could cook you dinner or something because you seem to be a pretty nice person, honestly.”  She paused, tears still leaking from her eyes. She was starting to believe her own story.
    She was playing the part.
    Hans softened. “How would you know what kind of person I am? We just met.”
    “I don't know. You offered to help. You could have driven by. Others did.”
    “Well maybe I am nice, but you don't know that. It doesn't matter. Okay, look, let’s find the parts store. I’ll put the coil in and you can make your interview. As to dinner later, that would be nice. I haven’t had a home-cooked meal in quite some time.”
    He was lying; his wife was a gourmet chef, but a horrible lay.
    As good as she was in the kitchen; she was equally bad in the sack.
    Hans smiled knowing he and Charlene might end up together. He responded by reaching into his pocket and offering her a handkerchief. “Now dry those beautiful eyes. You don’t want them to be all puffy for your audition.”
    Charlene used it and handed it back to him. Twenty minutes later, they picked up the part and Hans had it installed.
    “Go ahead and crank it. It should work now.”
    The car started right up.
    Hans walked over to her window.  She had unbuttoned one more button of her blouse while he was fiddling with the coil. It didn’t go unnoticed, by Hans or by Randy who had a great close up angle. Hans reached in, fondled her and then kissed her hard on the mouth.
    “Dinner at my place at 7.” she said, handing Hans a business card with her name and address on it.
    He looked at it and stuffed it in his shirt pocket. Now he had to come up with an excuse to tell his wife why he’d be late. That

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