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her door and called loudly, ' ''s open. Come in.' He stood in the
doorway, and, they stared silently at each other. And then Tyler
carefully closed the door, held out his hands, and broke into a slow
grin. When he spoke, he said, ' did it, Margo! We did it!"
Chapter Fifteen.
He had plotted it with the ineffabl& skill of a chess master. Only this
had been the most lucrative chess game in history, with stakes of
billions of dollars - and he had won! He was filled with a sense of
invincible power. Is this how you felt when you closed a big deal,
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Father? Well, this is a bigger deal than you ever made. rve planned the
crime of the century, and rve gotten away with it. In a sense, it had
all started with Lee. Beautiful, wonderful Lee. The person he loved most
in the world. They had met in the Berlin, the gay bar on West Belmont
Avenue. Lee was tall and muscular and blond, and he was the most
beautiful man Tyler had ever seen. Their meeting had started with, ' I
buy you a drink?' Lee had looked him over and nodded. ' would be nice.'
After the second drink, Tyler had said, ' don't we have a drink over at
my placet Lee had smiled. ''m expensive.' 181 '1@e ' expensivet '
hundred dollars for the night.' Tyler had not hesitated. ''s go.' They
spent the night at Tyler's home. Lee was warm and sensitive and caring,
and Tyler felt a closeness to him that he had never had with any other
human being. He was flooded With emotions he had not known existed. By
morning, Tyler was madly in love. In the past, he had picked up young
men at the Cairo and the Bijou Theater and several other gay hangouts in
Chicago, but now he knew that all that was going to change. From now on,
he wanted only Lee. In the morning, while Tyler was preparing breakfast,
he said, ' would you like to do tonightt Lee looked at him in surprise.
'. I have a date tonight." Tyler felt as though he had been hit in the
stomach. ', Lee, I thought that you and I ...' ', dear, I'm a very
valuable piece of merchandise. I go to the highest bidder. I like you,
but I'm afraid you really can't afford me.' ' can give you anything you
want,' Tyler said.
Lee smiled lazily. '? Well, what I want is a trip to St. Tropez on a
beautiful white yacht. Can you afford thatt ', I'm richer than all your
friends put together.' 182 '? I thought you said you are a judge..' ', I
am, yes, but I'm going to be rich. I mean ... very rich.' Lee put his
arm around him. ''t fret, Tyler. I'm free a week from Thursday. Those
eggs, look delicious.' That was the beginning. Money had been important
to Tyler before, but now it became an obsession. He needed it for Lee.
He could not get him out of his mind. The thought of him making 16-4e
with other men was unbearable. rve got to have him for my own. From the
age of twelve, Tyler had known that he was homosexual.
One day, his father had caught him fondling and kissing a boy from his
school, and Tyler had borne the full brunt of his father's fury. ' can't
believe I have a son, who's a faggot! Now that I know your dirty little
secret, I'm going to keep a close eye on you, sister.' Tylet's marriage
was a cosmic joke, perpetrated by a god with a macabre sense of humor.
''s someone I want you, to meet,' Harry Stanford said. It was Christmas
and Tyler was at Rose Hill for the holidays. Kendall and Woody had
already made their departures and Tyler was planning his when the
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bombshell dropped. ''re going to get married.' '? That's out of the
question! I don't .. 183 ' to me, sister. People are beginning to talk
about you, and I can't have that. It's bad for my reputation. If you get
married, that will shut them UP-0 Tyler was defiant. ' don't care what
people say. This is my life.' ' I want it to be a rich life for you,
Tyler. I'm getting older. Pretty soon ...'- He shrugged. The carrot and
the stick. Naomi Schuyler was a plain-looking woman, from a middle-class
family, whose flaming desire in life was to'better'herself. She was so
impressed by Harry Stanford's name that she would probably have married
his son if he were pumping gas instead of being a judge. Harry Stanford
had taken Naomi to bed once.
When someone asked him why, Stanford replied, ' she was there." She
quickly bored him, and he decided she would be perfect for Tyler.
What Harry Stanford wanted, Harry Stanford got. The wedding took place
two months later. It was a small wedding - one hundred and fifty people
- and the bride and groom went to Jamaica for their honeymoon. It was a
fiasco. On their wedding night Naomi said, ' kind of man have I married,
for God's sake? What have you got a dick fort 184 Tyler tried to reason
with her. ' don't need sox. We can live separate lives.
We'll stay together, but we'll each have our own ... friends.' ''re
damned right, we will!' Naomi took out her vengeance on him by becoming
a black-belt shopper. She bought everything at the most expensive stores
in the city, and took shopping trips to New York. 11 can't afford your
extravagances on my income,5 Tyler protested. ' get a raise. [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]