Literature
The Jester's Guide to Redemption: Chapter 10
“Kjell, I had a small accident this weekend and…well, my car is totalled,” Marte told him. As she spoke, she stroked his arm and fluttered her eyes at him. She had been unusually affectionate with him that evening, even resorting to the extreme of kissing him on the lips before they had entered the restaurant. He should have realised that his girlfriend had ulterior motives.
If he had any dignity, he would break up with her. He had known since the disastrous dinner with Trine that he did not love Marte and was fully aware that she was just using him for his money. Stein would never tolerate this sort of behaviour from a girlfriend and he didn’t want to either. And yet every time Kjell had the opportunity to break up with her, his backbone took an all-inclusive holiday to the tropics.
“Can you get me another one? Or maybe we could talk about it more at your place tonight?” Marte was really not messing around. Kjell wondered if the car really was totalled or just scratched