Getting to know him

An excerpt of my 20th book, the novel "The Thrilling Adventure."

The Thrilling Adventure

An excerpt

They had a second round of whisky, except Zivit that had no intention to finish up her first drink, and kept sipping it from time to time.

'What went wrong between you and Yaniv?' She took advantage of the short lull to bring up to light, the most intriguing question that interested her and her husband.

'You can imagine that I'm not so eager to talk about it, but if I won't tell you my side of the story than his twisted version will dominate the delegation's talk.' Oron remarked with a smile relief mixed with some embarrassment, he did not like recall it.

'Well it ended up with this transfer thank God, and I've got rid of an extremely unbearable type of a man. I guess he would've been more tolerable if his wife accepted to live with him in Jijiga, but she returned home and left him all alone here at his advanced age. I'd a relationship with a local wench, Melanish her name and he was terribly jealous; that's in fact is the second significant reason to his unbearable and abusive behavior, and that's why it all started.'

'But you've spent there about twenty one months, so how did it come to such bitter end and just recently?' 

'We've drilled five companies of the first regiment of the fifth brigade, one after the other with short intervals in between each course; I and Tanami the physical training instructor were busy at the camp, while Yaniv passed most of his time in Addis. But after the training of the fifth company there was a long break that didn't end yet, and Yaniv had to be in touch with the division headquarters but spent most of time with us…'

'So that swap up solution was a lucky strike from your point of view, isn't it?' Zivit suggested with an alluring smile.

Well in a way, I was glad to leave Jijiga and that busy body; on the other hand I parted with Melanish and it was hard to both of us, we knew that we'll never see each other again.' Oron added sneaking a look at Degani's face, and realized that his long conversation with his wife got on Degani's nerves.

'Well what time is it? A quarter past ten already, now if you won't mind Yossi and me are going to see what this town has to offer us at night time.'

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