“Fine. I’ll go out with Friar Tuck or Frank or whatever you call him.”
“Do you call him Friar Tuck because of his size?” Juniper caught up to the conversation which was leaving her muddled brain even muddier.
“Yes, that and the fact he comes from a very religious family where two of his brothers are deacons or something.”
“He’s religious.”
“Not in the least. He’s a man of science.” Phineas held his phone up and snapped a picture of Suki’s face, “just sent him your face. He’ll get back to me in the morning, I’m sure.”
“Where is Beni, I’m cold,” Juniper snuggled into Phineas’ arms.
Let’s Go Home
“Because you danced up a sweat in there and it’s chilly out, sweetheart,” Phineas kissed the top of her head and hugged her to his chest as he shrugged out of his jacket he’d put back on earlier. He draped it around her shoulders and kept her close to his chest. “Better?”
She nodded, her cheek rubbing against his chest as her eyelids got heavier. “I’m sleepy, Phineas.”
“I know, sweetheart. We’ll get you home and tucked into bed.”
“Juniper!”
She squinted her eyes and looked up at Phineas, “um, pretty sure I’m hallucinating. I swear I heard Kyst
Let’s Go Home screaming my name.”
Phineas’ face was set in an angry expression, his jaw tight and his eyes fixed on someone in the distance.
“It’s no hallucination. Kyst is here.”
“Juniper, what the hell?” Kyst exclaimed as her head emerged from behind the jacket while encased in Phineas’ arms. He took a good look at her face and his eyes got wide, “are you fucking drunk?”
“None of your business!” she snapped at him.
“What do you mean it’s none of my business. You are my wife and you’re out here on a work night drunk and in the arms of some man?”
“How did you know where she was?” Phineas demanded angrily. “You were told to stay away from her and only communicate through her lawyer, Benicio Rojas.”
Kyst looked around and then noticed Adil, “you! You were with Rojas when he served me.”
“Uh-huh,” Adil grinned at him, “best fucking day of my life watching you realize you threw away the most incredible woman in the world and knowing she’s now a free agent. Well, sort of free,” he looked meaningfully at where Juniper’s arms were still under her chin, and she was snuggled up against Phineas’ chest to keep warm with his coat covering her upper body.
“We are still married, Juni.”
“Fuck you Kyst,” Suki exclaimed.
“Jesus Suki, I didn’t even see you there. Help me get her home. She can’t be hanging out drunk with men she doesn’t know.”
“She knows them very well,” Suki exclaimed and pointed at Adil, “he bought her pads when she was miscarrying your baby while you fucked someone else.” She pointed at Phineas, “he cuddled her on his lap bleeding and snotty and crying while her heart broke from you fucking his wife. He,” she noted Beni jogging up the sidewalk in their direction concern on his face, “he made sure there isn’t a thing she could possibly need, including therapy, which wasn’t given to her. Phineas even made sure her mama was there with her, holding her and taking care of her and made sure her mother didn’t miss a single day of pay for the time she was with Juniper.”
“Juni, come here, honey,” Kyst spoke softly, “this isn’t you. You’re not one to get drunk and go clubbing and tell women in bathrooms your private life.’
“That’s how you knew where I was!” she yelped angrily. “What happened to girl’s bathroom code?” she demanded of Suki with a pout.
Let’s Go Home
“She told one of the girls from work who put it on the company chat that I cheated on my wife and we’re getting divorced, and she heard it straight from you at this club where you were in a perfect revenge dress and dirty dancing and even making out in the dark hallways. I got tagged in a photo of you on the dance floor with Suki.”
Phineas looked at Adil, “I knew you were making out with her.”
“Well yeah, I told you I was next.”
“What did you say to me earlier today? It’s more important to be last?” he squeezed Juniper to his chest and grinned at her giggle.
Beni moved to stand between Juniper and Kyst, “you aren’t supposed to be communicating with her directly. I will advise my client to file a restraining order if you don’t fuck off. You also need to stop calling her at work because she isn’t there. She’s been put on paid administrative leave for an undetermined amount of time while she heals from your catastrophic fuckery.”
Kyst snarled, “you can’t bar me from talking to my wife.”
“She isn’t your wife for much longer. Sign the papers or don’t sign the papers but you should know, I’ve already filed them along with the video and photographic evidence of your affair and confirmation of your stalking behavior since your affair was revealed.”
“It wasn’t an affair. An affair implies an emotional connection,”
“Fuck off, Kyst.”
This time it was Juniper who snapped at him, and she turned out of Phineas’ arms and ducked in front of Beni to shove Kyst backwards.
“Your statement was as stupid as Bill Clinton’s I did not have sexual relations with that woman statement. Are you going to say because you came on her dress you didn’t think it counted?”
“Juniper, I can explain.”
“Well, yeah, you can explain. You can explain pretty much anything you want, Kyst. The thing is, I don’t need to listen to it. I don’t give a damn why you cheated. I only care that you did. You put your dick,” she waved at his crotch, “into her putrid cunt.” The collective gasp from her friends told her the alcohol was making her tongue far looser than usual and she didn’t mind. “The minute you did that; you lost the right to ask me to give you my time. You don’t get it anymore. I will share my time with who I want, and you are not on the list.”
New Book: Back Home to Marry Off Myself
Loredana’s father left the family for his mistress, leaving them to fend for themselves abroad. When life was at its toughest, her father showed up with “good news” after 8 years of absence: To marry off Loredana to a paralyzed son of the wealthy Mendelsohn family.