“I do mean it. Also, my mother is standing right here with me in my new kitchen. Do you know who else is here? Phineas. Adil. Beni. All three of them are here. The three of them held me in their arms last night.” She saw her mother’s and Sandra’s eyes lifting curiously, “they cleaned me up when I puked from drinking too much. They tucked Suki in and made sure she was taken care of. They made their intentions to me last night and I’m all for it. The minute you threw away our marriage, it allowed me to explore my sexuality in a way I only ever fantasized about before. I showered with Phineas last night.” Her mother’s mouth curved into a wide grin, “and he washed my hair and my boobs, Kyst. He put his hands all over my naked body and while he remained clothed and treated me respectfully and sweetly, you are no longer the only man to touch me while I was naked.”
“He touched you when you were drunk?”
“He bathed me when I was drunk. He then tucked me into bed between his two best friends and the three of them held me and chased nightmares of you away. I’m now in a relationship. with all three of them. We agreed to try this. I don’t owe you anything. I will see you in court if you refuse to sign off the divorce papers. But I mean it when I say, this is the last time we talk. I don’t need your excuses or your reasons. I don’t need to hear your pathetic whining. I hate you. Don’t call me or my mother again.”
“Juniper.”
“My lover is going to finish his investigation, Kyst. He’s going to find out if you fucked around more than the one time.”
“I didn’t.”
“I think you’re lying and I’m going to find out.”
“You won’t find anything because I didn’t do anything with anyone else.”
“We’ll see.”
“Juniper please.”
“Oh, one last thing, Kyst, before I hang up.”
“What?”
“Seven inches was enough for me. I was fine with your seven. Now though, I’m going to be tasting at least nine times three and when I tell you I’m salivating at the prospect, I’m not exaggerating. I danced last night grinding up all over hard cocks and I woke up with a forest of morning wood poking me in every direction and my panties would have been soaked if I’d been wearing them. I wish I’d taken a photo of it because I want you to live with that visual for the rest of your life the way I can’t get the memory of you railing that bitch on the sofa. I hope you choke on a dick and die, Kyst. Don’t call my mother again or I’ll file a restraining order.”
She hung up the phone and then looked up to her mother’s face and noted both her and Sandra were holding onto each other and trying hard not to laugh aloud.
She looked at Phineas, Adil and Beni.
Adil grinned, “thank you for the mild exaggeration. Eight is more likely but I am glad to pretend for your sake.”
His words broke the tension, and she dissolved into giggles as she collapsed into their arms as the three of them wrapped around her in a group hug.
She took a breath as she felt the support of her new and expanded family. She held the phone up and then dialed the number of her ex-mother-in-law. She noted how everyone was holding their own breaths as if they were hoping she was going to tear into the woman as she’d done Kyst.
“Maeve!” the other woman’s voice answered the call. “Have you heard from Juni? Is she safe?”
“Are you fucking drunk at seven in the morning, Lois?”
“Juniper? Oh sweetheart, you’re okay? Oh, thank heavens.” She paused, “why are you cursing at me?”
“Why the fuck would you call my mother for the last two hours nonstop. Are you drunk?”
“No. I’m not drunk! I was worried sick. Kyst called me in a panic telling me you were taken from a club drunk by three men. He said he couldn’t reach you or Maeve and was contemplating calling the police.”
“He lied.”
“My Kyst wouldn’t.”
“Oh, fuck off, Lois. He is a lying cheating asshole. Of course he’ll lie.” Juniper snapped back.
“What?”
“What did he tell you was going on?” She looked at her mother who gave her a nod of encouragement. “What exactly did Kyst tell you happened?”
“He said there was a girl, and he got into a flirtation with her and told you about it and you got upset and left to stay with your mom for a while. He told me you completely cut him off and wouldn’t talk to him. I think you need to sit down.”
“He cheated Lois.”
“He admits he flirted.”
“No. He cheated by bringing a woman a woman into our home and having sex with her.”
“No.” Lois whispered, her voice trembling. “He wouldn’t, Juniper. He loves you. You were trying for a baby.”
“Yeah. The doctor told us we were having intercourse too often and it might have been part of the problem, so she wanted us to only engage in sex during peak ovulation times. It was only a couple of months, but it seems Kyst felt I was remiss in my conjugal duties by following doctor’s orders. He told his mistress, the woman he was having a very sexual affair with, he was fucking her because I wasn’t fucking him enough.”
“All this swearing, Juniper.”
“I’m quoting him, Lois. Your precious, sweet, baby boy let a woman into our apartment. He screwed her against the wall. He screwed her on my sofa. He screwed her in my bed. He’s been. doing it for months.”
“You must have misunderstood.”
“Well, now I know where he learned his gaslighting skills,” she rolled her eyes hard as she felt Phineas squeeze her shoulder reassuringly. “I saw him.”
“What?”
“I saw it happen, Lois. I watched in real time while he fucked my boss’s wife.”
“You saw him?” Lois sniffed as if she was struggling not to cry.
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.