Hi Hazel! I hope you're doing well and that Benjamin isn't bothering you too much. I'm really sorry to hear he is being weird. It's shocking but still it doesn't surprise me. His behavior changed slowly but surely during the first year we were together. It all changed drastically when I got pregnant with our first daughter because he wanted a son. He tried to accept it, but he wanted another child who also turned out to be a girl. He was aggressive, yelling at the girls and me and was out all the time, so we broke up when our youngest was three months. Although he didn't like our family he still got angry that I was breaking up with him and kept telling me that he should have never chosen me over you and that he was going to find you and get you back. I didn't think much of it and I didn't know warn you because I didn't believe him. Now I regret not telling you. I think he needs help in form of therapy, something changed and he is not well. I hope he leaves you alone and I'm sorry for everything.
I read Louise's answer out loud so Jeffrey could hear it and my jaw was on the floor. Benjamin wasn't the type of person to do that, so finding out all those things shocked me. It was so weird how a person could change just like that.
''Listen, we'll get through this, yeah?'' Jeffrey took the laptop away from me. Good, because I needed to think of something else.
''Yeah, I know. Thank you for being there for me'' I placed a kiss on his lips, smiling weakly.
''Always, baby girl. You can count of me''
''Thank you'' I laid my head on his shoulder as his thumb made circles on the soft skin of my hand.
''So listen, I have a bit of work to do today, are you good with being alone?''
''Yes, no problem. It's gonna be fine, I'll go grab some things that I need from my apartment and then maybe hang out with Tay'' I smiled at him to let him know that his life didn't have to revolve one hundred percent around me.
''Okay, doll. Call me if anything, yeah?'' Jeffrey tilted my chin up towards him to have better access to my lips before kissing me deliciously. ''See you tonight. Let's be lazy and not cook dinner today. I'll grab some food on my way home. Anything in particular you'd like?''.
''You know I like everything, so take whatever you feel like. Maybe some greasy cheeseburgers or something'' I laughed.
''Cheeseburgers and wine it is'' he winked at me as he put his black glasses on.
''Is sex on the menu? It might have to be when you look so damn good in those glasses'' I said confidently. You know petrichor, the incredible scent of rainfall on hot, dry concrete after a very warm summer day? The one I couldn't get enough of, the one that made me feel content, that brought a smile to my face. That was him. He looked like that smell.
''Oh'' he smirked. ''I think sex is absolutely one hundred percent on the menu'' he slightly bit his lip and I knew he was thinking about all the things we'd do.
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A few hours later Jeffrey gave me a call. ''Were you at your apartment with a man earlier?''
''Uhm, yeah, my landlord. Why? How did you know?''
''Are you fucking him?'' I could tell his voice wasn't that serious.
''Yeah, I fuck my landlord all the time. I love me some short, old men with huge beer bellies and no hair'' I joked. ''But like, how did you know?''.
''Guess how? The piece of shit sent me another photo, he's been following you. Are you with Tay?''. It was actually getting more and more uncomfortable, was I going to be afraid to get out of the house because of a psycho? It was so unfair that he chose me.
''I just said bye to her, we went for a swim at that new pool I told you about. I'm about to drive home''
''I'm finished with work too, gonna grab food and then I'll be home. Be careful''
''See you home then'' I looked around to see if Benjamin was following me but there were only strangers around.
During the drive home I thought about possible solutions to the whole situation with Benjamin and maybe I had come up with one. It was quite risky and I was sure Jeffrey wouldn't agree, but I had to do it. If the police couldn't help then I would have to fix it. I'd have to tell Jeffrey about it tomorrow though, for now I just wanted a nice evening with the man I loved.
''So you've been fucking your landlord, huh? You're really into old men, aren't you?'' Jeffrey joked as we lay on the sofa sipping wine. I loved that he didn't give Benjamin the satisfaction to get mad at me for those stupid photos; it was quite obvious that he wanted us to break up so I ''could be his again''. Ew, he fucking wished.
It was nice to be able to laugh about it and the fact that Jeffrey trusted me so much was so attractive to me.
''Oh yeah, he's been fucking me well for a while now. Old men do it best'' I joked back, but gagged in my mind.
''What a bad, bad girl'' he chuckled lightly as he placed his glass of wine on the table.
''I've been so bad I need to be punished, sir'' my eyes turned into those of a puppy as I played innocent. I loved how the mood between Jeffrey and I could change so fast only with the help of some particular words.
''And how should I punish you, huh?'' he turned me around on my four without warning, forcefully but making sure it didn't hurt. Pulling my skirt out of the way, he caressed my butt, preparing it for my delightfully torturous punishment. ''Like that?'' he said after slapping one of my butt cheeks.
''Just like that'' I moaned, wanting more. Sex was definitely on the menu.
