Justice For Juniper novel Chapter 11

New Home – Part I

A short drive later, they pulled into a parking garage in an extremely expensive condo block, and she frowned. This was not the same level of living she engaged in with Kyst. This was clearly a more affluent neighborhood. Did they bring her home with one of them?

“Where are we?” She leaned down to look over Phineas’ arm as

he leaned against the front seat.

“Your new place.” Phineas said seriously. “We told you we were taking you to your new place. Are you in so much pain you forgot?”

She rolled her eyes. “You said a comparable place. This is out of my tax bracket. I probably make the same amount of money the doorman makes in a building like his.”

“I pay you better than the doorman.”

“Do you? How would you know considering you didn’t even know my face before today,” she shot back angrily. “This is too much. I can’t live in a condo worth million.”

“I destroyed your view of the world. At least let me give you a better one while you’re healing.”

“You wrote poetry for the girls in college didn’t you,” she shot him an annoyed glance as he stared into her eyes when he spoke.

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11:10

“Only one and it rhymed from beginning to end.” He smiled as he nudged her with his shoulder, “come on. At least come up and look. You may find once you’re here, you never want to leave again.”

“Considering there is no way I can go home to the place I share with Kyst after what I saw him doing on my sofa, I feel my choices are removed.” The car pulled into a designated spot, and she shook her head. “Designated parking? There is designated underground parking? Is it part of the HOA or is it extra? I needed to park in a crappy lot five minutes from my building and my car got broken into three times and I live in a decent part of the city.”

“You own two spots; one for your vehicle and one in case you have visitors.” Benicio nodded as if this was all normal, “when I was looking for places last week, I wanted to make sure you were given all the luxury you deserve. I still feel terrible we’re ruining your life.”

“You were planning on asking me to do this this for the last week?”

“Two weeks,” Phineas corrected as Adil parked the car. “But Beni voiced strong reservations about our participation in the implosion of your marriage. To quote Benicio; we’re going to shatter her illusions of a perfect marriage, and we can’t take this lightly.”

“He’s not wrong. You shattered everything I believed in but as much as it hurts right now, and it really does, I’m glad I know

now.”

“Which is why he was reluctant, but I felt strongly you should be made aware. We’ve been back and forth all week. We finally put it to a poker bet Monday night which he lost, along with fifty grand.”

“You bet fifty grand in a poker game,” she looked at Benicio in awe. “One game?”

“It wasn’t the priciest thing on the table. We were setting up to ruin your life and I feel we’ve accomplished it,” Benicio said sadly. “I can’t believe you’re going through what you’re going through. The marriage was one thing but this,” he looked at her midsection sadly. “I wasn’t expecting this, and I feel terrible. If I could give you two condos, and a sports car I still don’t feel it would be enough.”

“It’s not easy. It really sucks, to be honest. I’m devastated over this,” she put her hand to her belly, “but as much as I would love to blame someone, there isn’t anyone to blame. You didn’t shove me down or punch me in the belly or kick me in the vagina.”

“A kick to the vagina?” Adil looked over his shoulder from the front seat and stared at her. “Who does such a thing?”

“The same people who kick men in the nuts?” she shrugged. “All I know is, this isn’t your fault. None of you are to blame for this.

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11:40

My husband and your wife, Phineas, took it upon themselves to do something disgusting but,” she felt her heart clenching in her chest as she forced the memory from her brain, “he is the one who made the decision to betray me. She didn’t betray me. She betrayed you but not me. He betrayed me. He was the one who made a conscious effort to put his dick into another woman because I wasn’t enough for him anymore.” Her voice cracked at the words, “I’m not enough for him.”

“No!” Beni turned in the front seat and was up on his knees to look at her where she sat with Phineas. “Don’t you dare take any of this blame onto yourself. He’s complaining you didn’t give him sex every single day. Do you know how many men would be thrilled with a couple times a week, or once a week? No man needs sex every single day. We can get by with our fists and even then a couple times a week at most.”

“Oh.” She frowned, aware once again how these men tended to share way too much information and decided to join in on the fray, “he wasn’t like this at first. It was my fault.”

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