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Juniper entered the kitchen nervously and found Suki standing next to the coffee maker looking pale and in pain.
“Are you okay?”
“My head hurts so bad.” Suki whimpered.
“What happened?”
“I haven’t partied like we did last night in a long time,” she muttered. “Dumbass from England was always wanting me to have a drink with him on our video calls and you and your ex–dumbass were trying for a baby. I wasn’t going out. I’m paying for it today. I need coffee, something greasy and for the thousand–piece orchestra playing in my head to piss off.” Sae shot Juniper a sideways glance, “you don’t look too rough.”
“I puked and expelled the poison last night.”
“Oh my god, I forgot you puked!” Suki exclaimed excitedly and then grabbed the side of her head. “All over Adil and Beni’s back seat.”
“I will never forget it as long as I live.” She moved closer to Suki, “Phineas put me in the shower and cleaned me up.”
“Naked?”
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“I was naked. He was in his briefs.”
“Did he look good?”
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“He looks really good. They all look good. They all slept cuddled up with me and all bare chested. They have tattoos, Suki and muscles. So many muscles.”
“Do they have those v things?”
“They do,” she bit her bottom lip and then sighed, “they also slept in their pajama bottoms, but they weren’t contained under them if you know what I mean.”
“Oh!” Suki squealed forgetting she was in pain and bounced excitedly, “tell me you copped a feel? I know that Beni is packing. I saw that trunk trouser bouncing when he came around the car last night more than once. It’s down to here,” she smacked her knee.
“It’s not that long,” she slapped at Suki as she struggled not to laugh at her friend’s comment. “All three of them seem to be around the same size, I think. I did not feel anyone up though, I slept right on top of Phineas and there was definitely morning wood happening and I think,” she put one hand at her crotch and the other just below her belly button, “like he might rearrange organs if he goes too rough.”
“Are you thinking of letting him try?”
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She nodded vigorously, “how can I not, Suki? Kyst cheated. He tried someone else and all I think about, constantly, twenty–four hours, seven days a week since it happened, is how I took my vows from the time we were teenagers and pledged to be each other’s only and obeyed them. Did he actually think I was never hit on or never had other opportunities? I’m not ugly, Suki.”
“You’re gorgeous,” she interjected.
“I know!” she slapped her hand on the counter, “I’ve had men hit on me. I’ve been propositioned. Hell, my college professor slipped me his number more than once! A guy who works in my building sent me flowers once even after I told him I was married. I got out of a speeding ticket once because the cop couldn’t stop staring at my boobs. I could have had so many dicks, Suki.”
“You definitely could have.”
“But I didn’t. I behaved because I took my vows seriously. One chick hits on him and he can’t control himself? I can’t help it, Suki.”
“What?”
“I don’t believe she was the first.”
Suki pulled her head back in surprise. “What?”
“She’s the first one caught. She might be the first one he brought
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to our apartment but,” she shook her head angrily, “you saw her yesterday, Suki. You saw what she looks like. She is nothing like me. Nothing. She is high–end and expensive looking.”
“For a whore.”
“Suki,” she shook her head at the comment from her friend who was pouring her coffee haphazardly into a mug.
“I’m just saying, she’s worthy of the insult. She fucked a married man. Whore.”
“It’s an insult to sex workers,” Juniper muttered as she reached for her own cup of coffee. “Regardless, I only mean, she’s everything he aspired to be, Suki. The whole reason he became a lawyer was for the money and the prestige. He’s always liked acting like he was fancy, Suki. Anniversaries and birthdays are always at expensive restaurants where he liked to pretend we were wealthy. If I didn’t keep us on a tight budget, strictly monitoring our income and our expenditures he would be living so far beyond his means it’s ridiculous. She represented everything he ever wanted.”
“Okay, but this doesn’t mean he’s cheated before.”
“No, but if you think about it, remember the woman from Montreal he needed to go back and forth with because she was selling her condo here in Toronto worth ten million dollars and buying the one in Montreal? He was doing all kinds of research for her and going the extra mile. You joked about her being
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responsible for more of his billable bours in the month than the rest of his clients combined together
“Yes. I remember her.”
“She looked a lot like Denise.”
“Yeah but just because she looked like her doesn’t mean she slept with your husband.
“It’s true. She might not have but she may have and if that’s the case, why am I hesitating to move on with my life when he didn’t value what we had?” She twisted her lips. I’m not wasting another day staying loyal to a man who didn’t deserve it. He got to explore his other sides and indulge in all the things he ever fantasized about. I’m going to do the same.”
“I want you to test the waters of your sexuality, Juni. I’m all for it, but don’t do it out of revenge against Kyst. Do it for you.”
“I’m not doing it out revenge, Suki. Just because I spent my life committed to being with one man didn’t mean I didn’t have fantasies or thoughts or imagined other men. I simply didn’t act on those thoughts. Now. I have three very hot men who want to be in a relationship with me. Why the fuck should I hold back simply because a week ago I was committed.”
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