Justice For Juniper novel Chapter 66

Breathe Part I

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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.

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“What?”

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“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.”

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“All this swearing, Juniper.”

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“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.

“Yeah. I watched it all. I watched as he pushed his pants down. I watched him slide her dress up. I watched him pound against her against the door. I watched him carry her to the sofa,” tears slid down Juniper’s cheeks as she recounted what she saw, “and I watched him do her there. In our home, Lois. So no, I didn’t misunderstand.”

“I’m sorry, Juniper. He didn’t tell me all these things. He said he was feeling pressure from all the medical stuff related to the baby that he got into a flirtation with a woman he’d met at a

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coffee shop.”

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“Ile lied. It’s what he does and I’m only finding out the depth of his lies, but he does it all the time. He lied about the reasons he needed to work from home. He was setting up his love nest. He lied about the smell of her perfume which stuck to his clothes and told me it was bathroom spray from the office,” she angrily wiped her tears with the back of her hands as she rubbed her chin on the kitten’s head. “It’s not even the worst of it, Lois.”

“What else did he do?” The woman almost seemed scared to ask.

“The day I caught him I suffered my third miscarriage. While I was bleeding in my doctor’s office, he was balls deep on my bed, fucking her into oblivion. While my heart was breaking again, he was having sex with his mistress. While my friends were bundling me up to take me from the clinic where the doctor told me she couldn’t explain why this kept happening and I bled through my pants, he was washing the sheets of our bed to try to hide the fact he came all over them.”

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