waiting for me.
Staring down at the water, I thought about Logan and all our times we shared down here. He never once got upset at the fact that we had to stay there. Logan always said if he was with me that was all that mattered to him.
Tony’s annoying, irritating voice, broke through my memories, a woman giggling following it. Hurrying behind a tree, I hide from view. No one knows I come down here. As far as everyone is concerned, I was meeting Logan in the flower garden on the other side of the estate. Which of course I’m not allowed to go to now.
The voices draw closer.
“Baby, I miss you,” a female says in between the sounds of kissing.
Pulling out my phone, I press record on the video and hold it out fully catching the man that I’m being forced to marry with another woman.
“I know sweetheart, but you know how complicated things got.”
More kissing noises and moans. My stomach turned again.
“How much longer baby? The kids and I miss you.”
Kids?
“I know my love. I miss you guys too. Having to feign interest in this dog is hard.”
“Are you having sex with her?”
“Baby…”
“Let me remind you how good your real wife is.”
They proceeded to have sex right there in the same area that I fell in love with Logan. Our happiness tainted by their stench. Once they were gone, I step out of the trees, watching them holding on to each other as they left the hidden area.
That was the day that I called Lia up and drastically changed my life forever. I’ve lost track of how many men I’ve fucked over the years. I’m not proud of myself, but what can I do. Yes, it was stupid to have made this kind of decision when I was upset, but I can’t change it now.
One month ago, I had a private party with Lia and Hazel. It was a masked party. Basically we all had to wear masks, only our eyes and mouth were allowed to show. Lia says that kind of thing happens a lot. It’s men embarrassed by the fact that they are paying for sex.
Whatever…
I swear at this party, it was Logan I had sex with. The reason I think this is because my whole body came alive. It’s never done that all these years. I allow myself to believe that it’s true. That it was Logan. Lia says she knows every man that was at that party. She’s going to have to come clean because I need to know who I had sex with.
“Fay, what’s wrong?”
Lia wasn’t late like she normally was. Maybe it was my flip out call that got her to show up on time?
“I need to know who it was I had sex with last time.”
I’ve not had sex with anyone since then. Tony is gone, no doubt with his real family.
“Why?” She looks genuinely confused. “I told you before that I couldn’t reveal their names.”
“Well, you need to make an exception because I’m pregnant,” I say flatly.
Lia starts coughing before looking up at me wide eyed. “What?”
“I’m… pregnant,” I say slowly knowing she understood me the first time.
“It’s a guy at the party?”
“Yes, it has been four months since Tony has forced himself on me and before last month it was two months before that since I had sex. Without a doubt, I know for sure it was the guy from last month. I’m six weeks along.”
“I’ll have to go back and look at who you had sex with that night and I guess either tell him or give you his information to tell him. I’ll figure it out.”
“You know it’s funny because I swear the guy I had sex with was Logan.”
“Why would you think that?” Lia asks as she digs around in her overlarge purse.
“Because for the first time in all these years, my whole body came alive, I even had several orgasms. It’s only ever felt like that with Logan.” Sighing, “Do you think I’ll ever quit thinking about him?”
She stops digging in her purse and meets my eyes. “Do you want to?”
“No,” I whisper.
“Then who cares if you don’t,” she turns back to digging in her purse.
We talk about everything and anything,
Barbara Bettis
Claudia Dain
Kimberly Willis Holt
Red L. Jameson
Sebastian Barry
Virginia Voelker
Tammar Stein
Christopher K Anderson
Sam Hepburn
Erica Ridley