LIFE BEGINS AT 50
By
The King at KingKeyInc
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United States Copyright Office
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Chapter 1. Kicked in the Face 3
Chapter 2. It Begins 6
Chapter 3. Head Game 9
Chapter 4. Finger Lickin' Good 17
Chapter 5. Hall of Shame 21
Chapter 6. Hot Crazy Matrix 23
Chapter 7. Another Broken Soul 25
Chapter 8. Hot Summer Days 32
Chapter 9. Hotter Summer Nights 34
Chapter 1. Kicked in the Face
"There's really no other way to say this. It's over. It's time for you to move out. My mother and I have an apartment for you for a year so you can stay near Izzie, and not move back to Philly and live with your Mom."
Silence followed for a few moments. "I'm not trying to take you away from your daughter" said Ann.
Well, it sure fucking feels like it, you dismissive, contemptuous, disdainful cunt!
Of course, I knew better than to say that but the mind goes where it goes sometimes. After sitting in stunned silence for what felt like an eternity but amounted to only a few seconds I replied. "I'll have to make plans to move my remaining items out here from Kansas City. When can I see this apartment?"
My soon-to-be ex-wife replied "We got a place for you at one of Melissa's buildings. I'll find out how to get you a key."
I stood up from the kitchen bar stool, where I had been hunched over, elbows on the quartz countertop listening to the conversation like I was a part of it, and yet observing it from afar. I stared at Ann disgusted and enraged. Without acknowledging her existence I walked out of the house. Before pulling out of the driveway I sent Sandra a quick text message asking her to meet me at the office because I had something important to share with her. I got in my car and drove off.
In retrospect, I was just ready to move on, sick of constantly fighting over the most insignificant things - almost everything I said or did would trigger her, and I was past the point of really caring about her reactions. I realized I had been saying those same words "
you dismissive, contemptuous, disdainful cunt!"
to myself every time we argued, for at least a year now. This was well overdue, and I knew it, yet I still struggled with the uncertainty of it all
. Life is full of irony
I thought. To this day I wonder why I gave up and walked away so easily, even though we constantly fought.
This cascaded through my thoughts while I drove to my office. Truth be told, I knew it was over years ago, and had been hanging on not only for our daughter but also because the past 3 years had been the worst of my life. My father passed away two years prior, as did Ann's step-father. My friend of 10 years and then business partner betrayed me by trying to oust me as CEO of our tech start-up. There was plenty of loss to go around, and then some, but I refused to give up.
I will fight all of this to my dying breath if I have to
I would think, over and over. There was nothing that could separate me from Izzie. I adore her and knew I was her lifeline. Even at such a young age she knew it also. I was the one constant in her life. Maybe a little too hard on her at times, but I never crossed the line to physical discipline. Being surrounded by weak-minded people who would rather bribe and pay their way through life left me feeling disgusted and terribly concerned about Izzie and how they were influencing her. This is what I was worried about, moving to southern California from the Midwest, but I had to trust that the hard work and time I put in raising Izzie while her mother travelled out of town every week for work would get us both through any crisis.
And now I was staring down such a crisis.
"Life is a real shit show" I stated to my steering wheel as I continued driving...
Just never thought it would be my own personal extravaganza
.
These thoughts continued while I parked in the open-air lot and walked to my second-floor office. It was a relief not working at home anymore. I worked from home for the last 20 years and had been quite happy doing so. Once the pandemic hit and everyone stayed home, all I wanted to do was get out. I always thought that was so ironic - it was the one thing I had missed for all those years by working in a home office. There were no water cooler conversations, no group lunches, no social life outside our home. Ann and I made it work, until she started her job out of town and had to commute every week.
She would come back late on a Friday night and leave on Sunday afternoon. I knew then that something had to give. There was a constant tug-of-war for dominance in the house. She could not see that by being "home" for less than 48 hours every week it was really not her home anymore - just a place she visited regularly. She paid the mortgage as we had agreed because her career had taken off. I was completely portable, working from home, so we moved to where she needed to be to take advantage of every possible opportunity. I loved the success she achieved because it was, and is, a testament to her determination and intelligence.
Too bad she's a complete shit-for-brains when it comes to our relationship
.
It dawned on me that she was likely planning this for almost as long as I had been considering leaving her. However, hope springs eternal and I always gave her the benefit of the doubt.
This would have been a very different conversation 5 years ago when you wanted to have it, when you had the upper hand.
At that time, I felt compelled to give Ann a chance to get to know Izzie, and vice-versa, as Izzie was 4 years old and barely knew her mom.
Well, apparently no good deed goes unpunished
.
I checked out of our marriage at least two years ago, after realizing it was really never going to improve. I couldn't remember when we had sex the last time - I remember what we did - she was bent over the bed doggie style, with her arms on the mattress and her legs on the floor. I was thrusting back and forth and we were both moaning and grunting like two animals in heat. She was on birth control from the day we first met, so I almost always blew my load inside her. Her orgasms, when she had one, were powerful, intense, and quite amazing. Her pussy contracted around my cock like a vise, pulsing and throbbing and she would thrust her hips up and down totally losing control. It was intoxicating and it almost always made me cum. This time I tried recording it so I could watch it later and jerk off. I did that a lot now, and often times when she was lying next to me in the bed. I'd ask her to join or "help" and I almost always got an "Ewww" or some other ridiculous immature response. After enough of those responses, and becoming numb to the pain they initially caused, I turned to dating and hookup apps, and had some level of success. Half a dozen or so, in fact.
Snapping back to the present, I realized I was standing in front of my office door, with no idea how long I had been there. Shaking my head, I worked the lock with the keys I already had in hand and noticed my faint reflection in the gloss black finish of my office door.
Never noticed that before,
I remember thinking.
I opened the office door and left the lights off. I walked over to my desk, looking at all the artwork Izzie had created over the past few years. I loved having it displayed in my office. I sat down, placed my laptop down onto a sleek modern grey executive desk, plugged the laptop into the docking station, and turned it on. My dual display workstation lit up quickly, but at that point I had already turned my chair around and leaned back as I recounted each escapade. My thoughts were wandering there and often did to find some small amount of comfort.
Sandra should be here soon
...
Chapter 2. It Begins
Three years ago, I was back in Kansas City on a short business trip to end my local apartment lease and move my belongings into storage. There was no real need to go back there for business now that work was being done remotely and my family was firmly planted in southern California. But the home front was cold and sterile. There was no intimacy anymore. I kept wondering if my decision to leave Kansas City might have been a bad one, two years ago.
Would I have been better off staying there with my little Izzie and suing Ann for divorce?
I turned to dating apps to try and get some fun and passion back into my life, all while figuring out how to be discrete about it. I had never tried anything like this before. Turned out, all those apps sucked. Tinder was a joke, and most of the others were all money grabs for guys desperate to connect. I took the next step and moved to hook-up apps. Most of them were atrocious, but I managed to finally find one that seemed like it could work. And it did. At least, once I figured out how to get past the scammers, catfish, and prostitutes.
I had two nights left in Kansas City when we connected. I had everything except my mattress and some clothes in storage now. I was heading back to Cali in two days and she was in town from the east coast helping her son with his new place and new job. I say "she" because I cannot, for the life of me, remember her name. I do remember that she was just as unhappy with her situation as I was with mine.
Weird how two strangers can be so honest with each other about something so personal
I thought.
After some playful texting back and forth, we decided to meet downtown in my office, so we could be discrete and away from any potential prying eyes. It was after hours, so the building would be empty.
I had been at the office all day working and decided to stay late to try and meet her. She texted me when she was on the corner, and I went down to the lobby to let her in. We had a slightly awkward hello and tense elevator ride to the 6