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Christina is transformed; Maggie bonds with the kids.
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Saturday afternoon, May 18th -- DAY 2
Sasha bit her tongue, but her insides were churning. She remembered the horror story of the hotwife Gerard took to Vegas, almost four years prior. She knew he'd gone back several times since then, but she couldn't help her reaction.
It had started out innocently, but things quickly spiraled out if control. Oddly, none of it was actually Gerard's doing. Sasha just didn't know that at first. She'd gotten most of her information third hand. Perhaps even fourth. It was just accurate enough to be plausible, but it wasn't true. Yet she couldn't move past it. Rebecca Stanton always came into her mind when she thought of Las Vegas. She liked her... she'd done her hair the week before the trip, adding bright orange stripes as highlights to her long black hair. She always thought of Rebecca as a bit of a tigress, and felt the style would bring out more of her primal animal instincts to the surface. She was even excited to hear how she'd embrace that mindset on their trip.
A trip that now haunted Sasha. Gerard too, to some extent.
Unfortunately, what happened played on his reputation as a rough, somewhat thuggish man. His roots in the inner city had always seemed to snag him. It was in some ways his own fault for not truly ever letting go. He didn't want to, feeling it was important to remember where he came from, and what it took to escape.
He'd gone to Vegas with a woman he'd had a tumultuous relationship with. She was one of the hottest women he'd ever seen. And she was an incredible fuck. He'd had to work to get into her panties, but once he removed them they never went back on. It took six weeks to bed her, but once he got between her legs she didn't stop spreading them for him. That began a four month affair, although he didn't view it in that way. She was just a hot piece of ass to him, even though he'd become addicted to that magical pussy she had. But she also came with baggage he didn't know about.
It turned out she was estranged from her husband; that in and of itself was not necessarily an issue. But he'd left her because of her drug problem. The story that Brandi had used to scare Christina about the dangers of heroin and cocaine were based in large part on Rebecca, who went to Las Vegas with Gerard and never came home.
Rebecca disappeared after the third night, leaving the room he'd booked. She left in the wee hours of the morning while he was asleep after a long, exhausting fuck-a-thon. Rebecca was one of the few women that could match his stamina when it came to sex. She was insatiable. She was also drawn to drugs. Taking what few belongings she had with her, as well as a couple of his that she knew she could sell, she disappeared.
That was the last time Gerard ever signed for a hotel room, vowing never to do it again. He ended up staying two more days than he'd intended, looking for her, searching places where he thought she might be, yet not knowing where she'd gone. He didn't alert the police because he didn't know what to tell them. She was an adult. She'd packed up her things and left. In his mind, she'd used him as a taxi... a free ride to Vegas. All it took was for her to fuck him a couple of times once they got there to clear her conscience and she could walk away guilt free. That was the only explanation he could come up with as to why she took off.
Returning to Los Angeles seemed like a bad idea, but he wasn't going to keep paying for a room for no reason. He didn't have any contact information for her other than an address. She always met him at the gym. That's where they made any arrangements for what they might do. He found it odd, but it was also a bit thrilling. She'd show up, and they'd be somewhere else within an hour fucking the life out of each other.
He actually wasn't exactly sure of her last name at the time. She'd paid for her three month membership at the gym with cash. The name she'd given could have been an alias for all he knew.
The local police showed up at his gym two weeks later, accompanying a Las Vegas detective. He went with them to the local precinct voluntarily for questioning, although they made it appear like he didn't have much of a choice. When they dropped the hint that they might get a warrant to search his business, vehicles and home, he decided to just play along instead of escalating the situation. The last thing he wanted was to be driven back to Nevada when he knew he hadn't done anything wrong.
They said they had surveillance footage of the two of them together at the posh hotel, although conveniently they had nothing that definitely proved it was her leaving in the early morning hours that third day. She'd covered herself, hiding from the cameras she obviously knew existed. It didn't surprise him that she was trying so hard not to be seen. She'd stolen all his cash, netting about fifteen hundred dollars, along with his watch and a necklace.
Logic told the authorities that it was her slipping away in the video, but the fact remained that Gerard was the last person they could prove that saw her alive. They questioned why he didn't report the theft. That led to him having to explain how he met Rebecca in the first place. How he played to her vulnerabilities. How he quietly pursued her while making it appear that she'd gone after him. There was an art to it.
He explained how he only slept with married women, and how most of them were white. He defined the existence of the hotwife persona, and how that sexual expression between a couple might manifest, while walking through his role in the middle.
He attempted to tell them how his relationship with Rebecca progressed, but he wasn't clear on a few of the details of how they first started. After all, he had three other women in various stages of the hotwife scenario, but he'd fucked all of them many times, and they all considered him their bull. In those early days he seemed to mix up Rebecca and Nikki all the time. They were both buxom beauties with long black hair and brown eyes. They could have been sisters. They even had similar personalities, to a point.
It wasn't until he'd fucked Rebecca that she became memorable to him. She was the kinkiest woman he'd ever been with. She had no inhibitions, and there seemed to be nothing she wouldn't try sexually. But his memories of her only went from that first fuck forward. He still tripped up on their unusual courtship because those details hadn't been important at the time. He was a horndog with a boner, looking to bury it in any bitch he could convince. How he got them to the point of fucking him was an irrelevant question in his head. Rebecca was no different in that regard. She was a sexual conquest, nothing more.
The police didn't simply accept that. Instead they grilled him about his past. About numerous misdemeanor crimes he'd either committed or been charged with as an adolescent. It was a part of the gang life he'd been forced to live to survive. He responded by saying he'd left that life behind at sixteen, and he hadn't been in any trouble since. He'd successfully completed his probation period, as well as enrolling in another program for troubled teens. He'd found a mentor there; someone he could confide in. And he moved, leaving behind a crackhead mother and an incarcerated father, living with his Uncle Felix, who let him work at his motel as a way to stay out of trouble.
That was where he found a work ethic. A drive to succeed. His Aunt Selma kept a close eye on him, and for the first time in his life he felt loved. His cousins helped see to that, including him in everything. He finally took school seriously, hearing Selma preaching to all of them, making them all realize that an education was going to give them a chance. For Gerard, he also needed to break away from the traps that ensnared his mother and father, and Felix and Selma were the stable foundation he'd never had before. They became his parental influence, and he thrived in the environment they provided him.
It was amazing how two brothers could be so different, but Felix was nothing like Gerard's father, who was serving twenty-five in San Quentin for armed robbery. Gerard had started down that same path, but he got out. He'd never dabbled in drugs. He never got the chance. Aunt Selma would have kicked him out in a flash if he did anything to bring a bad influence around her boys. Besides, he'd seen first hand what it had done to his mother. She'd lost her soul smoking crack, and then her teeth smoking meth. That drug cost her her life. It wasn't an overdose. She was murdered in a meth house, along with four other addicts who double-crossed a dealer. It was a life Gerard wanted no part of.
But the police had unsealed his juvenile record in search clues for Rebecca's death. They were trying to find a reason she'd ended up in an expensive hotel room in Vegas with a man that wasn't her husband. They assumed it was an affair. The hotwife angle wasn't even on their radar. And it never occurred to them that a suburban housewife, a married mother of three children, could also be a heroin addict.