"You sick motherfucker," yelled Leah in the middle of the crowded restaurant. "If you think for one second I'm gonna fuck you tonight after all this, you must be the dumbest motherfucker alive."
LATER...
"Do you know how broken you are?" Eli asked as he sawed in and out of Leah's clenching bottom. Leah grunted, probably more in emotional pain than in response to Eli's sodomizing prick. "You fuss and you fight, but we both knew you'd end up with my dick in your butt tonight."
"Shut the fuck up, asshole," she bit back. "I didn't know anything. You... you just got lucky. Ungh."
MUCH EARLIER...
Eli had been waiting for fifteen minutes when Leah entered the restaurant. There had been some doubt in his mind that she would show up. But now, clearly wearing her tight purple dress under her coat, an outfit that she knew he liked, she had sealed the deal. Her ass was as good as his tonight.
Eli swirled his bourbon in his glass as Leah sat. She spoke first.
"I just got here and you're halfway done with your drink. Surprising no one," she said flatly.
He smiled. He wasn't always this confident. This confidence had been built in him during their marriage, as they experimented with BDSM. Over the years he had learned what it meant to dominate, and learned that he had a lust for the power. And now, even years after their divorce, he could see the hold he still had over her, even if she didn't.
"What's this about, Leah?" he asked, ignoring her crack at his drinking habits.
"Straight to business," she pouted. She took off her coat, revealing her tightly-packed breasts in her purple dress. "No small talk?"
He noticed the cleavage for a half-second, then resumed looking at her face as he took a sip of his bourbon. "How are things?"
"Things are fucked," she said. "Margarita. Rocks. And put a hurry on it," she said to a waiter that wasn't even servicing their table. Eli had discovered early on that she was a bad person. But she was always good to him and good to those she loved. So he knew she would make a good wife and mother. It turned out that he was only half-right. "We need to talk about your son. And his current obsession with flunking. He gets that from your side, you know." Of course. Straight to business. No small talk. Always a hypocrite.
The crack at "his son" was an insult hurled purely towards him. She would never say a bad word about their son, except to hurt his feelings. Perhaps she did know the power Eli held over her, and she was fighting against it. To feel like she had a semblance of power over him. This was her arguing with herself and he was just here to witness it.
Eli sucked a breath through his nostrils. "We've been over this. We got him a tutor and we just need to see how that pans out. It's only been a week, Leah. Give it some time."
Their actual waiter came to drop off Leah's drink. "Hi, I'm Wesley. I'm your waiter for ton-"
"Thanks, Wesley," she cut him off and went back to looking at Eli. Wesley seemed taken aback by her curtness, so she stared at the waiter with inappropriately wide eyes until she scared him off. Eli grimaced an apology at the waiter, but the waiter didn't seem to see it. Leah turned back at him, her face aghast as if to say "the gall of this waiter." Eli rolled his eyes and took another sip.
"I think the answer is to change schools," said Leah, shrugging.
"Again. We've been over this," said Eli, firmly. "We need to give him time to adapt to this school before we go changing schools again. A boy needs consistency. He needs to be around his friends."
Leah took some of her drink and looked at him. "You know, I've always known about your need for control, but never did I think you would apply this... whatever this is... to our son. Can't you be reasonable?"
If Eli thought for the slightest second that she was actually accusing of him of being a bad father, his temper would have flared. Instead, he knew she was just antagonizing him. She probably didn't even want their son to change schools. This was about attacking Eli. Maybe she wasn't attacking him to feel like she had some power. Maybe she knew how this night would end, and she wanted it. Maybe she just enjoyed the dance. This bitter, hateful dance.
A dance of angry lovers? A self-deception? Or just an oblivious attack from her wounded subconscious? It didn't matter why she said these things and used their son as a pawn against him. The important part was that he knew she would cave and the conversation would be over. Still, he had to play.
"Leah, c'mon. Relax. Drink your drink. Things are going okay, okay? I know you know this. What's this really about?"
Leah took another sip, then downed the rest of the margarita. With downcast eyes, she said, "Joshua left."
He was surprised at her candor. The waiter came by for food orders, and Leah hid her reddened eyes in her brown bangs as Eli asked for a few more minutes. Eli started to say he was sorry about her newest boyfriend leaving, but changed his mind.
"Mm. Can't say I'm surprised," he responded casually. Leah looked up, hurt.
"You fucking asshole," she said through clenched teeth. "I open up to you for one fucking second. What the fuck is wrong with you? Is that why you picked this place? Your favorite little-"
"Leah, I picked this place to meet," he cut her off, "because I knew it would be more humiliating."
She stared at him in confusion.
"You see, if I invited you to my apartment, and you ended up fucking me..." The vulgar words rolled on his tongue like a fine meal. "... then you could say, 'I didn't know this would happen' like always. I don't want you to play innocent. When you show up at my door tonight, I want you to know that
I know
... that
you know
you're there to fuck." Eli signaled the water for the check as Leah stared at him with an open jaw. "I want to know that you drove all the way from this restaurant to my place with
one
desire and no pretense about our son." Leah just scoffed in disbelief, as if he had told her that she was a giant penguin and he was going to fly a sailboat out of his ass.
Eli signed the check that the waiter bought. "Thank you, you've been very patient," he said to Wesley, then he resumed talking to Leah. "I've had a few drinks, so I'm taking an Uber," he informed her, letting her know his time frame. "I'll see you later tonight." He stood and she grabbed his arm.
"Wait," she said. Eli looked at her.
"You sick motherfucker. If you think for one second I'm gonna fuck you tonight after all this, you must be the dumbest motherfucker alive." He brushed her off and walked towards the exit. She raised her voice, "This is why I left you!" Patrons at other tables began staring. It was a little embarrassing for Eli, but he kept moving. "... Prick!"
Eli hailed a rideshare and thought to himself as he approached his apartment. He thought about Leah, he thought about the girls he'd had since they divorced, and he thought about the future. She was such a bad wife, but he had been determined to make it work. She was a worse ex, but the sex was better than when they were married. Eventually he knew he would have to find somebody that gave him more than hot sex. He needed a woman who would believe in him and build him up. Not just a toxic fuck-puppet who met the family criteria. The woman for him was out there. He would find her. But for now, he would enjoy this thing with his ex.
Maybe he wouldn't find the ideal mate. What if every kinky submissive also a broken, angry woman like Leah? He had to believe that the perfect mixture was out there: someone who could make him happy in the sheets while not being a toxic cunt in the streets.