Again, nothing new here for Lit LW stories.
Like real life this is a bunch of stories all interlinked. Some consecutive, some in parallel. I hope I have not made it confusing.
I hasten to add, it is not real life, it is fiction. If you want real life, not entertainment, please go elsewhere.
This is going to be a set of stories where you love more than one person. It does happen and sometimes you have to choose. Sometimes you choose the right one, sometimes you don't and sometimes the choice is made for you.
This is Part one of a two-part story.
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TAGS Cheating wives, Revenge, Sister
Chapter One
I had been waiting for it to happen, it had been a week since the bitch dumped it on me. And to think I loved her. On my way home I was the happiest I'd been in a week, not happy just happiest. It had something to do with the three pints of Jaipur IPA I'd had, I couldn't afford to be too drunk, or maybe I should be for what was coming at some time.
It was a Friday evening, and it was just past dusk. I kept to well-lit streets, but there was one dark patch under the trees that I couldn't avoid, well I could have crossed the road, the streetlights worked over there. But I wanted this over and done with, so I would have to let him confront me.
That was when he appeared. He was carrying a baseball bat. I'd have gone for a cricket bat if I was in his position. You can do more damage with the edge of a cricket bat, if you use the face, you crack more than one rib. Use the swell and you get more than one rib and at different depths, harder to fix. Depends on how much damage you want to inflict.
I knew this.
I recognised him, I had done my research. There were two of them. It looked like he brought his Dad with him, fair enough. But he was bigger than I thought. He was swinging the bat around. He was right-handed, so my left knee was going to be his target, I changed my stance slightly. I could tell he was angry. I knew the feeling.
"Bastard, I'll teach you, by the time I've finished with you, you won't be fucking up anybody else's families."
I held my hands up in submission. "It's not like it seems." I said to him.
That didn't seem to deter him, I didn't think it would. It wouldn't have deterredββ me. He was still swinging that bat around. I was watching it. I saw it coming, the fact that he muttered, 'bastard' was a bit of a giveaway. The bat swung down towards my left knee, that's what I would have aimed for. But instead of shying away I stepped sharply toward him. The bat landed on my thigh just below the hip. It was a couple of inches from where he was holding the bat, so it wasn't travelling as fast as if the end had caught my knee, that was better, but it still bloody hurt.
He was caught off guard by that and stumbled and fell over backwards. The other chap stepped forward raising his fists, the guy lying on the floor said. "No Dad, I said I would deal with this." The big chap stopped.
It might have helped that my two mates appeared out of the gloom. Just to make sure I got home alright.
I looked at the chap on the floor and shouted at him. "She fucking lied. She told me she was divorced."
"Well, she's fucking not, she's married to me."
"I know, I found out on Friday, that's why I dumped her."
"You dumped her? She told me she dumped you."
"No, you believe what you want, I don't deal with married women. My ex-wife cheated on me, I won't do the same to anybody else."
"I don't believe you." He said. Why should he?
I got my mobile phone out, "I can prove it, but you may not like it." I opened up the photos and showed him a segment of a letter his wife had written to me. Just the bit about me not knowing she was married.
His Dad was still standing there, and my mates were still standing at my back, that may have influenced things.
It was a bit of a risk, but I put a hand out and said. "Let me take you and your Dad to the pub. I can tell you my reasons whyββ I don't knowingly shag married women.ββ I need to buy these two a beer." I said, indicating my two mates stood behind me. He took it and I helped him up.
When he was standing. As I held it, I shook it and said. "Nice to meet you Pete, I just wish it was in better circumstances." I let go of his hand and offered my hand to his Dad. "And you Ron." He took it. They looked a bit stunned.
Yes, I knew their names. I'd done a fair bit of investigating since Friday.
Whilst I had my hand out to Pete as he lay on the floor waiting to see if he would take it, I wondered how I ended up offering my hand to the husband of the woman I've been shagging for the last five months.
As we walked to the pub, I went back on how I ended up falling in love with this man's wife.
Chapter Two
I was away in Portsmouth on a business trip visiting the Dockyard there and staying in my usual hotel. I was just filling in time in the evening and standing at the bar waiting to be served when this pretty dark haired lady walked up beside me. She was smartly turned out, looked fit, being the cheeky bounder I am I checked to see if she had a wedding ring on, she didn't nor was any little white band or indent where a wedding ring would be. It didn't mean she was single.
"Have the bar staff gone on strike?" She asked me, she had a very pleasant voice, but sounded a bit grumpy, like she needed a drink.
"There's only one and he's gone to change the barrel. It was my fault. I couldn't drink the last one as it was a bit off. Sorry."
"Oh, I wouldn't worry about it, it's been a crappy day, another minute or so won't make any difference."
"I know the feeling, sometimes you beat your head against a brick wall and all you get is a headache."
She looked at me and said. "I'm hoping a large G&T will clear my headache."
I had a better look at her without trying to stare or be rude. She was about my age, maybe a bit younger than me. It was hard to tell, mid to late 30s, very pretty face, wavy black hair just down past her shoulders. not fat, not thin, all the curves in the right place. There was a confidence about her that I found attractive. She had opened the conversation, very few women are confident enough to do that.
John, the barman, came back. He looked at both of us, I nodded to the lady. John and I got on well, maybe because we're both Ex Royal Navy and had both served on the same ship, at different times, but under the same captain.
He went to her. She told John I was before her, I nodded for John again to serve her first. "Your need seems greater than mine."
She ordered her G&T and made it a large one, she then looked at me and said to John. "Whatever this gentleman is having.ββ"
He didn't ask, he went straight to the Hobgoblin and poured me a pint. I was here last night, and a few other nights over the last year or so.
I looked over my shoulder around the bar then looked back at her and said. "I can't see any gentleman in here."
She tilted her head to one side, smiled and said to me. "Oh, I think you are a gentleman, most of the time, and when it suits you, you're not."