Author's Note: This story is my first erotic fiction and the longest work I've written, by far. I have over 67,000 words in this first complete section, which is broken up into seven chapters that will hopefully all be available fairly soon. The second section is still a work in progress but the overall plot is already written, just filling in the details.
This story features blackmail and coercion and an age-gap relationship starting at Chapter 4, so if those sorts of fantasies don't appeal to you then you probably want to skip this one or not read too far, although it's not especially dark. The first three chapters have comparatively vanilla sex scenes and a lot of plot setup.
All characters are over 18 years old. Views of the various characters do not reflect the views of the author, ha ha.
Let me know what you think!
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Garret had wallowed in self pity for about six weeks after it was clear that the divorce was really happening. He'd fought it for a few months, suggesting going on a trip together to rekindle things, offering to make changes to his work and life habits, and even offering to go to couple's counseling despite his deep hatred for the psychology industry and 'marriage counselors' in particular. His ex-wife had shot everything down. There was nothing to work on, nothing to rekindle. She just wasn't happy being married, and the only way "to find herself was to be by herself". She'd read that line in one of those stupid women's books, and just wouldn't let it go.
She'd decided that he didn't "bring her joy" anymore, and there was nothing he could do to change that. They'd married too young, she said, and she'd allowed her Catholic upbringing to convince her to keep their first baby when she really should have had an abortion.
That last part, when she'd said it, had really stung for Garret. Yes, they'd only married because Ashley was pregnant, but they both loved their two sons and to suggest that she "should have" aborted their eldest seemed insane to Garret. Something had gone deeply wrong with his wife over the last few years since their first had gone off to college, and Garret didn't understand it at all. A lot of guys he knew that were around his age were going through divorces once their kids were close to fully grown, and it always seemed to be initiated by the wife.
But Garret had never thought it would happen to him. He had worked hard through his adult years to build a good life for his family. He owned his company, made great money, and had been as involved as he could be in his sons lives considering how busy they became with school and their social lives. And Garret had taken care of himself physically and was still in great shape, even indulging in a few minor cosmetic procedures to keep the effects of aging at bay as much as possible. He even still had most of his hair!
Garret and Ashley had met at a college party when he was twenty one, on the cusp of graduating with an engineering degree, and she was an eighteen year old freshman. He'd been quite the ladies man all through college and at the time he had just thought she was another notch in his bedpost. A particularly cute notch, but neither of them had been wanting something long-term at the time.
Garret had gotten into amateur body-building when he was a freshman and immediately loved it. The confidence it gave him, and the deep feeling of satisfaction from sculpting his own body, stayed with him for the rest of his life. He was a couple inches over six feet tall, with mid-length very light brown or very dark blonde hair, and dark blue eyes. With low body fat and great muscle development all over his body, he knew he looked good. A strong jawline and perfect teeth completed the package. He quickly learned that he could easily get women to sleep with him and he took advantage of the ample opportunities that college provided.
Shortly after graduation, he got a call from Ashley. He had liked her and when she suggested meeting up he agreed. He was starting to be more inclined towards settling down and thought that a longer-term relationship with the very petite brunette was something he would actually want to try. She was small but curvy with great breasts and an ass that would stay tight for years to come.
When she revealed that she was pregnant, and that she wanted to keep it, it actually didn't upset him that much. Of all the girls he'd been with, Ashley was one of the prettiest and most pleasant he could remember and if there had to be a condom failure it couldn't have come at a better time. He'd already sowed plenty of wild oats and didn't feel like he'd be missing out on too much. And he had just started at his real first job, which was paying for him to also get his MBA, and his future was actually looking really good. He knew his parents and older sister would help out with a baby, so it all just seemed to work.