Welcome to Part 3 of my story.
tags: non-con, cheat, FF, MF, older man
Non-con is not the focus of the story, but it is present in a singular scene.
Also, thanks to my editor Snowbear.
Without him this story would be much less readable. Thank you.
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The door opened revealing a woman wearing a tight dress with floral designs. She looked up and smiled.
"Dan!"
"Lauren?" He said annoyed.
"It's me." She threw her hands up in an explosive display of surprise.
"Why?"
"Why is it me...?"
Dan started to close the door. She put her hand out.
"Aren't you happy to see me?" She said.
Dan shook his head. He didn't have words. This was a shock that had come years too late.
"I've missed you." Lauren said hopefully.
"No."
"No?" She intoned.
"No."
"Dan, I just wanted to talk."
He pushed the door further closed.
"Not today."
"Later?"
"Probably not." He assured her.
"We need to do something."
"We don't need to do anything. Get off my property."
Lauren sighed and moved her hair from out of her face.
"I was hoping you'd be more receptive."
"Okay."
Dan slammed the door shut. He turned and a multitude of thoughts rushed to him. Multitude being an understatement. It was not thoughts, or many, it was all. Every single thought he had about their relationship barreled forward and smacked his brain into a fine powder.
Then came a distraction, a text from Allanah, a picture of her wearing new lingerie.
"For you," The caption read. Dan swiped up and returned his phone back to the home screen. Now was not the time. He wished it was the time. It had been. Up to now. Up to before. Outside his door was the woman that left him soaking in the rain of his own misery and she wanted to just... talk.
As if talk would be easy. As if pain had an expiration date beyond the peripheral of the person who experienced it.
At best Lauren was a reminder of what wasn't. At worst she was a reminder of what could have been. The distinction was important to Dan.
It was important that he do the right thing. That Dan find his place in all of this... In the odd relationship that had developed between him, Sam and Allanah. The question he thought of was, 'Which one is his?'
He couldn't keep both. Dan knew that, but who could he lay claim to when past grievances came to rise?
He took a breath and pawed at his phone. The tension started to fade. Dan found himself on the floor with his back to a wall. He didn't remember sitting down. The phone had lit up and there was a picture of Allanah. Gorgeous as ever in her new lingerie.
He sent a reply, "Fuck. Let me tear that off of you."
Three bubbles appeared, she typed back, "I knew you'd like it."
"You know me too well."
Dan propped his head on the wall and took a deep sigh.
Lauren was back in some way. She was there for some purpose but that didn't matter. He had Allanah. He had Sam. He had everything he could need. Lauren was just an obstacle. An object that he replaced long ago.
"You need to come over." He typed the message and prepared himself for Allanah.
"There's some lady outside your front door."
Dan opened the door.
"Lauren?" Dan's eyes were squinted against the sun.
She turned to him. "Dan!"
"Why are you still here?"
"I need to speak with you."
"We are not on talking terms."
"Not yet." She said.
"Not ever."
"You have to give me a chance Dan... A chance to explain."
He sighed. Looked to Jeffrey's house and saw Allanah in the front yard. He waved to her.
Lauren turned.
"Oh my god. Is that Allanah?" She said excitedly.
"Yes." Dan said through a sigh.
"She's so big now."
"She is." Dan said with no sense of irony.
"She was—seventeen when I left? Seven years right?"
"Seven years."
"I'm sorry Dan."
"I'm sorry too."
"Let me make it up to you—Can I go say hi to her?"
"I'm not sure she'll want you to do that."
"Why not?"
"Uh—Well... I guess you could say hello."
"Let's get dinner."
"Why..." He said thoughtfully, "On gods..." He pondered, "Green Earth..." He deliberated, "Would I do that?"
"Because I owe you an explanation."
She was right. She did owe him that, but the debt had passed it had been seven years. The jubilee was far past due.
"What could you possibly tell me that would make things right?"
She paused. She gestured to speak, but did not.
"What's the point then? I'm happy now. I have a girl that means th—"
"Who is she?"
"What?"
"Who's the girl?"
"You don't know her."
"Of course I don't know her. What's her name?"
"I don't want to talk about this."