Rachel Pays the Rent -- ch 4
"So how was your first day at the office?" Rob asked his wife, Rachel, when she walked in their condo. "What's your job like? Think you're going to like it?"
Rachel walked past him, not wanting to answer his questions. Not because she was scared of his reaction. "I don't want to talk about it." She really didn't care if he knew. She just didn't want to talk about it. At least not at that moment. She walked straight to the master bathroom. She wanted to shower and try to wash away the way she felt about herself and the day's experiences.
"I really want to know how your day was." Rob almost sounded like a pleading child. "I've been sitting around here all day wondering how your day was going."
Rachel stopped undressing and turned to face him. She felt nothing but contempt for him at that moment. She'd been given something during the day that she hadn't gotten from him in years. "Do you really want to know? I mean do you REALLY want to know?"
"Yes! I really want to know."
Rachel looked at him, then remembered Tony's instructions. "I don't think you do. I think you're just pretending to take interest in my day to ease your own conscience." She wanted to take the focus off of her. "Did you look for a job today?"
"You know I'm still going through rehab." He responded defensively.
"Yeah right! You've been going through rehab for the last year." Rachel said as she walked into the bathroom remembering how Tony took control of her.
"So do we still have the condo?" Rob yelled at her as she slammed the door behind her.
Rachel couldn't believe he just asked that. "Yes!" She yelled with the door closed. "You worthless son of a bitch." She mumbled. She stripped naked, then stared at herself in the mirror. 'Here I am. A middle-aged woman with no husband. The man I feel more attracted to than any man I can remember is blackmailing me, and willing to share me with any man as long as it's to his advantage. And I feel more alive than I have in years. How fucked up does that make me.' She hung her head and sobbed.
Janet walked to her front door of the condo. She wasn't expecting company on Sunday morning. She looked through the peep-hole. Frank was staring back at her. "What are you doing here?" Janet asked as she opened the door.
"What do you think I'm doing here?" Frank answered her as he brushed her aside and walked into her condo. He looked around as he walked in, checking out her place. "You know, I've been in quite a few of these models before in this building. But you really have done a nice job of decorating it. And you keep it so clean." He looked directly at her as he sat down in the recliner in the living room. Janet's favorite chair. "You have no idea how much I appreciate that. Good girl. I'm impressed."
Janet was taken back by his compliment, but found herself responding to it. "Thank you."
"No. Thank you. I've been in so many rentals where the people are just pigs. I just appreciate a woman who takes care of herself and her place. Would you happen to have any coffee made?"
Janet's initial reaction was anger at his question. He walked into her place and acted like he owned the place, which technically he did. Didn't he know she had rights as a renter. Then he sat down and acted as though he belonged there. His arrogance and self-confidence irritated her at first, almost asking him to leave. But then she'd always found self-confident men attractive. That was the first quality that had attracted her to her ex-husband.
"I just finished the last cup in the pot." She told him, wondering how he'd react.
"Well be a good girl and make another pot. I could use a cup or two." He told her as he kicked his shoes off and pushed the chair back.
She almost called him an 'asshole' as her initial response to his commanding her to make another pot of coffee. She turned in resignation and walked in the kitchen, which was open to the living room. It was a small condo. Even as she was in the kitchen at the counter, there was only a distance of about twenty feet separating them. She still wanted to know what was going on as she made another pot of coffee. "So why are you really here? You couldn't wait till tomorrow?"
Frank laughed. "No I couldn't. Besides, why wait when I can have you whenever I want. But we'll get to that later." He paused for a few seconds as he watched her make the coffee. She was wearing her normal weekend 'around the house' attire, a baggy sweat shirt and an oversized pair of gym shorts. She was going for comfort, not looks. Yet Frank still found her attractive for her age. "It still amazes me that your sixty. You could easily pass for a woman in her late forties." Even with the sweat shirt on, he could see her tits jutting out from her body. "I've always had a weakness for older women. I don't know. The younger ones just don't do it for me. Not sure why. That's just the way I've always been wired, I guess." Janet turned to face him as she waited for the coffee to brew. "You're an attractive woman Janet."
For the first time in a long time Janet felt herself blushing at the compliment. "Well thank you. But I know you didn't come all the way down here just to tell me that."
Frank pulled a piece of paper from his jacket and threw it on the coffee table. "Nope. I made reservations for you to fly with me down to Florida with me next week. It's my dad's fifty-fifth birthday, and we're flying down to stay with him for the week. I thought I'd take you with me. I know dad would enjoy meeting you."
Janet didn't know if she should be enraged at his presumptuousness for thinking she'd want to go with him, or flattered that he wanted to take her.
Frank saw the look on her face. "Don't get me wrong. This isn't a date to go see dad. I own you bitch! But I have grown a liking for you. I know you're old enough to be my mother. Which is probably why I find you that much more attractive. So I plan on keeping you around for a while."
The coffee was finished brewing. Janet poured him a mug and brought it over to him, still processing what he was telling her. She knew she should be outraged. But there was that self-confident arrogance of his. She handed him the mug.
He took the mug and sipped his coffee. "Mmmm. Perfect. Good girl." He put the mug down on the end table next to his chair. "Now get rid of the sweatshirt. It's not very flattering. It's hiding your greatest asset."
Janet stood still for several seconds. Her internal struggle raging within her. One side wanted to scream at him, 'Get out of here you fucking asshole! I'm calling the cops! I'm going to have your ass thrown in prison for what you're doing to me!' The other side of her craving the way he made her feel. He was using her in a way most women would feel violated. He had never hurt her when pushing her beyond her comfort zone. He had used her in ways she'd fantasized about. She felt more alive with him than she'd ever felt with any other man.