Someone jumped the barrier behind me and got a hold of me. I fought them. I was restrained and looking up at Ben. Why did he have me? I glared up at him tears on my cheeks, my chest heaving as I sobbed. His hand in my hair hurt, as did the way I was restrained. If I fought him, I would break my arm.
I was helpless as I still glared up at him.
He looked calm bordering on angry. “Calm down,” he snarled “Before you get locked up for contempt of court!” He tightened his grip and I whimpered involuntarily. “I mean it. Calm the fuck down. He is fucking with you.”
I gazed up at his green eyes. “Make him stop or I won’t sign the papers. I didn’t do this for money. I did it because I fell for him.”
Ben looked me in the eyes and there was a little bit of sympathy. “Would you do it again?”
“Yes,” I whispered. “I don’t want to get divorced. I would be his for as long a time as he had.”
The hand in my hair pressed my head against his chest but instead of nearly ripping my hair out, he stroked my hair. It felt like Dad was doing it and with everything going on, I missed him and Mum. Oh goodness, I was turning into a mad woman.
I was so upset I wanted my MUM!
I started sobbing.
His grip on my arms though, didn’t loosen. Then he said, “Ok, enough play acting. Get the papers and let’s just do this. She has had enough. I didn’t realize she had fallen for you.”
I didn’t know why he was being so kind to me but I was glad when my mouth opened again. “I fell for Ian too.” I sobbed. “I am such a whore.” It came out of my mouth before I could stop it and when I realized it was true… It hurt more.
Charlie never would know what it was like to be loved by a woman who was wholly and solely his. It was one thing I couldn’t give him.
Charlie
She’d seemed happy to play and pretend. But the second I even hinted that I would pay her alimony, she lost it and went to a level of crazy I hadn’t seen from her. I looked at my brothers and parents for help. I wanted to pay her alimony. I knew she had money now but more never hurt.
She physically launched herself at me and Ben got a hold of her. He fought her for a moment then held her very roughly restrained in a way that would have been painful. She whimpered in pain when she moved slightly.
I felt bad for her. I didn’t want her to get hurt. I motioned for Ben to be gentle but he shook his head.
I was done playing too. I was trying to play up because I was protecting my heart. I didn’t want to get divorced. I wanted her to be mine. This hurt. I didn’t realize how much. It was made worse because she wanted me and not my money. She wanted me healthy and for me to have more time.
I watched her confess to Ben that she had fallen in love with me and with Ian right before she called herself a whore.
I glanced over at Ian.
He looked a little lost in all the drama.
Ben stared at me and told me to wrap it up.
I nodded and looked at the judge who was now looking more than sympathetic as we all realized that something fun that should have been a game had become very real with hearts involved.
The judge motioned me over. “Do we go with plan A or B?”
“B. I will find another way to give her my gift.”
“I see a lot of antics in my court room and you don’t want to divorce her any more than she wants to be. She’s not kidding when she says she loves you. Why not just keep her till you go?”
I looked at Kate in the arms of her brother and then back at the judge. “Because I refuse to make her a widow twice.”
His eyebrows went up.
I handed him the background report I had done on her.
He read the first few pages and looked at me. “I remember this.” He glanced at her then at me.
“I need to see Ian move on. We both know he won’t if I don’t force his hand,” I said softly.
“Ok, but I wish you would reconsider. It is nice to see you in love Charlie. You are glowing.”
I smiled. “Thanks. She isn’t going to get into trouble for losing her shit, is she?”
He shook his head. “I will call order and we will get this signed off so you can get on with your plans. I wish you the best of luck and hope you get everything you want, so you can rest in peace, Charlie. You’re a good man and I have always respected you.”
“Thank you. I wish you the best too. Just give me a moment to kiss the hell out of my wife before we do this.” I got back the background report and handed it to Ian then looked at my Mom. “I told you she wasn’t in it for the money.”
I gazed at my little wife who’d calmed but was on a knife’s edge emotionally. Her emotions boiling close to the surface. Her eyes shut, accepting the pain her brother was inflicting on her.
Ben released her as I took her shoulders and massaged them. He stepped back as she turned and wrapped her arms around my waist.
“I’m not sure I like your level of crazy,” I said softly, “Ian on the other hand has a raging boner.”
She giggled and peered up at me. “That is very reasonable grounds for a divorce.” Her bottom lip started to quiver. “I am sorry I lost it.”
“I’m sorry for pushing you past your breaking point.” I wiped her tears. “We’re going to sign the papers now. You get nothing, I get nothing.”
She nodded. “Are you sure? I will be yours for as long as you’ve got.”
I stroked her face. “Yeah. There’s no way I am going to make you a widow twice.” I hugged her, this hurt. I wanted her.
I wanted her to be with me when I died, by my side as mine. But if I choose that, she wouldn’t move on. Ian would be alone. I needed them to be happy. I needed their chemistry to take hold and burn for the rest of their lives.
She looked up at me when the papers were put on the table in front of us.
This was where I could stay married, live my happily ever after in the arms of the woman I loved with every minute as her being mine or enact the dare, have her marry Ian and hope like hell they worked and lived the happily ever after they both deserved.
She was so beautiful as her eyes begged me not to do it. I cupped her face and kissed her. My last as a married man. It was the best kiss of my life. It is how I should have kissed her when I said I do. It would have been how I would have kissed her for the rest of my life. Her lips were so soft, her tongue like candy and her taste was going to be burned into my brain. I ran my hands over her and then broke the kiss.
I cupped her face and gazed into her eyes. “I love you.” I hoped she knew I meant it.
Her eyes teared up. “I love you too.”
I kissed her again, then broke it and signed the paperwork with tears in my eyes. She followed my lead and we both looked at it then at each other.
“We did it.”
She nodded. “Yeah.”
“That hurt like hell,” I admitted.
She nodded. “What now?”
I smiled. “I get you ready for your happily ever after.” I hugged the love of my life as I looked at the judge and thanked him with a nod.
Kate
Charlie walked me into to a boutique store and took off his tie. I watched him walk towards me. I held my hand up to stop him when he went to blindfold me.
He cocked an eyebrow. “You’re going to have to trust me.” He smiled.
“I want to see the dress. I’m not a girly girl.”
He laughed. “Yeah well, I don’t want you to see the price tags of these dresses.”
I gazed around. “What do you mean the price of these dresses?”
He grinned at me as the tie went over my eyes.
“Charlie, what are you up to? I can’t see a bloody thing!” I went to take the blindfold off and my wrists were bound behind my back.
“Charlie!”
He chuckled, kissed my mouth chastely and directed me so I was sitting on what felt like a couch. I could hear him talking and sighed. I took that couple minutes of peace to come to
terms with what had happened at the court house. Before coming here, Charlie had spoken to his family briefly while Ben babysat me.
Ben had just sat beside me. No contact, no words. Just a weird solidarity. I would forever be grateful for his show of support. Charlie had family there and I didn’t. I would thank him later. I can’t believe I’d reacted like that. Or how much it hurt to sign that paperwork. It was the ultimate rejection.
I sat there trying to rein myself in. I had known the man six days. Was I really in love? Was I loving him in the hope it would save him? Was I just feeling sorry for…No, that wasn’t it. I decided that I loved him because he gave a shit enough to make a list of things that he hadn’t done, or swore not to do before this and do them. Charlie was living every day like it would be his last.
He took my arm making me jump.
He laughed. “Are you ok?”
“Just thinking about getting out of the bullshit tie you have around my wrists.”
He chuckled and got me to stand up. Then a moment later, my wrists were untied and he tied my elbows together. “You won’t get out of this.”
I giggled. “Kinky prick.”
His breath was hot in my ear a moment later, the smell of his subtle cologne filled my nose. I breathed him in.
“I never showed you how kinky I am. Would you like to see?” I shivered, his breath was hot. “Uh-huh.”
His tongue went into my ear. “Ok. I will show you when I take you back to Chicago and we visit my favorite club.”
“Why don’t you just show me?”
“Because I’m a Dom. I like whips and canes and I would never use any of that on you,” he whispered. “Now trust me, I am about to undress you and put you in a dress.”
Charlie
I picked her up and she flinched. “What’s wrong?”
“You have taken my sight. Everything else is heightened,” she said softly.
I chuckled. “Ever had sex where you were blindfolded with earphones in?”
“Like in Fifty Shades?”
“Yeah.”
“No.”
“Maybe we could do that.” I kissed her cheek then put her down and instructed her to stand still while I undressed her.
The assistant stared at Kate’s body and looked away, pity on her face with a little disgust.
“I know it isn’t pretty.” Kate sighed. “But I am alive and I’m grateful.”
“No one said anything,” I said staring at her.
“The lady gasped a little. It’s all right. I’m not ashamed of it.”
“Nor should you be,” I said and gave the assistant a warning look. Then we got Kate into the dress.
“You better not be making me wear something really girly. I don’t like lace, beads or frills or dresses.”
I laughed. “Shut up.”
“I’m serious. I don’t like looking girly.”
I smiled as the dress went into place. She looked like a bound up bride and it was sexy as hell. The dress though wasn’t the one. We got her out of it and got the next dress on her. The more I saw her in white with her bound up and blindfolded, the more it became a fantasy.
I really needed to talk to Ian. Maybe he would share her till I went? Maybe I could take her to the club and parade her all in white, restrain her and fuck her. How sexy would she look in lace top stockings?
I got my head back on track long enough to realize the fifth dress we put her in was perfect. It was corseted and full of everything she said she despised. It was white and pure, like her heart. I thought of Ian and how he would react to seeing her like this.
Then the assistant got a full-length veil and put it on her head.
“Are we done yet?” Kate asked. “Because this is boring.”
“Soon, I think I found your dress,” I mumbled as I walked around her looking her over from every angle. I nodded and glanced at the woman. “That’s the one. Is it the only one?”
She nodded. “Yes, and I think it was made for her, because there are no adjustments needed.”
“Ok, well let’s get this off her and out of here, so we can let her get dressed.”
Five minutes later, Kate was dressed and back to sitting on the couch. Still bound and blindfolded, she grumbled.
“Keep it up and I will gag you as well,” I snarled.
She giggled.
I wanted to fuck her…
I’m not married to her. She isn’t mine. I needed to collar her the only way I knew how but I really needed to talk to Ian. For a moment, I had the thought enter my head that I had made a mistake divorcing her so soon. But with everything behind the scenes happening to make their wedding happen and with the attachment she already had to me. I had to believe that it was the right move for her.
I removed the binds from her when we got out of the shop. I took her quickly shoe shopping and got her back to the motel where her family was waiting for her in her room. A welcome surprise for her, I hoped.
Ian and the boys, plus Dad were waiting. I took them to the nearest Tiffanies.
Ian sighed. “You’ve been very busy. I don’t even know how you have had the time to organize it all.”
“Yeah well, I’m hoping that you will propose and marry her then get the happily ever after. I’m also hoping that you will share her until I go or my dick doesn’t work. It isn’t the traditional start to a marriage and if you don’t want to, that is cool.”
Ian gazed steadily at me. “You shouldn’t have divorced her.”
I looked at my little brother and my heart kicked up a notch.
“What?”
“You should never have divorced her. Neither of you wanted to. She would have been yours till the end and you divorced her.”
“Ian, you like her. I would love to see you move on and be happy. I know she could do that for you.”
“Chemical attraction like that will burn out. There’s no way it will last,” he said softly and shook his head. “Remarry her—”
“I will not make her a widow twice! I can’t and won’t do it. If you don’t think she will make you happy then I’ll cancel everything now.”
“I will go through with it. I’ll share and play happy families with her until you go. After that, we will just have to work it out between us. If you can live knowing that, then I am ok to go through with it.”
I couldn’t believe my ears and I looked over at Ben. “She’s in love with both of us. I know I love her. Do you believe for one second that he isn’t in love with her?”
“I know he isn’t in love with her.” Ben shrugged. “He likes her but to him, she’s just a fuck.”
“Hey! I wouldn’t quite go that far,” Ian objected. “She is beautiful, smart and brave as hell but she is a level of crazy that I don’t think I can handle.”
I looked at Ian. “You were hard at the courthouse watching her.”
“I get turned on by tears.” He shrugged.
“You get turned on by crazy. That’s why you put up with Amy,” Richard snapped.
“I have never fucked Amy,” Ian stated.
“But you have fucked Kate,” Dad stated watching Ian. “I bet you and Charlie fucking tag teamed her.”
Ian went to deny it.
Dad pointed in his face. “Don’t fucking lie to me. I know you are all filthy fuckers. Charlie and Richard have tag teamed girls more than once.”
I don’t think any of us knew that Dad knew. We all looked at each other.
“She fell for both of you.” Dad pointed at Ian and I. “You randomly found a really nice girl and you are both going to break her heart. You better hope like hell her father is easygoing and she doesn’t have any brothers because if they find out, you won’t have time to finish your bucket list.”
“Her brother is right here.” Richard pointed at Ben.
Dad gaped at Ben with disbelief. “What?”
Ben sighed. “Don’t John, she’ll be fine. I will make sure of it.”
Dad shook his head. “If Ian marries her, he is g
oing to break her heart. He doesn’t love her.”
Ben nodded. “She will go through with it because she lost a dare. I can’t make Ian love her. I can’t tell her what to do because she doesn’t know who I am.”
“Would you tell her not to be stupid and go through with it?” John challenged.
“No. Because she would do it anyway.” Ben shook his head. “In that respect, she’s just like me.”
Kate
I walked slowly to my hotel room. I was emotionally wrecked. He knew his clock was ticking and seemed to be just getting the bucket list ticked off. But I was the fool going along with it. By the time I got back to my room, I was ready for a shower and a sleep. I opened the door and stopped dead in my tracks.
I was surprised by my kids and in laws waiting inside.
FUCK!
I hugged them all tightly and broke down like a complete idiot as I filled them in. I left out the sex but I told them everything else.
All of them told me off. We had a family shouting match that had security coming up to check that everything was ok. They all made good points about the weddings but then they shouted at me about using the money I won to pay off everyone’s debt.
It was then when I got angry and shouted back, “Look I know I am a fucking idiot and you all think I am a fucking fool but I did it because I love you all and you put up with me. Stop shouting at me about the money! I didn’t fucking want it! Charlie just put it into my account! Blame him! Please just get off my back. IT WAS NOT MY IDEA TO COME TO VEGAS! In fact, I told you not to send me here! You all said, oh relax Shorty, it will be fun!”
I was just starting to calm down and was wiping my eyes when there was a knock at the door. Brian who was still fuming opened it.
Charlie came in and was instantly greeted like a brother.
I stared at my family opened mouthed as they welcomed him. They just spent god knows how long chewing me out and they were treating him like a brother and me like the bad guy. I felt so alone now. I shook my head and went to the bathroom to wash my face and to listen.
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