“It does happen when I drink a lot of Jack Daniels.”“And that is what you have been drinking,” he reminded her.She moved away and wrote something down on a pad of paper. “Just take this. I am going to get my belongings, you can keep my dress,” she laughed as she put on his tshirt.He watched her walk out and move to the door. He sat on the floor by the door and watched her go to her room. His eyes rolled closed as he thought about how she looked naked.“Sir…” He frowned and opened his eyes only to see a bell boy looking at him. “What?” "Your door is wide open, Sir," as the bellboy spoke, Benjamin’s mind was filled with the events from the night before. He glanced around the room for Dora, but she was not there. He leaped up and ran down to her room. "Dora!" He yelled as he burst through the open doorway, but there was just a maid there looking at him, with her mouth open. "The woman in this room, where is she?" he asked. "She just went downstairs to check out," the bell boy sai
It had been months and Benjamin hadn’t gotten any closer to finding Dora. He had even called Royce, who didn’t remember her, but said that she might have paid with a card.Benjamin walked into his office. “Sorry I took so long,” he said to the woman who was sitting at his desk. She turned on him and he swallowed. She looked like his Dora.‘She is too pale,’ his mind argued. ‘If she is pregnant… it can’t be.’“Hi,” she whispered as she stood up. He noted that her voice was similar but not the same. He picked up her paperwork, seeing she has filled out her medical history, but her husband's name has been left blank. He would have to make a note to ask him at their next appointment, but that information was not as important as hers at that stage.He ran through some of the information and questions. He noticed she didn't correct him when he said Mrs. Leonard, but she checked single. He figured she was newly married. Once they were done, he asked her to move to the examination room. The
Turning on the music, Pandora started to give her home a good spring clean. She knew she was a little early but she was already halfway done so there was no complaining. She just wanted it completed, so she could start getting her babies’ room ready for them.She took the load of clothes that Derrik left in her home down to the laundry room and threw them into the washing machine, to get washed. There was nothing wrong with them and since Derrik had been an asshole, she would just drop them off at the local homeless shelter.She headed back upstairs to get on with cleaning the spare room. Derrik used it as an exercise room. During the divorce, he got all the weight machines and other stuff he needed, even though he hardly used them after he had lost his initial interest in them. She tried to get him to sell those things years ago, but he refused to part with them because they were ‘his.’ The more she thought about their marriage, the more she knew it was much more horrible than she ha
Again, she was taken aback, but the words and his tone of voice didn’t match. She shook her head and got to her room. After removing her water-logged shoes and drying off, she got dressed. Pandora sat on her bed in her fuzzy pajama pants and a tank top, waiting. Finally, Benjamin tapped on the door and peeked inside. "Hey," he said with a smile as he walked in. "Lie back and I'll take a look at things.” Pandora did what he asked and he rubbed his hands together. He sat gently on the bed beside her. "Have you felt the babies moving around yet?" he asked and she shook her head at him. Benjamin gently slid her tank top up and placed his warm hands on her tummy. "Why are you still wearing your glasses?" she asked. He tilted his head up and she knew he was looking at her. "I've had a bad headache, all day," he answered. Pandora frowned at him, but he shook his head at her. "Sorry about all this, then.""It's not your fault, my brother-in-law is being a prick, and I am about to beat
While Pandora was not at work, she was trying to use all her internet stalking skills to try and find out who and where Nemo was. Still, after weeks, she was drawing up a blank. Just as she was about to switch off the laptop, Bean and Curd started moving around.“Hey, you two, I am not giving up. I just don’t have enough information to find him right now,” she said as she rubbed her belly, but they kept moving around. "If it comes down to it I'll make a stupid tiktok and ask the internet to find him. I swear to you I will find him." For some ungodly reason, she ended up on Craiglist, the holy grail of ads and ‘find my mystery person’ posts. She groaned at some of the posts. They made her cringe and they weren’t even about her. But there was one ad that caused her to grit her teeth together. [My Brother-in-Law and the runaway bride.I, along with my wife and her family took a short vacation to Vegas.]Pandora tilted her head a little. The situation sounded somewhat familiar! [We—ap
Pandora heard a click, and she pulled the cell away from her ear and looked at the screen. The woman had hung up on her.Groaning, Pandora ran her fingers through her hair. "I will deal with this shit tomorrow, or else I may be the first person to get a restraining order against calling roadside assistance. Now, I need to deal with changing a damn tire." She huffed and got back out of her car, making her way to her trunk. She opened the trunk and started pushing things out of the way. She pulled out the tire cover and grabbed for the different objects. Holding the instruction card in her hand, she searched for the thing to lift the car. She finally found the jack and picked it up. "Well you're not what I want right now, but you’ll have to do," she said to it. She plunked down the jack on the wet ground and lined it up. After finally setting up, she followed the instructions about loosening the bolts on the tire. "Oh, mother of God," she yelled. "What the fuck! Are these damn lug n
“Is your husband due back tonight?” he asked. Pandora frowned and shook her head slowly. But this only made him look more worried than before. “Pandora, I would like someone to be here to watch over you tonight.” She gasped, stopping her movement, and started to agree with him instead. “I could call someone?” She tried to make herself sound sure and confident, but it still sounded like a question. "Okay, you do that. Come by my office tomorrow so I can look you over again." "I can't. I am working early and most likely will be there late too. My boss' mother-in-law passed away." Benjamin scratched at his head. "Fine. I'll come to you. Where do you work?" "There's no need," she protested. "Yes, there is." "No." "Pandora! I found you in the rain. You were crying and trying to change a goddamn tire. You're doing all of this because your 'husband'—" Pandora was taken by surprise that Benjamin spat out the word husband and did the same air quotes she had done earlier, "—canceled you
Pandora pulled her clothes on quickly and then turned to the door. “I’m dressed,” she called out, moving back to her mirror to touch up her makeup and hair. "You look nice," Benjamin said as he bent down to look in the mirror. He pushed his hand through his hair, trying to fix it. "Comb?" she offered, handing one to him. "Thanks," he smiled, taking it without reserve. Her eyes flickered to his as she watched him comb his hair. Putting her own in a messy bun, she moved to put on her jewelry for the day. "What?" Some of her jewelry had been moved. She looked at each of the boxes and right away, she knew there were pieces missing. "What's wrong?" Benjamin asked softly as his hand touched her back. "This looks like it has been touched," she said, pointing at her boxes of jewelry. "And there should be more?" She turned and looked at him, to find that he was frowning, looking down at it."Could your husband have moved it? Maybe you put some of it someplace else?" Pandora shook her