Madison Benedict bent at her waist to use the soapy wash cloth on her smooth long legs. The warm shower felt good against her soft skin. The last few days had been very emotionally painful to Madison but she had resolved that she would try to begin to feel better today. Her husband, Brad, had left her and her three year old daughter, Olivia, just a short time before, but Madison had been cognizant enough to realize that her marriage had been on troubled waters for some time before he left.
The young couple had struggled financially because Madison had been intent on staying at home to take care of her baby, and Brad seemed to be unable to generate the income necessary for her to do that. Another wedge that had grown between the young couple was sexual. Madison had been sheltered as a young woman and she knew that Brad was dissatisfied with her lack of adventure in the bedroom after their marriage. She enjoyed sex as much as the next girl, she told herself, and loved spreading her shapely legs for Brad to lay between during sex, but Madison felt comfortable having sex only in the bedroom and was not very vocal even on those occasions where Brad was able to bring her to orgasm. And she did admit to herself that Brad was much more open to positions and sex acts than she seemed to be. Their final falling out had begun when Brad, during sex, had begun to talk about a threesome with another woman. That not only shocked Madison's sensibilities but hurt her feelings, too.
Still, she had hoped against hope that the marriage could be saved, and the truth was that she continued to harbor hope of a reconciliation. At twenty-five, she was too young to be divorced and she loved Brad dearly.
As she stood under the flowing water, she took a quick assessment of herself. Madison was a tall young woman with thick long blond hair that reached past her shoulders and that she often kept in a pony tail, giving her at those time, a girlish look.
She kept herself in exquisite shape and had been considered beautiful all her life. After she had Olivia, she had gone to the gym on a daily basis to make sure that there wasn't an ounce of fat to be seen on her body. And she had been pleased with the results. Her legs were long and lean and still turned men's heads when she walked by. Madison's hands moved higher up her thighs as she bathed.
Her years as an aerobics instructor had made her body very toned and her tight, muscular buttocks reflected the hard work that she had done to keep her body in top shape. But perhaps the part of her body that most indicated the hard work that she had put it through was her flat stomach which showed no sign of child birth. Her tummy was flat and hard despite the fact that Madison carried a large, firm set of natural D- cup breasts that she knew were the envy of all the women in the locker room at the gym.
In short, her body was perfect, but Madison knew that what other women found to be envious about her was in fact the product of hard work on her part. She had always had an athletic body and she meant to keep it that way. What was simply genetic other than her perfectly formed breasts was her beautiful face. She had been blessed with big, blue eyes, a small, straight nose and perfect lips and smile. Her teeth were straight and absolutely white and would light up a room merely by smiling.
Madison assessed her situation and knew that there was a lot that she needed to be thankful for. However, that still didn't mean that there weren't reasons for her to be apprehensive. For one thing, Brad had left and told her that he didn't intend to continue to pay for their apartment. This had shocked Madison and she had questioned him about how she and Olivia would live. Brad's answer was that if she couldn't afford to support Olivia that Olivia should live with him. Of course, Madison couldn't stand the thought of not being with Olivia, so she had dropped the issue, but she knew that she was in dire need of a good paying job and that she truly had no prospect of getting one.
Another fear was the one implied in the first, the issue of custody of Olivia. Madison was secretly very afraid that Brad would attempt to get custody of Olivia. After all, he was the one with the job and secure financial future, so she needed to be ready to fight for custody if it came to that.
Madison was absentmindedly thinking of all of these things when she stepped out of the shower to dry. First she bent over and put her hair in a towel and then she stood in front of the mirror and toweled off the rest of her body. After she finished, she wrapped her body in the towel and padded into her bedroom to get dressed.
A man stood in her bedroom!
She gasped aloud at the intruder that she confronted.
"Oh! You scared me!" she said before she realized that she knew him.
"What are you doing in my apartment?" she demanded as she clutched the towel closely to her body. She was keenly aware of being naked beneath the towel.
She recognized the man to be the apartment manager, a repugnant, overweight man in his fifties. The man looked up at her and Madison could see the lust in his face. He had fantasized about the beautiful blonde woman in apartment 205 from the moment he had rented to her and her husband. Now she stood before him on trembling legs nearly naked. His eyes drifted down to the bottom of the towel, which barely reached the top of her thighs.
"Well, Mrs. Benedict, I came by to collect the rent. It's past due you know."
"That doesn't mean that you can just come in my apartment. I'm sure that Brad has just forgotten to get you the check. Now, please get out," she said.
"Cut the bullshit, Mrs. Benedict, everyone knows that your husband's left you."
The fat man reached down to Madison's clothing on her bed and lifted a pair of silk panties. "If you can afford these kind of panties, Mrs. Benedict, surely you can afford to pay your rent." He rubbed the panties between his fingers.
"Put those down," Madison said. "I'll get you the rent as soon as I can. You know that I will."
The man continued to rub the panties between the fingers and looked at Madison in a way that she knew he was undressing her with his eyes. Then suddenly, he tossed the panties on the bed and said, "Mrs. Benedict, 'as soon as you can' is not good enough. I'll give you three days and if you haven't paid the rent in full, with late charges, you need to move out immediately. There will be no further extensions of time to pay. Do you understand? If that is unacceptable to you, then I have an eviction notice for your eviction today. Which do you want?"
Madison's mind froze. "I'll . . . I'll get you your money within three days," she mumbled.
The man shook his head and began to walk out of her bedroom. When he got to the doorway, he turned. "Baby, get off that fat ass of yours and get to work. Surely there's something that you can do to make money. Stop being a lazy ass. Your hubby ain't coming back and you need to pay your fucking rent. Got it?"