A/N -- Hello! This is only a single chapter story. Note that not everything involved will be entirely correct as I've changed certain legal matters. Anything to do with police and courts is entirely made up. I researched but the facts were dull. This is meant to be fantasy!
Just note, there is a lot of backstory. I like to write long, involved plots and hope you find it interesting enough to see it through. I generally think anything around 10k words is 'short'. I've also been reading a lot of 'Loving Wives' stories lately, so there's an element of that category in this, and unlike some of those stories, the MC isn't a complete wimp when he comes to dealing with it. In fact, I think the reaction is quite realistic though I'm sure some will disagree. Some people might not like it but, as I've often said, I can't and won't please everyone.
Microsoft Word used to write and edit. Any grammar mistakes are mine alone. Word should capture any spelling errors, and I'm a fairly good typist anyway. Any editing mistakes are owned by myself.
I haven't written many new stories in this category lately, as I am usually focusing on writing stories for other categories at the moment, but I'll certainly return with a new story for this category every so often, aware many that follow me do so because of incest stories I've written before. There's a good chance any new story will be a variation of a mother-son, brother-sister or father-daughter story.
As usual, feedback and comments appreciated.
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Present Day
I hated returning home to an empty apartment on a Friday night, particularly when winter was approaching and it was dark by the time I walked through the front door. Shutting the door behind me, I switched on the lights, throwing my keys and smartphone on the coffee table, laying my laptop bag down on one of the chairs. The first port of call was the toilet for a piss before grabbing a beer from the fridge, sitting back on the three seater lounge.
Flicking on the television, it was the usual inane news items, sighing to myself as I sipped at my beer. Picking up my phone, there were a few messages from friends, those I'd kept close after everything that happened. Even a couple of friends I'd kept since primary school now distanced themselves from me. I didn't really blame them. Some people don't like hanging around ex-convicts.
I didn't regret what I'd done though. The cops had understood why. My lawyer had understood why. Even the judge, when handing down his sentence, had understood why. My family all insisted she was a slut when they learned what happened, and those she was with deserved all they got. Some would say going to jail because of some slut was stupid, but when I was beating down on them, the men, not her, it felt nothing but righteous. Hell, the only reason she didn't cop a beating is that my mother and father had raised me to never raise a hand against a woman. Thing is, until that day, she'd barely angered me even briefly. We'd been happy. Or so I'd thought...
Until that moment in my life, I'd never been violent. Whenever someone wanted to fight me at school, I just turned and walked away. Most of the time, it was some little punk wanting to prove himself. It wasn't worth the possible suspension or expulsion. Some called me a coward but I had nothing to prove against idiots. Nights out in the city could always end in violence due to guys wanting to prove how tough they were. Once again, I just walked away. It wasn't worth the arrest record. That's not to say I couldn't fight. My grandfather was an ex-soldier and taught me unarmed combat, in the event I did need to defend myself.
Shaking my head of the memories, I flicked to one of the sports channels as Friday Night Football would start in an hour. Flicking through my phone apps, I found the number for the local pizza joint. Better than anything from the Hut or Domino's. I was a regular there, chatting away with the sweet girl on the phone, who always flirted with me when I called. Half an hour later, my pizza arrived with some garlic bread and a bottle of Coke, knowing I'd use that later as a mixer with some spirit, probably bourbon, though if I was in the mood for scotch...
The game was ten minutes into the first half when the intercom buzzed. Groaning to myself, as I wasn't expecting any company, and all I wanted to do was curl up with a bottle and spend the weekend drunk, I got up and walked to the small panel.
"Yeah?"
"Hello, big brother! It's your little sisters!"
I took a moment to blink and take a couple of breaths. If there were two people on the planet who loved me unconditionally, no matter what I did, it was those two. I was going to ask 'What are you doing here?' but that would have been rude, and I knew they were there for me anyway. I buzzed them up, hearing both of them thank me. Opening the door, I waited for them to appear.
As they approached me, I couldn't help smile. It was almost unfair they were my sisters as they were so damned beautiful, intelligent, kind and caring, and not the hot mess their big brother was. The almost mahogany red hair and blue eyes came from our mother, who even when in her mid-fifties, was still gorgeous. I took more after my father, with brown hair and dark brown eyes. I also towered over both of them, being around six-two while they barely topped out at five-four.
Did I say they were beautiful, gorgeous and could have been on the cover of magazines?
"Mark!" they both exclaimed, and before I knew it, I was being cuddled by two excitable women. They were five years younger than myself, twenty-eight to my thirty-three, though I was nearing thirty-four. Cindy was the older by around thirty minutes, something she always like to tease her twin about. Danielle, though she preferred Dani, always called herself that as it meant their names rhymed.
Leading them inside, I offered them a glass of wine, as I always kept a couple of bottles around considering they were frequent visitors, sitting in between them on the three-seater lounge. I offered them a slice of pizza before I sat back, muting the television, glancing to either side of me. I received a sweet smile in return from the both.
"What are you doing here?"
"Let me guess," Cindy replied, "You're watching the footy, eating a pizza and drinking beer, but you're thinking about drinking some bourbon or scotch, then you'll pass out in bed later before spending the weekend feeling sorry for yourself."
Shrugging helplessly, as they knew me well, both of them smiled at me but there was no missing the sadness in their eyes. "It's been one year since you moved out of our apartment, two years since you got out of prison, three since your divorce, and five since that afternoon," Danielle stated, "Isn't it time to move on?"
"I have moved on. I have a good job. Have my own apartment. A few close friends."
"But no woman in your life, Mark," Cindy retorted.
"I find it very difficult to trust people nowadays, particularly women. Pretty much you two and our mother are the only women I trust in the world."
"You married a slut, Mark," Danielle suggested, "That's on her, not on you."