“Being a pain in the ass.” I grumbled.
I heard the front door open and shut, and Ben yelled out for me.
“Melanie, baby … are you home?”
I didn’t say a word and just glared at the doorway until he entered the room and froze at the sight of two very angry women.
“Oh, hello Lily… I didn’t realize we had company.” He let a slow, charismatic smile slide into place.
“You don’t have company. Your wife does.” Lily sniped. Ben frowned at her and then shifted his attention to me.
“We need to talk. Alone.”
“No.”
His eyes widened for a second, and then he looked confused.
“No?” he repeated.
“Correct. No. We don’t need to talk and we definitely don’t need to be alone.” I snarled. Lily reached out and squeezed my hand slowly to remind me to keep my cool.
Ben raised an eyebrow.
“Melanie you are my wife. There is no reason for us to have an audience when discussing our marriage.”
“I’ll be rectifying the wife part of that sentence soon.”
“What does that mean?” he moved towards me.
“It means I want a divorce.”
Lily grimaced and muttered, “So much for the element of surprise.”
“Fuck the element of surprise. He’s had his cock in half the female population of L.A. during our marriage. The only way he could be surprised by me wanting a divorce is if he was literally a moron.”
Both of their jaws dropped, but I had officially given up on playing it ‘cool’.
“Why did you even marry me?” I asked.
“Wh- I love you!” Ben stammered.
I snorted and rose to my feet.
“Look. I can’t do this right now. Angela wasn’t the first and if I hadn’t caught you in the act… she wouldn’t have been the last.” I started to smirk as a positively evil idea hit me. “Good luck figuring out which ones tattled.”
His face paled.
“Get out. Obviously I’m not ready to talk yet.”
He stumbled backwards and looked at me like it was his first time seeing me.
“I- I need to get some of my stuff.” His voice cracked under the pressure.
“Sure. You’ve got fifteen minutes before I start making things uncomfortable.” I walked past him towards the kitchen. “It would be a real shame if the video from the hot tub found it’s way into Peter’s inbox.” I called over my shoulder.
“So… you decided to go scorched earth?” Lily hissed as we heard Ben’s feet race up the stairs.
“I’m going to raze the little kingdom that man built for himself the fucking ground.”
