“What I want with Jodie is none of your fucking business, Lorraine.”
“Oh, but it is,” she said. “I’m Jodie’s boss, practically her best friend… and you and me… well, we’re…” Her fingers trailed up my spine as she stepped around me.
I glared at her. “We’re nothing. I offer a service, you paid for it. End of.”
“Offered. Last I heard, you couldn’t get it up.”
I took a drag. “Yeah, like that sounds likely.”
She bit her lip, raised an eyebrow. “Hope not, Trent. Hope you’re not losing your touch. Maybe you need some more lessons…” Her hand shot to my crotch and squeezed. I grabbed her wrist, pushed her away. “Don’t be coy,” she said. “Not like I haven’t seen it all before, baby. You’re everything you are now because of me… Jodie’s reaping the benefits and she doesn’t even know it…”
“I’m done,” I said. “With all of it. I’m done with you.”
“Sure you are…”
“I am. Think what you fucking like, Lorraine. It’s over.”
“And that’s it, is it? No more clients, no more Bang Gang, no more cash lump sums you can use to treat that cute little family of yours? Is my money not good enough for you all of a sudden? You’ve taken enough of it.”
“Can’t speak for the rest of the lads,” I said. “Give Buck a call. I couldn’t give a shit.”
“I don’t want a four-way, Trent, and you know it.” Her eyes were full of spite. “But Jodie does… In fact, I don’t think she’d care if you were there or not from the sounds of it…”
I looked right at her. “What the fuck are you talking about?”
She sighed, full of drama. “I didn’t want to tell you, but I can’t stand by and let you make a fool of yourself, even I’m not that cruel.” I waited for it. “I know you may think this is about you, Darren, but she’s using you. She doesn’t see you as any more of a keeper than I do. You’re just a piece of rough to her, same as you are for everyone else. She wants a gangbang just the same as every other cheap slut in this village, only she won’t tell you that, will she? It’s not as if she can afford one…”
I kept my gaze steady. “You think she’s only with me because she wants to have a free fucking gangbang, Lorraine? That’s seriously what you think?”
She grinned, triumphant. “That’s what I know. She told me as much. She told me she’d never be with you, not properly, not with you being such a loser, such a liability, such a player.”
“But she wants to fuck the rest of the guys? I’m just a free meal ticket?”
She nodded. “She’s a woman finding herself again. It’s only natural, Darren. She has needs and no means of paying for them, of course she’s using you… It’s clear she wants an actual relationship, just not with you. She needs someone who can be a proper role model to those girls, and she knows it… but in the meantime she’s… out to have fun… at your expense, it would seem.”
I flicked my cigarette away. “And when did she tell you all this?”
“Only the past few days, or I would have come sooner…”
“Let me get this straight. Jodie told you that she’s only using me to get a shot at a gangbang with the guys, and she told you this a few days back?”
“I guess the gossip has finally reached her. Turned her head. Like I said, it’s only natural she should want what other women are having.” She smiled at me. “See how ridiculous you’re being? How pathetic? Thinking she wants you when she only wants your cock, yours and your mates’…”
“Clear off,” I said. “Now.”
Her mouth dropped open. “What? Oh, come on, Darren! You can’t seriously want to take this out on me. Don’t shoot the pissing messenger!”
“Like hell you’re a fucking messenger, Lorraine, you’re nothing but a cheap liar.”
She folded her arms. “I’m not lying, Trent. That’s what she wants, you just can’t accept it. Don’t be a fool! She’s using you! Laughing at you!”
I leaned in close, my mouth to her ear, and my voice was full of fucking malice. “The only person who’s taking me for a fucking fool around here, Lorraine, is you.” I brushed past her and stepped back inside, making it damn well clear she wasn’t invited to follow me. “It’s over, you and me,” I said. “So stay out of my fucking face, and stay out of Jodie’s too.”
“Darren! Just hear me out! You’re angry, I know, but you’re making a big…”
I slammed the door before I could hear any more of her shit.
I nearly sent Jodie a message right there and then, nearly told her exactly what a conniving little cunt Lorraine really was, but to do that I’d have to tell all. I’d have to hash up all the sorry details of the long seedy history between me and that fucking woman, a woman I should never have touched with a fucking barge pole.