EroticReverie

"You need to pack a bag." Gina says. 

I stand there in silence and look at her horrified. 

"I can't leave." I say my voice shaking and my head shaking. 

She gives me a look as if I'm absolutely out of my mind. 

"Yeah, you are. Cause there's no way Ben is letting you stay here." she says and reaches out and takes my hand. 

"Cmon, I'll help you pack." she says and she guides me upstairs, and due to my open bedroom door knows right where to go. 

I sit on the bed as I watch Gina rip open my closet.

"You have suitcases?" she asks and I nod. 

"In the guest room." I say quietly and she nods and I watch the stranger, this gorgeous woman go to my hall and into my guest room and then cart back two giant suitcases. 

I say nothing as she empties my closet, stuffing my clothes as neatly as she can into the suitcases. Finding my underwear drawer, socks and and bras and throwing those in as well. Not all of my clothes fit into the suitcases, but I watch her pack a lot of clothes. Dresses, jeans, pants, tops, pajamas. I just sit there and watch. 

"You must think i'm stupid." I say and she stops and looks at me. 

"My mom looked like you do right now, my whole entire child hood." she says. 

"I got a front row seat to every punch and kick he gave her." she says and I look down. 

"I'm sorry." I say. 

"Me too. And I don't think you're stupid. I think you're scared. I think you're lost." she says and zips up one of the suitcases. 

"I was so fucking thrilled to hear shit didn't work out with you and Ben." she says and I look up and she shrugs. 

"Can you blame me?" she asks and I shake my head. 

"You should just go. Tell Ben to turn around." I say. Not wanting to come between them a second time. 

"I won't come between you again." I say. 

Gina laughs and I look up at her. 

"Yeah, well, he was never mine to begin with." she says as she walks over to my dresser, grabbing the remainder of my lingerie and panties and bras. 

"We were dating. But not dating." she sighs and rolls her eyes. "Classic Ben." 

"He blamed it on some girl fucking him up." she says and puts her hands on her hips. I look to her. 

"It was clear that it was you the second I saw him look at you in the grocery store that day." she rolls her eyes. 

"I.." I pause because I have no idea what to say. 

Tires squeal further down the street, and engine roaring closer and closer and then tires squealing as someone whips into my driveway. 

"That'd be him." Gina sighs and grabs my suit cases from the bed and pulls them from my room as I sit on my bed. My front door slamming open and his voice so loud it sends shivers through my spine. 

"LAYNA?!" he calls out to me. 

"Up here." Gina says and I can feel the vibrations of his pounding foot steps as he runs and I look up to see him pass Gina in the hall and then his eyes find me and he stops dead in his tracks. 

His eyes go right to my eye. I see nothing but anger as his nostrils flare and his hands ball into fists. 

"I'll fucking kill him." he mutters to himself as he steps forward, and then quicker, and then breaks into a small run and drops to my feet, kneeling in front of me. 

"What the fuck Layna?" he says his voice cracking as he takes in my bruised arms and then looks up to my face. His eyes are full of tears, but he's shaking with rage and I know it's for Calvin, and not for me. Or maybe partly for me. 

"Why didn't you call me?" He asks as he lifts his hands to my face and looks up at me and his thumb rests outside of the bruise on my eye. 

"It's not your problem to deal with. I left. I didn't want to bother you."

"Fucking hell Layna" he growls. And I know that this flash of irritation is for me. 

"Bother me? Fucking bother me? Not my fucking problem?" he says and grabs my face gently but firmly enough that he makes me look him right in the eyes.

"Anyone who lays a fucking finger on you...is my fucking problem." he says and his jaw is so tight and he looks at me. 

"I knew you were angry with me."I say quietly, fighting back my own tears. 

"You think I'd have turned you away if you told me that fucking asshole was beating you?!" he asks and I cry. 

"No." I say and look down. "I knew you wouldnt. That's why I didn't call. Plus he...he took my phone...and my keys....I was too scared to leave...I was paranoid that he'd do worse if he caught me...but...I just...I didnt have any right to run to you for help....and....i thought...maybe he'd stop...that eventually he'd calm down....and then I could leave without being scared...I don't know." I cry and he pulls me off the bed and onto his lap. 

I wrap my arms around him and bury my face in his neck as he holds my head with one hand, the other on my back. 

"I'm so sorry I let you leave." he says and grips me tighter. 

"I'm so fucking sorry." he says and I shake my head. 

"It's my fault...I had an affair...twice...." I say and he groans as if I sucker punched him in the gut. 

"If you think for one second that this is an appropriate reaction for a man to have over cheating....you're fucking wrong Layna. You don't get to justify this for him." he tells me, warning me to not defend Calvin. 

It was hard not to. I knew it was wrong to. But, he was angry, rightfully so.  Part of me needed to feel punished for what I'd done, as if the more he hurt me, the more guilt it absolved from what I'd done. 

I hear another car, and seconds later Finn is bursting into the room and I look up and his eyes go wide. 

"I need you to take her to my place." Ben says as he lifts me up and we both stand from the floor. 

"What about you?" Finn asks and his eyes don't leave mine, so I look down. 

"I have to make a stop." Ben says as if Finn should already know why he can't take me to his place himself. 

"Fuck that, I'm going with you." Finn says and I look up at him and then at Ben both of their eyes are on me. 

I shake my head. "don't, just...let it go..i'm fine...i don't want you to hurt him." I say. 

Finn makes a sound of disgust, and I see Ben's jaw tick. 

"No offense Layna...but right now....I don't care about what you do or don't want for the man that used you as a fucking punching bag." Ben snarls and I flinch at his words and look down. 

"I can take her." Gina says and Ben looks over to her and nods. 

Ben grabs my face gently. 

"I'm sending someone to take a look at you." he says and kisses my cheek bone right below the swollen eye. 

"I'm fine." I say and he breathes heavy and looks me in the eyes and his forehead is against mine. 

"For my peace of mind." he says and I nod slightly. 

His nose nudges mine and he places the softest kiss to my mouth. 

"I love you." he whispers. 

I swallow the giant rock of emotions in my throat and nod. 

"I love you too." 

----------

Ben and Finn both leave as Gina stays with me, and we pack some of my other things. Makeup, toiletries, and other things and then she drives me to Ben's where a female doctor  is already waiting inside. 

She checks me over head to toe in Ben's bedroom. She documents the bruises on my body and photographs them as well. 

"I don't want to press charges." I say and she pauses and looks at me and nods. 

"Well, if you change your mind. You'll have the evidence to so." she says politely. I know she's probably judging me. But what kind of woman would I be to cheat on him, then put him in jail? My mind argues with the other side of it. The kind that got her ass kicked by her husband Layna. 

She gives me a pain reliever. She also gives me pamphlets on counseling for domestic abuse , and sexual assault. 

"Come see me at my office within the next few days, preferably tomorrow. I just want to take some xrays of this shoulder since it's causing you pain." she says and I nod. 

"Can....are you...would you be able to tell if I was pregnant?" I ask and she pauses and nods. 

"I don't think I am. But...he made me stop my birth control recently...and I just..." 

She reaches her hands over to mine and squeezes it. 

"We can check. Of course. " she says.

"If I am..." I say my voice shaking and she just looks at me and clasps her other hand under mine and holds onto mine with both. 

"I don't want it" I say a tear rolling down my cheek. 

She nods. "And that's perfectly fine, and if by chance you are...we'll discuss all options, and we we take any course of action you wish to, alright?" she says assuring me and I nod. 

"There's a lot of women that go through this....too many. You're not alone. I will help you as much as I can alright? If you need anything, you call this number" she says and pulls a card from her pocket. 

"thank you." I say quietly. 

I put my clothes back on fully, and then when I walk downstairs with the doctor , Gina is waiting and then hugs the doctor. 

"Thanks mom" she says softly and the woman nods and my stomach sinks. 

The doctor was her mother? The same woman who went through exactly what I did. I wanted to hug her too now. When she looked over, she could tell too. I guess it was a mother thing, because she walked over and pulled me into her arms and I hugged her tight. 

"You'll be okay." she comforted me. "you'll be okay"

---

Gina made us dinner. Which was just canned chicken noodle soup, but it was perfect right now. 

Her phone buzzed and she picked it up and swiped the screen, I watched as her eyes skimmed the phone. 

"Jesus christ" she mutters. 

"What?" I ask. 

she shakes her head. "Nothing, but Ben will be awhile." 

My eyes bulged. What did that mean? What had happened?

"did he..." I start and she looks up. 

"Kill him?" I whisper.

She bursts into laughter. 

"No Layna. He didn't. Even though I'm sure he fucking wanted to, and will want to still. But he did put him in the hospital." she says proudly. 

I drop my spoon into my bowl. 

"Don't feel bad. Don't you dare feel bad. He deserved it. He deserves a lot more than that too." she says and I shake my head. 

"I don't." I say. Which was mostly true. 

"Where is Ben?" I ask. 

She cocks a brow. "Ummm...he's...uhh....I'm not supposed to say." 

"where is he Gina?" I ask. 

She rolls her eyes and sighs. 

"Jail." she says and my jaw drops.

She holds up her hand. "Dont freak out, he has crazy good lawyers, at the most he'll be there over night and out tomorrow." she says. 

Ben was in jail. Over mre. Not freak out?

"We have to go get him." I say. 

She gives a little smile. "Well, we can't just walk in there and take him." she says. 

I frown. 

"He'll be fine." she waves her hand. 

"Ben needs to decompress in a cold cell. So does Finn. Those two deserve jail at least once a week." she says trying to joke around. 

---

Gina ends up staying the night at Ben's with me, thankfully she didn't make me ask her to. But I didnt want to be alone. Even if Calvin was in the hospital, I didn't feel safe. 

I don't know what time it was when the bedroom door opened. But I shot up in bed, panic rising in my blood. 

"It's me." Ben's voice came to me across the dark room as he pulled his shirt off, his body outlined by the dim light in the hall before he shut the door. 

"Ben." I whisper as he walks across the room and I hear his pants come off and then feel him pull his covers back. 

I throw myself into his arms and he lays with me curled up into him and I hold onto him tighter than I ever have. 

"He'll never touch you again Layna." he promises. 

"I love you." I say and then he turns his head and kisses the top of my head. 

"I love you too." he says. 

I tell him about the doctors visit, that I need to go in tomorrow for an xray. 

We lay in silence and I close my eyes. 

"thank you" I whisper. 

"mm" he hums. 

"Is Finn ok?" I ask and I feel him nod.

"He's fine. He just kept people in his office from interfering." he says. 

I let out a breath. 

"Get some rest Layna." he says softly and kisses my head again. 

I hug him tighter. 

"I'm so sorry for everything."I tell him. "For then, for now." I say. 

"shh" he hushes me. "we're good baby..none of that...go to sleep." 

I lay there in his arms, sighing and closing my eyes as I fall asleep , right where I belong.