Chapter 73 Chapter 73
Benji
When I arrived at John’s Hotel, I went straight to the bar I knew I will find Coop there. As I approached, he turned around and saw me he got up and walked towards me “Benji as I live and breathe.” We gave each other a bro hug. “Nice to see you man.” I told him. “Let’s get a table.” “Yes, please somewhere private.” “Will that back table do? Or do you want me to ask John for an office?” Coop asked. “No no that table is fine.” “You want something to drink?” “What you are having.” Coop went to the bar ordered and came back to sit down. “So, what is going on?” Coop ask as the waiter put the glasses down. “I hope you don’t mind Macallan?” “You know I don’t.” “Well lets cheers before I get into my problems.” We touched glasses took a sip; I let it sit in my mouth for a minute before I swallowed. “This stays the best.” “I know right.” Coop said with a huge smile.
“Now what is going on with this girl of yours?” Coop asked. “Well, you remembered my mother and father made a deal with the Warren’s of the Warren oil company when both Jojo and I where 5 years old, that we will get married and the two companies will become one, making us the biggest oil firm in Texas.” “Not really but go on.” “Well, that was part of the reason I wanted to study in Europe I didn’t want to be near Jojo growing up.” “Okay and now?” “Well, there was one condition on my mother’s part for Jojo she needed to stay a virgin for us to marry.” “Oh my God in what era does your mother live?” “Exactly right. Well Jojo almost pushed through with it until her then boyfriend found out she needed to break up with him because I was coming home.” “Okay she had a boyfriend that was fine with not having sex?” “This is where the tricky part come in, he wasn’t really, the boyfriend was Morne, Coop.”
“Morne like the one that hated us but still followed us around in Primary school?” “Yip that Morne and he was fine with not having sex with her because he was fucking someone else on the side.” “Oh fuck.” “That’s not the worse part the night she broke up with him he put the pressure on her to have sex, or like he called it making love because he loved her so much and he was patient for 5 years, so he really put the pressure on. She finally gave in but he didn’t wear a condom.” “No, this story isn’t going where I think it is going?” Coop asked. “Unfortunately, yes. She insisted he stopped at a pharmacy to get the morning after pill but he gave her sweets he threw the pills away.” “Fuck you are lying?” “I wish I was he ghosted her afterwards and when she finally got hold of him, he told her he only wanted her to get back at me, by then she didn’t know he gave her sweets and not the morning after pill.” “That fucker is he still alive?” “Yes, but not for long.”
“Jeez Benji you shouldn’t have answered me dick head.” Coop reprimanded me. “Then you shouldn’t have asked. But we are going of what is important.” The bartender came and poured us each other glass. “When I finally met her Coop, it was love at first sight, I don’t believe in that shit but I’m serious. I fell for her the first day I saw her. She’s beautiful, she can hold her own in any conversation and she can be confident when she wants to be. She’s not liked the girls that grew up rich and is now stuck up and walked with their noises in the air, oh no she’s down to earth, she is determined, she’s everything I ever wanted in a woman, she shop at Target like the rich girls shop at Channel.” “Then what is the problem?” “Well apparently everyone in Housten that is of importance go to the same hair dresser and the hairdresser’s gossip and is friends with Morne so they spread the story that Jojo is pregnant and that got to my mom’s ears.” “No” “Yip”
“Jojo and I where in the Hamptons, I had this whole thing worked out I asked her to marry me on the beach it was beautiful I even had a photographer but the next morning our whole life came crashing down with my mother showing up catching us in bed and telling us that it is over between us.” “Fuck you’re a grown man Benji why listen to your mother?” “If it was only up to me, I would take Jojo and go to another city and start over but I will lose the company I will lose everything.” “You have enough money to last you a lifetime without your parents’ money.” “I know and I told Jojo that but she doesn’t want me to give up my birth right she doesn’t want me to give up the company. She grew up in an oil family Coop she knows how important it is to keep it in the family and to hand it down to the next and next generation. She won’t let me loose that and then on the other hand the business isn’t doing very well, so I need to bring it back to its former glory and then when I’m on top again, I’m going to take her parents down.” “Why her parents and not yours?” “Oh, believe me my mother and father will pay for what they have done to Jojo but her father fuck Coop his the worse of the worse, he actually slapped her mother in front of me, he grabbed Jojo if I wasn’t there, I don’t know what would have happened to her. He actually told her he wish the fell made her loose the bastard.” “You lying?” “I wish I was.” “None of this is her fault.” “Well according to her parents and mine it is, but I don’t blame her I blame Morne I mean she stayed a virgin for 24 years Coop can you imagine being a virgin on 24?” “Nope I think I lost mine on 17 or it might have been 16 not even sure.” “Exactly.” “Okay now what do you need from me?”