Chapter 74 Chapter 74
Benji
“How many nights a week do you come to John’s Hotel?” “Every night except if I have a date. But what does that have to do with what you need from me?” “Jojo is going to be the bar maid here from Monday 7 pm.” “Okay.” Coop asked skeptical of what is coming. “She’s in her final year studying to become a lawyer Coop.” “Oh, I see where this is going.” “I need to find a way to help her finish her last year and then what I need from you is an internship.” “Internship is that all?” “You say it like it is nothing.” “Well, it is nothing, that I can do I can even help her finish her last year with an internship.” “That’s great but she can’t know I planned it.” “Oh, fuck Benji, how on earth do you want me to do that?” “That’s the tricky part and I’m sure interns don’t get a salary?” “No, they don’t, not for the first few months then it depends.” “Oh, fuck and she’s pregnant which is going to make things more difficult.” “Fuck sorry Coop I didn’t think this through.” “No no wait don’t give up hope yet, I’m sure between me and John we can sort something out if she means that much to you.” “She means everything to me and it’s going to break my heart leaving her but that is what she wants, that is what I need to do, do make the people pay for what they did to her.” “Sorry to ask this but what about other women?” “We already talked about it and Jojo knows my mom is actively searching for a wife for me. We made a pack when there is really someone special in our lives we will tell the other person, but if she sees me with someone on Insta and I didn’t tell her about it, it’s not serious.” “I get that but it’s still going to hurt her. Are you guys making a clean break?” Coop asked.
I swirled the Macallan in my glass, “She said we should.” “But you don’t want to?” Coop asked “No I want to know what’s going on in her life? I want to know that she is fine and that the baby is fine? I mean she’s still in denial about the baby Coop I have to take her to an OBGYN tonight just to show her she is really pregnant. She’s not going to be fine?” Coop did the same swirled the Macallan in his glass before he took a sip looked at me and said. “I know all this and I know you want to make sure she’s okay but if I can give you, my opinion?” “Yes fine.” “You need to make a clean break, and you need to tell her because it’s going to fuck with both your heads and you are going to stand in the way of her moving forward, you going to stand in her way of moving on with her life and excepting her new reality.” “Fuck I know Coop but still it’s going to be difficult.” “If it’s going to be difficult for you with all your friends and family around you imagine how difficult it’s going to be for her?” I put my hands in my hair “Fuck I know Coop but how, how do I do it?” “Call John or me we will keep an eye on her, I promise.” “I can’t expect the two of you to look after her the whole time?” “That is why you called us Benji if you want to admit it or not.”
I just shook my head there is so many things that is still unsaid. “What?” Coop asked. “Coop I need to make sure she eat; I need to make sure she doesn’t overdo it with her running.” “Why?” “Because although she was raised in a very wealthy house, she wasn’t allowed anything except chicken salad, eggs and smoothies, she had to keep her figure for me, hence the running.” I put my head in my hands again. “She’s so trained in just eating that, I need to make sure she get’s other protein in as well.” “No, you don’t Benji, believe it or not John and I know how to treat a woman.” “Is that why you are married?” Shit that was a low blow. He just looked at me “Sorry Coop that was a low blow.” “It’s okay you are stressing but we will look after her I promise and I will give you a detailed update when there is something to update you on.”
“And the internship?” “I told you I’ll make a plan.” “I will give you money to pay her a salary Coop.” “We won’t be able to do that what about the other interns, I’ll figure something out stop worrying about that, for her finishing the last few months leave that to me and John I already have a plan.” “But you need to send me an amount that I can pay into your account.” “Fuck Benji stop worrying about money we all have enough we will be fine helping her it won’t even make a dent in my bank account and do you think it will make a dent in John’s.” He looked around him at the Hotel. “No, it won’t, it’s just I’m stressed that she won’t have enough.” “Don’t worry she will be just fine I promise you that.” “Fair warning she’s a very proud women, she won’t just take money.” “I already gathered with what you told me of her so calm down, go home and take her to the OBGYN.” I looked at my watched and realized it was past 4 pm already. “Where did the time go?” “We had lots to talk about. When are you leaving?” “Tomorrow night I first need to buy her a car. I thought John will get her a place closer to the Hotel and she can walk but I had to convince her to buy her a car.” “I’m shocked she’s letting you.” “Oh no not a new one a second-hand car, I think we are going to have an argument about the type of second-hand car she thinks she wants.” “Just get her something reliable Benji, don’t go looking for a second-hand Audi or Tesla she won’t be happy with that.” “How do you know?” “How do you not?”