Chapter 4
Friday Morning
Avril
I was happy as a lark when I got to the book store this morning. I was really impressed with Jake in many ways. He definitely did not seem anything like the nasty things his ex-wife said about him. He seems like a real sweetheart of a man. The kind that you would love to take home to your mom.
And oh my heavens did he ring my bell last night. Twice! I got his cell number last night but I don’t want to seem too anxious. I’ll wait and see if he calls me today. If not I’ll send him a text sometime this evening.
My shoulders slump when Buddy walks into the store with a scowl on his face. “I saw lover boy leaving your apartment last night,” he states as he come and leans on the counter in front of me. “He told me that it was a dinner date,” he added.
“Oh Gawd, what did you do?” I gasped. “Nothing, I just told him to fix his broken tail light. Oh, and I may have mentioned that he stay away from you,” Buddy told me with a smirk on his face.
Shit! I bet I know how Jake’s tail got broken. I have seen Buddy in action before when he has it in for somebody. I am shocked when Buddy grabs my wrist and twists it cruelly. He never hits me but is not afraid to twist an arm or wrist.
“That better be all that happened or I will break that little geek like a pretzel,” Buddy growled before he let me go. Then his face suddenly changes to curiosity as he saw the back of the book that Jake’s photo is on.
“Oh my gawd. He is that freak that his ex-wife wrote all about. I heard all the girls at the 911 center laughing about this dweeb. This is a guy who peed the bed on his wedding night. He is the guy who hurt his wife when he fucked her. This is a guy who got mugged by three middle school boys in an alley,” Buddy laughed cruelly.
“Yeah a big man like you would have beat up those little boys…hugh? A big man like you would even hurt a woman…Hugh? I sneered as I rubbed my sore wrist. “That pathetic cock of yours could never hurt anyone…Hugh?” I laughed at him.
SLAP…“Shut up…shut your mouth,” Buddy yelled and stepped back shocked that he just slapped my face.
“GET OUT…GET OUT OF MY FUCKING STORE OR I WILL SUE YOU FOR ASSUALT,” I screamed.
“It would be your word against mine,” he chuckled.
Then I pointed out the cameras in the shop.
The one across the street that looks right in the front of the store.
“The video machines are in the vault and you cannot get ahold of them,” I hissed. “Now get the fuck out of my store. You have hurt me for the last time,” I shouted. “This is not over,” Buddy rasped.
As soon as Buddy left, I pulled the video disc out of the DVR and put them in my purse putting new discs in the recorders. As soon as I get home I will make copies that I will keep in my safe deposit box at my bank along with others I recorded in the past at my apartment.
Jake
I kept thinking about Avril all day at work today. This being Friday, I wonder if she would like to go out on a real date with me tonight. It was just before her closing time that I called but got no answer.
I feel a bit disappointed but I leave her text message.
Sorry I missed you. Was going to ask you out on a date.
Give me a call if you would like to do that…
Jake. I felt a twinge of anxiety after I sent it.
Was this just a one and done? Is she avoiding me now?
She did say she would remember last night forever. Was that way of her saying goodbye?
Not wanting to sit around by myself tonight, I went to the closest bar just within walking distance from the condo. Just my luck that the fucking Sherriff Bozo was sitting at a table with a bunch of his buddies.
“Well looky here. It’s pussy boy that just walked in,” Buddy called out. “That is the jerk that his woman wrote the book about what a clueless pussy he Was,” he stated followed by all his buddies hooting and hollering.
“Look, I’m not looking for any trouble here. I just came in to have a beer and relax.” I stated. “Well you should have thought about that last night when you took my girlfriend out to dinner,” Buddy rasped.
“You made yourself clear last night. I will stay clear of her,” I answered him. “I really don’t want any trouble,” I stated again. “Yeah, well sometimes trouble finds you even when you’re not looking for it,” Buddy hissed.
“Look, I’ll just leave.” I told him. I don’t want any trouble,” I repeated. I made it a block before his three buddies caught up to me. They pulled me into an alley and held me by both arms and the third one behind me. With an arm around my neck.
When I looked up I saw Buddy approaching. “From the way Avril was acting today I think you did a lot more than a dinner date,” he growled and punched me hard in the ribs.
“The way she treated me this afternoon I think you got some of that pussy last night,” he grunted as he did a right hook to my jaw. I could feel the bone crunching as I was falling to the ground.
“She was the best fuck I’ve ever had,” I grunted defiantly. There was a brutal kick to my face breaking my nose and doing more damage to my jaw. From what I found out later the other three men stomped on me for a while after that even though I was out cold.
It was a vagrant that beat on the restaurant back door in the alley until he got someone to come out and help me. After that I was loaded into an ambulance and taken to Angel of Mercy Hospital where I awoke Monday morning around 10am.
Immediately I asked for a phone to call Lawrence and tell him where I was. He was quite concerned when I told him I was in the hospital with a fractured jaw, a broken nose and four broken ribs.
“You don’t worry about work Jake. You have lots of time off owed to you and you can take as long as you want to heal up,” he told me. I admired the fact that he did not ask me how it happened.
I was shocked to see Avril standing over in the corner looking at me with concern on her face. “How did you know I was here?” I called over to her.
There was a news story on the daily news on Saturday saying that the man in the Clueless Husband book had been found badly beaten in an alley in Seattle. They mentioned what hospital you were taken to,” she answered.
“Did Buddy do this to you?” Avril asked quietly with her eyes downcast. “He and three of his buddies. I ran into them in a bar and they followed me on the way home,” I answered.
“I am so sorry I brought this on you,” Avril sobbed softly. “I should never have stepped out on him till long after I dumped him,” she sniveled. “Hey, that was the best night I have had in years that you are talking about,” I tried to cheer her up.
“Yeah, but I should have never let this happen. I know what a bully that Buddy is. I should have known that he would figure out what I did,” she told me. “He beat my last boyfriend up so bad that he left the county after he healed enough to leave the hospital.
“I won’t be going anywhere. There is video evidence of Buddy and his posse giving me that beatdown for no reason. There was a camera in the alley for the restaurant back door that enters into the alley. The manager brought me a copy of it and left it with my nurse,” I informed her.
“I’m really sorry about this Jake. I will not ever bother you again,” she told me.
After a soft kiss on my swollen face she left.
After she left, I was wheeled into a treatment room where a feeding tube was going to be inserted into my belly.
Because of the severe damage to my jaw it would be wired shut for a minimum of eight weeks. Hence the belly tube.
The nurse hesitated when I asked to use a mirror to get a look at the damage. I was shocked when I saw the damage. My face is so swollen that I am unrecognizable. My eyes nearly swollen shut my entire face a deep purple from being stomped on. My nose reconstructed and held in place by white tape.
When I pull back the sheet and blanket I see deep bruising on my chest from where my ribs got broken. There are many angry red looking bruises from where they stomped on me repeatedly on my stomach and sides while I was out cold.
It was just after dinner that Karma came to see me. When I say dinner I am talking about a hanging bag with two bottles of Ensure liquid meal that connected into the feeding tube. Yeah…yay me. I was humiliated to have Karma see my face this beat up.
“Oh Jaaaaaaaake, who did this to you?” Karma called out when she saw my grotesquely swollen face. “A Sherriff named Buddy and three of his deputies did this,” I answered.
“There has to be some way to prove this. There has to be some video proof somewhere in this city,” Karma suggested. Karma came over and held my hand. “I will make them pay for this,” she promised and then kissed my forehead…the only part of my face not painfully swelled up.
My eyes focus on her magnificent heart shaped
ass as she leaves the room after asking probing questions about where it all started and about where the alleyway was where I got mugged. I am skeptical that she will be able to do anything with the information I gave her.
It was later in the evening when Lawrence came to see me. “Oh my, this is going to take some time to recuperate from,” he surmised. “Yeah, the Doc says that my jaw will be wired closed for at least eight weeks. But I can come to work with it that way,” I answered.
“It will take a couple of weeks for all the swelling and bruises to go away. I can come back to work after that,” I suggested. “We’ll take it one week at a time and see how it goes,” Lawrence told me. “Take your time, you are on paid leave,” he told me.
Suddenly a young man came into the room with the largest arrangement of flowers I have ever seen.
“The girls at the office wanted to send this to you to cheer you up,” Lawrence told me with a grin.
After the man put the flowers on a table by the window, he carried over eight small cards from the well-wishers.
I was surprised to find that the cards were from all of the women who work for me. Without exception they all gave me their phone numbers saying I could call them any time for any reason. Some of them stressed the words, “any reason.”
As soon as Lawrence left the room, I pushed the button to call the nurse for some more pain medication. My head and jaw are both pounding painfully and my ribs are screaming.
The other reason was that I wanted to see the insanely sexy blonde nurse who was caring for me. On a scale of one to ten she is a twelve with waist length blonde hair, sapphire blue eyes and 36DD tits.
She has a pretty face and voluptuous body that is every teen wet dream girl. Part of me desperately wishes that she would pull back my blanket and fuck me blind. But my broken ribs remind me that I would not be up for that just now.