I recognized the food as coming from the small boxed lunch shop located up the road from the complex. She reached down and picked up the sandwich, taking a bite and setting it back down. My stomach tightened as she licked the tip of one of her fingers, and I tried to shove away the feeling, not wanting to acknowledge it. Her expression didn’t look as distracted as before, which was a relief. She glanced up as I walked past, and I waved.
“Heading into the office?” she called.
I shook my head. “Calling it a day. I need some sleep.”
She nodded. “Have a good one.”
Those words took on a whole new meaning when I got home. I hoped I could just strip down to my boxers, stretch out across my bed, and have a solid nap. Maybe I’d get up feeling better and have a swim before dinner. But that didn’t happen. Sleep continued to evade me when I lay down, and I found my mind wandering to images of Merry. The thought of her sitting there in the sun in her little sundress, her fingers in her mouth, made my body respond. I got hard just imagining her, and when my mind started conjuring new thoughts of her, images of her sexy body without the dress, and her mouth wrapped around my cock rather than her fingertip, I couldn’t take the tension anymore.
I was at home. Alone. No one was going to judge me for what I was thinking. Closing my eyes and letting out a sigh, I slipped my hand down my shorts and wrapped it around my erection. Letting the thoughts of her dancing across my mind fuel me, I rubbed out a powerful orgasm and finally fell asleep.
14
Merry
For the second day in a row, I woke up to the sound of banging around in my kitchen. My big brother and I were very close and always had been. We frequently visited each other and spent holidays staying either at his house or with our parents. I felt awful that he had been displaced from his home and was grateful that I had a place he could come to and lick his wounds.
I couldn’t even imagine what he was going through. He and Evelyn had been married for five years and were together for a long time before that. He wasn’t just dealing with knowing his wife had betrayed him and broken his heart and his trust. He was also having to wrap his head around a completely different life moving forward.
Right now, what we had to think about was how he was going to do that. I’d already given him the room and told him he could have it for as long as he needed, no rent required. It didn’t seem right to ask him to pay rent right now. Not only was his career totally up in the air, but I had been going right along in the apartment by myself without a problem. Unless he started attempting to drown his sorrows in four-hour showers every day, I didn’t need the money to pay for the apartment. He planned on contributing by buying groceries, and that was plenty for me.
Dressed and ready for work, I walked out to the kitchen and poured my customary cup of coffee. Brandon stood at the stove flipping pancakes on a griddle. I made a mental note to check out the fitness room in the apartment complex. If he was going to continue to express his emotions through fat and carbs, I was going to need to get out ahead of it fast. I wasn’t about to turn down any of the food he cooked, but there needed to be a bit of balance.
“So, I was thinking,” I said after the first few sips of coffee gave my brain a caffeine boost. I was still learning to be functional enough to carry on a conversation first thing in the morning. “You were saying you didn’t want to keep going at the firm.”
“Not happening,” he said. “Jim and Karen are perfectly nice, and I feel bad leaving them in a lurch, but I can’t stroll in there like nothing happened knowing they are getting every detail of the divorce from Evelyn’s perspective. Not to mention if she came in with him, I might not be able to control what I do.”
“And that’s totally understandable. So, that means we start looking for a new position for you. How is your resume?” I asked.
“Not updated. I didn’t really think I was ever going to have to look for another job,” he admitted. “I figured that was going to be my career right up until I retired. Jim even talked about Evelyn and me taking over when he was ready to retire in a few years.”