The Breakup Buddy

Chapter 1: Beefsters and Puckheads-2

One of Jax’s patients was Margot Beet. She was blonde, pretty, and of an age where she was financially comfortable in life. Margot had been married six times, was wealthy because of her previous husbands and her marriages, and was interested in marrying husband number seven whom she referred to as The Writer, since Ed Billington had written a coming-of-age tale about a young woman (Carla Tanzy) who had an affair with a middle-aged man (Peter Pupette).

The three hundred-page novel titled Miss Tanzy’s Pet was banned from every high school library and church-related book club in the United States. Those who had read it, which alone exceeded twelve million page-turning readers in the United States according to hardback sales, compared it to the modern day Lolita, a brilliant masterpiece that Billington had pulled off with literary skill. Christians called the piece devil writing and a religious iniquity. Republican senators loved the book in secret. Gays thought it sassy and delicious. Middle-aged men were a little embarrassed to read the tome since it crossed questionable taboos, but they were intrigued nonetheless and devoured it in private, behind their wives’ backs. And women, young and old, thought it a positive and provocative masterpiece of literature that proved that women of any age (including a high school senior at eighteen) could get exactly what they wanted and keep it.

Bottom line: Miss Tanzy’s Pet was a success and had made Ed Billington a millionaire, which Margot Beet wanted to reap from, faking her love for the man and his famous work that she referred to as literary nonsense.

Of course, she had admitted to Jax on numerous visits to his office, “I like to get what I can about a man. Their love, money, materialistic items, or whatever else I can obtain from them. I’m a haunting woman, if you want to know the truth. Some men have called me horrendous. Not that I blame them.”

Jax knew that Margot had used a dozen men in the last two years, gained expensive diamond rings, two classic cars, trips around the world on yachts, and received checks from those “horny and middle-aged” men that she had philandered. Margot was not weak. Never did she back down when accomplishing something sinister and repulsive. If Billington’s money is what she wanted, then Billington’s money is what she would obtain, probably within the next few months, according to her track record.

Jax also knew she had dated her chosen men for six weeks, had pornographic s*x with them approximately around their seventh week as a couple, and convinced the men to take her on a trip, usually to places with exotic casinos and beaches. Sometimes she would smother her chosen men, or prizes, as she liked to call them, with her exuberant charm. Somehow, someway, she convinced those suckers to give her a car, a hefty check, or a stunning emerald necklace or bracelet. No matter what, Margot always got what she wanted and could relate to Miss Carla Tanzy, even if Tanzy was half the woman’s age.

There were other clients just as f****d up as Margot Beet, if not more. None of which Jax had on his client schedule today. Rather, he had other plans in motion, like meeting Auggie, his bestie of besties, after work for a strong drink.