2000, 7th of September, Ireland, Co. Cork.

God, this girl had me under her wraps.

It was almost unfair.

I knew everything that went on behind her closed curtains. Whenever I saw her husband Danny lurking around Ballylaggin I wanted to smash his fucking face in.

She was too timid to leave him

With three kids, two of them were twins, bith seven, and the other one was only a small baby boy. It was horrible. I knew she was strong, but she had explained how she was staying to keep her kids safe, for the money and everything. Danny had never laid his hand on the kids, but whenever I helped her with her shopping or met her in town, she always seemed to be carrying some form of a bruise.

Her and her sweet smile, I couldn't help but just.. admire.

You see, me and her were.. fucking. A lot. Having very, very intimate sex at my house, she was cheating on her godawful husband.

But I wanted Lucy so fucking bad. Wanted her ever since she was a young girl in tommen, even now at thirty-five years of age, I wanted her and her long hair.

I had her, but she didn't want to leave Danny.

And if she left Danny, I'd immediately get my brother to help her with the custody, as he was a barrister. I'd do anything she goddamn wanted. If she wanted to come stay with me, I'd glady take her and her kids and take them away from that mean mean man.

"Thanks, Dylan." She beamed my way, hat wide smile with her perfect lips.

For the time being, she was at my house while I helped her fill in all divorce papers and stuff.

I had her sat at my kitchen table.

She was in my care.

And her kids were upstairs in my spare bedrooms.

I knew that now that I had her, I was not letting her go. Not letting her go back to Elk Terrance or Danny. I'd take care of his kids better than him. And he can fuck off back to his pub up the north and work away his terror while I had his gorgeous wife in my house.

"I'd do anything for you. You know that. and I'm glad you came to me to help you." I murmured words of soft reassurance to her, reaching across the table to place my much larger hand atop of her own smaller, dantier hand.