There is no real Second ML, at least not yet(?). All of the men who’ve incited the ML’s jealousy at some pt or another have been bonafide Garbage. A welcome surprise was how the FL takes out the Garbage herself (moreso in later chapters) & rarely, if ever, needs the ML to do the whole She’s Mine Back Up thing. The only time she came off as anything close to a damsel was with the stalker, & that’s 100% understandable.