"I'm going to kill the bitch," Ashley growled. "She's not getting away with this."
"Princess, just breathe. She can't possibly win. I've told you that," I replied calmly.
"This is the second offer she's refused. Why won't she just crawl away and die?" she continued.
"Because she thinks she got everything. She grabbed your phone and my laptop. She thinks they're all gone," I told her again.
"If that phone is dead I lose my island. We're leaving a lot to chance on it, Richard. Please promise me that this is going to work out," she begged.
"She's playing a game she cannot win, princess. I had her beat the day after she left. We needed to wait so that we could come up with a plan before we confronted them and we figured one out. Trust the plan, my love," I replied.
My ex had gone to a lawyer to take everything from me. She accused me of being the cheating party in our relationship and by the terms of the agreement I had signed, that meant I lost everything and she got it all.
When we had gotten back from Hawaii there had been a few items missing from both our houses. Ashley's duplicate phone with all the pictures of Chris and my ex fucking in the motel was gone, as well as my laptop and every USB flash drive I owned. I had thought ahead and purchased a new phone for Ashley as well as a duplicate of her old one. The original I had sent to my lawyer for safe keeping. I had hoped it would never come down to it but I was smart enough to prepare for the worst just in case.
Instead of just pulling the original phone out and ending this, I had made a counter offer to make her walk away. I didn't want her out on the street with nothing. She was the mother of my children after all. She had refused and continued on with the lawsuit. This was my second offer and it had been refused as well. I had talked it over with Ashley and we were going to make a third and final offer. If that was refused we would use the original phone and get an expert to confirm the pictures were authentic. That would leave her with nothing and give me the right to take everything she had acquired while we were together, but I wasn't interested. I just wanted this over.
"Can we go check to make sure? If it won't even turn on we're finished," Ashley asked.
"We need the date stamped on the sealed envelope until we have to use it, my love. Have faith. Even if it won't turn on, the memory will be intact and there are companies out there that can recover the data. It'll add a bit of time but there's no way she can win this," I replied.
"Richard, you know I love you, but you're driving me crazy. How can you be so calm?" Ashley asked with a growl.
I didn't answer her question directly. Instead I picked her up and tossed her onto the bed.
"Now? Really? You think this is going to shut me. . ." she almost finished her sentence.
Tearing her gstring off I set my mouth against her pussy and sucked her lips hard.
"You're a jerk," she moaned softly.
I just shrugged and went back to making sure she was distracted. It took her a second but soon she had forgotten what she was so upset about and concentrated on what I was doing to her, and not long after that she came hard against my mouth. Pent up emotions let loose and her whole body shook from the release.
When she had calmed down I slid up to kiss her and slowly pushed my cock inside her.
"Fuck I love you," she panted as I kissed her neck and cheek.
An hour later we stood together in the shower just holding each other as the warm water splashed around us.
"Are you sure, Richard?" she whispered.
"If you keep this up we're not going to get much done. I'll be distracting you with my cock the whole time," I teased.
"I know. I'm sorry. It's just after what they did and what they are putting us through, I want to make sure they pay for it, and I really don't want to lose my island."
"You won't, my love. I promise you," I replied.
The day of the hearing finally arrived. Ashley and I couldn't wait for it to finally be over. This whole thing with my ex was causing a lot of stress and Ashley was having a hard time dealing with it. Dealing with me mostly. She couldn't understand how I could remain so calm and collected even with my ex threatening to take everything from me.
"Richard, promise me. Are you one hundred percent sure she won't win?" Ashley asked me again for the hundredth time as we walked into the courthouse.
"She cannot possibly win, princess. She signed those papers as I did. I promise you, she cannot win this," I said.
My ex had gone into full panic mode early in our relationship. When we found out she was pregnant with our first daughter she had demanded an agreement that, amongst other things, detailed that if either party cheated on the other, then the relationship was to be terminated immediately upon discovery. The cheater would walk away with nothing, forfeiting everything to the party cheated on.
This is what my ex was trying to use against me in court. She was claiming that I never had grounds to throw her out and that I was the one who had cheated with Ashley in Hawaii.
Even with all she was trying to do to me, I had still offered her a settlement so that she would have some semblance of a normal life. Instead she was refusing and trying to take everything I had.
Sitting down across from Chris and my ex I smiled warmly. I had been advised to be nice since it would probably irritate her to the point of her doing something stupid. My lawyer had brought the package but still glanced at me nervously. We hadn't opened it because we needed it to be sealed in case we had to use it. I was still hoping she would take the third deal I had offered her.
Ashley sat down beside me looking amazing in her blue suit. Her jacket was open revealing her white shirt buttoned up to the top. Her chest stood out but nothing was showing, and when she sat, her knee length skirt and the curvy, fit legs it hid, disappeared beneath the desk.
My ex just glared as if she was in the presence of pure evil. She had not forgotten my words the day I threw her out and wouldn't get over them. Even now I could see anger starting to boil inside her.
Ashley just smiled sweetly and held my hand.
When the judge walked in we all stood, sitting back down after he seated himself. He picked up the case file and looked around. With a grunt he just shook his head.
"Let's get this over with. I'm tired of seeing you two," he said grumpily. "Let me be absolutely clear here. The other visits we had were for mediation. Today is the final hearing to decide once and for all who gets what. You haven't reached a settlement and if today's offer is rejected, you're leaving it up to the courts to decide. Leaving it up to me to decide. Are you taking his offer this time?"
She replied that she only wanted what was due by the terms of our agreement.
He sighed and turned to me.
"Richard, your recent submission stated you had new evidence to back up your claim that she was in fact the cheating party. What have you got for me?" he said.