"Dear Julie,
This has always been a very important day for us and tomorrow was to see us embarking or our long-planned fifth anniversary honeymoon cruise and, perhaps, starting a family. There are no words to tell you how regretful I am that it is not to be. It was just about a month ago that I tearfully said that our marriage was a wonderful thing but you killed it. I find myself every day with my eyes filled with smoke.
Mark"
Those words written on an anniversary card were like a knife driven into Julie's heart. She collapsed on the bed, curling up and sobbing as remorse and sorrow overcame her. It was the final blow to her hope of Mark's continuing love and she just collapsed into a stupor, not even able to think.
There was sex that last night and while Julie's body was involved with it, her mind was somewhere else. She let Henry do what he wanted, but she wasn't participating - her body was but not she. He licked her cunt to get her wet enough to enter, but it wasn't enough. He had her use her mouth to lubricate his cock and he was finally able to penetrate her but she did not, in any significant way, take part. It wasn't like fucking a dead body because she was warm and soft, but she showed about the same level of involvement. It was a very somber end to a week-long cruise.
The following morning was a drear one despite sunshine. There was no happy homecoming awaiting her. She and Henry waited until their disembarking time arrived, entered the vast terminal storage area, found their luggage, went through customs and found the limo waiting for them. It was a long ride home for Julie, dreading what she would find. She opened the door, Henry put her suitcase inside and, with a brief token kiss goodbye, she was alone in an obviously empty house.
She walked through the living toward the kitchen, stopping to look into what had been Mark's office and, as she had feared, found it emptied of all his belongings. That would have been heartbreaking, but that breaking had already been done. Surprisingly, things got even worse when she turned into the kitchen. There on the table she saw a thin pile of papers and beside then a stack of photos with half a dozen others arranged separately.
To her absolute horror, those photos depicted her and Henry in a series of adulterous activities. The two of them nude and engaged in a torrid kiss. Her on her knees with Henry's cock buried in her mouth. Henry performing cunnilingus as she held her legs up and open. Henry on her, her legs over his shoulders with his cock visible and half way into her cunt as he fucked her. The last showing Henry's cock withdrawing from her cunt which was already leaking cum.
Julie almost fainted as she saw this vivid evidence of her adultery. It was so graphic, so explicit - so obscene! Seeing herself in those pictures literally turned her stomach and she almost threw up as she thought of Mark having also seen them. That thought brought another even greater feeling of dismay and revulsion as she suddenly realized that he must, somehow, have taken these photos! Then, even worse, she saw a DVD disc lying there labeled, "The Julie and Henry Show, An X-Rated Cruise." The whole situation was just too shocking for her mind to encompass.
Then, more confusing, how did this stuff get there? She and Henry left the ship, had a limo waiting and drove directly home. How did Mark get all of these things to the house, carefully arrange them and leave before she got there? Actually, the explanation of that was simple. Mark signed up for Express Walk Off and, after breakfast, left the ship at 7:30, carrying his own luggage, quickly cleared customs and was met by Jerry. By the time they got to the house he had been filled in on the happenings of the last week and arrangements were made for a meeting with Jon. Julie and Mark were in the group disembarking at 8:45. Mark even had time for a leisurely walk-through to check that everything he wanted had been moved to his new apartment. No problem!
Julie didn't know those things, of course, but it was, in her mind, just one more mystery which bedeviled her. He couldn't have been on the ship - he was not on the passenger list - yet everything else pointed to him being there. These pictures obviously had been taken in their suite so they had to have been brought here this morning. How? Those questions and a myriad of others tumbled around in her brain, but suddenly her focus moved from those horrendous pictures to the pile of papers beside them. On top of them she suddenly saw a typed message from Mark.
"Dear Julie,
Please believe me when I say that I did not leave those pictures out just to humiliate or embarrass you. I thought that it would be best if we immediately - and graphically - remove any question of what your recent cruise involved. Those actions plus the spiteful and callous cancellation of our own cruise last month explain my turning to divorce and why I expect you to acquiesce in my decision. Since I was completely ignorant of all the legal requirements for divorce, I assume the same is true of you so I will spell out the procedures.
In Pennsylvania there are two major types of divorce. The first is a 'fault' divorce in which the plaintiff (me in our case) has grounds and is, in effect, suing the defendant (you) for the divorce. In this case the grounds would be adultery which, of course, I can prove with the pictures here on the table.
However, I'm sure that we both of would prefer a less acrimonious and confrontational case. The second option is a 'mutual consent' or 'no fault' divorce. The form on the table is that type and was prepared by my lawyer. In addition to that form, we each have to prepare and sign an affidavit in which we declare that our relationship is 'irretrievably broken.' You will find an affidavit that my lawyer has prepared for you to sign. If you want changes in it, please contact him. Otherwise, just sign it and the divorce petition and mail it to him in the envelope he provided. He will take them to the Court of Common Pleas in our region and handle everything without us personally getting involved.
We also need to have an agreement on the distribution of our assets, few as they are. I have paid all of our outstanding bills, including credit cards. I split our checking and savings accounts and kept half. The records of that split are there for you to check. I put your half into our joint checking account, but you need to get an account in your own name and cancel the joint account. You can keep your 401k. My lawyer included a note that our financial arrangements are mutually acceptable. If you agree, please initial the note and put it in the envelope.
I have taken the things - furniture, kitchen stuff, etc. - that I need for my apartment. If I took something that you really want, let my lawyer know and I'll return it. The lease on the house runs to the end of September and you can renew it or find another place by October 1. The rest of the furniture and everything left in the house is yours to keep or dispose of.
I don't think that I have to tell you that I am horribly disappointed the way things have gone for us. I honestly believed that we would have many anniversaries after the fifth one but things don't always work out the way we want. Things just went too far, the gulf between us too wide, to stay together. It was a wonderful nine years with you, especially the last five, and I will always be thankful that we had them.
