End of part 1
"Steve, I know you may not trust women right now, that's natural, but I need you to trust me. I will not do anything illegal or inadmissible in court. However, I will try and get the evidence you need to prove Bonnie has been unfaithful to you. Michelle will take it from there. She trusts the work I do, otherwise, I may not be employed." She said with a smile.
"May I ask you something Steve, you seem pretty adept with your phone, which I see is not a cheap one, are you good with computers and all that stuff?" Laura makes a large circular arm and hand expression.
Steve smiled, "Yeah, I work in the IT/ electronics field and do repairs and installs for networks, cameras, and such."
With a questionable look on Laura's face she asked, "Do you think you can help me with some stuff, I mean later on, when your case is resolved, computers are... I'm not very good with them?"
Steve said, "Sure, just let me know."
They left and went back to Bryson's house and brought April up to date.
This is my work of fiction.
April and Bonnie
Part 2
Now Steve had a plan in mind. Using his laptop at the office he started looking at their assets and liquidating others into cash. He didn't know how much stock Bonnie had in her company but sent an email to Michelle that would need to be confirmed at trial.
Steve felt focused now, not to destroy Bonnie but make her hurt and that dickhead David she is seeing to take him apart. Browsing through the store's website he found the major labels the store carried. He got the list of these companies and started searching their websites.
Eventually, he found David Langworth on the La Hartigue Clothing Company website under 'sales rep'. He made a desktop folder and named it 'La Tricheuse' (a French word for a female cheater), took a screenshot of the info and sent it to this file.
His focus narrowed as Steve learned more and more about David. Soon a Lexus-Nexus search revealed David has had some troubles in the past, and lost a couple of jobs in LA and Seattle. He was also sued in those cities. '
Interesting'
he thought.
Steve got the case numbers and did a records search on the court cases. It took a while but he found them, copying them into the 'La Tricheuse' file. He got David's abbreviated credit report and realized that he had judgments against him in California and Washington Superior Courts. This went to the La Tricheuse file.
Next, he started a background on Bonnie. Not much was found but her finances revealed the stocks she owned in the department store and an account at a different local bank under her maiden name he did not know she had. However, it did not show how much money was in it. Steve has a contact at that bank maybe they can tell him when the account was opened and how much was in it. This info he printed for later research, he didn't want to tell Michelle just yet.
Steve opened a new account under his name and started transferring money to it, just a little at a time. He closed the few credit card accounts they had and opened new ones in his name. Again, he didn't want to stir too much up all at once.
He also opened a college savings account for Emily and put his name as the Trustee.
Steve then got a text from Bonnie 'I have a business meeting at 7 tonight & will be late getting home' Nothing more, no, 'I love you', no heart emoji, nothing!
"I wonder if David is in town?"
forwarded the text to Laura.
Laura called Steve and asked where Bonnie was right now.
Steve checked his phone and saw she was moving. He also opened the app on his laptop for the tracker he placed in Bonnie's car. It was moving also, it was after 3:30.
'Where is she going, she's supposed to be at work until 5?'
He told Laura that Bonnie's phone and car were moving. "My bet is she's heading to the Mariott."
"Steve, I'm going to head over there and see what I can see," she said. He replied, "I'll meet you there!"
"No, don't Steve, it might spook them. You know they have already been together before; I need to gather evidence. Cheaters will change their patterns; we don't want them changing hotels. Stay put and do what you do with that keyboard, please, and keep me informed of her whereabouts."
Laura made it to the Mariott a few minutes before 4 pm. "Steve, where is Bonnie now?" they had kept the line open. "It's at the Mariott along with her phone." He replied.
"Ok, I'm gonna hang up now and go inside. I'll call you back later." Laura hung up, grabbed her 'oversized purse' and entered the hotel. Her purse had various pieces of equipment in it, including trail cameras. She asked at the Front Desk for "David Langsworth room please?"
The clerk looked at Laura when the phone rang. The clerk got busy on the phone but wrote out 'Rm 324' and handed her the note. The clerk turned her back and was looking at something, Laura just walked away.
After a quick check around, the restaurant wasn't open yet, and a quick scan of the bar showed a few customers as well as Bonnie and David with drinks in a booth. They appeared cozy and Laura left for the elevator.
On the third floor, she found David's room which was close by. Laura pulled out one of the trail cameras from her 'purse', this one having a magnet on the bottom. She turned it on, got it to pair with Mariott's WIFI, and set the time also the run duration when the motion detector picked up movement. The camera was white and blended with the ceiling and wall colors. There was a fire hose box mounted on the wall a short distance down from David's room. '
This should pick them up going into his room'
In the elevator, Laura removed a recorder with a good microphone and her tablet. She found a side exit and put her 'purse' in the trunk of her car swapped a better jacket for her hoodie and ball cap, dark framed glasses then went to the bar.
She picked a spot at the bar that was closer to their table, took out her tablet, and sat down. When the bartender approached "What would you like?" She looked up at him as he nodded to someone behind her. Turning around, David was holding up Bonnie's glass. The bartender had a knowing look on his face when he looked back at Laura.
"Do you have any coffee? I'm waiting for someone and I can't hold my alcohol." He smiled, chuckled, and replied "You're the second one today that can't hold her alcohol, cream, and sugar with your coffee?"
"Yes, please" responded Laura.
Laura turned her tablet on, paired it to the WIFI, and connected to the trail camera to make sure it was working. She was always astonished at how well those cameras worked. She could almost see to the other end of the third floor. At about this time, the bartender brought her coffee and set it down. She minimized the camera feed and opened a book app to pretend she was reading.
Sipping her coffee, Laura heard Bonnie walking behind her to the table with David. They kissed and the bartender delivered her drink and removed the empty one.
They were talking softly for a while and Laura couldn't make out what they were saying. Soon their voices picked up and David asked "When are going to dump that loser of a husband and move in with me?"
"David, I'm not sure this is the best time, Steve makes good money and I want to save a bit more. Besides we need to set him up so I get custody of Emily. David, I just don't need this pressure right now. It will work out baby and we can be together. Maybe I can have your babies?" Bonnie leaned forward and kissed him.
"What about us spending the weekend on the 18
th
?" He asked Bonnie.
"I mentioned it to him last night while we were watching TV, I made it sound like I told him before but may have made a mistake. He didn't say anything." Bonnie replied
When they broke apart, David said "Come on, bring your drink" he got out of the booth and held his hand out to Bonnie as she slid out. "We can go to the room and fuck, we can have dinner later."
They left and Laura gave it a few minutes before switching the programs back to the trail camera. Another minute or so and Bonnie and David appeared on her screen. David was holding his drink in his left hand and looked like he was playing with Bonnie's butt with his right before they got to his door.
Laura sat there a while longer when the bartender approached and asked "Want a warmup?"
She said "No thanks...but I am curious about what you told me I was the second one today that couldn't hold alcohol, what did you mean?"
"Hahaha, oh, it's just something that came up when that couple came in here a few months ago. He asked me to make her a non-alcoholic drink. He really wanted me to make her a drink where she wouldn't taste the booze." A pause then he added "Later he asked me to make her another drink to go with dinner, that was in the beginning. Then they just come in here, have a couple of drinks then they head to the elevators." He added, "He's a good tipper."
"Really? What did you make her, I want to know in case some Don Juan tries it with me." Laura asked grinning.
"Well, it's a slow gin fizz with a bit more straight gin it. The slow gin and ginger ale hide the straight gin. I figure this is their hookup spot, she's probably married and he's some sales guy or something. I've been a bartender for years and have seen a lot of stuff, a lot of stupid stuff."
"You should have been a detective." She stood, closed her tablet, stuck out her hand and they shook hands "Laura" she said, "I'm Gus, nice to meet you." Smiling. She dropped a twenty on the bar and left.
Laura went to her car, dropped her stuff in the trunk, took out the sound power mic, plugged it into her recorder, and walked around to what she thought was David's room window. She aimed it at the window, nothing.
She moved to the next window "David, give me that big cock, oh, yes, umm I love it. Pound me" Laura heard enough, took out her earbuds, and thought, "
I don't need to hear this, I haven't had any in a long time, she's such a fool, I'll take her Steve for her. If he isn't good enough for this slut, I'll teach him how I like it. I gotta stop thinking about this, now my panties are getting wet."
Her phone vibrated and saw it was Steve. '
Poor guy is probably going nuts about now.' She
