Author's Notes: The posting I saw for the 750 word challenge said invitational so I never checked it out. Only later did I find it was open for everyone. This is my effort, too late, but I liked the challenge.
For the puritans counting on their fingers and toes, the title doesn't count, nor the author's name or notes. In word and other editors, hyphenated words like straight-faced count as one. ********* spacers count as a word. Words joined...like this, count as one word. Words spaced like... this, count as two words. Just sayin.
All characters over 18 years old. BTB fans should like this one.
I tossed the investigator's pictures down angrily, three years married and already cheating. I was an idiot thinking we had a solid relationship.
Sipping on a beer my mood darkened, I needed revenge!
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The doorbell rang and I found two cops waiting.
"Mr. Western?"
"Yes."
I'm detective Smith, this is detective Sully, is your wife Virginia Western?"
"Yes, why?"
"I'm sorry to have to inform you she was killed in a traffic accident this morning. May we come in there are a couple of questions we have?"
"Dead? Please come in, how did she die!"
Detective Smith led, "did something happen this morning to upset your wife sir?"
'
If you only knew
,' I thought.
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Virginia fired up her computer over breakfast. She liked to catch up with friends on Facebook and check her email. I watched her out of the corner of my eye when her face suddenly turned white as a sheet and she gasped in shock. She hurriedly clicked off whatever she was looking at and sat there thinking. She typed in something else and hit the enter button. A brief browse got a startled, "urk," out of her before she hurriedly shut that down. A few more attempts at other sources drew the same sick looking response.
I couldn't help smiling, "everything Ok dear?" Could I resist digging at her...? Nah!
"No, no everything's fine honey," shutting her computer off and picking up her phone to check messages. One look at her phone's wallpaper turned her face green and she surreptitiously checked me out. Mr. Innocent pretended to read his newspaper.
"I need to get to work," she hastily announced.
"See you tonight dear," turning the page on my paper.
She rushed out like the Hordes of Hades were after her. I put down my paper and chuckled. She was in for the worst day of her life.