Cry Me A River

This is a short story that popped in my head when I heard a recording by Diana Krall singing 'Cry Me a River", a song made popular by Julie London in the 50's and covered often by many other artists including Joe Cocker. There's no sex happening here except in the background. I get tired of all of the stories where the wife is the philanderer because I think in the real world husbands cheat on a larger scale than women do. Anyway, I hope you enjoy it...

Cry Me A River

Julie Reeves was sitting in the home that was once shared by she and her ex-husband Richard Mason perusing the final decree regarding their divorce that had arrived in the mail that day. It brought back the memories of how he had hurt her by announcing that he didn't love her anymore and how he had found someone else, so he was filing for divorce. He had been a total asshole as he recounted his grievances that evening.

When he had finished with his little speech, he turned on his heels and headed for their bedroom, packed a couple of suitcases with some clothes and then left while saying he'd be back for the rest of his stuff.

Julie sat in their living room shell shocked by Richards announcement having no clue that he was dissatisfied with their lives together. Finally, when everything sank in, she began crying uncontrollably on their couch. She was lamenting the loss of her marriage and was wondering how she was going to live. After a couple of hours she decided that she needed an ally who would be thinking straight because she sure as hell wasn't, so she called her best friend Alice.

When Alice ascertained what Julie was talking about between sobs, she said she would be right over. Since Alice lived two doors down she was at Julie's door within 5 minutes and just walked in like she always did. She found Julie on her sofa, so she walked up to her, pulled her up and hugged her as hard as she could as she tried to comfort her friend.

Alice had brought a bottle of wine with her and said, "Come on Jules, let's go in the kitchen, drink some wine and then you can tell me exactly what transpired. Okay?"

Julie nodded and led the way into the kitchen. She sat at the table where she and Alice had spent many hours talking during happier times while Alice opened the bottle and brought a couple a couple of glasses to the table. Alice poured out some wine for both of them, held hers up in toast and said, "Here's to ruining little dick's life!"

Julie couldn't help but laugh and then took a sip of wine. "Okay, now tell me what exactly happened," Alice asked?

"Well, Richard came home..."

"No! There is no more Richard, there is only dick, with a small 'd'!"

Julie smiled and carried on, "Okay, dick came home and just announced he was going to divorce me because he didn't love me anymore and that he had someone else. He griped about how I wasn't pretty enough for him anymore because he had a certain status he had to maintain in the business world and some other shit like that. I didn't really hear most of it because I was in shock that he wanted to leave me."

With that, Julie began sobbing once again, so Alice moved to sit next Julie and held her tightly against her. When Julie had calmed down again, Alice said, "Dan has a woman in his law office that is an absolute tiger in divorce cases. Let me call him really quick."

Alice whipped out her phone and called her husband;

"Hi honey, is Julie okay?" Dan asked.

Alice replied, "No, her asshole husband just dumped her for a shinier model apparently. Is there any chance that we can sic Monica on him?"

Dan laughed and said. "That bad huh? Well, I'll give her a call and see what her schedule is like. I'll get back to you".

"That would be great. We'll look forward to your call! Love you...

Alice concentrated on keeping Julie focused on anything besides her husband by talking about mundane day to day things in their lives. It seemed like it was taking for ever for Dan to get back to them. Alice was thinking about calling Dan back when the doorbell rang.

Julie answered the door to a beautiful red-headed woman with bright blue eyes. Before she could inquire as to who the woman was, the woman asked, "Julie Mason?" Julie nodded, so Monica smiled and said, "I'm Monica Ames. Dan Jensen said you're having marital issues and asked me to help you out. Any friend of Dan's is a friend of mine."

Julie invited Monica in the house and led her into the kitchen where Alice was waiting. When Alice saw her friend, she jumped out of her seat and rushed over to hug Monica and asked "What are you doing here?"

Monica laughed and said, "Well, Dan said that your best friend just got dumped on by her soon to be ex-husband, so I decided I should come and see what I can do to help. You know I'll do anything for your husband after how he helped me out all of those years ago, so here I am."

She then turned her attention back to Julie and asked, "So, what exactly transpired here this evening? Oh, before you say anything, would you mind me recording our conversation? It helps for me to go back over things so I don't have to take notes."

Julie said it was fine so she recounted her story once again. Monica asked many questions trying to clarify points and draw out more of the conversation. "So, he said he had found someone else that he now loved, do you think he's been having sex on the side? Has his sexual appetite changed recently?"

Julie thought for a moment and then said, "Yeah, it has. He'd usually want sex a couple of times a week, but about three months ago he quit asking."

"Okay, we need to establish how long this has been going on, so do you have a computer that we can look at to see if there's a virtual paper trail?"

"Yeah, it's in his 'office'. I've never used the thing except once or twice. He did ask me to sign into it once to look something up, so he told me his password was 'Ricardo69'. I remember thinking that it seemed so junior high at the time. Ooh, and I remember we signed a prenuptial agreement when we got married!"

Monica laughed and said, "Okay, lead the way to the computer. While I'm looking for evidence against your hubby can you bring me that pre-nup, please."

Monica, was a wizard with computers when it came to digging up dirt on philanderers. It didn't take her long to discover that the new love of his life was named Jeri Jones, that she was 20 years old, worked as a secretary at his business and that they had been fucking for about six months. They even sent naked pictures to one another.

Julie was digging in the safe that was in the same room and was sorting through a bunch of papers. She didn't understand most of the papers but she did recognize the pre-nup. So she grabbed the lot and stood by until Monica was ready for them.

As she waited, she saw the pictures that Monica had found and cried out, "Is that the little tramp than dick is fucking?"

Monica turned and said, "Yes, do you know her?"

"I met her at last year's Christmas party. She was throwing herself at one of the other VP's. I guess she finally found a VP to sink her talon's into with my ex! Looks like she's just a gold digger looking for the fattest wallet she can find."

Monica pulled a thumb drive out of her briefcase and asked, "Would you mind if I copied a bunch of these files?" Julie said she didn't mind so Monica set about copying a bunch of stuff. As the files were being transferred, Monica asked, "So what do you have there?"

Julie handed her all of the papers and pointed out that the top one was the pre-nup. Monica perused it and then began laughing and said, "Either your husband had the stupidest attorney in the world or you had the shrewdest one. If we can prove adultery, which we have, your husband will become a pauper and you'll became a very rich woman.

As Monica rifled through all of the other papers, Monica's smile got bigger and bigger. Finally, Monica said, "Well, as they say, we have your hubby by the short hairs! Not only is he cheating on you, he's also cheating on his company. It looks as though he has been selling secrets to his companies main rival with the promise of a new job paying substantially more than he is currently getting. They have already paid him in excess of $5 million for the secrets your husband has stolen.

"I think we can parlay your divorce into a life of plenty for you. Like all criminals, your hubby has saved copious records of his misdeeds, so here's what I think we should do. We should wait until your husband files for divorce and then counter sue for adultery. I'm pretty sure that his company has a policy banning romantic interactions between management and others under their charge. Because of their liaisons during work hours we should sue his company. In the meanwhile, we should raid his secret stash of cash and put it somewhere safe for you. Finally, after your divorce is granted, we should inform them of what he has done with their trade secrets.

"So, sound like a plan? I think your soon to be ex is going to be in a world of hurt. Ooh, if you know where his passport is, you should burn it so he can't leave the country."

Julie looked at Monica and asked, "Are you serious? We can do all of this stuff and render dick, well, dickless?"

Monica laughed and said, "Yeah, that and more. When we show his company what he has been up to I'm pretty sure he'll be spending some time in prison."

Julie laughed and said, "I can't wait! What I thought was the worse day of my life has turned into one of the best."

As Monica packed up everything she needed, she said, "When I file I'll ask for a restraining order to keep you safe in case he gets violent. You should also purge your house of any of his items to keep him at bay. I'm going to get Dan to give me a hand in some of the things that I don't usually deal with like the corporate espionage and stuff. I suspect you'll be getting served tomorrow or the next day. When you are, let me know and I'll file the counter suit. I'll be in touch."

When Monica had left, Julie and Alice sat down with another big glass of wine. After a few moments, Alice said, "I'm going to spend the next couple of days and nights with you because I don't think you should be alone. As a matter of fact I'll go home now for a few minutes and let Dan know what all happened and tell him I'll be spending the next few days here."

The next day while Julie and Alice were bagging up all of dick's stuff, a process server arrived and served Julie with dick's divorce papers. Alice immediately called Monica to tell her that her friend had just been served. Monica said she would come right over to collect the papers from Julie.

Julie was surprised that she hadn't broken down in tears upon being served. She was just angry now. After a while the locksmith that Julie had called earlier had arrived to change the locks on all of her doors and reprogram the garage door opener for her.

When the two had finished, Julie's front yard was full of baggies full of dick's clothes, books, pictures and toiletries. They had also laid out all of tools in the yard as well. Alice called Monica and said, "The next time you talk to dick's lawyer, tell him dick's shit is in the front yard for pickup.

The next day, dick was served with the counter suit along with the restraining order. Much to Julie and Alice's amusement there had been a very heavy thunderstorm the night before, so all of dick's stuff got pretty wet.

The next day, dick stopped by the house and demanded to be let in but Julie refused saying there was a restraining order barring him from being there. He wasn't deterred because he started screaming, "Why have you cited adultery in our divorce?"

"It's simple enough, you've been cheating on me for over 6 months. By the way, get your shit off of my yard!"

dick looked at the stuff having not noticed it all before and then screamed, "WHAT THE FUCK HAVE YOU DONE?"

"Since you don't live here anymore and I don't want to have anything to do with you I decided I didn't want your shit in my house, so either take it with you or I'll have the garbage folks take it away!"

At about this time a police cruiser pulled up in front of the house as dick began ranting, "YOU FUCKING BITCH! I'M GOING TO KILL YOU!"

Upon hearing dick's rant, the policeman went to subdue him before he could inflict any damage to Julie or her property. "WHAT THE FUCK DO YOU THINK YOU'RE DOING? GET YOUR HANDS OFF OF ME! YOU SHOULD BE ARRESTING THIS CUNT FOR DESTROYING MY PROPERTY!" dick then threw a punch at the cop, so the cop whipped out his taser and zapped dick for several moments and then called for back-up.

Alice was now standing next to Julie with a big smile on her face and asked, "Do you think the police would zap him again for our amusement?" Both women laughed for a few moments until Alice said, "I took the opportunity to call the cops because dick was breaking the restraining order he was under."

Julie hugged her friend and thanked her. Shortly two other squad cars arrived and dealt with dick in short order. Julie asked if they could call for a tow truck because dick's car was illegally parked in her driveway. It turned out that dick was fined $5000 and had to spend five days in jail for his antics.

As the weeks and months went by, Julie was enjoying her life with out dick. She went to the movies she wanted to see, to lectures by preeminent leaders speaking at the University and began dating. The first few men lasted only one date because they just wanted sex. Julie wanted more out of the experience. She was horny, but she wanted at least a little emotional connection with whomever she chose to sleep with.

Finally, she found the guy she wanted to date and have sex with. His name was Dan Hoskins, was Julie's age and owned a construction company in town. They dated for about a month until Julie invited him into her bed. He was a much better lover than dick as he cared just as much about Julie's pleasure as much as he cared about his own. After a while, Dan began living with Julie because he had sold his house and was in the early stages of building a new one for himself.

When Julie and dick's day in court arrived, Monica annihilated dick's attorney, showing the pictures dick and his girlfriend sent each other enabling the prenuptial agreement to take effect. The judge ruled in Julie's favor granting her everything she was entitled to plus awarded her $5000 per month alimony.

When the judge had finished, dick jumped up and screamed, "THAT'S FUCKING INSANE!" The judge didn't take kindly to dick's outcry, cited him with contempt and ordered the bailiff to take him into custody for 10 days.

Julie heard through several friends that dick's life unraveled fairly quickly. His girlfriend dumped him when they both lost their jobs. He found out all of this when he was released from jail. He went to the company for whom he was spying but they put him on hold telling him it wouldn't look good if they hired him right away. They had told him they had given him a lot of money, so he should be okay for a while. The only problem was that all of the information on his other bank accounts were in the safe at his old house.

In order to get the information he needed he was going to have to cozy up to his ex. He decided that he would wait for a while before he did that in order for her hard feelings to ebb a bit, so he got a temporary job selling used cars in order to live.

And that brings us back to the day that Julie received the letter from the courthouse with the info about the final decree. When Dan came home that evening, Julie drug him upstairs, stripped him naked and told him to fuck the ever living shit out of her. She wouldn't even let him take a shower.

After Julie was fully sated they lay in each other's arms enjoying the glow of having been well fucked. A minute after the lay together the doorbell rang...Ding Dong. Julie slipped a thin robe over her nakedness and headed downstairs while Dan headed for the shower.

Julie, looked through the peephole and saw her ex there with a bouquet of flowers. She had an idea what he was up to so she sent a quick text to Monica telling her to release the industrial espionage information to dick's former employer. Next, she opened the door and asked, "What the fuck do you want, dick?"

dick wasn't totally surprised by her greeting, but he was sure he could sweet talk her. "Hey honey, I was wondering if maybe we could let bygones be bygones and give us another try. I admit that I was an idiot and did some stupid and mean things to you. I've realized that it is you who I truly love. I'm so sorry for everything I did. So, what do you think?"

Julie looked at her ex for a few seconds with a look of incredulity and then began laughing uncontrollably. When she got her laughing under control, she asked, "You're kidding right?" dick shook his head, so Julie continued, "Wow, did you really think this idiotic ploy would work? You must be pretty desperate. I heard your little skank gold digger dumped you as soon as you lost your job. I hope she was a good enough fuck to be worth it.

"Besides, you don't love me. The only person you have ever loved is yourself. I have discovered that you suck at sex because you were totally self-absorbed. So, I can say unequivocally that even if you were last man on earth I would never take you back. So, what do you really want?"

dick thought quickly and then asked, "Would it be possible to get some papers out of the safe?"

Julie smiled and then asked, "Which ones? The ones that show you sold corporate secrets to your employers biggest rival? Or the ones which show your account in the Cayman Islands that used to hold around $7 million? By the way, I burned your passport so there's no escape!"

dick's eyes got big as he came to the realization that his secrets were no longer secret. "YOU FUCKING CUNT! I'M GOING TO FUCKING KILL YOU! YOU'VE RUINED EVERYTHING!"

At that moment, Dan walked up next to Julie dressed in only a towel wrapped around his waist. As she saw him she smiled because he looked so good as he asked, "Is everything okay?"

Julie chuckled and said, "Yeah, from my perspective everything is great. From dick's perspective things aren't so good. He just discovered he's a pauper and that he will probably be going to prison soon."

dick's face was glowing red with his anger, managed to wrench the screen door open screaming, "I'M GOING TO FUCKING KILL YOU!" as he took one step inside.

That's as far as he got because his nose was instantly flattened by Dan's meaty fist. Dan didn't stop there as he knelt next to dick on the stoop and pummeled his face several times. In the meantime, Julie took the opportunity to play soccer with dick's testicles as she took several shots on goal, kicking his nuts as hard as she could.

Moments after the two stopped abusing dick, a police car pulled in front of the house. The officer got out of his car, walked up to the front steps, looked the situation over and then asked, "So, what happened here?"

Julie said, "Well, this is my ex-husband on the stoop. He decided to come here in an effort to win me back despite there being a restraining order in effect. When I informed him there was no chance in hell, he asked if he could grab some papers from my safe. I told him that the papers were no longer there and that because of those papers he'd probably go to jail. With that he began screaming at me, threatening to kill me and broke into my house. My boyfriend, Dan here, protected me from dick's assault by beating his face to a pulp to make sure he didn't get to me. That's everything in a nutshell"

The officer was taking copious notes and then asked, "So who is Alice Groves?"

Alice had arrived behind the policeman and said, "That would be me. I live across the street and two doors down."