This story is fiction and not in any way modeled after anyone living or dead. It borders on BTB but is also about how the main character deals with a cheating wife and the loss of his daughter and finding his way back from betrayal.
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I suppose that most of you reading this will think that I am not a nice guy. A real asshole to say the least. I took advantage of a poor woman who was down on her luck for my own pleasures. Before you judge me though at least try to see it from my point of view.
It really started when I was in high school. I had dated a girl for two years in high school. After we graduated high school, We were both 18 and were having sex pretty regularly. We mostly used condoms because she was from a very strict household. Her parents believed if she was on the pill that would mean she was having sex.
You can see where this is going, yep at 18 she got pregnant. I did the right thing and we got married. So at 18 we were Mr. and Mrs. Joe and Susan King. We had a daughter we named Jennifer. We had support from my parents but her parents were angry and rarely had anything to do with us or me in particular.
We both finished high school and I decided to become a firefighter. I figured that it was a good job and had excellent benefits. The shift work meant that I could work another job and Susan could stay home to take care of Jennifer.
I got hired at 19 and dutifully provided for my family. Susan took care of the home life while I worked two jobs to provide support. We did enjoy our time together and as I matured, I found that I loved my family and my life more each day.
When Jennifer turned four, we put her into a preschool and Susan took a part-time job as a teacher's aide at one of the local schools.
Susan and I talked about having another child, but Susan kept putting it off. I think she felt as though some of her youth had been taken from her by teenage pregnancy. I understood and was as supportive as I could be.
When Jennifer entered first grade, Susan decided to go full time at the school. I was not really happy about this as I was now making good money at the fire department and my part-time work really gave us more that what we needed.
We had just bought a new house just outside of the city. It was really too big for us but we got it at a good price. The house had four bedrooms, three bathrooms and was on 25 acres of wooded acreage in the Smoky Mountains. I loved it.
It was a couple of months after she started working full time that my blissfully happy world ended. I had got off of my regular 24 hour shift and went to do my part-time job. Susan and Jennifer would both be at school. That afternoon I got home at four and found that they had not come home yet. I called Susan's cell phone but got no answer. I called the school but it just went the answering machine. I decided to take a shower figuring she may have stopped on the way home to pick up some groceries. When I started the shower is when I discovered that all of Susan's shampoo and hair products were gone. I then saw that all her make-up and toiletries were also gone. In a rush I ran to her closet and it was empty. Now in a panic I ran to Jennifer's room and saw that her clothes were also gone.
I looked throughout the house and saw that most of Susan's personal stuff was gone. I called Susan's family and either they did not know or would not tell me where she was. I found the school principal's phone number and called him. He told me that he could not discuss any employees information over the phone and without the consent of the employee.
I found the phone number of Mary, the teacher that Susan worked with and called her. At first she refused to say anything, then she said that she and her husband would come over and talk to me. Twenty minutes later they were at my door.
Mary apologized and asked if I had talked to Susan yet. I explained that I hadn't and that all of Susan's and Jennifer's clothes were gone.
Mary then told me that Susan had gotten fired from the school because she and a teacher were caught in a compromising situation. Mary suspected Susan and the teacher may be together.
Mary said that many people had suspected them to be in an inappropriate relationship for a long time, but were reluctant to say anything because the teacher is the son of a the superintendant of the school system. She said that Susan had been counseled a couple of times about it and that she was almost not hired full time because of it. Mary said that the best she could tell, they had been carrying on an affair for about a year.
Mary said this time it could not be covered up as they were having sex in a classroom during lunch break. It started raining and another teacher took her class to that room for recess. The entire seventh grade class and teacher caught them. Some students even got pictures on their cell phone.
The school really had no choice but to fire them both. This had happened on my duty day so they have had a day and a half to leave.
I spent the that night totally distraught. The next day I went to the school to see the principal and was turned away. I decided to get an attorney. I knew several firefighters that had been divorced and they all agreed that the best divorce shark was Dewey Cheatham. I got an appointment with him and got the ball rolling. I was not really thinking divorce yet but getting the facts. Mr. Cheatham told me he would have it all for me within a couple of weeks. He told me to secure my finances and cancel any credit cards with her name on them.
I went to the bank and found that the accounts were cleaned out. The credit cards had also been maxed out on a cash advance. I let Mr. Cheatham know and he immediately contacted all the creditors and the banks to stop everything.
For the next two weeks I lived as a zombie. Finally Mr. Cheatham contacted me with some news. My wife had been fired for cause as was the teacher. It appeared that everyone knew they were having an affair. My wife and daughter were in fact with the teacher and had left the country and moved to Israel.
The teacher is Jewish which means he is an automatic citizen of Israel. Israel will not force him to come back but should be able to force my wife and child home. My attorney got an emergency hearing to get a court order of custody of Jennifer. He also had contacted the State Department and had a meeting scheduled for just after the hearing.