People around here know me as the son, in Ellis & Son Automotive Repair and Ellis 24/7 Towing. The Towing business is my baby, and it is a cash cow. My folks named Edward Ellis, but my oldest friends call me Dub. In my youth, my friends and I went through a stage where we carved our initials into every tree. My initials were EE so my nickname became Double E then over the years it settled into Dub. I have another nickname from high school that comes from the boys that crossed me, and that's 'Evil Eddie'. I have a mean jealous streak, and I am not afraid to show it.
Like my friends, I married my high school sweetheart. She has been the love of my life. To her I could never be Evil Eddie, because she had brought the best out of me.
I am not a college guy, but I went to trade school where I learned the modern ways to work on today's cars and trucks. At my dad's urging, I went to Jr College and got my business degree, and accounting basics under my belt. I do have a knack for making money. I have been flipping commercial properties for years. Not residential, but there are folks always looking for a place to open a business.
My wife gave birth to our two kids early in our marriage, and when our youngest started Pre-K, she decided that she wanted to return to college and finish her degree in Finance. I tried to get her into accounting, but that's not what she fixated on.
She had her degree by the time our oldest was twelve and youngest was ten. I am sure it was more her good looks that got her a job at Bennett Financial in the city. I have to admit that she is really good at picking winning stocks. I have made a tidy sum of money from notes on her yellow notepads. I'm not too big of a man to admit it.
Our sex life was good even though we had kids. Usually three times every week, and some weeks four times. This started to go downhill a year after she started at Bennett.
When I confronted her, she said it was my old jealousy starting up again. Maybe it was. It continued downward, twice a week became once a week, then every month or longer.
That's not the worst part. She became a snob. I knew that the people that she worked with called me the 'Grease Monkey', and that's fine 'cuz I know that I can buy out any of them "High Income Earners". I read and learned from the book, Millionaires Next Door. My businesses were cash businesses. Not a penny of debt. While these idiots blew their money on sparkly things and big houses loaded with debt, I was saving and reinvesting my money.
As I let my jealousy get the better of me, my dad talked me out of doing a lot of shit to the people that my wife interacted with. He convinced me to confirm it first.
Security First was a good customer mine. I did a lot of tow work for them, and kept the company cars running tip top. It didn't take long to get a PI report on my wife's activities. She was giving my sex to a guy, Bradley Silvers. They were only one of about six or seven work couples that were cheaters.
My mom didn't want me to do anything stupid because I could lose my kids over it. She didn't want to fight to see her grandbabies. That was my biggest fear, as well. I was the one that took them to school and picked them up. Fed them before their mother came home, usually late. Now that my kids were teens, their life was full of activities that my folks and I ferried them to and from.
I began to formulate my revenge. The first part was easiest. On the night of our anniversary, we dined at a high end restaurant that got great reviews, then danced a bit at a club that she wanted to go to. When we got home, I reflected that it had been the best night together in over a year, she was ready for sex. As she laid on our bed watching me undress, I opened a condom and rolled it on. She wanted to know why I was doing that. I replied, "Don't know where Braddy-Boy's dick has been besides your pussy. I won't take the chance."
She went off like a rocket screaming and cussing me. Telling me to quit being jealous, and she would never cheat on me. It was so cold in the house from her looks, I thought about emptying the freezer and bringing the food into our bedroom. It would be a long time before she would offer me sex again, and I was fine with it. A Cheater is a Cheater.
What she forgot was I don't get mad, I get even.
She didn't invite me to accompany her to her firm's year end bash at the Irvine Fostor Center, a month later. The firm had rented the entire building for the event. I clean up pretty good, but even in my tux, I was turned away at the door.
I went around the back to the loading dock, I knew the caterer. I worked on his trucks a lot. Employees don't care how they drive those trucks. He let me enter through the kitchen. Once inside, I had run of the place.
It took me almost an hour to find them. I watched from the distance as she touched him and kissed him. The jealousy welled up within me. As I made a beeline towards them I was intercepted by Jim and John. These were two of the fourteen cheaters that worked there. I guessed that Braddy-Boy had them watching each other's back. They marched me out of the room and down the hall to the restrooms.
Jim walked in first, and John walked in behind me. I withdrew an 18 inch stainless tell rod from within my waist band. I spun around and hit John across his right temple, then I swung downward into his left knee. He starting dropping down to his knees as It kicked him in the balls. "That's for John Johnson."
I struck Jim in the back of his head before he could turn around. He went straight down. "That's for fucking Suzy Kellogg."
Removing a bundle of zip-ties from my inside jacket pocket, I zip-tied their hands behind them and pulled each one into a toliet stall and sat them on the seats.
There was an Apex Predator working the party rooms. Within an hour, I had three different cheating men zip-tied in different stairways. And I had one zip-tied in a janitors closet on the third floor.
I waited for Bradley to go to the bar for another drink. I walked up behind him, and whispered in his ear. "You might want to look for your friends. They got what was coming to them. Don't worry, yours is coming sooner than you think." I disappeared into the crowd.