Author's Notes: I really appreciate the comments on the first two chapters. I thought I would break this up into little easily consumable chunks, however, lots of people didn't like that. So I've put the rest of the story, all 13k words in this chapter. I really hope people enjoy this story. Like I said before, I'm a novice writer and my first attempt at the Burn the B genre. For those who gave my first two chapters low scores because of the short chapters and content, I hope that you will take that into consideration when you read this and possibly look at changing your original score.
This is all fiction and I know that there are several cliches here. But this is for entertainment and should be enjoyed as such. If you don't like it I'm sorry, but like my momma said, if you don't have anything nice to say, don't say nothing. Ha Ha Enjoy.
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THE FIRST MONTH OF THE ARRANGEMENT
The next month was rough on Jeff. While he had tried to keep his mind off it, he still knew that Alicia was sleeping with her boss Brad. He still had sex with her about once a week and as she had agreed, she never declined any advances he gave toward her. Whatever he wanted she was ready to give him. She kept the house clean and cooked him all his favorite dinners. She would snuggle with him, and they looked like a perfect couple in public.
Even their daughter Beth commented to her father how loving he and mom looked. It broke his heart when she said it, but he kept a straight face. No need to include his 17-year-old daughter in this awful truth just yet.
So even though lots of things were good, the routine that Alicia got into was taking its toll on Jeff. Normally Alicia would let Jeff know that she was "working late" on Tuesday nights. Leaving dressed in her business attire; she always carried a small overnight bag with her. Jeff had gotten curious and looked in it once and regretted it the moment that he did. It contained a change of clothes, jeans and a t-shirt, but it also included lingerie and even anal lube. This crushed Jeff's soul as he zipped it back up.
The reason that Alicia would work late on Tuesday nights is that was the night Beth went to the local community college and took an early college course, trying to get a head on her upcoming college classes. Jeff was proud of her but ashamed of the way that his wife was using this to disguise her rendezvous.
Alicia would come back late on Tuesday nights, gliding in and straight to the shower. She didn't try to kiss or touch Jeff until after she got out. She made that mistake the first time she came home to touch his arm and he jumped back as if she was poison. He told her that he never wanted to touch her after where she had been until she had washed Brad off and out of her. That hurt Alicia that her husband rejected her touch, but then again, she realized it might be too in his face to deal with now. So, since the first time, the immediate shower routine became normal. She also tried to snuggle and cuddle with Jeff several times after her Tuesday night showers and always found him getting up and going to bed, sometimes in the guest room. So, she stopped trying to be affectionate on Tuesdays all together.
Alicia also started going out with Brad on Friday nights. Beth had started staying at a friend's house so the girls could gossip and have fun. This gave Alicia the opportunity to come home from work, get dressed up and leave with that overnight bag to go out with Brad for dinner and a trip to a hotel. She normally would be home by around 9:00 am the next morning and would text Jeff a few times during the night and in the morning telling him what was going on. Jeff never responded to a single text. He would wait until she left, start working on his list and then end up getting drunk enough to pass out and not think about what was happening. So, Friday nights in his recliner were becoming the new norm.
On Saturday morning he would wake up hung over and generally find a glass of water and aspirin waiting on him. Alicia would be changed into lounge clothes making lunch like nothing was out of the ordinary.
Since she was getting all the sex she could handle, Alicia was pretty much in a great mood all the time and wanted to thank Jeff for allowing her to have a fantastic husband at home and a marathon beast in the bedroom. She never realized that the happier she was, the more somber and angrier Jeff was becoming. He wasn't mean and he wasn't yelling, but it was hard for him to be civil with her at times.
Another thing that Alicia tried to do to please Jeff was make him a meal for the nights she was gone. After the second straight week she found the meal in the garbage not touched, she stopped trying that. She figured Jeff was just being petty not able to handle his fragile male ego being hurt and she was tired of putting in the effort.
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MONTHS 2 AND 3 OF THE ARRANGEMENT
This new routine that Alicia has started slowly changed for the worse for Jeff. The business at Alicia's work picked up causing her to work late most nights, well except Tuesday and Friday nights, so she started asking Jeff to do a little more around the house. Like he had done for 19 years, he jumped in to help before he even thought about it. That was just who he was. It wasn't until the end of the third month that he realized that he was basically doing all the housework and yard work. He had even cooked a few meals. Alicia kept apologizing that her work was taking time away from her house chores, but she never once offered to cut down on her "Brad time" to do these chores.
During these three months Jeff was doing some planning on the side. He had made a list:
1. Talk to a Divorce Attorney and confirm what he thought would happen in a divorce.
2. Get help from someone he can trust.
3. Find a way to cut his salary back substantially.
4. Find a way to get Beth into a dorm room when she went to college.
5. Divide their finances.
6. Investigate this Brad character.
7. Get solid proof of their affair.
8. Take whatever humiliation he needed to in order to get his plan done.
9. Take care of all loose ends.
10. Burn it all down.
He had researched and even talked to a lawyer to confirm he would be screwed in a divorce. He made slightly more than Alicia did, plus Beth was under 18 and planning to live at home during college to save money. So, he would probably pay alimony and child support. Even though Beth would be over 18, most judges would side with the mother, and he might even have to pay more alimony so that Alicia could support Beth in his house. Not to mention she would get to keep the house like she said. So, she was right, he would end up paying her to move Brad into her house.
With this new information Jeff started hatching a plan to complete his list. Over those months he was able to pull enough money from his bonus into a new account with only his name on it and sold a few of his tools and collectibles. That money was added to the account he had named "Revenge Money". This was going to be his war chest because he was looking at this as a war. He had been forced into it and not given a choice. So, if they want to do the hard press on him, he was more than happy to do the same.
Unfortunately, this took time. That meant that he had to deal with her dates and the humiliation until the timing was right. By his calculations that meant that he would have to endure this humiliation and nightmare about 6 months until he could pull the trigger on his plan. He didn't want to leave anything to chance, and he knew the moment he started, he would have to work fast to get ahead of them at every turn.
He couldn't do this alone. He needed an ally he could trust and knew would be on his side. Jeff finally knew he had to include Mark, who happened to be not only his best friend, but also his boss in what was going on. He would hopefully be the friend and person Jeff could trust through this whole ordeal.
Mark was shocked and hurt for his friend. After they sat in silence for a while Mark asked what Jeff was going to do. Jeff simply asked if he could be laid off from his existing position. That shocked Mark but Jeff had a plan.
Jeff had enough money to keep the household bills paid for a while and worked it out with Mark to work as a contractor on the side. Jeff agreed to do everything he had been doing, but his paycheck would be cut in half. Mark would then pay him in cash for the remainder of his paycheck. That way he showed he had far less income, but Alicia wasn't the wiser since he did most of the financials. He could also take the money he had and trickle it into the account a little at a time. That should buy him the time he needed.
