This story could also go in non-consent, so if that's not your thing, you've been warned.
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I'm Kevin Simms, at the start of this story a thirty two year old attorney, mostly dealing in negotiating and litigating contracts, although I do dabble in other areas. At the start of this story I had been married for eight years to Deborah (never Debby) Simms, who works in sales for a Fortune 1000 company. I'm now divorcing her.
The details relating to the divorce aren't necessarily important but I'll relate a few of them anyway. I caught Deborah cheating with a co-worker of hers at lunchtime at our rented house. They were so into it that I was able to get the keys out of his pants, which were strewn on the floor at the entrance to our bedroom, without them noticing me. I turned on our security camera (with a delay requiring the front door to open once more after I left before recording so that it didn't catch me doing what I was going to do) covering the front door and surrounding area, which usually we only turn on at night, and then silently exited the house with his keys in hand.
With gloves on I unlocked Deborah's lover's car - which they obviously had arrived in together. I popped the hood then cut every single wire and hose in the engine compartment using a tree pruning tool from my garage. I then closed and locked the car up and took the keys with me. I disposed of the keys and the tree pruner in a dumpster behind a 7-11 that I knew did not have a security camera.
From a pay phone at the 7-11 I called Jim Jackson, an 80+ year old retired neighbor who I was very friendly with and who lived only two doors down. I gave him some flimsy excuse to ask him to go by my house - Jim has signs of dementia and by the next day would likely never remember me even calling him. I asked him to call me at my office if something was amiss at my house. I made sure that he wrote down my office number.
The phone was ringing as soon as I walked through my office door.
"Hi Keith," Jim started out - half the time he called me "Keith," the other half by my real name "Kevin." "There's a big bustle in front of your house. Diana," - he got Deborah's name wrong constantly, although all the names he called her always started with a "D" - "and some guy are fiddling with a car."
"Thanks, Jim" I chuckled. "Want me to get you something from the store on my way home tonight?"
"Some Wild Turkey sure would be nice," he coughed.
"You got it, Jim," I said with a smile before hanging up.
I called Deborah's cell phone. She sounded exasperated when she answered it "Hello."
"Hi Deborah, I just got a call from our neighbor Jim Jackson. He said that you are having car trouble or something?"
"Oh, well, uh... someone vandalized my car and I have to have it towed."
"Jim said that there was some guy there helping you?"
"Oh, yeah, some guy walking down the street tried to help but we have to wait for a tow truck."
"Is there something that I can do? Do you want me to come home right now?"
"Oh no no no," she said way too hurriedly and enthusiastically. "The tow truck should be here any minute."
"Well make sure that you get the bill from the tow truck driver so that I can put it through to our insurance if the car was vandalized. What were you doing home at lunch anyway?"
"Oh, uh, well, you see, well," Deborah always has trouble getting things out when she's lying, "I had to get some documents for a presentation that I was to make this afternoon and I had forgotten them at home, and it took me a while to find them, and in the meantime someone vandalized my car."
"Well if there's anything that you need this afternoon please just give me call the office. I would love to help. Bye now."
"Uh, bye, uh, thanks for calling Kevin," she stuttered before she cut off her phone.
"It should be a very interesting discussion when I show her the footage from the camera at the front door tonight," I chuckled to myself. Maybe "chuckled" is the wrong word. I was not in any way shape or form in a good mood. I saw the end of my marriage, and I didn't like it. Maybe it wasn't the best marriage in the world, but I thought that at least we loved each other and that she was faithful - I know that I always was.
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That night when I got home, after dropping off a quart of Wild Turkey for Jim, I asked Deborah about the car. "Oh I was able to take care of it just fine," she lied.
"Do you have the receipt from the tow truck and the repair?"
"Oh I was able to take care of them myself with the insurance company right from my office. There's no reason for you to get involved."
"Oh, that's normally something that you need my help with. I'm glad to see that you were able to take care of it by yourself."
As I went to hang up my suit jacket in the front closet I said in a voice loud enough for her to hear me in the kitchen "Deborah, honey, did you turn on the camera for the security system at the front door when you came home for lunch?"
"Oh, no - - - I don't think that I did, Kevin."
"We'll somehow it got on; let's see what it recorded; maybe it caught the vandal on video." By the time that I finished saying that I already had removed the CD and was at the entrance to my office. I was inserting the CD into the computer when Deborah appeared at the office door with all the color drained from her face.
"I'm sure it's nothing, Kevin; why don't you come to dinner now and we can look at it afterwards," she nervously said. Obviously she had plans to remove and destroy the CD before I could view it.
"No, I just want to get a quick look now," I said as the image from the camera already was starting to appear on the monitor. There, in living color, as clear as a bell, was my dear wife Deborah and her lover, exiting the house, smiling at each other, even exchanging a kiss, and with her lover's arm around her.
"What the hell is this?" I asked pretending to be surprised. "I thought that you told me that you came home for lunch by yourself. Who the hell is this guy, and why were you kissing him and letting him hold you? And who's car is that in front of the house, it's certainly not yours?"
Deborah started stuttering something, saw the angry look on my face, and saw her lover looking for his keys and then both of them going back to the front door. She burst into tears and ran to her bedroom. I ejected the CD and put it in my pocket. I walked up to our bedroom, packed two suitcases as she lay in bed crying, interrupting her sobs only with "What are you doing Kevin?"
As I left the bedroom with the two suitcases in hand I asked "Where would you like me to serve you with the divorce papers?"
It was a legitimate question but her answer was totally unintelligible. Therefore I continued "Well, since I can't understand you, I guess I'll have to serve you at work because I don't know when you'll be here, or who you'll have over to fuck when you are."
I exited the front door to a variety of shrieks and sobs.
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They say that an attorney who represents himself has a fool for a client. That may be so, especially since I'd never handled a divorce in my legal career, but I was not about to spend the amount of money that would be necessary to hire some family law shark. I did go to one woman in our firm, however, who regularly did some family law work, got a standard divorce complaint from her, and had it filed and served by the next morning.
Deborah called shortly after she was served. "Why are you divorcing me, Kevin? I thought that we loved each other. You don't know anything about what happened, yet you flew off the handle and filed for divorce. You haven't even talked with me about it."
"I would have talked about it with you last night, but you were in no condition to have a conversation. Plus, all I would get from you would be more lies. You lied to me about who's car it was, that no one was with you, and why you went home at lunch time - I certainly didn't see you carrying any papers out of the house, not that you would have been able to since you had your arms around your lover. Why would I bother talking to you now about it when all I'll get is more lies?"
"Haven't you ever made a mistake, Kevin? I just made a mistake. One simple mistake. Surely we can get over it; there's no need for you to just haul off and file a divorce petition."