I got seven shots before they noticed me. David jumped off the bed yelling "Give me that fucking camera." I pulled the 1911A1 that was tucked in my pants behind me and pointed it at him. He stopped, sneered and said, "You don't have the balls."
I pointed the automatic at his left knee and pulled the trigger. He fell screaming to the floor.
"Jesus Christ" my father said. "You shot your own brother?"
"The only reason I'm not going to shoot you is because I don't want to deprive mom of the pleasure of cutting your dick off."
Sonia, my wife of nine years, was clutching a pillow to her chest and crying "Don't kill me; please don't kill me.
I ignored her and told my father, "I don't know which pisses me off more. You fucking my wife or you having your dick in her ass, which is something she would never let me do. Needless to say, I resign. You'll need to change the sign on the building from Dawson and Sons to Dawson and Son. Then again, maybe just Dawson's if asshole there bleeds out. I don't see anyone hurrying to call 911 to get him help."
I turned to leave, and he said, "Where are you going?"
"Over to your place to share my pictures with Mom."
"Wait, Bobby; we need to talk."
"You may feel the need to talk, but I feel absolutely no need to listen."
As I walked out the front door he was yelling "God damn it, Bobby; talk to me."
I ignored him and as I walked to my car I used the 1911 to take out his right side front and rear tires. Didn't want him racing to beat me to Mom. I drove two blocks and then pulled over to the curb and called my mom. I would rather have given her the pictures to her in person, but when 911 was called for David, the cops would become involved and they would most likely be told I could be found at my parents' place.
When she answered I told her I was emailing her some photos and she needed to see them before Dad got home. She had questions and I told her I would call her later. I checked my watch and saw I still had an hour before the bank closed. As I drove over to the bank, I thought about what had just happened.
I'd returned a day early from a business trip and found my father's car parked in my driveway. I didn't think anything of it, because I've always asked him to check on Sonia when I was gone to make sure she was all right and see if she needed anything. Of course, when I asked that he see if she needed anything, I hadn't meant cock.
Anyway, as soon as I was in the front door, what I heard coming from the bedroom told me what was going on up there. I went into the den, opened the bottom desk drawer, took out the lock box, unlocked it, took out the .45 and tucked it behind my belt in case I might need it. I got my phone out, turned on the camera and walked to the bedroom.
Sonia was on her knees sucking David's cock while my father was fucking her ass. I finally understood why I was the only son who got sent out of town on business and David always stayed home.
When I got to the bank I closed out all our accounts and cashed the six certificates of deposit that were in the safe deposit box. When I left the bank I had just a bit over eighteen thousand dollars. I drove across town to the bank where the company had its accounts and to which I was a signatory. I pulled out fifteen thousand. I considered it to be severance pay, although some might call it embezzlement, but I was going to sweat embezzlement when I was, no doubt, already wanted for assault with a deadly weapon?"
My last call before getting out of town was to David's wife, Cindy. I got her just as she was leaving the house to go to the hospital to see David. As soon as he heard my voice she said:
"Bob? What the hell is going on? Your dad just called and said you shot Dave."
"I came home from a business trip and caught him fucking Sonia. I took pictures and when he tried to get the camera from me, I shot him in the leg. I'm sending the pictures to your email. Sorry you had to find out, but I felt you needed to know. Take care sweetie. Bye."
I hung up, and five minutes later I went by the city limit sign and headed west. About five miles down the road, I pulled over and parked. I didn't know if my phone could be tracked, so to be on the safe side I took out the battery. I could have just thrown it away, I supposed, but I didn't want to lose the photos. I'd buy a throwaway later.
I pulled away from the shoulder and proceeded to put as many miles between me and Michigan as I could.
*****
Two days driving put me in Colorado. I checked into a motel just a little outside Denver, and out of curiosity I called home on the Tracfone I'd bought at a Walmart in Kansas. It was four in the afternoon so my father, if my mom hadn't killed him, would still be at work. She answered on the third ring.
"Hello"
"Hi, Mom."
"Bob? Where are you?"
I felt a little bit of misdirection was in order, since the cops were probably looking for me, so I said:
"Almost to New York."
"Why in the world are you going to New York?"
"Trying to put as much distance between me, Sonia, David and Dad as I can."
"Did you have to shoot David? He will never be able to walk right again."
"He's lucky I didn't kill him. I felt I needed to let Cindy have that pleasure."
"She didn't kill him, but she did kick him out of their house. That was mean of you, sending those pictures."
"Wasn't mean of me. I figured she should know she was married to an asshole. Same reason I sent them to you."
"A wasted effort on your part. I already knew he was an asshole. I knew he occasionally strayed, but I overlooked it to keep the family together. But Sonia? I just could not overlook that. I kicked him out and saw an attorney to file for divorce the next day. You need to turn around and come back. I'm going to end up with the business and I'm going to need your help in running it."
"How do you figure that?"
"It was my inheritance from my father that was used to set up the business. My attorney tells me I'll end up with sixty to sixty-five percent of it, and that will give me control. I'm going to need you."
"You going to run it as Dawson and Sons or as Dawson and Son with the son being me?"
"Don't be that way, Bob. Dave is my son, just as you are."
"That means that he will be there and that means I won't. If I'm around him I'm going to want to hurt him."
"You need to call Sonia. She needs to talk to you."
"But I don't want to talk to her, so I'll pass."
"You might as well resign yourself to do it. Counseling is almost always ordered in a divorce, and you will have to talk to her then."
"What divorce? I just walked away from her. I'm not going to waste money on an attorney. Someday the slut will want to be free again, so let her get the divorce and pay for it."
"Really, Bob; do you have to call her bad names?"
"Why not? It is what she is. What else would you call a married woman having sex with two men on the bed that her husband bought? Slut is the mildest of the things I could call her. I just called to let you know I'm okay and I'll try to do it at least once a week. Talk to you later. Love you. Bye."
Nothing was said about the fifteen thousand I'd taken out of the company's account, so I guessed they hadn't noticed it yet.
*****
I spent a week in Denver checking the place out, but while it was nice and I did feel a bit of a pull rom the mountains, I decided it was too soon to settle in at one place. I needed to keep moving to make it harder for them to find me.
I stopped in Castle Rock and had lunch in a place called Tricocci's, and while there I called Mom to check in and let her know I was okay. I got no answer, and on a whim I called the business.
"Good morning. Thank you for calling Dawson and Sons. How may I direct your call?"
"Morning, Glenda. Is my mom there?"
"Bobby? Where the hell are you? This place is falling part. You need to get your butt back here."
"Don't think so. My mom there?"
"I'll put you through."
"Bob?"
"Morning, Mom."
"How is New York?"
"Behind me. I didn't much like the place. I'm in Georgia right now. A little place called Dawson. I'm having breakfast in a nice little restaurant called the Town and Country. I'm seriously thinking of settling in here."
"You need to come home."
"I don't think so. I'm going to need time to get over what happened. If I were to come back now, I'm not sure I wouldn't kill my father and brother if I found myself anywhere around them. I'm going to need a while before I even start thinking about coming back."
"Would you at least call Sonia and talk with her? I'm really worried about her. She is a mess right now."
"It's a mess of her own making. She can clean it up herself."
"I'm serious here, Bob. I'm afraid she might do something to hurt herself."
"Like what? Suicide?"
"I wouldn't say that's out of the question."