Chapter 1: The Letter
My Dearest Love
Maybe I am naive, but I do believe that love conquers all. I also believe that we cannot have a life together if my history is a lie. I have therefore decided to risk all and share with you my sad tale. This may help you understand me better, or it may result in you deciding that we cannot have a life together now that you know who I am really am. The latter will destroy me and therefore I am placing my life in your hands. Do as you see fit.
My tale begins back in high school. It was here that I first laid eyes on Shannon. Oh, how I have cursed the day that I first laid eyes on her. Because that day I developed a serious crush on her. This crush was to play such a devastating effect on my life. Oh course, it was not difficult to develop a crush on Shannon, since she had the looks that made angels weep. Unfortunately, she also had the personality straight from hell. A real Bitch - with a capital B. Once she discovered my crush on her, she exploited it to the full and, I am sad to add, I became her little lap dog - following her around and doing whatever she asked.
When I left school, I joined the police force and Shannon disappeared out of my life. She became no more than an embarrassing memory of my school days. Life moved on and a few years later saw me married to Yvonne and the proud father of my son, Ivan. I had also moved up in my occupation and I had made detective. Life was good and I was settling into suburban bliss when the bitch once again entered my life.
That day I was going off duty. Hell, I was already off duty when the call of shoplifting came over the radio. If only I had known then what I know now, I would have left it to the uniform brigade and have gone home to Yvonne and Ivan. Instead I went to collect the suspect to take her to the station. My first surprise of that fateful day was when I saw that the suspect was my old friend Shannon. As I sat her down in the back seat of the patrol car, she flashed me and I saw her bare, shaven pussy beneath her skirt. Still, oblivious to the danger I was in, I set off for the station. On the way there, she made her proposal. If I would stop the car, and let her "escape" she would offer me a blowjob, a fuck or anything else I would care to have. But times had changed. In my school days I would have slit my wrists for the opportunity to fuck Shannon; but now I was happy with my present life and I was in love with my wife. I therefore ignored the indecent proposal, took her to the station and booked her.
My second surprise of the day came a couple of hours after I had got home. The phone rang, and I was informed by one of my colleagues that Shannon had accused me of raping and sodomising her. And so started my hell.
The next day I was taken into custody, formally charged and suspended from the police force. That day I also saw my wife and child for the last time. Yvonne came to the holding cells and an angry confrontation ensued. She knew all about my puppy dog status at school with respect to Shannon and this made her believing my side of the story more difficult (She also had, unfortunately, an insanely jealous streak.) Anyway, she left in a huff, collected Ivan from my colleagues (who had been keeping him occupied) and rushed out - straight into a pack of reporters looking for comment. Well she rushed past them and leapt into her car and sped off. The reporters, seeing her obvious mental anguish, set off after her looking for the story. All this I saw on a TV that was visible from the holding cells. I saw them pursuing her like a pack of rabid dogs. I saw her lose control of the car and slam into a pillar of a bridge. I saw the car burst into a fireball. And I saw my son face in the window of the car before he was engulfed in flames. A sight that is burnt into my brain. There to torment me whenever I close my eyes.
I now became an automaton. I no longer cared what happened to me. Had it not been for the excellent defense that I received from Mandy (my defense lawyer), I would be locked up forever. As it was, Jillian (the prosecutor) did an excellent job of highlighting the school history, the fact that my late wife obviously didn't believe me herself (a fact that was objected to by Mandy and which was struck from the record, but left an obvious mark on the jury), and the medical examiner's report. The latter confused me. For he reported that he had found evidence of forced entry in Shannon's vagina and rectum. Where did this come from? It was all revealed to me after the case when Shannon slid past me and mentioned that it was ironic that the court mistook a coke bottle for my cock.
As I have mentioned, Mandy did a good job and at the end of the court case, I was found guilty of a minor misdemeanor of abusing my authority, but cleared of the main charge of rape. For this I got a suspended sentence. At an internal hearing, I lost my detective badge and was made a clerk in the police station. As further salt in my wounds, the shoplifting charge against Shannon was dropped and she became a local celebrity. The finding of me being not guilty of rape was taken up by the feminist movement as evidence of discrimination of women and protested against. This led directly to me being kept out of the public eye at the police station and Shannon becoming a presenter at a local TV station's women program. Herein, in the depth of my defeat laid the seeds for my ultimate victory over the bitch. But, long before this happened, I was to go through two years of hell. The only people that stood by me and which helped me through these years were Mandy and Jillian. These two women were an enigma. They faced each other almost daily in the courts where they fought each other tooth and nail, but at night they were lovers. They were also ardent feminists. They stood by me because, as Mandy put it so eloquently, they hated seeing a bitch like Shannon abuse the name of feminism in order to take advantage of a defensive man.
Two years passed slowly and then, as unexpected as my hell had descended upon me, so rapid was my escape from it. I came to work one Saturday afternoon. One of my functions at the station was to guard the holding cells on Saturday evenings. Most Saturday's passed without anyone being in the holding cells, except the odd drunk. Well, when I got in on the Saturday, Jack, from who I took over, told me that there was a woman on shoplifting charges being held. Her lawyer was applying for bail and should be at the station soon. Well, I walked down to the holding cells and saw to my surprise and delight that it was Shannon in the cell. I stood staring at her for a long time while an insane idea took hold in my brain. I would have my revenge, here and now and to hell with the consequences. Well I went to the cell, locked open the door and took Shannon by the arm. (When she saw who it was, there was a look of surprised followed by a predator's look when spotting its prey. Well sorry dear, but today I was in control.) I took her to one of the interrogation room.
And now, my dear, we get to a part of the narrative that I am not very proud about. I do not want to leave you under illusions about what happened in that interrogation room over the next six hours and therefore I will record all the details about what happened. Before I do so, please recall that it was two years of pent-up rage and injustice that surfaced on that day.
As we entered the interrogation room, Shannon said: "Thanks a lot, now you have just, once again got me off the shoplifting charges, but it will cost you many years in jail this time. All it will cost me is me having to assault myself with a coke bottle again. And I will walk out of here a national celebrity - a "very rich" little victim. Oh you poor little schmuck."
Any doubts that I may have harbored regarding my plan of revenge left me at that moment. I therefore slapped her hard through her face and said: "Well, if I am going to be charged with rape, this time I want to at least experience the pleasure."
Shannon stumbled backwards from the slap and I saw the fear reflected in her eyes as she rubbed her cheek. This fear gave me an instant hard on.
I said: "Now strip you bitch, before I smack you senseless. You are going to pay. Pay for my two years of hell. Pay for every time that I heard people whisper behind my back and described as "that cop who raped the TV personality". But, most of all, you will pay for Yvonne and Ivan. You fucking bitch, you stole my life, my wife and my kid. Now it is pay back time. I don't care what happens after today. I have been in hell for the past two years and nothing that happens after today can be worse. Getting even with you will be more than worth it."
Shannon now had a look of shear panic on her face. She pleaded: " Please, Mike, I was only kidding. Please take me back to the cell. This is insane, please let me go. Please don't hurt me."
I replied: "I suggest that you start stripping."