Ellie's voice suddenly changed to a combination of southern drawl and Cajun accents. "You may not recognize this email address, but you better recognize it will be in your best interest to read it, slut! Or your life is going to take a massive turn for the worse," Ellie began.
"Wow, Brook doesn't start out slow, does she? Not one to mince words. She gets right down to business with her threats," Ellie commented in her normal voice before resuming.
"We've never got along since the first day we met. I just chalked that up to your being a cunt and hating the idea that a younger, prettier, and overall sexier woman took Roger away from you. Actually, I didn't take him. He ran to me and away from you. He wanted a real woman he could be proud to call his." Ellie read.
"I tried to act gracious whenever Justin and Harper came to visit their daddy. Roger and I weren't even married yet, but I treated those kids just like I would my own kin. I was even friendly to you the first time we met, but all you did was scowl. Oh, I saw you try to hide it and make nice and then you told the kids to call if they needed to come home early with that nasty little side glance at me. That was the first time I saw you for the bitch you were."
Ellie paused to laugh, "Friendly, my ass! Beth took me along for that first trade-off. Brook's goodwill was as fake as a losing politician's. The woman was positively gloating! Oh yeah, right in front of us she gave those kids big warm hugs and pulled them one at a time into her big titties as she welcomed them to 'her' home. Her home, my ass! She was just shacking up with Roger at the time. They didn't get married until a year later."
Ellie resumed her reading, "You never darkened my door again. Instead, you sent one or both of your slave girls to drop the kids off and be there to collect them when Roger and I returned them to your place. Roger just shrugged it off, but I knew the score. You were intimidated by a younger, fresher woman. I was only twenty-seven then and in my prime. I'm still in my prime. My pussy is still tight as it ever was. From what I know now, yours has to be stretched out and floppy, like any worn-out whore."
"You know I treated Justin and Harper well. They didn't say it out loud, but I know you asked them questions about how they were treated when with me. Little sneaky ways of asking, too. Like did you have a good time? Did you eat well? Like I was going to treat my man's kids like trash and not feed them the very best, just like I feed Roger. But did you ever give me credit for being a good stepmom? Hell, no!"
"You refused to darken my door, never once coming to my house even when Roger invited you for holidays. You even refused to attend the barbecue birthday parties I hosted for them each year. I wondered what kind of callous, hateful bitch would do that to her own children."
"Now I realize you were acting out because of your total insecurity. You were intimidated by a superior woman and have been all this time. I'm prettier, have a better body, bigger tits, and I'm in better shape. Most women are in awe of women like me. They want to be like me. I'm a hotter, sexier woman than most, but I am nice to everyone, even those not as blessed as myself. Which made your open disrespect hurt even more."
"The icing on the cake was how you treated Roger and me when the kids graduated high school last year. I know you remember that. All those families gathered in the convention center. But would her majesty think to sit with the father and stepmom of her kids? Fuck no! When the graduates walked across the stage the families jumped up and cheered and made a big ruckus to let their kid know how proud they were. There we were, Roger and I standing and yelling on one side, and a hundred feet away were you three, Mom and her two slaves. You have to know people came up to me later to ask me about it. It was embarrassing. Others had extended families with stepmoms and stepdads, and they buried the hatchet for at least the hour or so it took for the ceremony, but not Miss Bethany Edwards."
"Some even thought it was me being the bitch and not wanting to sit next to you, the successful businesswoman, knowing one of Roger's businesses had just failed. I could see the disbelief in their eyes when I denied it."
Beth interrupted Ellie to explain, "Roger got wind of an opportunity and decided to get into the restaurant business. He did not do his research that it is a tough business with narrow profit margins and a quarter of them fail in the first year. You need to have the resources to weather the tough times. But when Roger was offered what he thought was a great deal on two restaurants, he jumped on it. It was not a bad decision in itself as both were keeping the doors open, and that was building his equity, but he was not making enough to put away cash reserves. The big draw for one of his places was the lunch trade from the mall across the lot. Then the mall suddenly closed due to structural damage after a hurricane and had to have massive reconstruction. The parking lot on that side was occupied by maintenance vehicles and building material. Foot traffic dwindled and the restaurant could not take the loss of business; Roger could not shore it up with the marginal profits of his second place. He lost his ass."
Ellie snickered. "It didn't help your relationship when you bought both businesses for less than the value of the buildings themselves. You kept the more successful restaurant running like it was. Then you converted the other place into an office building. You made enough selling the equipment to pay for the renovation. It's a real estate office on one side and a cell phone outlet on the other now."
"I only covered half the renovation costs with the sale of the equipment." Beth countered with a grin. "I knew a guy who was setting up a restaurant up I-49 and needed to equip the place. I gave Roger a fair price, considering. He got out from under it before he went totally bankrupt with a little money to try something else. I know it kicked him in the nuts to get bailed out by his ex. Well, halfway bailed out."
"Yeah, I heard you tell him you could wait until the bank foreclosed on both buildings and pick them up for pennies on the dollar, OR he could sell them to you and walk away with something. Nobody else wanted the businesses. It was your offer or bankruptcy. You had him by the balls, and you have to know if that bothered him, it made Brook livid. Well, that success may have contributed to this." Ellie pointed to the laptop and Beth's proud smile vanished as she dropped her eyes and nodded.
Ellie looked back at the monitor and continued to read aloud. "With the kids going away to school in Baton Rouge, I have not had to deal with you or either of your slave girls for almost a year now. Your little ploy to give Harper and Justin each a car last summer so they could drive back and forth between our homes and school was a low thing to do. It made Roger and me look cheap but I think the kids understood the circumstances. When I see them next, I'll explain how you were just compensating for your feelings of inadequacy."
