“What do you mean, we should get her a car?!” Violet demanded.
Honey!” Jim pleaded in frustration, “She is always late for curfew and we have to drive her everywhere.”
“No, she doesn’t deserve it.”
Jim sighed. He would give up the fight for now but he couldn’t let word of this get out. According to his prenuptial agreement if he was caught in adultery, he would lose everything. If he had his own wealth and didn’t need his wife’s he would have left so long ago.
Jim grabbed the bottle of whiskey from the coffee table and started for the stairwell.
“I am going to lay down” he muttered, “my head hurts.”
He lay upon the bed and thought about his situation. How did he let this happen? He was a man; he needed sex and hadn’t been getting it from his wife. He thought about his daughter and how she must have hated him to do something like this. He also thought about the way she had smelled, so innocent and sweet, and how good it had been to be between her thighs. He shook his head in regret, but images of her tight body and her head thrown back in cries of passion poisoned his mind.
Jim’s eyes fluttered open a few hours later. He must have fallen asleep. He heard mumbles of a conversation down the hall. It sounded like his daughter’s voice. It struck fear in his chest. Was she telling her mother? He tiptoed silently to her door, which was only open a small crack. He saw his daughter standing in the room, practically shouting in a whisper to an unseen face.
“I did!” she yelled, “I fucked him like you wanted!”
Jim was startled but waited for a reply.
“I know dear, but he can’t find out that I have been with another man either. If my family found out I would lose everything! You would lose everything.”
The words hit him like a blow to his chest. No wonder she was never interested in him. But why she was she so scared? Nothing would happen to her, why didn’t she just divorce him? There must be something else to it.
“You promised me a car” Anna said angrily, “not to mention to set me up financially.”
“We have to let you bring his affair into light and the only way is to refuse the car for now otherwise he might suspect something.” her mother explained.
Jim fought the urge to burst through the door and confront his cheating wife and her co-conspirator but he held back. He felt an uneasy feeling in the pit of his stomach and decided to venture back to his room before he was noticed.
Jim waited in his room for about another half an hour contemplating all his choices. He didn’t know what he would do but he would definitely get his revenge.
He headed down stairs and saw Anna sitting in the living room, with a piece of paper in her hand, her mother sitting across from her. Jim tried his best to hide his anger.
“Hi Daddy” she said cheerfully. “Can you sign this?” She handed him the paper.
“What is it?” he questioned.
“It’s a permission slip for my senior trip”, she explained. “I already had mom sign it.”
He looked it over. They would be gone for two weeks on a cruise to the Virgin Islands. How appropriate he thought.
“Sure, fine” he said and scribbled his name along side his wife’s. “Have a good time.”
Jim looked at his wife. “I need to go to the office for a little while honey, I should be home in about an hour.
He left in silence and drove to Deuces.
He entered the crowded, smoke filled bar at glanced around for Sheila. She was sitting at the bar in her usual spot wearing a short red dress and black stockings. He walked up to her side and sat down.
“Oh, god. I am so sorry!” a tear formed at the corner of her eye. “I had no idea, honest. This is all my fault!”
He slammed his hand down on the bar. “She knew Sheila! That fucking bitch knew the whole time.”
“What?” she gasped.
“My wife paid that little bitch to set me up so she could divorce me and take everything.”