Mom Caught Cheating

CHAPTER 3

Katie read the email and started to cry. She knew it was a mistake to have an affair with the mayor. He was charming at the Rotary meetings and city meetings. But he was a married man with a nice wife and children. Wasn't she doing the same thing that Mark did? She felt like a hypocrite. Hell, she knew she was one.

Once inside the hotel, he was a dominant asshole. He had little to no respect for women and just wanted to show his virility.

God, she hated feeling like she trusted that man had now looked at what happened. How did this happen to her? She was a good woman, ran a bank, made a profit, and kept the people's money safe. She attended PTA, church services, and volunteered at the animal rescue.

This wasn't fair. She needed help.

Katie called Molly. Molly answers the phone "Hi sis, what's up?

Katie says, "I'm in big trouble" I am being blackmailed and I don't know a way out."

Molly says "Whoa, hold up, what's going on. Start from the beginning."

Katie says, "I had a one-time fling with a guy and some investigative journalist took pictures and is blackmailing me."

Molly asks, "Why would an investigative reporter be looking into you or your hookup?"

Katie says, "Well it was the mayor, Gary Williams, he has had some troubles with city finances and some minor scandals, but nothing serious that I know of. But I am not the only woman the reporter took photos of. And he somehow got audio of all of us having sex."

Molly says "oh that is bad. Can you make out the voices clearly?"

Katie says "yes, and we were using our names freely. I would call him Mr. Mayor and he would call me Mrs. Rogers. He said, 'I'd like to make a big deposit into your private vault.' We weren't thinking we were being seen."

"No one ever does, how many women got caught? You said there were others. Do you know them?" asked Molly.

Katie says "5 in total. The mayor had sex with a different woman each day. I was his Friday. I'm so embarrassed. If this leaks out, the board of trustees will surely fire me and then Mike will divorce me. I'm really screwed here."

"So, who are the other women? And why would the blackmailer want to trash all their lives over a stupid fling?"

Katie says "Well there is Mrs. Carlson, the preacher's wife, Susan Donaldson who runs a day care center and is married to the police chief, Dr. Allen's wife Cindy who runs an online adult boutique that sells erotic novelties, clothes and books, and Councilwoman Mary Briggs, and me of course. All women that have a lot to lose if they blab about anything."

"Oh, those melons were just ripe for the pickings, pun intended." Molly says. "How could all you smart women go to some fancy hotel and not think about video surveillance and getting blackmailed or outed? That's just stupid!"

Katie responds "We went to the Shadow Ridge motel on route 33. It's old, and the mayor owns it. There are no cameras, and the employees are ex-cons eager to stay out of prison and don't look at anything."

"So, what does the bastard want?" asked Molly.

"So far, he is only asking for voyeuristic stuff. He said I cannot wear panties or pantyhose anymore, ever. He wants me to take a photo of my crotch when he texts me and send it to him to prove it. He also wants me to stop wearing sweats around the house and start dressing like I have a husband at home that I want to keep interested. He must be able to see through the windows and peep at me," said Katie.

"Well, given the circumstances, it's not that bad. Well, the peeping is a bit creepy." said Molly.

"For now, I'm just worried about what he will ask for next? They get emboldened if you comply." said Katie.

"Well sister dearest, that ship has sailed. You are past the point of being sorry for your indiscretions." asked Molly. "So, Mr. Pervy is texting you? Why don't you look up his phone number and email address?"

"That's the scary part, the phone number is unlisted, and the email address bounces around and finally hits a government security server. I had my IT friend from college dig around, and he said this is dark web stuff. He had to back out as quickly as he could. It worried him." said Katie.

"So, some spook or wannabe secret agent man is looking into the improprieties of our shitbag mayor, and you all get dragged down if this gets out. That sucks." says Molly. "So, have you sent any photos of your love canal, the holy grail, the valley of the doll. You know fourth base?" Molly laughs out loud.

Katie gets upset and yells "this isn't funny, I could be ruined over a stupid one-night stand. I just want to crawl into a hole and die. I have one guy pay attention to me and see what happens."

Molly says "sorry Katie, we will get through this, whatever it takes. Have you talked to him?"

Does he want to just bring down the mayor or is he after everyone? I mean, one is a civic duty, and the other is punishing the victim. Has he said what he will do with all the photos?"

"And by the way, A lot of men, younger and older, pay a lot of attention to you, if you would just pay attention." said Molly.

Katie is crying now and feeling the despair that the affair has caused. She has cheated on her husband, and she is worried about her job and the fallout. She really doesn't know what to do or who to turn to for discrete help.

Molly tells Katie "Sis, hold on, I may know how to help. It will be tough and I'm not sure it will work, or if my friend will be able to help, but I will try my best to get him to check into it."

"You know someone better than a professor of computer science at State?" asked Katie.

"Yes, I do. I can't tell you about him. Plausible deniability and all that spooky shit, you know." said Molly.

Molly calls Cliff. He answers and says 'Hi auntie, what does the prettiest woman in town want of a high school senior? It can't be yard work, I did it yesterday. So, what's cookin, good look-in?"

Molly says "WTF, are you watching oldies on TV?"

Cliff says "yes, some of these oldies are funny. You look "Dynomite""

"Well, I have a problem that might explode on us if it gets out of hand, someone is blackmailing a good friend of mine and I know you are a computer genius and a brilliant hacker, I know you beat out a bunch of college hackers at that Hack-a-thon thingy. Can you look at it and see if you can understand what the guy is up to?"

Cliff says "Sure, can you give me the details? I need as much as you have. It's all important in one way or another. Oh, and auntie, I have something that might explode if it gets into your hand."

Molly told Cliff everything, except the women's names. The blackmail, the dirty mayor, the dark web, and the government server. She could hear Cliff clicking on his computer and starting some searching.

Finally, Cliff says "I'm going to have to get up close and personal with this asshat. He is deep, but I love challenges. Oh, one more thing, do I know any of the indiscriminate, cheating women being blackmailed?"

Molly waits, holding her breath for a minute, wondering if she should tell him the names. She finally says "You know them all. The fallout of this shitshow would be disastrous. Lives ruined, marriages destroyed, jobs lost, someone even could get killed. This isn't some minor Podunk hayseed goat-fuck. This is serious. If I tell you as much as I can, I could be hit with some scatter shit from this. Can you investigate this for me, I'd be really appreciative, and you know, if something gets into my hands, I'd like to be the one to control the explosion."

Hearing his sexy aunt in her sexy come-hither voice always got Cliff going and she knew it.

She was playing dirty pool, but she needed his A-game. She may regret it later, but she always had a little thing for Cliff. She started to blush. And the way Katie had abandoned him broke her heart.

"I need one name so I can get some information to search for. I need the phone number he is texting from and the email he sent to one of them, or at least just the email address. Getting the actual email would give me better access to any metadata that is still attached to it." Cliff says, "You know this is going to cost you, sweet aunt Molly. Maybe we can go swimming in your pool and then get in your hot tub, and you can give your favorite nephew a massage."

Molly's cheeks started turning red. Cliff always did their pool and spa service. The special bio-filter on the spa would fail if there was any detergent in the water, so clothing was not allowed. Anyone that got in had to undress completely. That little horny bastard wants to see me nude.

Then her cheeks got really red, maybe he wanted more than to just see. How much would I let him get away with to save Katies marriage? Hell, Katie did a lot more than that to save mine. We could have gone to jail if anyone found out.

Hopefully, he isn't thinking the same thing she is. Cliff is such a nice guy, really good looking, tall, dark, and ruggedly handsome, brilliant, clever, and completely absorbed in technology at the cost of his social status and love life.

Katie sure did him a disservice when she shut down on him after Mike cheated and broke her heart. Cliff just became a number in a spreadsheet that she had to keep. Poor kid, some gold digger is going to lead him around by his dick.

"I'll see what I can do. I don't know if I can get the full email. It has names and email addresses that will let you see the victim's name."

Cliff sat back and had to laugh. They were asking him to investigate this mysterious spook, and he could make up any information he wanted.

Molly called back and told him she wanted him to come over and look at the information. She wasn't comfortable sharing it over the phone.

Cliff drove over and looked on Molly's computer and copied the metadata to a secure thumb drive and said he would look into it. He gave Molly a gentle smile and a bit of a leer, just to tease her and saw her cheeks begin to get pink.