As I devoured my Grand Slam and mainlined coffee, I realized I had several options in front of me. Option one — I could return home, as if nothing happened and continue to have great sex with my bride and apparently with at least four other women. Option two — Death! Not mine, but candidates seemed to be lined up to involuntarily volunteer. Okay that option, may soothe the deep anger I felt, was not very viable unless I wanted a lengthy prison sentence. Option three — Divorce. Likely, I had questions and needed more information before I went total scorched earth on my marriage. Option four — Reconciliation. Possibly, but not likely. Circumstances needed to be extremely extenuating for that to be a consideration. Option five — Revenge. Moreover, it was not just her cheating, or her giving me sloppy seconds from those pricks, but mainly for the humiliation as Ken declared in front of the entire group this bullshit about the “tiniest dick in the room” and Julie’s abject failure to defend me.
Jason Thompkins was more than a co-worker. He was single and lived west of our city on about eighty acres of mostly timberland. He had a three-bedroom two-bath ranch house that had two large outbuildings. We had served together, and he was the one that convinced me to come back to his area after we got our discharge papers. He also got me my job at J&B Construction where I had been working even before I got married.
I was at the job site at 6:00 a.m. and was talking to the boss, Jeff Hodges along with Jason. I explained a good part of the story and said that I had left and needed to quit but not quit. I explained that I needed some time off and did not want the drama to show up here so if Julie called, someone could tell her I had quit and would let him or her know where to send my last check.
Jeff’s brother Bryan, the B to his J in the construction company had been through a divorce recently and he was aware of the issues that could arise. He told me I was welcome to come back if things worked out. I thanked him. I knew that I had been a good employee and he was sincere in his well wishes.
Jason gave me a key to his house and after a stop at a big box store for additional clothes, some electronics that included a burner phone and some steaks and beer, I headed to Jason’s. I parked my truck in the barn and entered the residence. It was surprisingly clean for a bachelor. I plugged my laptop into the wall outlet and waited for it to load its programs. I copied the DVD onto six more DVD’s along with two thumb drives. I labeled the DVD’s and downloaded my contacts from my old phone onto the burner phone. I also downloaded a spoof app so I could choose what number the recipient of my calls thought was calling them. I also downloaded a recording app so I could preserve my conversations. Then I reviewed Julie’s email account and contact list.
Friday July 31, 2020
Julie
I wasn’t sure how Tommy would take those scenes on the DVD. Although I had been present during each scene, last night was the first time I saw the DVD showing them all together. Tommy was remarkably calm. Throughout our five-year marriage, he had treated me very well and had never raised his voice at me or seemed to get mad over anything. I had shared that with Susan Logan at one of our talks when she asked me about his temperament. I told her that he was the sweetest, kindest, most gentle man that I had ever known.
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