Life's Too Short For This Shit

I met Melinda while we worked together at the first Law Firm I joined after passing the Bar. She joined around the same time and within weeks she became my Legal Secretary and we worked very closely together. She proved to be an invaluable asset to me. Soon I started feeling that we may have been developing a certain connection between each other. I was always comfortable in social situations, especially when beautiful women were involved. Melinda certainly was a beautiful woman too. One afternoon she came into my office and she looked like she was about to ask me a personal question. I reared back in my chair with my feet up on my desk giving her one of my famous flirty smiles as my eyes went directly to hers. She took a deep breath and asked me if I was seeing anyone, you know dating anyone? I gave her my best smile and told her that I seeing anyone in particular. I did occasionally date but nothing serious or even steady with the same girl.

I put my feet flat on the floor and rose up from my office chair and asked her if she was free Friday night to have dinner with me. She agreed and gave me a big smile to go along with her sparkling blue eyes. She really was gorgeous! The next day was Friday and the evening of our dinner date. At noon I went to her desk and asked if our date was still on for dinner that night? She looked up at me and answered saying that she was looking forward to it and that I should pick her up at 8:00 PM. I told her I'd make reservations for 8:45 and that would give us plenty of time to get there. She agreed and we both went back to work until then. I left the office about 30 minutes early that afternoon wanting to get a haircut, some beautiful flowers and pick up my blue suit at the cleaners. I loved that suit and it fit me like a glove. Many people told me that blue was my color. I picked up the flowers and programmed her address into my navigation system to get me to her place by taking the best route. It was mostly Highway driving all the way. Here in DFW you traveled by Freeway just about anywhere you went.

It took 4 the better part of 45 minutes to get there. I pulled in front of her townhouse and knocked on the closest door not knowing if that was even her door. I had a 50/50 chance of picking the right one. As it turned out it was the correct door and she answered it, looking as beautiful as any woman has ever looked for a date with me. She took my breath away as I told her that she was beautiful. I handed her the dozen roses and she said thanks and that she loved roses. She invited me in and said that she wanted to put the roses in water before we left to go out. I agreed and said that I understood. She went into the kitchen which I could clearly see from where I was standing. This was a newer unit and it had an open floor plan. Once she finished putting the flowers in a vase with water she came over to me and said she was ready to go! I held her door open and helped her into my BMW. I loved this car. It was given to me by our law practice as part of my signing bonus. A great deal for us both. We started driving towards our destination as we made small talk.

That night was just perfect and I was happy to have spent many other nights with Melinda enjoying our time together. She wasn't only beautiful but she was also funny and smart. After several months we told each other that we were in love with the other and I asked her to marry me. She said yes and that May we were married in a beautiful outside garden ceremony. She had told me that the kind of a wedding that we were planning was her dream wedding, She said that she was only going to marry once and she wanted it to be perfect. I couldn't deny her anything so naturally I just agreed. I also paid for the whole thing. She didn't come from a wealthy family and I knew what she earned at the firm so I knew that I could afford it and I just wrote the checks. I was happy doing it for her.

We Honeymooned in Hawaii spending 2 full weeks at an expensive resort with a private beech. It was one of the best times of our young lives so far. When we returned home we were living in my downtown Dallas condo until our house was finished being built. We designed it together so we'd both have our own flavors in the home. I was planning on raising a family there. Once we moved in to our new house Melinda got a job offer at another Law Firm. I wasn't in favor of her making the move but she swore that it would all work out best for our family. More money and she'd be gaining some valuable experience working for one of the senior partners. I didn't like that at all. This asshole had a terrible reputation as a skirt chaser to took pride in sleeping with of every one of his firm's female employees. Especially the beautiful young married ones. He looked that as the ultimate goal when bedding anyone. The younger, prettier the married woman was the better he liked it. It was his ultimate goal in life and i knew it.

Before she even went to the interview I sat her down and told her in a very direct and serious manner that this asshole partner's whole mission in life was to fuck beautiful, young married women. He took great pleasure in turning her husband into a cuckhold and to ruin the wife's marriage and her life. I assured her that these were absolute facts. I then looked right into her eyes and said that if she ever cheated on me or even gave that asshole the impression that she would by flirting with him, I'd kick her to the curb so fast she wouldn't know what hit her. I reminded her about the prenup that we both signed that implemented severe and stark penalties on whomever cheated. I told her that we both agreed in advance to our wedding and then pushed a copy over to her side of the table. She broke down in tears telling me that she'd never betray me in anyway. that she loved me too much to ever hurt me in that way. I just said that she was now warned and that I had taped our conversation as well as had it on video. She was shocked that I'd do something like that. I assured her that I'd made a record of what we'd said tonight just in case. Then I asked her to think clearly about even going to her interview in the morning.

We were both upset when we got into bed. She was crying asking me to hold her and make love to her tonight. I didn't even turn to look at her and just said, No! That really upset her and she cried even harder. We both tossed and turned most of the night but I woke up at 3:00 AM and knew that I couldn't sleep anymore that night. I crept out of bed, shaved and showered in the guest bath so I wouldn't wake her when I left very early for the office. I packed a garment bag containing 3 suits, 4 dress shirts, several nice ties and lots of socks and under ware. I wore my black shoes and packed the grey and brown ones. I also threw several golf shirts and a couple pair of my favorite shorts and slacks into a carry on case that I usually took on short trips. I also took my toiletries and my good hair dryer. I knew that the good hotels where I'd probably be staying for a while, at least, had hair dryers but I never liked them. I quietly opened the door and opened my garage door backing out onto the street. I headed down Central Expressway going into Dallas.

I didn't know what would happen between Melinda and I but I knew that I'd warner her of my concerns, asked her not to interview with that asshole. Ultimately it would have to be her decision. I quit worrying about it and headed to the elevators. When i hit my floor I saw that it was still only 6:00 AM and still dusk outside. No one had gotten to work yet. The morning usually got underway in earnest by 8:45 and real work began about then. When Julie my office manager arrived I asked her for a temp for a few days. I told her that Melinda was interviewing at another firm and she probably wouldn't be in for a while, at least. She seemed shocked at my forward nature not holding anything back. She called the regular temp agency we used and asked them to send someone in ASAP to meet with me. less that 90 minutes later Julie was walking towards my office with a stunning red head smiling all the way. She introduced the girl as Debbie and told her that I was her boss and to take excellent care of me. She smiled at me and with a coy look said that she'd be happy to take care if me as long as she was needed. I thanked her and we got to work.

It was now just after lunch and I'd already refused 3 calls from Melinda. Debbie said that she sounded frightened and was crying when she was told that I wouldn't speak with her. I'd already made sure that Julie disabled Melinda's access to the building and that her name was removed from approved entry to the parking lot and grounds too. She had been exiled by me and I didn't even feel bad doing it. Right then I asked Julie to call out VP of HR and have Melinda's name remover from our employee list and the payroll. I said to hell him that I terminated her for the probability that she had plans to steal confidential information and turn it over to that asshole in our competing firm. I said if I could stop her spying in advance by doing this that I certainly wanted to do it. A few minutes our HR VP entered my office closing my door and asked me what the hell was going on? I said that last night Melinda came home and surprised me by telling me that she was interviewing at a competing law firm and i suspected that she held this information back from me not wanting me to have the chance to be able to do anything about it.

He looked very surprised and asked me if I was sure that's what she was doing? Could she have miscommunicated it to me earlier and I'd forgotten about it? I just laughed and asked him he knew me to be a blithering idiot or a liar? He apologized and said he has never questioned my intelligence or my ethics. Then he thanked me for placing my ethical duties above everything else. I said Thanks and he left. Julie came into my office a few minutes later while Debbie were doing some research on a tough case to tell me that she'd heard that Melinda took that position I'd mentioned with the competing firm. I was right all along. She said that Melinda kept calling me begging for them to let her speak with me. I said that I never wanted to see or talk with her again and to get our best Family Law Attorney on the phone for me. I wanted to file for divorce and hold Melinda to the strict letter of the prenup. I knew I'd need some proof of an affair so I called our best investigator into my office and asked him to help me get what I needed. I knew that his former wife cheated on him a few years back and that he hated cheaters with a passion. He readily agreed. Then he told me who the best divorce shark was in our firm!

I called Julie and told her to specifically ask for the lawyer the investigator told me about. She laughed out loud and said she'd already had a call into her and that her secretary said she would call me right back. Debbie seemed shocked as she said that she never wanted to get on my bad side! I said that if she ever did she'd come up on the losing end of that deal. I didn't like to lose and I worked very hard not to.

I checked my cell phone which remained off all day and saw there were 20 missed calls from Melinda, her sister, her mother and her best friend. I deleted all of them and turned the phone off again. By now I thought that Melinda knew that she'd made a huge mistake not knowing if she'd ever be able to recover from it. I was just waiting for my Divorce attorney to call me back. Then my office phone rang and it was her. When we got down to business she said that Julie brought her up to speed but that she wanted to meet with me ASAP to verify what I wanted and to also get a copy of the prenup. She said she could come right down to sit with me and talk.

A few minutes later a gorgeous brunette knocked an my door and said that she was Grace, my new divorce lawyer. Needless to say I was very happy to meet her and have her working on my behalf. We went over what I saw me needs would be as well as giving her a copy of the prenup. She looked it over and told me that whoever prepared that document knew exactly what they were doing. It bulletproof! I smiled and said that I prepared it especially to fit my specific needs should it ever be needed. I told her that Melinda was a law clerk who could read her way around some things, but seeing around the corners wasn't her forte'. Then I specifically asked her what kinds of evidence of an affair that I needed to make sure that the prenup would be 100% enforceable. She told me that I didn't need much but the more that I could get the better we'd be. I told her that I assigned our best investigator to get everything that he could right down the size of the assholes shoes. We spoke for another 10 minutes and agreed we'd meet again tomorrow.

As she exited my office she turned to me saying that she knew that I was headed into one of the most difficult periods of my life, but she knew that I'd come out just fine on the other side. that actually gave me some comfort. Then Debbie came into my office telling me that was 6:30 and if I didn't need her anymore today she would see me in the morning. She said that she could come in early and stay late tomorrow if I needed her to but it was just that her mom was babysitting her daughter and she had to get there to make sure they ate before giving her daughter a bath and putting her to bed. She told me that she was recently divorced and was now staying with her Mom until she could save up enough to get an apartment of their own. She looked at me and said that she knew what I was going through and that I'd be fine without a cheating wife to hold me back. I thanked her for her kindness and said goodnight. Fifteen minutes later Julie came by and asked me if I was alright or if I wanted to talk some. I thanked her but told her not to worry and for her to go home and have a nice evening.

As I exited the elevator on the ground floor of the parking garage I heard someone screaming my name asking me to please talk to her. I recognized Melinda's voice and just kept on walking away from it. She was crying and begging for me to please talk to her. She swore that she didn't do anything and that she never even went to the interview. I just got into my car and drove away. I knew that by the time she made her way around the building where I was that I'd be long gone. She had no idea where I was staying and she knew that she'd been locked out and bared from her previous workplace. I made sure to cut her loose and very deep for what I saw as a betrayal of both me and our marriage. At that point it didn't even matter if she never went to meet with the asshole she still fucked up big time. I knew myself and she did too. She knew that I couldn't forgive any betrayal by her. I saw that as an unforgivable mortal sin with no way back and yet she planned meeting and interviewing with that scumbag without giving me any advance warning. She knew exactly what my reaction would be and she just didn't want to hear it for several days before her meeting. She was a selfish bitch!

I got to my hotel, parked my car and went inside heading straight for the bar. I decided that I'd eat something in there tonight. I wasn't very hungry but I was thirsty. I sat at the bar in front of a TV watching the basketball game getting underway. The Mavericks were playing LA tonight and they were just ready for tipoff. I ordered scotch rocks along with a chef salad and planned on watching some of the game right here. An older guy sat down 2 stools to my right and ordered a drink as said hello. I didn't realize he was talking to me so I apologized not trying to be rude but that I was in my own world right now and wasn't paying attention. He said he understood and he'd been in one of those moods all day too. Then he surprised me by introducing himself to me telling me his name was Geoff Lyndsay and attorney for the firm that Melinda had planned on interviewing with today. I recognized his name immediately. It was the same asshole who she'd end up working for when she joined their firm. I asked what put him into his funk all day. He laughed!

Then he said that he had interviewed a beautiful young married woman for a position with the law firm he worked for. Then he actually said Melinda's name. By now I had turned on the voice recording feature in my phone wanting to get every word he spoke. I asked how the interview went and he said it was great. The woman was gorgeous and could probably even do an adequate job but the real reason he wanted to talk her into coming to work for him was so he could eventually get her to betray her husband, turning him into a cuck so he could then expose their affair to the poor sap and embarrass the shit out of the guy! I asked how it went? He said that he'd offered her the job but she turned it down telling him that her husband told her what she could expect from him and why he wanted to hire her in the first place. Then he asked me how the hell did I think that her husband knew what game he was playing? I asked what he did for a living and he told me he was an attorney. Then i asked if he knew what her husband did for a living and he looked at me and said, "Hell Yes, He Did Know!" "The Husband Was Also An Attorney Who Must Have Known OF The Assholes Reputation In Advance."

Then he really looked bewildered and said he was heading home to his flabby wife and finish watching the game. I paid my bill and walked to the elevators heading to my floor and my room. If Melinda did interview with the asshole and turn the offer down why had she lied to me before saying that she never even went to meet the asshole at all. She was lying about something but I didn't know exactly what. I knew that our investigator would get to the bottom of this shit and provide me with any evidence that he could find. The truth would be flushed out. I knew it. I got inside my room, took a nice shower and put my dirty clothes into the bag headed out to the Laundry and Dry Cleaners in the morning. Then I climbed into bed, turned on the game and started enjoying it. I turned my cell phone back on just to check to see how many more pathetic messages she or her family or her friends left for me. My phone lit up like a Christmas Tree. There must have 15 or more messages there, all left since I left work! Someone really wanted to talk with me.

I had no plans on returning any of their calls but I listened to a couple of them anyway. The first 3 were from Melinda crying and pleading with me to please talk to her. She was so afraid of what I was going to do and she didn't want to lose me over nothing. That really pissed me off! I deleted every additional one of her messages until there were none left. I didn't want to listen to her bullshit trying to lessen what she'd done to me by lying. Fuck her. That just hardened my resolve. The next couple were from her sister again begging me to at least call her to let her know that I was alright. What the hell did she think? That I was going to slit my wrists? That also pissed me off. The next ones were from her mother and one from her brother. They also begged me to forgive Melinda for her ignorance and her stupidity. I just erased them too. Then there was one from my mother in California. She was visiting her sister who had a hip replacement and Mom flew out there to help her out. I felt for my mother and was angry that anyone had bothered her while she was away. I called Mom back and she was happy to hear from me telling me that she loved me and wanted to know if there was anything that she could do to help. I thanked her but told her that I was fine and was doing well. That seemed to settle her down somewhat. We said goodbye and we loved each other.

Before long I fell fast asleep waking up at 6:00 AM to get ready for work. After shaving, brushing my teeth and taking a showed I dried and styled my hair. Then applied after shave and set my cleaning out for the housekeeper to collect for me. I left my room and went down for a quick breakfast. Once I finished and paid my bill I got into my car heading down to Dallas again to start another day. I was actually in a pretty good mood. After the past couple of days I figured that the universe owed me a bit of happiness once in a while anyway. I pulled inside the parking garage and headed to the elevators. Then I heard Melinda's voice again crying out to me to please talk to her. She was sorry that she didn't tell me about the interview but she didn't want to make me mad. She loved me and would never mislead me ever again. That she'd learned her lesson and she'd never ever do anything like that to me again. I didn't even turn around. i kept walking ignoring her the whole time. She was getting desperate and I was not sure that she could hold on too much longer.

When I got to my office Debbie was already there handing me a cup of coffee and asking what I wanted her to do first. I asked her for the balance of the research we were working on yesterday and she told it she was almost finished and would bring it in my office shortly. Here came Julie around the corner wanting to know how I was and if I needed anything from her? I smiled telling her that I was fine but I'd call her later. Debbie buzzed me telling me that Grace my divorce lawyer and our investigations expert were both on their way so meet me in my office. Grace said good morning and so did the investigations guy so I replied. She closed my door telling Debbie not to disturb us and that we'd open the door when we were finished talking, She nodded and then my office door closed. They were both looking grimly at me and I thought it was going to be bad news. It was! Turned out that Melinda didn't cheat on me with that fat asshole who she'd interviewed with after all. But she was seeing a guy from the gym she worked out at. It was an open secret among the regulars and they didn't do too much to hide it either. Suddenly I was cold.

I asked for a full report on the bastard and if he was also married. They said that he was and his wife just gave birth to twins. I immediately could see a bright spot in this news. I was going to ruin both of their lives and make sure neither of them would ever recover from their huge fuck up! I would make sure every single picture, video and audio file was sent out to everyone they both knew across not just DFW but the entire country, the whole continent! They would both regret the day they were ever born. Then I got the whole rundown on this asshole from the gym. I knew where he worked, where he lived, who he was married to and every one of his professional as well as private contacts and affiliations. Who his parents were and where they worked along with every Aunt, Uncle, Cousin and even most distant relatives across the country. I told my team that I wanted copies of everything they had and not to stop following both of them wherever they went, together and separate I wanted video and pictures of their every move. I also asked for copies of every one of their phone calls, messages, texts and emails they have ever sent to and from each other. I was going to burn them both big time and there's nothing that either of them could do about it. The die was cast!

The rest of the day seemed to go by quickly enough. Debbie and I finished everything we would need for depositions which would start next week. I called my senior partner telling him of my situation and asked for the rest of the week off. I told him that we were caught up and were ready for next week. He understood and told me to take care of myself and to let him know if there was anything that either he of the firm could do to help me to just ask. I thanked him and said bye to Debbie telling her to come to work the rest of the week and ask Julie for direction. I gave her my cell number and told her to call me for anything. Not to be shy! Then I packed up my brief case and went to the elevators to go downstairs to my car. Once i arrived I heard Melinda's voice again calling to me. I didn't stop at all. I also wondered why she kept after me if she already had a lover on the side and was fucking him as often as she could. didn't make much sense but that's what going on behind my back for several weeks if not months. Oh well, that's just life sometimes.

The next several days the pictures, video and audio was coming in fast and furious. This recent information was different from the first ones I saw. In that evidence I saw them kissing, holding hands and going into and out of a cheap local motel on the service road of Central Expressway. I couldn't believe how careless they were being. I guess they just didn't care who saw them openly cheating. This batch showed them arguing with each other a lot. Frowns an both their faces and one video showed her kicking him in the shins. Unfortunately none of the sound came across with much clarity so I couldn't make out what they were saying. I told Grace to hire an excellent lip reader with a stellar reputation and asking her to tell us what they were talking about. Grace said she knew a woman who worked with local law enforcement as well as the FBI in the past who she saw testify on several occasions. She said she was excellent and would work out fine. She wouldn't be cheap but she would be worth the money. I gave her the go ahead.

The next couple of weeks flew by at work. Debbie and I got a lot done. More than Melinda and I ever got done. I offered Debbie a fulltime position that came with a big increase in salary and she hugged my neck and accepted on the spot. She really deserved to get the positing and I knew that we would work well together for years to come. Six weeks later our team had collected everything that I would need to destroy both cheating assholes. Although from what my team discovered and the lip reader was able to tell us with a very high degree of confidence, it looked as if the love birds had a major falling out and they were no longer together any longer. I was told that Melinda quit working out at that gym as well as any other gym. When my money dried up she could no longer afford neither the dues nor the gas to get there. She moved into her mother's basement because she couldn't find a job. I have not yet hit her with the divorce papers or all the evidence we had of her affair. I also have not seen or spoken to her since before I left the house that last morning. I knew that she realized by now that our relationship was over and she was waiting for the other shoe to drop. It soon would!

The following Monday at noon our process server served Melinda, her former lover's wife as well as the asshole himself naming him party to my divorce and suing him for $1 Million in an alienation of affection law suit. I knew that I'd probably never see a dime but I wanted to drive him into bankruptcy and to force him into selling everything that was of value in his life while ruining him for decades to come. I planned on giving his soon to be ex wife whatever money I forced out of his slimy ass. I didn't want to see him suffer. But I was going to demand that he surrendered all of his parental rights so he'd never know his twins. I planned on taking care of his ex as well as her kids financially so they wouldn't suffer because they had a scumbag for a husband or father. They deserved better. When Melinda received the divorce papers and all the disgusting pictures and videos of her fucking her boyfriend everyone she knew also received the same evidence along with a written letter from me telling them who Melinda cheated with, how long it lasted and notifying them on which XXX Rated web site every slutty picture, video and audio record of their affair could be found forever for the whole world to see.

Once everyone received their packages of Melinda acting loke the whore she was I got a call from her sister telling me that Melinda had a nervous breakdown and was catatonic and confined to a state mental facility. She just told me that Melinda's prognosis wasn't good and the doctors there told them not to hold out too much hope for any meaningful recovery. I asked her what she wanted from me, sympathy, absolution? I told her never to look to me for sympathy for Melinda and if she wanted absolution, see a priest! Then I told her never to call me again no matter the reason. I also said for her to pass my message on to every member of their family and that If i ever heard from any of them again I'd slap a court order on their whole family forbidding contact again. Then I hung up, kicked back and sipped my scotch. I called out to Debbie asking where she and our little girl wanted to go for dinner? Yep, we married and I adopted her daughter. Debbie was 6 months pregnant with our son and we were very excited.