That following Monday I went over to see Tommy. I knew he'd be home and I wanted to see if he wanted to hang out. I knocked on the door and Annie answered it. "Hi James!" she said happily. "Hi Annie, is Tommy here? He said he'd be done working out of town. I wanted to ask him about his job," I said. "No James, he's still out of town. Apparently, they didn't get finished with the project as quickly as they wanted to. He'll...

Marina was meeting up in Manhattan with her two daughters, Natasha and Charlotte. She longed to hear how they were doing and had arranged their catch-up at a popular Italian pizzeria. Charlotte had just moved in on her own to her first apartment in Hell’s Kitchen. Dealing with the rent meant she had no money, but she was loving the city and her independence. Natasha broke the news that she and her husband Alex had broken...

I wasn’t sure how to respond after learning that our law firm was just another shell corporation of a wealthy billionaire with a questionable legal standing. Physically, Lenny didn’t seem to fit my profile of a gangster. I always pictured mob guys to be fat Italian men with balding heads that talked with a Brooklyn accent.  Lenny was none of those things. He somewhat resembled a middle-aged Paul Newman: confident, if not...

Epilogue ‘Ugh! Ugh! Ugh! Ugh!’ Tony grunted angrily as he slammed his hips into the underside of my buttocks, driving his thick cock as deep into my vagina as its stubby length would allow. Well after midnight and with too much champagne inside me, by the time the taxi had dropped me off at Tony’s apartment, I was desperate to put the difficulties of the day behind me and lose myself in an orgy of sexual degradation. “Fuc...

  I could hear her drying her hair when I set her drink on the nightstand. I sat on the edge of the bed and thought about how bizarre my life was. Why was I promoted? Bob had never even hinted that I was being considered for a promotion. In a matter of just a few hours, my life was flipped upside down. It was still difficult for me to accept that my once conservative wife was a real-life porn-star. At least she had called...

I worked in IT on a remote mine site. The position required you to Fly-in – Fly-out (FIFO) due to the remote location. I worked the 2/1 roster. Two weeks on-site and one week off. Our accommodation was within a kilometre of the office. All our communications were through satellite. Our accommodation was a single-person apartment, single rooms in line along a verandah with a bed, and a small en-suite bathroom. They were bl...

  It was impossible to focus at work. My thoughts continually drifted to the revelations I’d discovered about my wife. I was so preoccupied with all the events happening around me, I had little time to digest it all. I had reassured Marika I loved her and that finding out she was a porn actress didn’t change but we both knew that wasn’t completely true. There was no possible way I could view her in the same light ever aga...

I waited outside of the examining room while Marika was checked and samples were taken. After a few minutes, I was approached by an older police officer in plain clothes.                                                                                                                                 “Are you Mr. Robert Thomas?” he asked. “Yes.” “I’m detective Folly and I have a few questions to ask concerning Mrs. Thomas. C...

  Marika, true to her word, emailed me a list of twelve family counselors that she used in her law practice and asked me to pick one. Being a pragmatist, I gave the list of names to one of my junior research associates. I asked if he could work on it off the clock as a favor. He agreed, and within a day he had a file on each therapist. My main concern was their rate of reconciliation, but that wasn’t possible because thos...

I had just finished a case I had been working on for several months, and against all odds I won. McPherson v. the state of California was a high-profile first-degree murder trial where I was lead council for the first time. It was one of those newsworthy cases that was tried in the press, making it almost impossible not to have a tainted jury. Even my firm considered I had little to no chance of winning, which is probably...