Into the Abyss--Chapter 8 - Sex Stories

Into the Abyss--Chapter 8

... everything to your attorney so that he will be well armed when you are prepared to make a response to her initial demands." I was stunned by all of this. I guess my gut feeling about being concerned about Megan was correct, after all. I worried that her influence would drive a wedge between us, and now I understood why. "Rocco, I can't thank you enough for all of this. I'll be calling my attorney as soon as we get done here and I get a chance to tell Lucy about it. Buddy, you are worth your weight in gold." "Ha, ha, my friend. I've got one more piece of information for you, though. It's about Lucy." My heart sank when Rocco said that to me. If Lucy was somehow implicated in all of this it would break my heart. Just when I thought I had found that special someone... "Rocco, what is it? Is Lucy in on this somehow?" Rocco couldn't answer me because he was laughing too hard. Once he stopped he began to explain. "Frank, quit worrying about Lucy. I felt it was necessary to check her out for just that reason. Frank, she's legit. I couldn't find anything bad about her, other than she's had a lot of short-term boyfriends. She got a huge settlement in her divorce a few years ago. Enough to never have to work ever again and some more left over to allow her to run her business." "Business? What business, Rocco? She never said anything about having a business." "Frank, she owns one of the largest commercial real estate agencies in the Silicon Valley. She owns it, but she allows a friend ...

... to run the business and be the public face of the business. She pays the bills and rakes in the huge profits. Otherwise, you'd never know she has anything to do with it. She keeps it all very much on the back burner." I never suspected that Lucy was a wealthy woman. All this time I thought she got the house and a nice monthly stipend from her divorce. The speculation about Megan had me worried, but Rocco had no proof of anything. What a mess! My next call was to my attorney, Tom Feldmann, again back in Raleigh. He told me that he got the preliminary report from Rocco. "Frank, the stuff he has on Susan is enough to give me leverage when they come up with demands. The speculation about the college student, Megan, is useless to us because there's not only no proof, but it also doesn't have any bearing on the case. It's unscrupulous that he would offer her money for information and more so if she accepted that arrangement, but it simply doesn't help our case one bit. My suggestion to you would be to disregard it." "So what are we looking at, Tom? What's the best case scenario?" "Well, Frank, the best would be a simple division of assets, on a fifty-fifty split. I think she might agree to that in order to avoid going to a hearing and having all the details about her affair with Woolf be made public. I'm sure that he doesn't want that to happen, but you never know in these cases. She could ignore her attorney's advice and go for broke, but I highly doubt it. If she wants to keep on ...