February Sucks: Tommy's Birthday - Sex Stories

February Sucks: Tommy's Birthday

... morning of the pretrial Dave had the names of eighteen men who wanted to come forward and add their story.

And then the biggest surprise of all, the DA wanted to meet to discuss a deal. They offered life with the possibility of parole after 25 years. The DA didn't want this thing to go to trial, there was too much of the wrong kind of publicity and he couldn't figure out a way to make political hay with it. Better to get Jim behind bars as fast as possible and get on with the rest of their lives. So that's how it went down.

But Dee came through again; she suggested they do something about the rights to the story. Maybe a book deal or a movie, there was that much interest. And with the names of those other husbands, they could really flesh out the story. It was like shooting fish in a barrel. Dave put together a trust to hold the proceeds from the story for Linda and the kids to live on. Linda was not going to be able to go back to work for a long time, her mental state was just too fragile. After the dust settled they were set for life. Jim was sent upstate to begin his sentence.

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Dee was in a reflective mood too. She knew Dave's flight didn't get in until later in the evening, which gave her plenty of time for her yearly ritual - lunch with Linda.

It was a poignant event; they had grown so much closer over the years. Although they had grown in different directions. Dee had parlayed her Marketing skills into working for the RLT from its inception. Heck, it ...

... was her idea to capitalize on the public interest to secure the book and movie deals. Now as Dave was retiring she was also making plans to step back, let the next generation take the Foundation into the future.

Linda on the other hand had been drastically changed in a different manner. She never regained the energy or bubbliness she'd had 'Before Marc'. Hah, BM - that was a fitting moniker for the shit show that night turned out to be. No, Linda had become different, quieter in some ways, kookier in others, but definitely eccentric. She was almost like Aunt Clara from the old Bewitched TV show. Not quite aligned with the real world. But still lovable, and mostly harmless.

While Dee had become Linda's de-facto guardian, and had become ever more enmeshed in the Foundation, Linda had gone back to her bookkeeping job part-time after a year's convalescence and therapy. The advance from the book deal, and then later the movie rights meant that Linda and the kids were good financially. Heck there were still royalties coming in after all these years. Thirty long years.

Linda had retired a couple of years ago; the Foundation was taking care of her so she really hadn't needed to work for quite some time. Now she mostly puttered around the garden in the compound. Hah, 'the compound'. It was really just four houses, all sharing one common back yard. Since two houses faced one street, and the other two faced to opposite street they'd been able to have separate entrances and live ...