Last Dance
Date: 7/19/2024,
Categories:
Loving Wives,
Author: byChorisero
... Board, I'm afraid that you are about to be in some very hot water."
Kate's fork stopped halfway to her mouth and her eyes widened, "You wouldn't dare. If you tried a stunt like that I'd make sure you payed dearly, and my justice wouldn't come with a warning."
"Oh my, it seems I finally have your full attention. That's good; I want you to know what is going to happen to you before it even begins. Simpel got swift justice, which is my usual way of dealing with these kinds of things. But for you I wanted it to be drawn out, so you could savor the full measure of it."
"I swear Bill, if you make this kind of trouble for me there is no place you could hide."
"I am already mostly ghost, after this lunch I will be far out of reach of you and your cronies. Let's try to stay focused, shall we. And finally for the third thing I wanted you to know. Poor Justin ate a gun this morning after coming home from the doctor's appointment where he was told the news about his being infected. I'm afraid he left a note with some very incriminating comments about you. You should never have 'done business' in front of him."
"Noooo, poor Justin; what did he ever do to you. He was just a boy!"
"I'm afraid he couldn't handle the prospect of a slow painful death. I'm not so sure he took the coward's way, or if he was truly brave. Again, water under the bridge." Bill finished the last of his salmon and sat back with a satisfied sigh.
"I've come to chat with you today not only to ...
... deliver my three presents but to explain myself to you. Consider it a form of closure if you will. As for why Simpel, let me quote how I explained it many years ago, "He had touched my woman, he needed to go. He needed to pay. Not only my sense of justice by my morals had been violated, this man was evil and had to be dealt with." You see, I really am a simple man, my motives are not complex, nor hard to understand."
"As for why I'm handing out justice to you too, you betrayed me in the worst way a woman can betray her husband. You made a mockery of my love for you, you cuckolded me with that cretin and did it willingly, you bore his child and denied me children of my own blood. It's long past time I evened the score with you. What's worse you have completely unrepentant, never in all the years since have you asked my forgiveness for that betrayal. You're worse than Simpel ever was."
"I'm not going to sit around and watch you try to squirm your way out of the storm that's coming your way. Sheila and I are going to travel for a bit, visit some foreign lands; I deserve a long vacation. As the Ethics Board is roasting you over a very hot fire, you will be getting sicker and sicker. You won't be able to try to prolong the inevitable and try to save your reputation. In fact, I'm pretty sure you won't be leaving a very positive legacy behind. I chuckled when I realized that the good name of Ford won't be dragged into the seamy tale of Judge Morgan." Bill drained the last of his ...