It was a standard 12 month pregnancy while Teddy was off in Iraq. Then four assassins tried to kill the people Teddy was ordered to protect. Now he's disabled, out of a job, and has to deal with a faithless wife, public humiliation, and an uncertain future. But he is a Hero!
A continuation of The Troubador's classic open ended story. "Oh what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive." The true price for what Susan coveted was more than she could bear.
Edward had a great life and a wonderful wife. Then his wife became a stranger and his life was torn apart by a sinister plot centered upon who and what Carole really was. When he dug to find the truth, he learned that he had never truly known his wife at all. Cheating and deception was just the start of it! When the plotters beat him up and threatened him with ruin, he ended any hold they might have over him and died, more or less. For a while, at least. Until he got bored.
His wife Brenda had run off with his best friend. Her Fuck You Rollie letter said he was a boring, lazy, selfish, ugly, disgusting, needle-dicked, fat slob: what he called the seven deadly husband sins. All he seemed to have left in his life was his daughter off in college and his pride in his job '" and he had been slacking off on the job some. Now he was haunted by that letter and the seven deadly sins, so he decided to ask someone about one of them. Her response surprised him.
Dan is a methodical man once he has decided on a course of action. A good example of the axiom, "Never monkey around with another monkey's monkey," but there are no actual monkeys in the story.
A wife who is adamant about fidelity cheats. An honest man lies and lies and lies. Getting fired seems like the unluckiest thing that can happen to Jeff - or is it an opportunity? How do you rank lucky events? Heck, how can you even recognize their true nature at the time?
Well, I'm not. I get in dark moods. I piss people off. I have anger management issues. I just got busted from detective to blues-wearing patrol officer. And now I'm listening to another abused wife and mother that the system can't protect from her asshole husband. That's putting me in an even darker mood. I gotta do something!
All Bob wanted was to get something out of his marital mess, but Alice saw right through him. But then she joined in on his plan to gobsmack their adulterous spouses. And then she decided she wanted to stick it to her louse of a spouse, Ted. And then...
