Chapter 3: The truth ‘Dead Men Tell No Tales’

Mother and Fran practiced their story all weekend. On Monday they invited Suzy over to Mother’s house on the pretense of planning a birthday party. Mother said they sat at the kitchen table talking about the party, not the affair. When Suzy went to sit her cup in the sink, Martha took out her pistol. Suzy turn and Martha shot her twice in the chest. Suzy was dead before she hit the floor. Martha picked up Suzy’s cup with a dishtowel and threw it against the wall, then took a knife out of the butcher block and put it in Suzy’s hand. Mother said she did cry when the sheriff arrived. She gave a statement then another written statement at the Sheriff’s Office. The D.A. was present for that one.

Mother said the D.A. became so mad she called her daddy, the owner of the firm and told him everything. Mr. Greene said he fired Paul and told him to pack his things and leave.

Paul disappeared! Not a trace of him at all! So no place to serve him with divorce papers. The D.A. filed for divorce under the abandonment clause. There was not much of an investigation into his whereabouts since there was no insurance involved. Everyone figured he just ran off and disappeared. It happens!

The rumor around town was that the Greene Law firm handles a lot of criminal cases and that puts them in contact with a certain element in society. And since old man Greene did not take kindly to his son-in-law cheating on his only daughter. Well who knows what really happened to Paul.

Mother died peacefully one afternoon and we buried her next to Dad in the same cemetery as Martha and her husband. I imagine they are together again somewhere. That’s what the bible teaches us.

Me? Well remember Becky? Martha’s accountant daughter? She is 10 years younger than me and slightly overweight from sitting on her ass all day. But she is a good mother for my two kids and the one we have together.

I mind my ‘P’s’ and ‘Q’s’ if you know what I mean. She has a CCP and carries her daddy’s pistol everywhere we go!

Author’s Note---Now before you start complaining that this story is ‘over the top’ just wait a minute. I got this idea off the news! There was this mother who caught her sons’ wife cheating and shot her! I gave my story a happy ending so everybody could feel warm and fuzzy this holiday season!