Chapter 4

The rest of the week almost seemed like it went by in a blur. Anna and the girls spent their nights alternating between the hotels bars and nightclubs and sleeping most of the day. They had new suitors every night. Tuesday night was a real treat for them, they ended up meeting a large group of black men. Ten in total and brought them back to their room.

I never bothered watching any more footage after that first night. I left all that up to my team to handle. After the girls would take their men to their room, I would meet up with Shelly. We spent as much time together as we could over the seven full days I had in Atlantic City. We made love every day but we also went out quite a bit, Shelly took me sightseeing to the good places and not to the standard tourist traps.

I was sad to leave as Shelly and I would not be able to see each other as often, but I did have some weekend training seminars that I had to conduct for the next three weekends. It just so happened that the training consisted of spending time with the new love of my life in Atlantic City. My upcoming plans did need to be altered a bit, but in a good way.

I cut my wife off from sex by pulling the ‘I’m Too Tired’ card, which was easy to pull off as I kept long days at work to play into the ruse. Anna bought into it and all was well on the surface at the Miller house.

Surveillance continued for the next two girls’ nights out. The last one, the night before our twenty-fifth anniversary party was going to be an interesting one for the team. They needed to pull off the ultimate undercover plan.

About two weeks before the anniversary party I met with Frank, Tony, and Dave for drinks one night. I showed them evidence of their wives cheating on them, they did not take the news very well and were a little pissed off that I hadn’t told them sooner. I apologized and made them promise not to mention anything to their wives until after I exposed my wife. They readily agreed once I promised to set them up with my lawyer for free.

Friday, the day before the anniversary party and the day of the girls’ night out, I paid for Anna, Danielle, and Heather to have a mother-daughter day at a spa. They had massages and skin wraps, manicures, and pedicures. While they were out doing that I removed most of the money from our joint accounts and placed them into a couple of savings accounts under my lawyer’s protection.

I checked Anna’s phone from the clone I had made one last time, to make sure that everything for tonight would still be happening. A peek at her calendar showed me that she had an appointment on Monday with her gynecologist, I wonder if that might have something to do with her not taking her birth control for nine days last month. I smile. With everything finally in place, all I had to do was wait until tomorrow evening for the real fun to begin.

“Pop!” I hear as I feel a hand on my shoulder. “Hey, Pop!”

I turn my head to see my oldest, Roger standing next to me.

“Pop, you feeling alright? I called out to you five times.” Stated Roger.

“Oh. Sorry Son. I’m ok, just lost in thought is all” I answered.

“Danielle says it’s time for your presentation and speech,” Roger tells me.

“Right, I suppose it is time,” I reply.

I finish off the top-shelf whiskey in my glass and set it down on the small table beside me. Roger escorts me to a podium set up in front of all the guests that are mingling. My oldest daughter Danielle is waiting for me. Beside the podium is a projector that is casting photos of the life my wife and I had led up to this point.

Danielle gets everyone’s attention, “Everyone please, could I have your attention? My father has a speech and a presentation prepared for my mother and everyone else on this wonderful occasion of their twenty-fifth wedding anniversary.”

My daughter hugs me and we kiss each other’s cheek. She walks over to our family and friends and joins them, awaiting my presentation. In front of me was my beautiful wife Anna, and next to her were her parents and our children. Flanking my wife are her friends and their spouses. Tony, Frank, and Dave now have huge grins on their faces as they knew what was about to happen.

One thing I had insisted on for this evening was no children as alcohol would be served, but the real reason was because of the show that would take place soon. I looked down in front of me on the podium, at my tablet which is running the current slide show. I smile and look up at my wife, she smiles at me completely unaware of how her life is going to be turned upside down in a matter of minutes.

“Good evening and welcome everyone,” I open up with. “I am glad that you are all here to join us in this grand celebration. For thirty years now Anna and I have been together and for the past twenty-five we had been happily married.” My oldest daughter being very astute, immediately picked up on my use of past tense in reference to her mother’s and I’s marriage and her smile faded from her face.

“We bought a nice house and raised and raised four smart and wonderful children who have a bright future ahead of them.” Three of my children smiled with great joy as well as their mother and grandparents. “I can truly say that my children are the best things that have ever happened to me and I could not be prouder of them.”

I smiled at my kids, Danielle stared at me with a ‘what the fuck’ look on her face. “Now Anna and I have had our little spats over the years just like any married couple. Little fights over the typical things, such as whether we get a dog, where to go on family vacations, and what color to paint the bathroom once the renovation was done.

“None of those had been more enlightening of the character of my wife than the one we had just three months ago.” The smile on my wife’s face began to falter. She may be putting two and two together. “Three months ago I came home from work one day, and while we were having dinner I asked Anna to request two weeks off from work so that I could take her on a cruise to celebrate our anniversary.

“I was told that she could not get the time off because she had already requested time to go on a trip to Atlantic City with Emily, Denise, and Veronica. She became infuriated with me when I asked why she would do such a thing knowing that our twenty-fifth anniversary was this summer.

That night was the first night in our marriage that we ever intentionally slept in separate rooms in our house. Now I will accept partial responsibility for that as I was the one to refuse to sleep in the same room as Anna, but that was because I became very suspicious of my dear wife.”

The smile had completely vanished from her face as well as the natural color in it. The faces of her friends behind her had also gone blank and pale. Everyone else except for Tony, Dave, and Frank now wore an expression of confusion. I pulled up the file labeled ‘Scorched Earth’ on my tablet.

“This is the greatest hits from the girls’ trip to Atlantic City provided by my Private Investigator.” I declared

“NOOOO!” My wife screams.

I smile at her and hit the play button. The slide show on the wall behind me stops and the real show begins. The room fills with the sounds of my wife and her friends being fucked by random men that are now being broadcasted on the wall. My wife collapses to the floor in tears. Gasps can be heard from our friends and family.