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I could've pursued her for all the money she spent on Clark, but I just wanted to burn that particular bridge. Clean the slate. Being tied up in court for two or three years, including all the associated time and legal expense just wasn't worth it.
Angie is now living and working in Grapevine, in the DFW Metroplex.
Clark Deering got out of prison and disappeared into the oil fields of the Permian Basin, where a pulse and the ability to pee clean were all that were required to take one of the thousands of available, well-paying energy jobs. He now reports to an Ector County P.O. only every other month and spends all his time and effort staying out of trouble.
Why the P.I. checking on them? After what they tried to do to me, I plan to keep track of them. Peace of mind, let's call it, and let it go at that.
As for Jennifer and me? Jennifer is in her senior year at Texas State in San Marcos, where she will complete her business degree in May. I've closed the stamp store, as the tempo of my life has picked up considerably. My Wagnerian goddess has added a meaning and a purpose I never had before. Our relationship is like a steady, smooth sailing vessel compared to my previous leaky rowboat. She's now wearing a beautiful engagement ring I gave her fifteen months after she walked into my stamp store. We've been taking it slow and easy, but we're getting married at a venue on Canyon Lake in June. Just a few close friends and family. About 300 of them, mostly Pace's and related.
Philately is still part of my life, and I continue to invest in and trade investment grade philatelic collectibles. The Pace Family Foundation and Trust, which I now run full time, takes up most of my working time. I sold the home on Lamar Street in Wescott, and renovated an old rural post-office building near Canyon Lake. It's a native limestone WPA building from the Depression era, which my cousin Diane Pace-Abell sold to me for a dollar. She saved it from a developer who wanted to build a block of condos on the site. The sale to me was on the condition that I renovate it as a home, yet keep the historical character of the original building.
Looking back, I went through hell for a while, but sometimes, you have to go through the fire to know the full measure of real happiness and peace on the other side. I know that my mother would have loved Jennifer. Maybe it was even Mom that sent her to me!
One can only dream.
- COMMENTS
TrainerOfBimbosabout 1 month agoI like the story, but I don't see how the appreciation of the stamp collection during the marriage is a communal asset as it should be considered a separate asset as he inherited it prior to the marriage and it appreciated on it's own without any further work or investment from him. Furthermore - if he has enough money to have a trust, then why doesn't his trust own his assets, making them essentially untouchable in a civil divorce?
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For example, I have a trust that owns an LLC of which I am the managing director (an employee of the trust). Typically I am the trustee of the trust, but if I ever run into legal issues, I just make my law firm the trustee and I make myself an employee of the LLC. Thus any court judgements against me personally that are in regards to any asset owned by the trust are not-enforceable as I don't have the legal power to enforce them.
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This may sound like crazy mumbo jumbo but it's how people protect family businesses and it's not expensive to set up.
ImNotanAnonabout 1 month agoAbout 4 pages too long. You do like to read your own stuff, don'tcha? It's like watching a self-absorbed narcissist give themselves their daily affirmations in front of a mirror.
Ocker53about 2 months agoSorry but there is just no emotion, the MC acts like his just reading off a script, he says his angry or his rage was “building” but then the MC actions are just like it’s another day at the office, the emotion is just plastic. ⭐️⭐️
RanDog0254 months agoGood story! I read a redo by another Author and he didn't do so well. Thanks for this one, it worked well all the way around, well done! 5 BIG ASS FUCKING HUGE FLAMING NOVA STARS!
inka22225 months agoThis was a good story. I'm giving it 4.5 stars, rounded up to 5, because while the general reconciliation and forgiveness motif doesn't sell well for me, the author actually did a pretty good selling job. with one exception. My main complaint while reading was the "while I'll never be able to make it up to you" - the rejoinder to which was an easy "sure you can, by paying back 250K you defrauded him of, even if you can't give back 2 years of life you stole". Ordinarily a statement like that would have cost the story a full star, but the author fairly meticulously enclosed that particular fly in the ointment into amber, with the "spent on accounting degree" which I found satisfactory enough.
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Instead, the deducted half a star, was because what the author didn't sell me on AT ALL, was the heel face turn of the bitch. I can't possibly believe that simply viewing the tapes, she went from evil psycho, to self-aware responsible human being. This is the "redeeming Martian Ray" equivalent of MSR. To quote Stanislavsky's famous exclamation, "NOT BELIEVABLE!". The "best revenge is living well" for the MC offset that downside, though.
26thNC7 months agoGreat story. Looks like both cheaters learned their lessons a little too late. If you Texas is getting full of Californians, you should see Arizona. I had to sell my Scottsdale condo and move to Montana to get away from them. Fucking idiots were putting food out for the Javelinas of all things. I did make some money on the condo, so I have that going for me.
oldpantythief7 months agoThis is a much better story than I first thought. It pays to continue reading in some cases. Good thing about your stories are that I might have increased my vocabulary because I needed to Google a bunch of words I'm not familiar with. Only problem is I forget most of them as soon as I read further on, oh well. Almost laughed when I read where you said "Thank the damn Californians moving to central Texas for that!", but it's not a laughing matter any longer. My nephew that has lived in Austin for a number of years had to just get out because of the crap that's going on there. Can't say it's much better here in Houston either. Don't care what some of the other commenters think, I gave this story five stars, thanks.
Stubbyone9 months agoAgain, decent writing but way to much filler information. In my opinion you would do better on scores if you made your stories simpler. You get carried away and include so much detail as to make your reader (me), skip paragraph after paragraph, then whole pages getting to meaningful parts of the story. Just writing a lot of words does not make you an author.
Get a “good editor” who can help you boil down your stories a bit. Long, drawn out, and boring are not complimentary adjectives you want used in the description of your writing.
You have skills. Get to the point sooner.
Calico7511 months agoGood job and enjoyable version trope. It seemed to drag a little, but not enough to stop reading. I would never hire a CPA with a felony record, but maybe that's just me. Thanks for sharing!
