Confessions of the Cuckold

By J. David Core

“He destroyed everything of mine.” Eric said as tears filled his sunken eyes. “He destroyed my life. He broke my future, so I broke his windshield. I shouldn’t have to pay for that.”
The last person Eric Dadjov would have expected to confide in was the bounty hunter sent to take him to court, but his wife has betrayed him leaving his life is in shambles. A careless moment purging his anger has led to formal charges. When he learns that he might have more in common with the forlorn bounty hunter than he thinks, he just begins venting.
Gradually, the details of Dadjov’s story begin to suggest that he has a sinister plan for revenge brewing. Is the bounty hunter complicit, a dupe, or is he the next victim of the cuckold?

• Language: English
• Publisher: J. David Core
• Release date: Mar 9, 2014
• ISBN: 9781310549656

J. David Core

With a profound interest in religion, liberal politics and humor, Dave began writing in High School and has not given up on it since. His first professional writing jobs came while attending the Art Institute of Pittsburgh when he was hired to create political cartoons for The Pitt News and to write humor pieces for Smile Magazine. Dave has worked in the newspaper industry as a photographer, in the online publishing industry as a weekly contributor to Streetmail.com, and was a contributing writer to the Buzz On series of informational books and his story, The Bet in Red Dust, was published at the Western online anthology, Elbow Creek.Dave’s science fiction novel, Synthetic Blood and Mixed Emotions, is available from its publisher, writewordsinc.com.Dave currently resides in his childhood home in Toronto, OH with his beautiful girlfriend and his teenage daughter. He enjoys participating in local community events and visiting with his two adult children and his grandson.

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Confessions of the Cuckold

By J. David Core

Published by J. David Core at Smashwords

Copyright 2013 J. David Core

First Smashwords Edition March 2014

ISBN: 9781310549656

This novella is dedicated to my friends and family for all of their patience understanding and help. I also want to dedicate it to all of the unwilling cuckolds out there. Never be complacent, my friends. Also, to the players and the narcissistic unfaithful: watch your backs.

Acknowledgements: Special thanks to my beta readers, Karen Shell, Lauren Briese, Damien Buty, and Deirdre Gould.

Also by this author:

Books in the Lupa Schwartz Mystery series:

Extreme Unction

Common Sense

Other titles in the Lupa Schwartz series coming soon:

Fair Play

Shared Disbelief

Five Secrets

Hard Boiled

Other novellas by this author:

Spheres of Influence

(Time Travel Noir)

Synthetic Blood and Mixed Emotions

(Available from Write Words, Inc.)

Wingman

(A comedy of errors)

Contents

Copyright Info

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Chapter 7

Chapter 8

Chapter 9

Chapter 10

Chapter 11

Chapter 12

Notice

Author Bio

Chapter One

You know the prophet Mohammad married his wife when she was six years old, and they consummated when she was nine. The guy in my backseat was a real gold mine. Not only was I going to receive a boatload of money for bringing his sorry butt in, but I got the pleasure of listening to him justify his crimes for the whole trip in.

Do I look like a Muslim to you? I asked. Take my word for it, I’m not; so anything Mohammad may or may not have done has no bearing on what you did, sicko.

I’m just sayin’, he continued, not every society has the same standards. In the US in Appalachia, it was not uncommon for girls in their early teens to be taken as brides.

You didn’t marry anyone, I pointed out.

I might have, he said, if society would allow it.

So you’re blaming society for what you did?

Well, yeah, think about it. From the time that we’re old enough to understand that girls are different from boys, we’re conditioned to find young girls to be sexually attractive. We’re told that it’s okay to think the little girl in the next desk is pretty. Then by the time we’re sexually mature enough to appreciate them, we’re told that it’s wrong to find them attractive now. How does any of that make sense?

It makes sense because when the time comes that you are sexually mature enough to appreciate them, the ones you were finding pretty at the time are also sexually mature enough. Back then not only were you sexually immature, but so were they. And so are the ones who are that age now.

That’s not true, he said. Girls mature faster than boys.

Not that much faster, I said. You’re thirty-seven. She said she was — what — eleven?

Jerry Lee Lewis was in his twenties when he married his thirteen-year-old cousin.

Once again, you didn’t marry anyone, and Jerry Lee Lewis was kicked out of England when they learned of it.

But nobody from his hometown thought anything of it.

Right, that’s true. Nobody in Louisiana in the ‘50s thought anything of it. Unfortunately for you, this isn’t Louisiana and it’s not 1957. He was quiet for a minute, so I thought the conversation was over. It wasn’t.

I almost made it to Louisiana.

You made it to Georgia, I said, and now you’re going back to Pennsylvania to face charges. Besides, it wouldn’t matter if you had made it to Louisiana. I’d still have found you, and you’d still be in my backseat headed for justice.

Justice? How is it justice? She was willing.

She was an undercover cop.

But I didn’t know that. It’s not like I jumped her from the bushes. We had been talking online. We had a relationship. She told me she wanted to.

She told you she was eleven. That means you thought she was eleven, and an eleven-year-old cannot give legal consent.

"Mohammad had consensual sex with Aisha when she was