Arthur's Daughters

By Tony Flye

Arthur's Daughters is the story of MaryAnne, a divorcee whose husband ran out on their marriage after only six months, and of her older sisters, Margot and Margaret. The three sisters all born fourteen months apart quickly became each other's best friends. Nothing could come between them. This is the story of the three sister's lives and loves, of their trials and tribulations, their joys and heart breaks. It is the story of them at their very best and at their very worst; of their bonds of sisterhood and betrayals of those bonds.
MaryAnne's two older sisters marry a pair of brothers a week after each graduating high school and starting their own families; leaving MaryAnne with the sole responsibility of caring for their father dying of Alzheimer's. MaryAnne was forced to quit her job at the phone company as her father needed 24-7 care. The stress of caring for her father all day left MaryAnne exhausted, but she still had the night shift to cover as well. Her days quickly became waking up in the morning, taking care of her father all day and collapsing into her lonely bed every night.
That is until Sean, who was a friend of her father and a man of means comes to MaryAnne's assistance in caring for her father as his Alzheimer's got worse. Sean was a decade younger then MaryAnne. Does the age difference between them prevent MaryAnne from finding a romantic future with Sean?
MaryAnne's happiness is ruined shortly after her father's death by a jealous streak pitting one sister against the other resulting in a divorce and one sister being sentenced to spend time in jail. Arthur's Daughter is the story of the end of their sisterhood and their subsequent reconciliation and the restoration of their sisterhood.
Arthur's Daughters is the story of his daughters' families success and happiness in operating their various family businesses and his grandchildren's happiness in their own lives and their own careers.
Arthur's Daughters in the story of the sister's lives and...

• Language: English
• Publisher: Tony Flye
• Release date: Aug 11, 2017
• ISBN: 9781370660919

Tony Flye

Tony Flye's third book in the Jake Curtis / Vanessa Malone Mystery series, DEATH IN DIVORCE is in the final stages of editing and should be available by Christmas Tony is also working on a collection of short stories tentatively titled STORIES OF HORROR AND MURDER

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TONY FLYE

ARTHUR'S DAUGHTERS

Copyright 2017 Tony Flye, LLC.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Table of Contents

Dedication

Acknowledgments

Arthur’s Family

Arthur’s Daughters

About Tony Flye

Other books by Tony Flye

Connect with Tony Flye

TABLE OF CONTENTS

DEDICATION

For my beautiful Susan, the love of my life.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Cover painting by Sandro Botticelli ca 1470

Cover art by Rocky M.

ARTHUR’S FAMILY

Arthur – The patriarch of his family.

Edna – Arthur's wife, Edna, the love of his life and Matriarch of the family.

Margot – Arthur and Edna's oldest daughter with dark raven black hair.

Robert – Margot's husband, Dennis' brother.

Robin – Margot and Robert's first born daughter. married two daughters.

Robert, Junior – Margot and Robert's first born son. General manager of family's Cadillac dealership.

Arthur – Margot and Robert's second born son. Arthur's grandson. Named after his grandfather. A surgeon.

Margaret – Arthur and Edna's middle daughter with curly red hair.

Dennis – Margaret's husband, Robert's brother.

Jack – Margaret and Dennis' first born son. Auto mechanic at the family auto shop. Married widow with two boys.

Chris – A young widow, Jack's new wife.

Timmy and Tommy – Chris' two sons from her late husband.

Emily – Jack and Chris' baby daughter.

Eric – Margaret and Dennis' second born son. Operations manager at the family auto shop.

MaryAnne – Arthur and Edna's youngest daughter with golden blond curls.

Jimmy – MaryAnne's first husband. Stabbed to death by another inmate in a Wyoming prison.

Sean – MaryAnne's second husband.

Edna – MaryAnne and Sean's first daughter. Arthur's granddaughter. Named after her grandmother. An elementary school teacher.

Joan – MaryAnne and Sean's second daughter. Arthur's granddaughter. Named after her father. Fashion designer.

AnnaMarie – MaryAnne and Sean's third daughter. Arthur's granddaughter. Married, mother of five.

Donald – AnnaMarie's husband tall broad shouldered, blond haired man impeccably dressed. Destined to take over his fahter’s business.

ARTHUR'S DAUGHTERS

Arthur's wife, Edna, the love of his life. She bore him three daughters. Margot, the oldest daughter with dark raven black hair, Margaret, the middle daughter with curly red hair and Maryanne, the youngest with golden blond curls. Each daughter's birth occurred about a year or so apart.

Arthur had been on the city's police force for only three years when he met Edna at a church social. Edna was a young beauty with curly, flaming red hair like her daughter, Margaret inherited. During their courtship days Arthur couldn't understand how such a beautiful woman could fall in love with him, but she did. Arthur wasn't movie star handsome; he felt he wasn't handsome at all. He felt he was just an ordinary pug.

Edna and Arthur married nine months later. After a blissful year Margot came along. Fourteen months later Margaret came along and fourteen months after Margaret, Maryanne came along. Arthur and Edna and their three daughters were happy until three years later Edna developed a cough she couldn't shake. Edna's cough was a forewarning of the virulent cancer she contracted. She died nine months after her diagnoses. Arthur had three baby girls all under four years old to be both father and mother to.

Arthur did the best he could raising his three toddler daughters alone. This is to say he didn't have his choice of compatible lady friends, but for some reason the ladies and his daughters didn't quite get along. He thought jealousy may have been the problem, but he wasn't sure who was jealous of whom.

Arthur was the only child of two only children. He had no uncles, no aunts, no cousins. Arthur's father died six months before he and Edna married. His mother died three days before Margot's birth.

Edna's parents turned their backs on their only child when she told them Arthur asked her to marry him – and she accepted his proposal. Her parents didn't like the idea of their daughter marrying an ordinary street cop. Edna's parents didn't want anything to do with Edna from that point on, including her children, their own grandchildren.

Later after Edna passed from the cancer, Edna's father irrationally blamed Arthur for causing Edna's cancer and managed to convince his wife Arthur was to blame for their daughter's death. In their grief they somehow they conceived the notion Arthur gave Edna the cancer. Nothing anyone could tell them, including Edna's own doctor, would change their minds. They hated Arthur even more. They thought he was the devil's own spawn. They didn't even attend their daughter's funeral. Arthur had no one to turn to for help raising his three baby daughters.

One day two or three years or so later while on a routine patrol Arthur made a traffic stop. The driver of the ten year old Cadillac didn't come to a complete stop at stop sign, then made a left turn without a proper signal. As the driver slowed for the stop sign Arthur noticed the left rear brake light didn't come on when the right one lit up. As Arthur approached the car, the driver tossed his lit cigarette butt out of the car window. When he got to the driver's side window, Arthur recognized the driver. He was Edna's father. The man grew ancient in the years since Arthur last saw him. Arthur grinned inwardly. The old man is going to find out payback's a bitch.

I want to see your driver's license and insurance card, Arthur said firmly, but politely, leaving off the usual honorific sir.

What did I do? the driver asked. He didn't recognize the cop as his late daughter's husband, Arthur; the father of his unacknowledged and unseen grandchildren.

I said, I want to see your driver's license and insurance card, Arthur said. The old man begrudgingly retrieved the requested items from his wallet and held them in his hand as he stuck his hand out the window. He still had no idea who the police officer was. Arthur didn't plan to tell him anytime this side of the courtroom.

Arthur carried the driver's license and the proof of insurance back to his patrol car and contacted motor vehicles to verify the names and addresses. After about twenty minutes the driver became apprehensive and fidgeted around nervously. Good Arthur thought, let the bastard sweat. Arthur began to think maybe his father-in-law did recognize him, but didn't know from where.

Arthur called into the police records sections asking about any outstanding warrants he could arrest his former father-in-law for or any other transgressions he could use to make his father-in-law's life a living hell, if only for an hour or so. Unfortunately, his father-in-law, other than being a hateful father, father-in-law and uncaring grandfather, had no warrants outstanding against him.

Arthur returned to his father-in-law's car with four citations in his hand I'm giving you four tickets, one for running the stop sign...

I stopped at it, his father-in-law said in protest.

Arthur ignored the old man's comment. ...one ticket for failure to signal the last left turn you made... His father-in-law,