Educating Pam

By Dossie M. Terrell

Pamela Webb was in a loveless marriage and had reached rock bottom when she revealed to her twin sister, Jan, and her friend the extent of her deprivation. Together the three women set out to vindicate the lovely Pam and in the process make public the actions of a husband who is not only an adulterer, but is also an embezzler, bigamist, and guilty of countless other infractions. In the meanwhile, Pam and Jan create a master plan to restore her self-confidence and take back control of her life as Jason Webb flaunts his affair with the woman that was once his wifes best friend. At the height of Pams transformation, the urbane FBI Special Agent, Don Dubose notices her tenderness and refinement and falls madly in love, promising her love and devotion forever.

Follow Agent Dubose exploits through the Cayman Islands and read the tantalizing vengeance of Pam and Jan as the story unfolds in the ensuing trial of the two-timing Jason Webb and Pams new beginning.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Abbott Press
• Release date: Jan 12, 2012
• ISBN: 9781458201324

Dossie M. Terrell

Ms. Terrell believes in the transformational power of love. Her writings contain messages of hope, coping, generosity and redemption. She resides in California where she writes and edits for a major online publisher. She’s also writing a novel about a dysfunctional family that finds its way back through love and trust.

Book preview

Part one

Twelve years ago they’d basked in wedded bliss;

but, over the years time had become their nemesis.

Five stair-step children left little time for romance;

it had been years since they had even danced.

Whimsical, delicate Pam always fun, always witty,

when she married Jason, many said what a pity.

Tall, aloof, and handsome with so much sex appeal,

she loved him immensely, that she could not conceal.

She constantly denied herself, his needs always first;

to her he was like water and she always had a thirst.

Jason had never loved anyone, but he liked her spirit;

he laughed at her love ideas and thought them satiric.

He believed men should be boss and rule the roost;

their wives’ chief role should be to give them a boost.

He loved sex, but the results he refused to discuss;

after the birth of each child he would put up a fuss.

Pam no longer worked because he said it shamed him;

her children were her life, she ceased going to the gym.

As the pounds piled on it drove them further apart;

she never mentioned the pain that grew in her heart.

She still loved him, but she believed he had taken a lover;

she hoped against hope their love they would rediscover.

He would look at her with distain, as he dressed to leave;

later when alone she ate, her lonely life she would grieve.

Seven plus long years she had existed in quiet despair,

her need for Jason’s love was more than she could bear.

He forced her to beg him for money for all her needs;

though once an accountant he called her silly, indeed.

Forty pounds overweight, unloved, wary and dejected,

she called her sister Jan because she felt so wretched.

Now Jan was stylish, bubbly and radiated self confidence,

she had wondered when Pam would come to her senses.

She believed in the vows of matrimony as much as anyone,

but it was time for Jason’s abuse of Pam to become undone.

Jan knew of Jason’s affairs and his harsh control over Pam;

she stayed quiet for Pam, as for him she could give a damn.

Jan sought to form a plan that would catch him unaware,

he had ignored Pam so long; what she did, he didn’t care.

With the children in school she was used to being alone,

now Jan would make some changes in his well-kept home.

She longed to take the smug look off his conceited face;

she wanted him to grieve and to experience life in a daze.

He had brought her lovely, generous sister all the way down;

she needed only six months to bring his arrogant ass around.

Part two

Jan and Pam plotted, planned and developed strategies,

on how they would make Jason suffer some indignities.

When Pam faltered, Jan cited all she’s been through;

how she needed for once to act the ass-kicking shrew.

Pam thought back to the day she met Jason at Starbucks.

He’d spent an hour telling her how much the weather sucked.

She was taken by his long eyelashes, white teeth and smile;

she never once noticed it was he who talked all the while.

With elbows on the table she listened agog and spellbound;

she had already planned a life with this love she had found.

Jason, with a captive audience, talked. This was his element;

he didn’t think of love, as with his life he was quite content.

He didn’t miss the glow in her eyes when she looked at him,

all prim and proper like the grand dames in old classic films.

He asked for a date, surprised they were both accountants.

It was a shocker, but they promised never to be combatants.

With Jason and Pam, passion was hot, igniting to flames;

he cared for her and in his heart he knew she felt the same.

After a year of romance built only on feelings and emotions,

Pam thought it time he let her show him her devout devotion.

Jason thought of the past year and all their great hot sex

finally yielding to marriage, he thought, well what the hex?

He’d thought little of marriage, his parents’ was no model;

his would be different for his Pam always loved to coddle.

As an only child, Jason was self-centered, rude and spoiled;

Pam, one of six, knew about life’s strife, drudgery and toils.

When their children started coming, Jason stayed in a huff.

The loving stopped and nothing she did was ever good enough.

Pam stopped her reveries when Jan asked for the password

to their only computer, because in their house Jason was lord.

Pam trembled with fear at the thought of invading his privacy.

Jan pushed her aside, ignored her, and showed her no mercy.

Jason, as Chief Financial Officer, often brought files home;

it never once occurred to him that they would not be left alone.

But the clever Jan flipped through pages and pages of files;

she smiled slyly as she returned one to its neatly stacked pile.

Part three

Jan went through drawers and shook out books,

often giving the frightened Pam withering looks.

Pam stood by the window and watched for Jason’s car;

but she refused to back down, they’d come too far.

Jan copied documents and often snorted in disbelief;

how would he account for his action? He was the chief.

Pam whimpered softly knowing her life was in shambles;

she still loved Jason and on it she was ready to gamble.

Jan argued about self-respect and about Jason’s lover;

Pam was afraid to dig deeper for what she might uncover.

Jan took her by the hand and drove over to a townhouse;

when she saw Jason’s car all her hopes were doused.

Her old best friend Alicia had a penthouse on the 14th floor;

they’d ceased being friends, because her conduct Jason deplored.

From the car Pam watched as he kissed Alicia’s hand.

Sick to her stomach she had seen all she could stand.

They sat in silence as tears trickled down Pam’s cheeks;

I’ve seen enough, let’s go, she said in a voice so meek.

On the way home, she looked at and rifled through files,

Well I’ll be, she said looking at Jan and finally smiled.

Pam believed in integrity and felt a depression coming on,

Jan looked over and said "Stop it, where’s your backbone?

You called me and you must know I do nothing half way,

your husband is a low-life; don’t you want to see him pay?"

Though twins, Pam, unlike Jan was slow to anger and react,

but when her mind was made up her she was pretty exact.

She thought