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    Sometimes Women Want Revenge
    Sometimes Women Want Revenge
    Sometimes Women Want Revenge
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    Sometimes Women Want Revenge

    By Mike Ward

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    When he was young man Josh Silverstein had a choice between two women. He could have stayed with Amy, the girl he was with at the time who he loved deeply or he could have gotten involved with a woman called Judith. Josh married Judith and had a daughter with her but now he is full of regrets. His daughter loves him but his wife does not. They are civil to each other but the life has gone out of his marriage.

    When Josh left Amy, he left her in a mess and he is with Judith because his business partner wanted things that way. Unknown to Josh, Amy Ryan is headed for his house right now but the meeting could go two ways. If Amy senses that Josh still loves her then maybe she will hold off on what she has planned but if Josh is callous or heartless to her then all Amy's rage and all her hatred and despair are going to come out and if that happens then the consequences for Josh Silverstein are going to be very, very bad.

    In his daughter's bedroom, Josh looks out of the window and see his old girlfriend heading up his driveway. His first thought is that there must not be a scene. He goes down to meet her in the porch and from there everything goes bad, terribly bad.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMike Ward
    Release dateMar 29, 2016
    ISBN9781310549922
    Sometimes Women Want Revenge
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    Mike Ward

    Mike Ward was born in Glasgow, Scotland and currently lives in Florida, United States with his wife and two children. He is the author of two novels, two non-fiction books and six series of novellas:Parallel Realities seriesThe House on Mars seriesJacksonville Jack seriesStephen Haggerty Assassin seriesLisa Molin Assassin seriesDangerous Scotsman seriesHe is also the author of 60 short stories and novellas

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      Sometimes Women Want Revenge - Mike Ward

      Sometimes Women Want Revenge

      by Mike Ward

      (Author of The Banker With a Face Full of Evil)

      Cover photo taken in Jacksonville, Florida by Mike Ward

      Copyright 2016 Mike Ward

      Published by Mike Ward at Smashwords

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      Sometimes Women Want Revenge

      Josh will you go and get Mr. Bubbles?

      Josh Silverstein went upstairs. He found Mr. Bubbles on Rachel’s bed. Mr. Bubbles was actually quite old, he had been Josh’s toy when Josh was young. Josh’s father Elias had bought Mr. Bubbles when Josh was just a young boy. Mr. Bubbles was a kind of good luck charm, whenever the young Josh had any problems his father would get hold of Mr. Bubbles and ask Mr. Bubbles to take the problems away. Unlike Josh’s other toys Mr. Bubbles had made it into adulthood, partly or even mainly because Josh had come to regard Mr. Bubbles as something that could take his problems away.

      Josh’s father had been a skilled narrator and had written children’s books and somewhere along the line the young Joshua had come to believe his father’s words. His father had always been good at giving positive reinforcing examples to the extent that Josh had come to believe in the ability of the toy to deflect bad luck.

      Mr. Bubbles had been there for Josh at all the critical moments in his life. When Josh took his final exams for his degree he had kissed Mr. Bubbles on the forehead every night and asked for top marks. Mr. Bubbles had come through like he always did and Josh had come first out of five hundred students. He had learned early on to keep very secretive about Mr. Bubbles and when he was a teenager and a student Mr. Bubbles had stayed in a closet and just come out when Josh needed him. His wife Judith did not share Josh’s belief in Mr. Bubbles with the result that Mr. Bubbles had become Rachel’s toy which allowed Josh to still ask Mr. Bubbles for good luck although he only did that when he was alone with Rachel. Interestingly, Mr. Bubbles seemed to do the same for Rachel as he had for Josh and whenever little Rachel had a problem she was upset about Mr. Bubbles could be relied upon to bring good luck or help the problem go away.

      Josh smiled as he picked Mr. Bubbles up off Rachel’s bed. He smoothed the bed down and then looked out of the window. It was a sunny day although there were some clouds on the horizon. He looked down at the street and what he saw down there was a problem that even Mr. Bubbles could not take away. A young elfin girl was walking up the driveway. He knew that girl well, in fact he knew her more than well. She was still beautiful. Their catchphrase came into his head, I’ll be a six, you be a nine.

      They had been together for more than four years. She was an artist, a writer, a wood sprite, all of that. She had been bursting with creativity. He had screwed that creativity up when he left her. He was a bad man, he knew that. He was not the man his father had wanted him to be. In all outward aspects he was successful. A two year old Maserati stood in the driveway, he was married to a Jewish woman with an impeccable pedigree. On paper he was a good provider, a perfect husband and yet he and Judith did not love each other.

      He looked down at the driveway again. Amy was a woman now and not a young girl. He had taken her girlhood away. If things had gone as they were intended to go then that would not have mattered because it would be Amy that was the mother of Rachel instead of that damn shrew downstairs with her. He had screwed up badly. When he left Amy he had destroyed two lives. He had not only destroyed her life, he had destroyed his own as well. He had not realized that fully until a few moments ago when he saw her walking up the driveway.

      He had met Amy about the same time that he had met his business partner Eliot Setzer. Eliot Setzer was a cold hard ruthless man who had seen promise in Josh and taken him under his wing. At the time Josh had been a young investment banker and Setzer had been a jaded old idiot but a very successful old idiot. Their relationship had changed over the ten years they had known each other. Setzer was still a disagreeable jaded old idiot but Josh, who had been a young man with promise and expectations had become more and more like his mentor. He knew now that he had become just a younger version of the old man. His father would have been horrified that Josh had gone into business with a crook like Setzer but he had died the year before Josh had met Eliot Setzer. At the time he had felt like he had lost his way and the older man had become somewhat of a replacement father figure. By the time Josh realized that all the old man wanted was

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