Blame Charlie ©

by K Pelle

Prologue

Yep, as far as I'm concerned it's all Charlie's fault and if you want to know who Charlie is, he's an outlaw-in-law of mine.  Well no, actually he verges on being an outlaw, and I happen to know that because he's an ex-in-law.  So, he might not be either an actual outlaw or an actual in-law, but he has sure turned out to be a pain in the butt.  Only, that isn't exactly right either, yet because of him I'm in a fix and I can't figure out how to get out of it, at least not so far.  Aww hell, I might as well admit that I suspect my ex-wife's brother, is responsible for setting things up so I would end up in this situation.  You might say it looks a lot like he wanted revenge, since I derailed his sister's plans to have her and her family live off my savings for the rest of their lives, only I can't figure out how or why he managed it.

At any rate I can't seem to get back to my normal life - only to be honest, I'm not too sure I really want to go back to the way things were.  When the 'incident' first happened I wanted everything to return to normal - very badly - but now things have changed.  Hell, I've changed too and I certainly don't want to go back to what my life was like before.

I don't suppose what I've written has made much sense to you, has it?  Well, over the last year or two, a lot of things haven't made sense to me either, but perhaps if I start telling this tale from day one, it might make some sense to you, not a lot I'm sure, but some - maybe?

Anyway, it all started with a phone call from Charlie, my ex-wife's younger brother . . .

Chapter 1