"No, Tony, Don't Get Involved. He'll Kill You," My Cheating Wife Screamed, Trying To Make Her Lover

hello my dear listener and Welcome to our channel are you ready babe Sheila asked without waiting for me to reply she carefully lowered herself to tease me God I've missed this she smiled down at me but just as she began to pick up the pace I heard a strange banging noise in the back of my mind Sheila's smile turned into a mocking laugh as her vision began to fade from my mind I was almost fully awake now the dream or nightmare as it always turned into was gone I realized the noise was someone banging on

my front door struggling out of bed I grabbed my robe and made my way towards the door of my flat Mr San open up it's the police I Heard a Voice demand as I got closer to the door upon opening the door I was confronted by four men two of whom were in police uniforms one of the men in plain clothes whom I didn't recognize stepped forward Martin slan I'm detective Sergeant Moon he said flashing his warrant card at me can we come in I'd like a word with you if I may I'd seen enough

warrant cards in my life to know it was genuine at first glance but having grown up on what some folks would consider the wrong side of town I asked for a better look at his card just to piss him off a little look I didn't know what these wankers wanted but I hadn't done anything I needed to worry about okay what is this all about I asked as I switched the kettle on after leading them into the kitchen if you don't mind I'll ask the questions DS Moon replied in that case I won't answer any

questions until my solicitor is present have you got something to hide Mr sleman he demanded alarm Bells really started going off in my head to be honest I'd known DC Douglas Collins the other arshole for years he knew my name was Marty to everyone the Mr San bit spelled trouble big time no but I feel slightly outnumbered here if you want to ask me questions I want to know in what context you're asking them it's not often that I get woken up at I looked at the clock it's 5:00 what the hell's so important that

you've got to wake me at this time of the bloody morning I'm making inquiries concerning your wife's accident what accident your wife was involved in an accident last night and I would like to know where you were around 11:00 p.m. I was here alone as I am most evenings nowadays is my ex-wife badly hurt she's an intensive care but the doctors tell me that the prognosis is reasonable now would you be so kind as to tell me where we can find your Range Rover do you suspect that had something to do with my ex-wife's accident

Mrs sleman and a Mr Anthony Pride were walking down Finchley Road at approximately 11:00 last evening a Range Rover traveling quite fast mounted the pavement and drove straight at them the car hit your ex-wife but missed Mr Pride he claims it was a deliberate attempt to kill both of them the Range Rover drove off without stopping now I would like to take a close look at your Range Rover please you'll have to wait a couple of hours yet Bessie's in Roland's garage having the gearbox replaced again she's been in there all bloody week DS Moon

looked at the two uniformed officers and they left presumably to visit Roland is there any way you can prove that you were here last night Mr sleman that's a good one how the hell am I expected to prove that I was alone in my flat the definition of being alone means that I had no one here to vouch for me doesn't it well in that case I'm going to ask you to come down to the station and help me with my inquiries sure but you won't mind if I call my brief first and then get

dressed will you I called my solicitor who wasn't best pleased to be woken at that time of the morning and then I got dressed as we left the flat I just happened to notice Mrs Cummings our local nosy Parker watching us through her kitchen window since her husband passed away some years ago Mrs Cummings had little else to do but watch the Cummings pun intended and goings of her neighbors I turned to Doug Collins if you have a word with the old witch in there she'll probably give you a detailed list of my movements all

week nothing gets past her no matter what time of night DC Collins and DS Moon exchanged glances then Collins walked back and knocked on the old girl's door DS Moon and I continued down to their car after sitting there for some time DC Collins appeared out of the block of flats and Mooney went over to meet him they had an animated conversation for a few moments then DC Collins came over to me to be fair Doug Collins wasn't really a bad bloke at school we got him quite well together but I'm afraid we've had a

couple of run-ins since he took up his chosen profession the old girl says there's no way you left your flat between 8:00 when you got home and 2:00 in the morning when she went to bed does the old girl stay up until all the neighbors are in bed I don't know but she likes her bit of Gossip I suppose you heard about the woman in number 22 the old witch reckons she's on the game while her old man is at Sea yeah I got chapter and verse on that one anyway the sarge reckons what the

old girl says puts you right out of the frame mind you he's still going to take a bloody good look at your car that's his prerogative but he won't find anything anyway what hospital is Sheila in I'd like to check up on her the Royal I'm afraid she's in a bad way Marty she's in the ICU and they're not sure if she'll pull through you realize we have to treat it as murder until we know for sure which way the cookie crumbles and with that last little debacle between you and Sheila we have little option

but to investigate your whereabouts don't worry I understand you've got a job to do right now I'm going back up to have a shave then I'm heading down there Marty you're still hung up on that woman aren't you what do you think Doug you've known us long enough but she dumped you for that slimy prick Tony Pride didn't she to be honest with you Doug I'm not sure what happened at first but you know me once I got out of my pram I wouldn't listen to any explanations and blew my top I thought she divorced

you she did but she didn't have much choice I was climbing the walls and threatening to kill her and pridey I suppose that's what sent your DS chasing around here so quickly not really it was pridey who pointed the finger at you look I think we need to have a word off the books about all this later on if you don't mind I'll be in the plow about 6ish I tend to eat there as soon as the kitchen opens I'll try to make it there tonight I'd better go now the sarge is getting impatient he

hasn't had his breakfast yet oh what was his plan let me sweat it out in a Cell while he had his breakfast not far off but as you hadn't been charged he'd probably leave you waiting in an interview room for an hour or so I watched the officer's drive away and then went back up to my flat to call my brief and let him know he wouldn't be required at the station then I prepared myself for my visit to the hospital Sheila and I had met in a bar about 12 years ago the guy she'd

been with was apparently one of those blos who when they get a few pints down them think they're the king of the world and look for a scrap but he picked a fight with the wrong guy someone quite small who I suppose he thought he could handle easily he might have been half cut but he wasn't that stupid his trouble was he picked on a guy whose brothers were in The Other Bar it might have been very messy if the governor hadn't been quick Off the Mark and got the police to turn up anyway after

her date was hauled off to the Nick by the local constabulary I being the gentleman that I am and with a knife of the off chance offered Sheila the benefit of my protection and a lift home well we never actually went straight home we stopped in another Pub for a quiet drink to calm Sheila's nerves down a bit from there we dated steadily for several months until she went off to University it was 4 years later and I was playing best man at a friend's wedding who should turn up as a bridesmaid but Sheila now

everyone knows that the best man is supposed to look after the bridesmaid so the next thing you know Sheila and I wake up in the morning in the same bed damn that I had been too pissed to remember our first night together although I do remember rogering one of the other bridesmaids earlier in the evening Sheila must have played hard to get to start with I think she had expected me to wait for her while she was at Uni but as i' heard she was playing the field heed up there I had no intention of

being played for a fool anyway let's cut to the chase Sheila and I were married 6 months later when she was 4 months pregnant I think we were very happy together I'll say I because you can never really tell what other folks are thinking can you all you can ever be certain of are the feelings in your own heart unfortunately we lost our little Cathy at 3 months caught death syndrome they said that's just their way of saying we don't know why your baby Di died the trouble with that one is there are always folks

who will make up their own minds about what happened and gossip behind your back Sheila's cycle went to pot after little Cathy went we tried really hard for the next few years but Sheila just didn't fall pregnant again the doctor put her on the pill to regulate her cycle but that of course didn't do much for our baby making plans she could however hold down a job after she was on the pill something she'd had a lot of trouble with over the years PMT is only supposed to last for a couple of days when Sheila's

cycle was up the creek hers could last for a couple of weeks at a time things were happier at home as well with her cycle going haywire home life hadn't been too Pleasant on occasion well things settled down for about 3 years then the subject of children came up again we figured that the pill might have sorted out Sheila's cycal problem and if she came off it with luck things should return to normal best laid plans of Mice and Men Sheila's periods now came at regular intervals but we still didn't get lucky in the child

Stakes still these things can take time then one afternoon I came home from work and Sheila wasn't home yet she was always home before me I started getting dinner ready well I tried but I'm not much cop at the old cooking work after wondering around the kitchen like a lost sheep for half an hour or so I resorted to the old standby and called the local Chinese to have a takeaway delivered by 7:00 the Chinese had arrived but there was still no sign of Sheila I've got to say by now I was getting very worried

after all you read some strange stories in the newspapers nowadays I called her office but the security guard said they had all left hours ago I started calling her friends from work luckily we had one of those personal phone books by the phone and Sheila had written everybody's number in it I could get an answer from any of her workmates so from that I assumed she must have stopped for a drink with them after work but by now it was gone 9:00 well it was half 1 when the taxi pulled up outside and a very

noisy Sheila staggered out shouting good night to her friends I took up a superior stance sitting in the kitchen awaiting her arrival I think I should point out here that we tended to use the kitchen door as the main entrance it's just the way the house was laid out when they converted it from a barn it was the nearest door to the road maybe I overdid the look of disdain I had on my face I'm not sure but when Sheila walked in the door she took one look at me and then before I could really

get into playing the annoyed husband she just said screw you I've got a right to go out for a drink with my friends now and again then she turned I assumed with the intention of going through the door that led to the hall and the stairs to the bedroom unfortunately Sheila opened the door to the basement instead and then promptly went ARS over tip down the stairs as quick as I tried to be I wasn't able to get there in time when I saw Sheila turning the wrong way did I shout a warning to her

I really couldn't remember I just saw her disappearing through the Cellar Door the ambulance arrived surprisingly quickly and Sheila was hauled off to casualty luckily Sheila hadn't broken any bones the doc said that was most likely because she was drunk something to do with the body being relaxed but she had taken a nasty bump on the head and she was suffering from a concussion so they kept her in for observation what I couldn't understand was her attitude toward me that night but then I didn't like what one of the docs said to me he asked

if Sheila and I were in the habit of taking recreational drugs I told him there was no way either of us took any drugs he just raised his eyebrows and went to turn away look I've never been one to hold my tongue so I asked him to elaborate on why he'd asked the question but he wouldn't the following day when I went went to visit Sheila in the hospital quite late as I had been up most of the night detective Constable Douglas Collins was coming out of her room as I arrived he just said hi

to me and kept on walking past when I asked Sheila what he was doing there she said he was investigating her accident but Sheila apparently had no recollection of the previous day at all that evening after I arrived home DC Collins came to call I had to give him chapter and verse of the previous day's events he took a good look around the k and at the basement stairs I had to show him where I had been sitting I pointed out the security monitor that I had watched Sheila arrive home on then I found and

played him the part of the video that showed Sheila arriving home so he could see and hear her getting out of the taxi and staggering towards the house after that he did what I thought was a strange thing he asked me to go outside the door and Shout I never could understand the point of that but it did give him a little time alone in the house after he asked me to come back inside he requested that I play the video of Sheila coming home again only this time he asked me to let it run

on a little longer I was surprised that you could not only hear me shouting to Sheila that she was going through the wrong door but also her scream as she fell as well he left apparently satisfied that it had been an accident but he steadfastly refused to tell me why he thought it was anything else it was the next day when I visited Sheila in the hospital that I first clapped eyes on Tony Pride as I walked along the corridor several of her friends from work were coming away from from her room later I was

to find out that one of them was Tony Pride when I entered her room Sheila told me the doctor had told her she could go home but she was to take things easy for a while I helped her dress and then drove her home of course I wanted to know why she hadn't contacted me to let me know she was going out with her friends but she claimed she had no recollection of the day of the accident at all so she couldn't tell me what I was really upset about was her attitude when she got

home that night I had never stopped her from going out with her friends just as she didn't object when I went for a drink with the guys however we always let each other know what was going on so that we wouldn't worry for the next few months things appeared to go on as normal but I noticed that there was a greater distance between us than usual to be honest things had never been completely normal Sheila's strange PMS symptoms as I mentioned lasted longer than most people's and her cycle was slowly getting all messed up again

but this time things were definitely different although I couldn't put my finger on what was causing the problem it would have been easy to blame the PMS but I wasn't convinced Sheila was spending more evenings with her friends and was treating me in a very strange way don't ask me to explain it was just a feeling she showed a keen interest in exactly who I was drinking with when I was out with the boys and where we went a couple of times she even showed up at the pub with one of her mates in hindsight

I should have suspected something but as her friend Amy whom she usually brought along was sweet on one of my pals I took no notice I just assumed it was the old Matchmaker thing then about 8 months after Sheila's accident I came out of work one evening to be met by DC Collins and a couple of other officers they asked me to accompany them to the station to help with their inquiries telling me that if I refused they would arrest me at the station a detective inspector whom I didn't know question me about Sheila's accident

on the basement stairs for 4 hours he went over the events of that evening again and again after 16 hours of questioning they suddenly told me I could go home when I got home I was totally shocked to find that Sheila had moved out of the house no note of explanation nothing I tried to call her on her mobile phone we had joined the mobile phone set after our last debacle so we could get in touch with each other wherever we were but her phone was switched off the following day I was standing up the

road from her office when Sheila finished work she came out with one of her colleagues I began walking towards her to ask what the hell was going on but as I got closer Tony Pride appeared and put his arm around her now I could see that pridey had seen me coming but I'm positive Sheila and her friend had no idea I was there Sheila made a move to push his arm away which I noticed but it didn't register in my mind at the time I was angry and not really thinking straight Sheila I need to

talk to you I said as I got close enough she has nothing to talk to you about Pride said as he stepped between us get lost a-hole I'm talking to my wife what happened next was more of a farce than anything else Pride took up a classic boxer stance and started skipping about like he was Cash's clay or something I'm warning you I'm an amateur boxer he announced screw me I'm really scared no Tony stay out of this he'll kill you Sheila said apparently in an attempt to get pridey to back off but pridey wasn't

having any of it and moved in close I assume he was planning on putting me down he aimed a left jab at my face probably planning to follow it with a cross as I noticed his right arm going back unfortunately for him his left fist found my hand waiting for it grabbing his fist I gave it a Twist to the left and he was forced to turn with it we all heard something snap as I hited him in the side of his left leg just below the knee and he collapsed in a heap you scum

sucker Sheila shouted at me as she knelt beside the not so proud pridey who was rolling on the floor in pain well he asked for it and you just had to be the big man and break his bloody knee what the hell was I supposed to do let him hit me you shouldn't be here I don't want to see you anymore and I certainly don't want to be married to a man who tried to kill me what the hell are you talking about I've never done anything to harm you oh yeah well I've had therapy

and it's helped me remember what happened the night you threw me down the stairs the conversation stopped at that point as two police officers grabbed hold of me from behind I hadn't heard them arrive they handcuffed me and pushed me into the back of a meat wagon at the station I was charged with assault and battery and then shoved into a cell you might get the idea now why policemen are my favorite people anyway I called the local criminal solicitor who had represented a few acquaintances of mine in the past it didn't take him long

to get me out fortunately for me security cameras covered the street outside Sheila's office and they clearly showed what had happened foolishly I didn't press charges for assault against pridey the video although it had no sound definitely showed him attacking me after that I tried a couple of times to talk some sense into Sheila but to no avail things really came to a head when a few of the boys and I went to a restaurant for a meal one evening we'd been there for some time when who should I spy walking in but Sheila and

her best mate Amy followed by pridey and some other guys pridey was still limping a little using a walking stick they didn't notice us sitting in our Corner when they sat down for their meal pridey sitting opposite Sheila there was nothing lovey-dovey about the way they behaved towards each other but I was really pissed off at seeing them together the boys managed managed to keep me under control as we finished our meal rather hurriedly the plan was for us to leave quietly but pridey couldn't keep his bloody mouth shut when he saw me as loud

as he could he said right now Sheila my love what would you like for your sweet it was so loud it was obvious that it was meant for my ears I changed Direction so that I would walk past their table the expression on Pride's face changed from belligerence to a look of apprehension when I got to the table I stopped in leaning down so I wouldn't have to speak too loudly myself I told them if either of you tries to embarrass me in public again I'll not be held responsible for my actions now Sheila if

you want to set up home with this apply for a divorce like any civilized person and don't try to think up lies to get me put in prison I didn't Marty this is not what it looks like I was just I didn't hear anymore as I had walked out of earshot as we got into the car outside one of my friends told me that Sheila's friend Amy had followed us out and was standing on the pavement calling my name I just told the guy driving to drive on a few weeks later my solicitor informed me

that he had heard from Sheila's legal people the divorce went through in a few months our lovely house was sold and our assets were divided equally as there were no children and apparently Sheila was getting married again there was no alimony to discuss well she didn't ask for any so that brings us to where we were just over a year after the divorce Sheila was in the hospital again and the police suspected that I was involved in some way when I got to the hospital I was surprised to find that Sheila was registered as Mrs

San I had thought she would have married the prick by now after I had identified myself to a nurse she showed me into a room and asked me to wait for the doctor Mr s the doctor asked as he entered the room that's me so sorry I am confused there was a man here earlier who said he was Mrs s's fiance he could well be I haven't seen Sheila for over a year now I'm her ex-husband but you remember the vows in sickness and in Health For Better or For Worse and all that crap just

because we're divorced doesn't mean that I'm not concerned about her um this is a bit unusual but besides her fiance there doesn't appear to be anyone else no other relative that's correct as far as I'm aware Sheila has no other relatives she was orphan some years ago before I met her I'm not sure how we proceed with this one but it can't do any harm to tell you and we'll need someone to help us with the release forms her fiance tells us she's a Jehovah's Witness but really we need to operate on her the sooner

the better her fiance says she wouldn't agree to invasive surgery but without it she's going to die Jehovah's Witness what the hell are you talking about Sheila isn't religious and she couldn't have changed that much no hang on a minute I know she isn't I saw a friend of hers the other week and I'm sure she would have told me if Sheila had suddenly got religion give me a minute and I'll check with Sheila's best friend Amy I'm surprised she isn't here anyway I got out my mobile phone to call Amy she would know if

this Jehovah's Witness thing were true or not but the doctor stopped me and told me to turn my phone off and use a landline then I called Sheila's office Amy was shocked to hear that Sheila had been in an accident I asked her why Tony Pride hadn't told everyone at the office about it and she informed me that Tony didn't work there anymore when I mentioned the Jehovah's Witness thing Amy was shocked and said there was no way that was true I told the doc who was still standing there waiting and he asked me if

I could get Amy to the local Magistrate's court in a hurry then the doctor and I set out for the court ourselves but in a police car Amy arrived just as we did we were ushered into an office where we found Tony pride and a guy who I took to be a solicitor they were apparently trying to convince a judge to issue an order that no invasive surgery was to be carried out on Sheila it was apparent that the judge did not like the idea once Amy and I had had Ouray he gave the doctor

authority to do what he thought was in the patient's best interests until she was able to make those decisions for herself the doctor immediately called the hospital and Sheila was in the theater by the time we arrived back there strangely when we came out of the courthouse Tony Pride was nowhere to be found I was sitting in the waiting room when Doug Collins arrived I see you never made it to the pup I guessed you'd still be here he said Christ what's the bloody time I asked 7:30 he replied Boger where's the bloody phone Amy

said as she rushed out of the room presumably to call someone and postpone a date how is she Colin asked still in the theater she's been down there for hours damn I hope she makes it for your sake thanks Doug now what did you want to talk about well you know what they say about a cop's nose it was something the old girl said to me this morning I'm pretty sure someone was trying to set you up for a fall last night that nosy neighbor of yours spotted a Range Rover just like yours coming into

the car park by your flat a couple of times last night it was in there twice once about half 1 and then again about half 11: the second time it turned up it only had one headlight working I get the feeling whoever was driving it was playing dirty if it happened to pass any video cameras on route to the accident it would show up at the right time on the right cameras going both ways I suspect they expected your car to be parked in the car park and they would have most likely smashed your headlight

to match the damage on the Range Rover that hit Sheila but why hang on I haven't finished you remember when Sheila fell down the stairs the other year I came around and had a word with you well we were acting on an anonymous tip off I'll give you one guess where that tip off came from I must have looked confused the call box in the foyer of Sheila's office building we know it was a guy because it was recorded and guess what time it was made just after half a dozen of them had returned from

visiting Sheila here I think she told them she couldn't remember what had happened the day before and one of them decided to get up to some Mischief well since that day I've had a good idea who but I haven't been able to figure out the why of course you knocking him about didn't help any you think pridey said about driving Sheila and me apart I'm bloody sure he did what better way to separate a couple than to get her to believe her husband tried to kill her Amy returned at this point well I suppose he

wanted Sheila divorced and single so he could marry her he might want to marry Sheila but she doesn't want to marry him Amy said with an uncharacteristic tone to her voice but they're engaged I said according to him but not according to her she goes out with him socially but that's all I don't think they have even kissed each other let alone any anything else he's asked her to marry him on more than one occasion but she's got a problem about accepting he tells everybody that they are engaged but sometimes Sheila has had a real

go at him over it I don't understand what's her problem you you lug head she's in love with you talk sense Amy Sheila divorced me remember yes because she likes living Sheila has been in a real mess for the last year or so ever since you started playing around with that girl Sheila knew you wanted to get her out of the way so you could marry the mother of your children what the hell are you talking about now I haven't been playing around with anybody and I certainly haven't got any little scum suckers out there

well that's what she believes because someone put the idea into her head that you've got a girlfriend somewhere and she's convinced you tried to kill her I know she's been very confused that you haven't moved in with the girl Amy's right you know Marty Doug and added and I think it's Tony Pride who's been putting these ideas into Sheila's head I'm pretty sure it was Tony Pride who accused you of throwing her down those stairs it was Tony Pride who attacked you outside the office that night and it was Tony Pride who claimed it was

you driving that Range Rover last night but what's the guy up to assuming that it was him who organized that so-called accident last night what the hell is his motive for trying to kill her surely it couldn't be because she wouldn't marry him I know it doesn't make any sense sense but that's what we've got to find out find the motive and you've normally got the crime solved whatever with all that farce about Sheila being a Jehovah's Witness he certainly showed his hand it looks to me that he wants Sheila dead for some reason Doug

said let's start at the beginning one he or someone plants the idea in Sheila's head that you've got a bit on the side they added some children to make it look like a long-term Affair two someone convinces Sheila that are falling down the stairs when she was drunk wasn't an accident oh by the way you do know that Sheila didn't have enough alcohol in her blood that night to be done for drunk driving that's rubbish she could hardly stand up well that isn't what the blood tests they took here showed the TR as they left

it too late to find out what else could have been in her blood that night the doc thought she had taken what he termed a recreational drug but that could mean anything what you think that pridey drugged her do you think was after getting her into bed that night I asked no it wasn't Tony who had those kinds of ideas Amy interjected it was some friend of his look we all went to the pub for a drink that night to celebrate one of the other girls birthdays around 700 some of us went up the road

to get something to eat Sheila didn't come with us she said she was going home when she finished her drink anyway when we got back to the pub around 9: Sheila was out on the floor dancing honestly she was off her head I'd never seen her dancing like that before it was like she couldn't stop just after 11: the drink seemed to hit her and she virtually collapsed this Bob or whoever he was said he would take her home oh yeah and you can see us letting that happened when Sheila was as drunk as a

skunk the girls and I insisted that she come in her taxi with us this Bob guy wasn't too pleased about that but we were adamant then Tony stepped in and told him to leave it come on let's make that three what would have been your reaction if Sheila had woken up in someone else's bed in the morning Marty don't tell me I can guess that plan didn't work so where our friend finds out Sheila's had an accident and can't remember what happened he points the finger at you but Sheila did remember that shrink guy she

went to he was a doctor who hypnotized her and she remembered Amy exclaimed oh yeah I got the report on those allegations Doug said look I was in that kitchen the following day nothing Sheila said fit correctly if there had been the fight that Sheila claimed they had look there just wasn't room unless half the furniture had been smashed and it wasn't and that door to the cellar it opens outwards how the hell could Marty have pushed her through it remember there were no marks no damage nothing plus the security camera is just just outside

the back door the microphone would have picked up any shouting or screaming all it picked up was Marty shouting a warning to Sheila and her scream as she fell no I'm damn sure Sheila opened the door herself and walked through it thinking it was the door to the hall have you ever heard of planted memories Amy well that's what I suspect was somehow done to Sheila by that quack or whatever he was who hypnotized her her story was inconsistent with the facts as I know them do you have any idea who this therapist was she

went to see someone that Tony knew I think Amy replied you see Tony cried again but just what was the bugger up to Doug asked looking at me well I'm buggered if I know if you wanted to steal my wife why the hell would he try to kill her maybe we are looking at this wrong supposing Tony Pride wanted Sheila Dead all the time Doug suggested but why would you want to separate her from me first I asked that's what we've got to work out Marty Doug said sitting back in his chair obviously thinking Amy

who had been looking very thoughtful suddenly asked Marty could Sheila have had any relatives with money not that I know of why look I'm speculating here but what if Sheila was going to inherit a lot of money from some relative you didn't know existed you know a long lost ant or something look this is all a bit Agatha Christie I know but I like her books now let's just imagine for a minute that Tony pride is also related to this unknown benefactor but a little further removed so if Sheila dies he would inherit now if

Sheila were to die while she was married to you even though she didn't know she had inherited the money it would go to you as her husband but if you were divorced first before she inherited it wouldn't go to you it would go to the next nearest relative in line and I'll bet I can guess who that is going to turn out to be but why the attempted frame on me for the accident last night because you can't legally benefit from a crime in this country even if you could prove that whoever it was the

money is coming from died and left it to Sheila before you were divorced if you had killed her you couldn't inherit the money anyway we both sat there looking at Doug now far-fetched I'll give you but it certainly fits the scenario I'm going back to the Nick to see what I can dig up on our Mr Anthony pride and while I'm at it Marty give me Sheila's maiden name do you know where she was born Smith her maiden name was Sheila Smith but I haven't got the faintest idea where she was born she's never been

very forthcoming about her childhood all I can really tell you is that she's an orphan but her birth certificate must be somewhere I'll need to find it if I can I think there must be a copy in the files at home I don't remember her taking it with her I'll have a look and dig it out later right if you don't hear from me first call me on my mobile here's the number Doug said as he gave me a card and then left the room Amy and I sat Alone Together for another hour before one

of the doctors came in to see us the operation was over Sheila had a fractured skull and there had been a lot of bleeding into her brain we gathered they had had some difficulty stopping the bleeding I wouldn't say the doctor was pessimistic but he was annoyed that Tony Pride had delayed the operation with all the non sense about Sheila being a Jehovah's Witness with the way litigation goes nowadays they needed to get the permission of a judge before they could proceed once they had it he said the prognosis was fair but not good they

would keep Sheila sedated for the next few days while they waited for some of the swelling in her brain to go down Amy and I went in to see her but all we could see were bandages and tubes everywhere you know like those machines beeping away on TV the doctors told us Sheila had numerous bro and bones but it was the injuries to her head that they were most concerned about Amy and I left the hospital together and went for a meal at a nearby fish in chip shop I dropped Amy off at home and

she asked me to pick her up and take her back to the hospital in the morning she had no intention of returning to work until she knew Sheila was all right at home I searched our files for Sheila's birth certificate but couldn't find it then it struck me none of our papers were there no marriage license or deed and Sheila's old passport was gone I'd given her current one to her solicitor when he asked for it but I was sure he hadn't asked for her other papers yes I had been playing silly games during the

divorce if Sheila didn't ask she didn't get when you're playing a losing hand any small victory makes you feel a little bit better I didn't sleep well that night I don't think I slept at all Amy and I were back at the hospital at 8:00 but there was no change in Sheila's condition Tony Pride hadn't shown up again either I rang my office and told them I wouldn't be in for some time they didn't object which is the advantage of being good at your job they didn't want to lose me Doug Collins turned up again

around half 1 I noticed detective Sergeant Moon came with him this time but he stayed well away from me except when he came over to ask how Sheila was he'd already spoken to the doctor so I think he was trying to build a bridge Doug said they couldn't find Tony Pride well not the Tony Pride that we all knew whoever he was he had stolen someone else's identity the real Tony Pride according to the paperwork was living in Australia the address he had been using was for a rented room in a house apparently they only

ever saw him about once a week when he collected his mail everything that was known about him was false two weeks passed with Amy and I sitting by Sheila's bed all day every day then one morning Doug Collins came in and told us he'd managed to trace Sheila's now deceased great uncle apparently the man had several million pounds that Sheila would inherit it turned out she had been orphan much younger than I had thought she had been adopted and her new parents had changed her surname Doug had been to see them and they told him

she had not taken the news of her adoption very well a rift had formed between them and she had effectively run away they hadn't seen or heard from her since she was 18 they turned up at the hospital one day but they didn't stay long it must have been upsetting for them to see her in that condition I told them I would let them know when she regained Consciousness they thanked me and said they would return then one of the nurses told me they called three times a day after that for progress reports weeks after

the accident things had changed a little some of the bandages had been removed but we still sat there listening to the monotonous beep of the heart monitor one of the machines that were recording Sheila's brain activity had been showing signs that made the medical staff optimistic but they meant little to us Amy and I had both returned to work by then we had a rotation going I sat with Sheila one day Amy the next and one of the other girls from Sheila's office took the third day then it was my turn again both Amy and

I visited every evening and ate together afterward we had our own table at the fish and chip shop by then and a sign had appeared on the wall saying no change other customers and the St staff had overheard Amy and my conversations and had become involved in Sheila's plight we did all we were supposed to do played music that Sheila liked talked to her about everything and anything I discovered Doug Collins was calling and after he finished the late shift to read weing Heights to her Sheila's favorite book he'd spotted her well thumbed copy on

her bedside table when he was searching her flat for her documents we never did discover when the papers were taken from my flat or by whom but we never found any of them one morning I thought I was talking to Sheila but I must have been more tired than I realized suddenly I Heard a croaky Voice quietly say hello Marty are you awake I'm not quite sure what I did then I know that the table beside me with a cup and saucer on it went flying and the noise brought the nurses running I must have

said something to Sheila but I have no idea what the next thing I remember is being ushered out of the room when the doctors arrived then I started making making phone calls which led to folks arriving in droves however they were not allowed into Sheila's room after some time a nurse called Amy and me out of the waiting room where everyone had congregated she told us we could go see Sheila again when we reached the door I stopped and let Amy go first she walked over to the bed and I saw Sheila smile at her

they started talking to each other I took that as my cue to leave I had done my duty staying with Sheila while she was at death death store now with my duty done it was time to get on with my life I stopped by the fish and chip shop to give them the news and watched as they put up a sign saying she's awake then I went home to pack the last month or so had been a strain on me Christ the last few years had been a bloody strain I wanted to be somewhere else

for a while my boss wasn't too impressed when I told him I was off to Spain for a couple of weeks but he didn't argue I had been at my friend's Village for a week when Amy showed up curious as to why she was there I watched her get out of the taxi the way she walked up to the swimming pool where I was sitting let me know she was not in a good mood just what the hell do you think you're playing at Martin she demanded when she got close enough for me to hear

what's your problem aren't I allowed to take a holiday no not when your wife needs you you aren't hang on Amy you're forgetting Sheila isn't my wife anymore she divorced me remember she decided she didn't need me anymore well why did you sit beside her bed for 5 weeks while she was unconscious then Duty nothing more and sickness and health until death do his part and all that don't give me that crap you love her immaterial Amy Sheila divorced me what I feel for her is unimportant Marty she loves you I don't believe that for

one minute remember what she did to me that wasn't love no it was a mixed up girl who needed help well she chose someone else to give her that help now she's Rich enough she'll have plenty of guys willing to help her don't you worry that's the point I am worried look she loves you and needs you what for her to shout at to call me a murderer or to knock her boyfriends around when they get droppy and give her an excuse to call me a scum sucker Christ you were pissed off with Sheila aren't

you I am I love her but the year we were apart up until she had that accident I think I was happier than I'd been in the previous 6 years I can't say I was happy to be without her but I wasn't walking on eggshells every day because I didn't know what kind of mood she was going to get out of bed in but Marty Sheila was suffering from oh yeah PMT PMS or whatever you want to call it but remember she accused me of trying to murder her I don't need all that kind of

in my life no it wasn't PMT oh the psychiatrists think that the hormone thing made it worse but they are sure Sheila has probably been suffering from clinical depression ever since little Cathy died and you know Sheila's memory of you trying to kill her was implanted while she was hypnotized bollocks Amy PMT PMS or clinical depression what the hell am I supposed to be a psychiatric nurse or something and I'll never believe you can make anyone do something they don't really want to do by hypnotizing them but Sheila recalls that evening in detail now she

says it was like watching what was happening without having any control over it she remember swearing at you and even knew she was opening the wrong door she says she just couldn't stop what was happening I don't give a damn anymore look I did my bit I was there when she needed me now I'm going to live my own life and forget about Sheila oh I've wasted my time coming here then you sure have Amy never said goodbye she just turned around and walked slowly back to her taxi she stopped and looked back at me

one more time before getting in then it drove away I had been back for my holiday for a couple of weeks when Doug Collins called around on a Saturday morning he found me in the throws of packing up everything as I was moving to a small house on the other side of town he told me they hadn't been able to track down the Alias Tony Pride they were pretty sure they knew who he was apparently they believed he was a great nephew of Sheila's benefactor but as he was illegitimate that had put him out of

the running for the money unless there were no other living relatives Doug asked me why I hadn't gone to see Sheila since I'd been back and well we had the same kind of argument that I'd had with Amy I won't go into that one about 6 months later my solicitor asked me to call on him he presented me with a check for nearly £5 million apparently it was my half of Sheila's inheritance we had mutually agreed to split our assets down the middle when we divorced since her great uncle had actually died before we were

divorced Sheila had sent half the money onto me with due ceremony I tore the check into pieces and asked my solicitor to send it back we went through that same pandim at least five times before the check stopped arriving the next thing that hit me was the Inland Revenue they sent me a demand for tax on the 5 million quid it took a lot of persuading to convince them that I had not accepted the money one of the tax inspectors actually said to me are you nuts I was when I married her but I'm not

anymore I replied I think he was the one who finally accepted the fact that I was not going to take the money during the next year I changed my job I was head hunted by another company where I made a fresh start and started dating some of the girls in the office nothing serious Once Bitten Twice Shy and all that one of the girls I went out with was a member of the local Country Club and she introduced me to golf it was more exercise than I'd had in years I wasn't much good at it

but I enjoyed playing so I joined the country club myself generally I tended to play on my own not being very good I wouldn't show myself up too much that way there are three courses so by making an early start in the summer I was usually on my own on the course most of the time with no one chasing up behind me one morning by the fifth green I was hunting for at least one of the balls I'd managed to knock into the woods after looking around for a while and locating two balls that weren't

mine I was just coming out of the small fiet but on the wrong side over by the sixth T when someone on the sixth must have sliced a ball that made a hole in one right on my nose I was stunned for a couple of minutes and found myself sitting on the ground nursing my nose when the culprit came over apologizing profusely hasn't anyone ever told you to shout for before you tee off I demanded in anger I couldn't see a bloody thing as both my eyes were watering so much I'm sorry Marty I didn't

realize you were so close I knew that voice but for a minute I couldn't or didn't want to place it who are you I can't see I demanded don't you know the voice asked I did know but I didn't want to I can't see point me in the direction of the clubhouse I said as I got to my feet what about your stuff I'll walk back with you and carry your clubs for you no don't bother I'll get one of the caddies to collect them for me Marty I can't let you go off like this

I'm coming with you no leave me alone haven't you messed up my life enough Marty I never meant to treat you so badly I didn't realize how badly I'd behaved towards you until Amy told me when she came back from Spain that's over now Sheila just stay out of my life in the future will you no I'm not going to do that Marty I love you and I believe you love me well you might not love me at this particular minute as I've just hit you with a golf ball but I know I can make

you love me again huh I had planned that you would catch me up out here I'm sorry I hit you what's it going to take woman to convince you to stay away from me well I'd suggest you start by trying to get a court order but as I've got enough cash to fight you on that all the way to the European Court I think you'll be wasting your time on that one look the sensible thing is for me to take you to the clubhouse and then to the hospital if need be we can talk about

everything else later well I'm having that damn dream again there she is like always bouncing up and down on me but hang on what's that Bloody noise the babies are crying don't worry about that The Nanny will see to them that's what she's paid for Sheila said smiling down at me Life Goes On