Chapter 12
Paula decided to visit Glen at his office rather than call him on the phone.
"Hello, Chelsea dear, how are you? We so missed you at dinner Sunday," Paula said. "Yeah, well I hadn't seen my parents in awhile and I knew they would be home on Sunday so I went to visit them."
"Yes, I do understand dear. Is my son busy?" Paula asked.
"I'll let him know you're here," Chelsea said.
Walking into Glen's office, Glen looked up smiling, happy to see Chelsea walk in.
"Glen your mother is here to see you"…Paula not waiting, barges in. "Glen darling, we need to talk…now." Of course that took the smile right off of Glen's face.
Chelsea left, closing the door behind her. "I thought you were going to call me," Glen asked puzzled by his mother's appearance in his office?
"Glen get Dexter over here right away. We need to go over the plans with him."
"Mom, I have clients to see right now…"
"Cancel them!...Do it Glen!...Now!!!" Paula yelled.
Glen pressed the intercom button, "Chelsea cancel my appointments and call Dexter Hall, tell him he needs to come to the office, right away." "Yes Glen, I'll do it right now."
"You know mother, I do not appreciate you coming into my office and ordering me around like some puppet. I have a very lucrative practice and I don't need you"…"And!...you got this lucrative practice because of ME…Glen!" Paula said spitting the words at her son. Paula went on to tell Glen, "if it wasn't for me you would still be in that little hole in the wall you called an office struggling for clients. I got you this!"
"Now, please sit down dear and let's go over some things before Dexter arrives."
"Sorry to interrupt," Chelsea said nervously standing in the door frame between offices, "Mr. Hall said he will be here in thirty minutes."
"Thank you Chelsea, after you finish canceling my clients, why don't you take the rest of the day off," Glen said smiling at Chelsea.
"Okay, thanks Glen."
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In another New York office across town, Spencer's lawyer arrives at Arthur Carlin's office. Walking through the glass doors, he's greeted by the receptionist.
"Hi! May I help you?"
"Yes, my name is Ron Townes I have an appointment with Arthur Carlin."
"Okay, please have a seat and I'll let Mr. Carlin's secretary know you'll here."
"Thank you," Ron said to the receptionist.
A tall very attractive woman, about thirty wearing a very becoming fitted business suit approached Mr. Townes, "Hello, my name is Heather, I'm Arthur Carlin's secretary. Would you follow me, please?"
Heather knocks on Arthur Carlin's office door, then enters. "Arthur, Mr. Ron Townes is here to see you."
"Thank you Heather, please show him. Heather I want you to stay for this meeting, I may need you." "Yes of course, Arthur."
"Mr. Townes…Arthur Carlin, please to meet you, have a seat."
"My secretary will be sitting in on this meeting," Arthur told Ron. "Yes, that's fine." "Heather is my right arm, I don't know what I would do without her," Arthur said smiling at Heather.
"Mr. Carlin, I don't know how much you know about your daughter's divorce petition, so I'm going to start from the beginning," Ron said.
"Fine Mr. Townes I had Heather clear my schedule for today, so we have nothing but time. That's the least I can do for my daughter," Arthur said sadly. "That's good to hear Mr. Carlin," Ron said.
"Please call me Arthur and may I call you Ron?" "Yes, certainly."
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Dexter finally arrives at Glen's office, quite surprised to see Paula there. "Paula! Good to see you." "Dexter darling, how is my favorite son-in-law?" "I'm your only son-in-law and I'm doing great."
"So, let's get down to business," Glen said, rolling his eyes at the exchange between his mother and Dexter.
"Dexter, I went over the statement you wrote detailing your marriage to Spencer and I see several ways we can contest the divorce."
"Wonderful Glen…wonderful," Dexter said looking over at Paula who sat quietly listening.
"First of all, on the adultery issue, if you can get evidence from a third party stating that Spencer was cheating or someone who will testify that she is Spencer's lover, we could get the judge to throw that issue out," Glen stated.
"That shouldn't be too hard for you Dexter, since you claim she was having an affair herself and with a woman," Glen said.
"On the second issue, we can claim abandonment." "But Glen, Spencer never left me." "Yes she did Dexter, she abandoned your marital bed. When was the last time you two were intimate with each other," Glen asked, not really wanting to know the answer to the question?
"Hmm, let me think," Dexter said while Glen just rolled his eyes and Paula still quiet just smirked.
"Umm, five maybe six years ago," Dexter say to Glen. "Dexter why would you stay in a loveless marriage that long," Glen asked? "Oh! I was getting sex, it just wasn't from Spencer."
It took all of Glen's strength not to get up out of his chair and strangle his brother-in-law. Listening at how he constantly cheated on his sister…"did Spencer know about these affairs," Glen asked?
"Yep!" Dexter replied, "we used to argue all the time, then she just ignored it."
"Okay, so I think we have enough to"…"Glen, what about the inheritance," Dexter asked? "Well I'm having"…that's when Paula intervened, "Dexter I've got people helping Glen with that. They're still working on the stipulation issues, so don't worry yourself about that."
"My people are more knowledgeable in that area, they will get in touch with Glen when they work things out or find something Glen can use," Paula flatly stated.
"Okay! Okay, Paula," Dexter said.
"Dexter I think we're done for today, I'll call you when I need you again," Glen said.
"Good day Dexter," Glen said.
"Goodbye Glen…Paula," Dexter said.
Dexter walked out of Glen's office actually feeling proud of himself. I could careless about staying in this marriage, I just want that "bitch" to suffer a little and with her brother sticking the knife in her back makes it even sweeter.
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The meeting was still going on in Arthur Carlin's office. "Well I think I can vouch for my daughter's character, she would have never cheated on Dexter during her marriage. She would have left him first."
"Arthur I'm here because Spencer seems to think that her mother is the reason why Glen became Dexter's lawyer. Maybe if you talk to Glen yourself and find out what his motives are," Ron said.
"Yes, I'll have a talk with Glen," Arthur said, "I can do that."
"I can't believe this, Arthur said. "I just cannot believe my wife and son would do this to Spencer. What kind of woman am I married to?" "Damnit!!"
"Spencer also thinks that the only reason why Dexter stayed in the marriage was to get his hands on the money. But due to the stipulations in the will she couldn't get the money until she turned forty-five," Ron stated.
Ron also said, "Spencer thinks once she turned forty-five, got the inheritance money Dexter was going to sue her for a divorce. But only when she turned forty-five."
Arthur chuckled at that, "I remember when her grandparents made that will, Spencer's grandmother liked that number, forty-five and she thought Spencer would be more mature, settled down with someone and wise enough to handle such a large amount of money herself. Not let it turned her selfish or evil minded."
"Spencer's grandmother always felt that money was the root of all evil and that was strange considering her grandparents were millionaires."
"The inheritance is safe Ron, no one and I mean no one can change it. Spencer already gets fifty thousand dollars a month plus living expenses from the inheritance. The remainder of the inheritance is corporate paper, in other words, the monies are invested in stocks, bonds, mutual funds so it can continue to make money until Spencer turns forty-five."
"The only way it can be changed if Spencer herself contests the will," Arthur said. "I don't think she's going to do that."
"Well I think Glen's going to contest the will on the grounds that the will was improperly executed, that your in-laws were not in their right mind and undue influence was used by Spencer to get them to leave her the money," Ron said.
"Um…yes, that sounds like my wife's bantering. Sometimes I think she hates Spencer," Arthur said sadly. Arthur looked over at Heather and she just shook her head with despair and concern for her employer and his daughter's situation.
"The only monies Dexter would get from Spencer, is the money she receives on a monthly basis. If the judge should reward him alimony, but I'll have Heather check the stipulations of the will with our corporate lawyers here just to be sure."
"Well, I have to catch a flight back to Reno tonight," Ron said to Arthur. "It was a pleasure meeting you, I wish we could have met under different circumstances." "Same here Ron, Goodbye."
Arthur turns to Heather, "I want you to work closely with Mr. Townes," Heather nods. "Will you please send for my car and call Glen's secretary to make sure Glen's in his office today."
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Dexter's POV
Paula called me twenty minutes after the meeting with Glen. She told me to have me and one of my girlfriends, preferably a pretty one meet her somewhere inconspicuous. I asked her why, she said she would take care of the witness that I needed to claim she was my wife's lover. By take care of she meant she would pay the phony lover ten thousand dollars to lie to a judge then disappear. It didn't take me long to reply to Paula's request. I told her I knew who would do it and had no problems disappearing. Paula also told me not to tell Glen anything about the meeting. She would deny everything.