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Click hereThis is a work of fiction. Any similarity to real people is accidental and unintended. However one historical person, John Poulson, has been used (in a heavily fictionalised manner) to create the anti-hero's back story.
HOW I GOT RICHER
I am Phil Davies, 49, divorced from the sleep around that I was stupid enough to marry. Elsie got the nice house and half of my money. I am not pleading poverty I own a 7 bed tenement building on the Commercial Road.
ELSIE
I married Elsie partly because her father was well placed to expand my business. But you know the contract term "let the buyer beware" well that applies to the marriage contract.
Even though she was on the pill Ellie made me put on a condom. She told me that the birth control pill is only 99% effective. Nine out of 100 women get pregnant each year while using the pill. Condoms have a near 2% failure rate. She definitely didn't want to have a child and so she needed this "belt and braces" approach. I had to wear the thickest kind of condom.
This cut down the stimulation that I got from having sex to nearly zero. I was only allowed to have missionary sex and intercourse was infrequent.
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ELLIE'S LOVE LIFE
I found out that Ellie was cheating on me only by accident.
I listened to an answerphone message which was "Hi Ellie darling. Its Brian here. Sorry I can't make our date.But I will see you at the same time and same place next week. Love you lots. Keep your arse hot for me."
I felt physically sick hearing another man dating my wife. I hoped that it was a prank phone call. But I knew that it wasn't. I knew that Ellie had a lover.
Later I asked Ellie "Who is Brian?"
I played the answerphone message.
She told me "I knew this would happen one day. You were bound to find out. Brian is one of my lovers."
I gasped and said "One of your lovers!!. How many do you have?"
Ellie replied "I have 3 regular lovers and a few occasional others.
As you probably guessed Brian likes to fuck my arse. Paul likes to pull out and squirt all over my tits. He then likes to lick his cum off."
I was near to tears "So Paul doesn't wear a condom."
Ellie said "Yes Paul fucks me bareback. He didn't like the idea of your cock sharing my cunt. He suggested that I made you wear thick rubbers."
I said "So it wasn't about not wanting a child. It was about you pleasing Paul."
Ellie replied "Of course. John fucks me twice every session. He fucks me doggy style and then with me on top. He fucks me in our bed. His friends come and watch us fucking."
Ellie was as cool as a cucumber as she said "I am not going to give any of them up. Its up to you what you do about it. You can leave or stay. But, if you stay, you will have to meet my lovers. But now its in the open, Paul won't allow you to sleep with me. And you will have to watch John fucking my brains out."
This revelation came at the worst time. My father was seriously ill. It was only a matter of time before he died. I didn't want him to depart this earth knowing that I was a cuckold. I wanted him to believe that I was happily married.
I said "Okay I will stay."
I put up with her shitty conditions for 3 months. Then my father died. I was grief stricken about losing my father and happy that my nightmare of a marriage could now end. Ellie attended my father's funeral. The next day I left my house and started divorce proceedings.
A TROJAN HORSE
Metaphorically, a "Trojan horse" means any trick or stratagem that causes a target to invite a foe into a securely protected bastion or place.
Elsie was my "Trojan horse". She gave away "market sensitive information" about my company to her friends. They took advantage of this insider information to buy or sell shares.
I vowed never to get married again. I say "once bitten, twice shy" but this glosses over the pain.
MY BACKGROUND
I am rich because I am second generation wealthy person. My father was a totally legitimate businessman, until he lost out to the "boys who broke the rules and got the council contracts". He advised me to be one of those "rule benders".
I did badly at school and at Newport College of Art. Nevertheless I was articled to a local firm of architects, due to my father's influence (AKA arm twisting).
I am not registered with the ARCUK (Architects' Registration Council of the United Kingdom). I am too busy to complete my ARC examinations.
I left to set up my own architecture practice with financial backing from my father.
My father died before my divorce. He never knew how unhappily married I was. His death took away my greatest source of support. My wife should have been a second source of support. She was the opposite.
But for my divorce I would probably be a millionaire. I own derelict land, which I use as collateral for loans to finance my design and build contracts. Potentially, with gentrification or a major enterprise wanting my land, I could be a multi-millionaire.
I am not the type to spend, spend, spend. I don't live the high life or have a fleet of flash, over priced cars. I don't hanker after a luxury yacht. At heart I am a recluse, more so now than when I was married. But I do like being rich.
MY FATHER'S WISDOM
My father had 4 sayings.
His first was "Always work hard and smartly".
His 2nd saying was "Have friends in important positions".
His third was "Better be a small fish in Wales than a large man in prison".
His final saying was "Always keep good books and pay all your taxes on time. Otherwise the bastards will pursue you and destroy you. They are more vindictive than the Mafia".
But he didn't think of "Don't marry, divorce lawyers are the most vindictive people on our planet".
EDITORIAL NOTES ON CORRUPTIONS
It can be easy to bribe and corrupt local, regional and government officials. Indeed international organisations give officials taking bungs.
Editorial note number 1 - a sting
An FBI "sting" investigation led them to politicians in Camden who were willing to offer bribes to get the FBI's fictional "business" a gambling license in Atlantic City.
Then, when the FBI expressed interest in their suggestion to get a "fake sheik" asylum in the U.S., these corrupt politicians arranged for them to meet some U.S. Congressmen who could make it happen with private legislation for $50,000 up front and $50,000 later.
One senator, six congressman, and more than a dozen other criminals and corrupt officials were arrested and found guilty.
Editorial note number 2 - Airbus
French-based Airbus agreed to pay a record $4 billion in fines for alleged bribery and corruption spanning at least 15 years. The company reached a plea bargain with prosecutors in Britain, France and the United States. Airbus used a global network of agents or middlemen for corrupt transactions, included payouts disguised as commissions to push airplane sales.
Editorial note 3 - normal contracts
In non-architectural contracts, you set a standard of service expected (e.g. bin collection once a week) and people submit a sealed bid by a specified date and time. They open all the bids on the same day. The lowest bid gets the contract.
Editorial note 4 - The Buggins system
Of course this system isn't foolproof. The bidders may agree not to compete with one another. They may agree to have a Buggins Turn" system. So they agree that firm A gets a contract this time, firm B next time and so on.
The Buggins syndicate then deliberately put in higher bids than firm A, knowing that their turn will come. And it will be at a higher (more profitable) price.
The Buggins syndicate is illegal but difficult to prove. But sometimes people get jail time.
One famous example of this when firm A submitted the lowest bid but all the others submitted the A's bid plus 10%. Obviously this was sheer stupidity. But it gave the game away.
Editorial note 5 - architectural contracts
But architectural contracts have a subjective element. Having people on the selection panel who "absolutely adore" your design is therefore a great help. And it is difficult to prove that someone doesn't really prefer one design over the others.
Editorial note ends.
SPECIAL FRIENDS
I made "special friends" with those who were in charge of commissioning public buildings. Mysteriously (not) my firm got contracts from these "special friends". With a few of these contracts I was "on my way" into the Welsh contracts pool.
MY FIRMS GOOD POINTS
My firm build my house. It only cost me £60,000, because building contractors donated their services for free. They hoped to get contracts in the future. My house won the Ideal Homes "Welsh House of the Year" competition. I still think of it as "my home" even though Elsie owns it lock, stock and barrel.
COST SAVINGS
I am not a scam artist. I am a workaholic. I demand the same commitment from my staff and sub contractors. If they don't shape up I ship them out. If I recognise someone with talent and a good work ethic I reward him or her.
My buildings are first rate and my technical expertise is the best in Britain. We don't have expensive failures and we don't cut corners.
We are legitimately less cost intensive since I developed a combined architecture and design practice. Mine is an all-in-one integrated team. This reduces costs and minimises the chance of costly bodge jobs.
(Editorial note - The "Bodge job" supreme example is, according to Ian Weinfass of "Construction News", the £335 million Royal Liverpool Hospital.
This was originally due to open in March 2017. It became notorious for its myriad problems. A structural review found a number of design and compliance issues at the nearly completed hospital.
The largest and most complex part of the remedial work involved installing new concrete and steelwork elements. Some 220 cubic metres of new concrete and 165 tonnes of new fabricated steelwork was required to strengthen the hospital.
Bizarrely the Hospital Trust had teams tasked with turning taps on and off throughout the whole building to keep the water systems running There were 141 works packages being procured across the whole hospital remediation project.
NOT IN THE SAME LEAGUE
The anti-hero isn't in the same league of complexity as building a hospital, but "an ounce of forethought is worth a pound of afterthought" even in a simple house.
Think of the cost of retro fitting your house or flat to meet current ecological standards.
And making sure builders obey the standards set is an oft overlooked necessity. There are too many tales of cowboy builders leaving sub standard work of ordinary householders.
Editorial note ends)
BUSINESS IS BOOMING
My business boomed. We became one of the largest in Wales. We even expanded into the parts of England that border Wales. I obey my father's third rule which was "Better be a small fish in Wales than a large man in prison".
I set up a servicing company to win business for my architect's practice. This (loss making) company reduced my tax liability considerably, while giving me an extra salary. This is a legal "tax avoidance" rather than the illegal "tax evasion".
My best "special friend" works for a nationally known construction firm. Terry has a network of contacts.
I sometimes have to resort to outright bribery. I paid one official £10,000 in cash to get a £1 million redevelopment contract.
Another got £30,000 over six years. But then the council changed it's mind and cancelled the project. Even with loaded dice, you don't necessarily get to win.
But I was about to meet someone who was to change my life.