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through it. "Yeah I know, real shame. John's said he's been trying to sort it out, but he didn't sound very confident."
    "Tom I've been thinking…" Elizabet said.
    "Never a good idea," Tom joked. Giving him an elbow in the ribs, Elizabet continued. "No. I was thinking, what if we could help them."
    Tom stopped what he was doing. "Why is it I'm getting the feeling that I'm not going to like what you say next?"
    Elizabet turned and looked him in the eye. "What if we got Walter to sign, oh I don't know---a confession or something or other? You know something that they could use to help in a divorce."
    "And how would you do that?"
    "I thought maybe you could-"
    "Me? You want me to beat the guy senseless and make him write it all down?"
    Elizabet sat up in bed, the excitement growing in her voice as she explained her plan. "No, no. Just threaten him, scare him. You wouldn't need to get him to write anything down. I could make up a letter of confession and you could get him to sign it."
    "You're serious?"
    "Come on, Tom, after all she did for me," Elizabet said, resting her chin on his chest. "If it hadn't been for, Alice, I probably wouldn't be here right now. God knows where I would have ended up. And as for John, wouldn't you like to see him happy?"
    Tom shook his head. "I can't believe you're the woman I married. Little did I know the devious brain that was behind those beautiful eyes."
    Elizabet fluttered her eyelashes and pouted. "So what do you think? You think it could work?" Seeing Tom smile, she asked him. "Wouldn't you like to see him get his comeuppance?"
    "Alright, but if I'm doing this I'm doing it alone, and I'm doing it my way."
     

Chapter 14
    Watching from the safety of the beach, Alice watched John at play with his daughter in the sea. Starting off in a simple water fight, their antics grew until Amy found herself hanging upside down by the ankles. Threatening to dunk her head under the water, Alice found Amy calling for her.
    "Help me, Alice!"
    "Yes, come and save her, Alice," John grinned, putting his daughter back upright and splashing her.
    "You know I can't swim," Alice called back.
    "Aw, come on Alice, boys against girls," Amy said. "Please!"
    "I think she's chicken, Amy," John said.
    Getting up off the sand, Alice crossed the beach and stopped at the water's edge. "Come here and call me that again," Alice grinned. "Unless you're afraid."
    John pointed to himself. "Me?"
    "Chicken."
    Seeing him run through the water toward her, Alice took off running in the opposite direction. "Run Amy, save yourself. I'll lead him away." Hearing him chase after her, Alice slowed her run and let him catch up with her. Now right behind her, she turned and faced him.
    "That was a pathetic getaway," John grinned.
    "Who said I was running away, maybe I was luring you into a trap," Alice replied.
    Looking around him, he asked. "And that trap is?"
    Stepping forward to give him a kiss, Alice changed her movement at the last second. Moving quickly, she wrapped a leg behind John's and placed an arm around his neck. Pushing off with her other leg and using his weight against him, she tripped him up and sent him crashing to the sand. Moving in for the kill, she straddled him and pinned his arms to the sand with her knees. "That trap."
    "Where the hell did you learn to do that?" John asked, struggling to free himself.
    "It's called Judo, I learned this move from one of the Chinese waiters that worked at the hotel. Good isn't it. Now, what was that you were calling me?"
    "Chicken," John teased.
    Alice looked up. "You hear that Amy?" John tried his best to see what his daughter was getting up to. "Who do you thinks better, boys or the girl, Amy?"
    "Girls," Amy replied and dropped a lump of seaweed on her father's face.
    Lifting the seaweed off his face, Alice asked. "Well, are girls better?"
    "From where I am, they are," John smirked. "I could stay here all day."
    "I think you need some time in that cold sea," Alice said.
    "Care to join