fix it, he didn t? he didn t know what he wanted. c mon, no, he wanted to keep going on with the affair. that s what he wanted? i for sure told him to stop. stop right now or i ll stamp my foot and hold my breath. and he kept doing it? it was my fault. he had a void because of me. that s what i was thinking. what do you think the void might have been? i just was boring. boring old candy hall. rejected, apparently unlovable and nearly 40. and then one day at work, candy was introduced to a recent law school graduate, who was looking to staff his new office. a boyishly handsome smart as a whip cocky young lawyer. his name was emmett corrigan. my friend, she said, emmett you got to meet candy. she s just as passionate and aggressive as you are, she would be great for you. and something suddenly lifted in candy hall. by the time those words had left her friend s mouth, candy knew, she
i have a lot of guilt still in me. a lot. and it has to do with my kids and his kids. and it makes me sick how i could do something like that. i am the responsible one and it s something that i don t know are they ever be able to get through that? i mean, hopefully, one day i can prove to them that it was just a mistake. in the years since, ashlee has remarried and has become an author/blogger and speaker with a message to stand strong and faithful. he also thinks about his two daughters, whose lives, their graduations, triumphs, marriages, children, he will never witness. two girls, who at the ages of 18 and 14 back then, suddenly found themselves left without either parent at home. because of a final twist to this story of the trail of retribution. rob s wife candy was sent to prison herself because of the killing? no, she pleaded guilty to charges of grand theft for embezzling some $30,000 from the attorney for whom she worked before emmett corrigan. she served 18 months for t
but you re not using my phone. and emmett said, hey, i m going to run to walgreens and i ll be right back. i put the phone down and i literally was like, emmett, please do not leave. he said, no, i m leaving. you must have felt like your life was falling apart and you didn t know what to do? i kind of like maybe this is the grand finale. but he needed a wake-up call? he needed a wake-up call. careful what you wish for. getting very dark. maybe he shouldn t move out, maybe they should try to fix their marriage, make it work somehow. and then, right in the middle of that, she suddenly told him she had an errand to run, couldn t wait, guess where? i said i m going to go to walgreens through the drive through. i ll be right back. here s candy s explanation for the way the meeting with her lover was arranged. as i was pulling out the back of my driveway, emmett texted me, hey, what are you doing? i said i m going to walgreens. he goes, i was just there, hey, meet me there.
at candy s parked bmw then strangely getting back into his own pickup truck pulling out and reparking it on the other side of candy s car. curiously his door now just out of range of the store surveillance camera. this is when he made that phone call, the one in which candy confessed she was with her boss, he said to rob, what s up, chief? here was emmett s truck speeding through the parking lot. still trying to stop this if wiser heads were in charge. it wasn t. nothing wise about what s coming. i see rob in his truck. he has just this look on his face like, oh man, and i get out of the truck. then emmett gets out. and rob gets out. walks over to us. this is just the sort of moment in which a person might
e-mails, spicy text messages. i would like to be put on that pedestal. emmett made me feel that way. it was pretty much an ego boost for me. she really wasn t trying to get back to her husband, said candy, at least not consciously. i was thinking about me, only me, you know what it made me feel good, it made me feel like i was on top of the world. sitting here now is candy still only thinking only of candy? perhaps, as you hear the rest of this story, you can be the judge of that. anyway, back then, there were a few hitches in candy s new found fantasy life. emmett corrigan was also married, and lived in this quiet cul-de-sac with this woman, his wife, ashlee. he was just a guy that everybody wanted to be around. enthusiastic, full of energy?