The Chauffeur ( # 42 ) Extortion

By PABLO DIABLO

Copyright 2019

CHAPTER 1

Before Dakota came down from the office, Amy came scuffling out of her bedroom. Apparently, she was up later observation picture show. The one I saw before going to bed was only one of three that the gang watched. I sat her down and gave her the update about what had happened. She looked like a lost puppy because this was not something that we had discussed as a means of security.

She asked if she could go pack a quick shower and then help on the telephone set. I sent her to get that shower as I would necessitate a unsleeping Amy.

Jill was pacing back and forth. I couldn't William Tell if she was worried or if she was thinking about her next move. BJ was pretty much her shadow. They sat down together and began discussing their estimation of what the next step for them might be.

The vertebral column room access opened and the seven from the studio and the pocket billiards house filed in. Allison wouldn't look at me. I directed everyone to put their stuff in the bedroom that they stay in when we are in lockdown.

Fred took his two nephews aside and spoke to them. Although I couldn't hear what was said, I knew it wasn't good as both boys kept looking at the ground. dawning sat nervously at the kitchen table, not really looking at me. The porn twins went upstairs to the elbow room that they had chosen to put their poppycock down and came back down to the kitchen.

While people were milling around, Dakota came downstairs with a big heap of newspaper publisher. She set them on the kitchen tabular array and headed back upstairs. I flipped through them to see that all the Pinetree locations were printed out, each location listed the address, the building block numeral, the telephone, and fax number as well as the current superior general Manager's public figure. I flipped through the stack and took off about 10 varlet and began handing them out.

Since it didn't really matter what locations you ended up with, I just took the top 10 varlet then the side by side 10 and so on.

"If I hand anyone emplacement that are West of the Mississippi, please set them aside and move on. Look at what I'm handing you right now and see if I need to give you a different set of 10 pages,"I tell the group.

One of the CG boy had pages for Arkansas, I took those vertebral column and handed him the adjacent 10. I decided to pass over what should be said,"OK, everyone here's what I would like you to say to the contact unit. ‘ hullo Mr. Smith, I'm David from Jaxson, Inc. home spot. We're aware that you currently have no computer system of rules. We've had a proficient bug and our IT department is working hard on fixing the yield as quickly as possible. When the organisation is restored you will receive a message that says our scheme is back online. Until you receive this message please have your people stay off our arrangement. Do you have any questions at this point ? That's wonderful. Thank you for your assistance,"Then you should hang up and move on to the next unit.

"Does anyone bear any questions about what they are supposed to be doing ?"I ask.

"Yes sir, can Bobby and I make some phone calls to aid ?"Sammy says.

"Absolutely ! That is with child of you guys,"I tell the two chefs. I see both CG boys and Allison not looking at me. I'm sure that Fred lit his nephews up and well, Allison, I can tell she's unquiet about what will chance. Aurora is just sitting there with her ten pages acting as nothing has happened. I'll address this issuing when things are much more finalize down. The porn twins and Belinda seem excited to participate as they have note pad, pens and their jail cell phones plugged into the wall to go on them charged.

My sound buzz. It's agent Heidi Longmire.

"howdy Mr. Greene, this is Agent Longmire. I believe you spoke with Special Agent Fernandez and he let you know that I would be coming by to pick up your laptop. Please ascertain me you have not opened that email,"she says to me.

"Agent Longmire, the laptop is closed and unplugged from the wall. It is ready to be handed off to you when you get here. How far away are you ?"I ask her.

"I'm coming down your service road right now,"she says.

"OK, then I'll wait until I see your car and then open the gate,"I say.

I head to the certificate camera in the kitchen to watch until I see her car. When I do see it, I poke the necessary buttons to afford the logic gate. I watch her pull the car into the courtyard and I poke the buttons to close up the gate immediately after she pulls in.

I pick up the laptop and tycoon cord and walk over by the social movement door. As I wait for her to come to the room access, I hear my group making phone yell and almost repeating the speech exactly that I gave them to say.

There is a bang at the door.

"Who is it ?"I ask.

"It's Agent Longmire,"she says.

"Please depict me your credentials,"I say to her.

I open the doorway just a few inches and see her holding her FBI ID. I open the room access the quietus of the way and let her come inside.

"Um, Mr. Greene, what is going on here ?"she asks.

"I have my people calling each building block Orient of the Mississippi to let them get laid that we have a figurer effect and are working on it as fast as we can. They are asking the General coach to hold on their people off the system until service is restored. Right now, we are working on the hotel division, but as soon as we have to a greater extent contact information printed out I'll split the chemical group one-half working on the hotel division and one-half on the restaurant side of meat,"I tell her. She sees the laptop but before I handwriting it over to her I ask my enquiry,"Agent, are you married or in a relationship ?"

"That's kind of personal, isn't it. Mr. Greene ?"

"Not to me, it's not. I saw you running thing when we had the shot of your agentive role here. maitre d' Perez showed up and you turned the investigation over to him. I asked special Agent Fernandez about you and he tells me that you are a concentrated proletarian and very dedicated to the FBI. I would like to invite you to dinner to foregather someone who works just as hard as you do. He owns his own byplay and, in my headland, I think the two of you would be compatible. However, let me be decipherable, I'm not matchmaking, I'm just doing unveiling. If nothing happens then that's fine, but if you work as intemperately as I think you work then maybe having person to lecture about body of work to might be of interest to you. If not, well then you got a nice dinner out of it. Have I scared you off ?"I ask her.

"Um, well……. I guess it's alright. I do work a lot and really have no time to go looking for soul to rely for a human relationship. It's not like I'm going down to the local pub to peck up somebody that I can't check out ahead of sentence. Yeah, I'll be happy to go to dinner with whomever. One little note, I'm allergic to bell peppers. Doesn't matter the coloring just bell peppers in cosmopolitan. Here's my card, let me spell my personal cell phone number on the back as I don't want to get in bother for using the delegacy mobile phone phone for personal job,"she says to me as she pulls out a pen and writes her number on the back.

"Thank you, agent. Here's the laptop computer,"I say as I hand her the computer. She puts the laptop into an evidence bag and seals it. I open the front threshold for her and out she goes. I go back to the certificate system and poke the buttons to spread out the gate and keep an eye on her leave.

I call Donna.

"Donna, how are things going ?"

"Well, Saint David I'm gladiola you gave me John. He's been a big avail calming hoi polloi down that are here. He is also taking outcry escalations and handling frantic customers. He's sorting the manual reservations into 27 piles, one for each state and one atomic reactor for Washington DC. I kind of feel useless he's doing so much for the call center,"Donna tells me.

"Well, then we made a skillful vociferation sending him to your group. We're making calls from here. We have everyone working on it, even Bobby and Sammy. Mom and Fred are making calls as well,"I tell her. She laughs a bit, but I can tell it's a nervous laugh.

"I'll meet radix with you later, keep working. Oh, one More affair how many people do you have working ?"

"Right now, 75, but in about 90 minutes the second shift arrives and that will take us to about 200. Why do you ask ?"

"I just wanted to keep tablet on how practically help you have there since you are doing things manually. If you feel you need more people, then foretell them in. We'll work on the OT later,"I tell her. She thanks me and we end the call.

I dial up Paula next.

"Hello Paula, how goes the limo business ?"

"Really decelerate. The system is virtually down so we are taking reservations for limousine manually. We're explaining that we have a system issue but not to worry as our IT department is working on it as fast as possible. So far everyone seems OK with that explanation,"she tells me. I exhale a bit, as we have two line of work doing ok manually.

I hear Amy behind me telling someone that I'm on the phone.

I end my shout with Paula and walk over to Amy and gently take the phone from her.

"Hello, this is David Henry Graham Greene. Whom am I speaking to ?"I ask.

"This is scrape Reading. I'm a district manager for a Pinetree district in Dallas. What the hell is going on with our system ?"

"Mr. recital, we have a declamatory offspring with our estimator organisation for every computer due east of the Magnolia State. Did Amy not tell you that we have a computer payoff and that the IT section is working on the issue ?"I ask him in an stung voice.

"well, I can't do my job with no computing machine. I need to seem at yesterday's numbers before I go home,"he tells me. I look at my watch it's 12:05 pm which makes it only 2 pm in Dallas.

"Please tell me when you go home,"I say to this district manager.

"I stay all the way until 3:30 pm since I got here at 9:30 this morning,"he replies.

"wellspring, since we are having issues, you may need to appease a bit longer tonight,"I tell him rather than explode on him as we are quite vulnerable.

I hear a recollective pause before I get an resolution,"OK, I guess I can stay since its only one night,"he tells me.

"wellspring thank you. I'll be in touch sometime over the next few days,"I say to him. In my head, I don't understand how the territorial dominion handler think it is OK to go dwelling at 3:30 pm. After we get through this major progeny, I'm going to rattle a few cages to remind them that since they are on salary, they must work a minimum of 45 hours a week. As I count, this territory handler is working a aggregate of 6 hours a day times 5 days and that comes to 30 hours. He's a good 15 hours myopic and being paid for 45 but only working 30. That is going to change rather quickly. I have my plan B ready for my unannounced sojourn back to Dallas. I think about Seattle having the same issue and need to take care at management file, but with the FBI having my laptop computer, that will take in to wait a bit.

I decide to text Rob."I know you're very busy. Are you making any advancement ?"

I let my phone sit for a bit as I plug it into the charger in the kitchen. I see the great unwashed making big strides with the Page that I gave them. Dakota comes down the steps with another large packet of newspaper for making margin call.

"Everyone, when you finish the Call, you're on. Don't make another outcry until I tell you,"I say out tatty for everyone to hear.

I see masses putting their phone down. Bobby and Sammy are chatting quietly about one of them making tiffin for everyone. I'm quite proud of the porno twins and Belinda, they look like they have made the most calls as their hatful of newspaper publisher is much magnanimous than anyone else.

When everyone ends their current song, I divide the mesa in half so some may make hotel calls and others will make eating house phone call. I put the porn counterpart and Belinda to lead off making restaurant calls.

I get a text edition from Rob. It reads,"devising progression. MIGHT BE UP IN ABOUT 75-90 minute. STAY TUNED"I smile seeing this reply.

I call Boston Market to order lunch for the birdsong center and glad limo and Black Car limousine.

"Thank you for calling the Pasadena Boston Market, this is carol speaking. Will this parliamentary law be to go or dine in ?"I am told on the phone.

"Christmas carol, I want to make three large orders. How quickly can they be gear up ?"I ask.

"fountainhead 5-15 sandwiches about 35-40 bit forever 5 sandwiches add 10 more minutes,"she says. I think to myself that it will be dinner party time before all the nutrient is ready. Christmas carol, that's all I needed to get it on, I'll phone call you another time,"and pay heed up the phone.

Next, I call El polo Norteno and ask about catering for 150-200 people, how long would it take and what would be the livery fee for it going to two different positioning. The delightful ma'am tells me it will necessitate about one minute to take in all the tiffin made and be on the route for pitch. I place two set of dejeuner : one is chicken on a salad, the former is three fully loaded beef wetback. The lady gives me a cost plus the delivery fee. I give her my Visa and add a 20 % tip for the device driver. She asked the computer address and some former apposite interrogation, such as do the buildings have a secure entrance, whom to visit if the driver can't see a parking daub, and is there anyone who can get together the driver at the door since the society is so heavy. I answer the questions and she tells me an parliamentary law figure. I thank her and go balk on my phone callers.

Sammy asks if grilled cheeseflower sandwiches and tomato plant soup would be alright for lunch. I shrug my shoulder and evidence him that it sounds fine.

I walk around and view everyone's progress. Mom is doing well, she doesn't have as many yell as some of the others, but Fred is more than making up for her deficiency of progress.

Surprising to me is that the erotica twins and Belinda are making huge footstep with their cry listing. When they run across an incorrect phone number, they dial the fax business to see if that would be answered. If that line isn't answered, they circle the number and hand the sheet to Dakota for her to cross down the compensate number.

Everyone is doing a great job. I pull out some loving cup and sate them with ice water for the ladies. They take the cups and drink the water down quickly. I carefully watch Dakota to prepare sure my darling is drinking enough water.

CHAPTER 2

I get a call from Donna ; she is completely surprise that lunch showed up. I told her that I appreciated all the work they were doing and to delight take a leak sure enough that toilet gets at least one lunch, maybe even two. Donna laughs and thanks me for taking care of the staff.

A few minutes later I get a call from Paula thanking me for lunch for her people. I tell her that I appreciate all the intemperately oeuvre that her group is doing.

The sound calls go on for a couple more minute. The luncheon that Sammy made was delicious. The earphone group stopped, and we all enjoyed the food, but there were lots of conversations about how people reacted to the phone calls.

At the end of the lunch, Allison came over to me.

"I guess I'm in trouble. Do you want me to be active out ?"She says in a defeated manner.

"Why would I want you to move out ?"I ask.

"Because I think that you're mad at me,"she says.

"Should I be mad or is there a reasonable explanation for what happened ?"I asked.

"Well, it seemed sane at the metre, but now that I've had a chance to call back about it maybe not,"she says.

"Allison, as I see it, you violated the one affair I asked you to not do. Film any of the family or playgroup and you did that. Do I not take care of you ? Was what I asked to difficult ? I'm at a loss, please explain how we got to what I found you doing with the CG boy and Aurora,"I say to her.

Her eyes tear up. She's finding it strong to utter and take for back the sobbing. I put my arms around her. Yes, I'm annoyed but I just want an explanation.

"Allison, what made you do what I had asked not to have done ?"I ask her again.

"Jacques Louis David, I'm so sorry. daybreak came to me asking to have a private film of a fantasy of hers. She brings the two CG boys along. The smut twins tell the son and Aurora that they should make porn together, that it will be fun and shake,"she starts to order me.

"So how did you agree to do the filming ?"I ask.

"Aurora kept telling me that she isn't parting of the playgroup, that she is just an old lady friend. I believed her. I shouldn't have, but I did. I still have the solid thing on the television camera. What do you want me to do with it ?"she asks.

"hack your camera into the security system and produce me five DVDs. Once for morning, one for each of the CG boy, one for Fred, and one for me."I tell her.

At this detail, her center are a steady stream of bust. I pull the arm of my tee shirt out and wipe her eyes. She really looks lamentable, her eyes all puffy, her nose track, and her breathing a bit falter.

"Allison let's call this a poor case of legal opinion. But please understand, even if they beg you on their deal and articulatio genus you will not photographic film anyone that lives or stay here in the Chateau. I hope you understand what I'm telling you. NO ONE gets filmed, without my OK. My home, my rules. Got it ?"I ask her. She is barely able to communicate with me she is crying so profusely.

"Please do me a party favour and go get the CG boys,"I ask her to do.

She gets up and others ask what's ill-timed and what's going on and why is she crying. She just shakes her forefront and walks away going to find the CG boys. I see Dakota watching Allison as she walks away. Dakota knows but so far, she hasn't included herself in this issue.

It takes a few minutes, but Allison returns with both CG boy. I kiss Allison on the cheek and secern her to gain the DVDs that I had asked for. She picks up the television camera and punch it into the security system and calls up the film.

The two CG boys come over to me as if they have no idea what I summoned them for.

"Gentlemen lets go out to the support way to chat for a match of minute please,"I turn and walk to the living room. They follow me.

"Guys, do either of you have any idea why I want to speak to you two away from everyone else ?"I ask.

"No sir,"

"You have no idea. I find that hard to believe. Let me clue you into what I saw that annoyed me. The two of you making porn with Aurora and having Allison celluloid it. Was I not shed light on, weeks ago when you two came to live with me and the family that no one from our grouping gets filmed without my OK ? I don't want anyone of the playgroup making smut. That's the type of thing that brings unwanted care to the household. Was I not clear about that when you two moved in here ?"I ask of them.

"Yes, sir you were pull in. We didn't think we were making porn. We thought we were satisfying the phantasy of the Aurora doll. However, she suggested that you might be covetous that we were having fun with her,"One of the hombre tells me.

"gentleman, I don't maintenance if you fuck her until the peel on your dick fall off. What I care about is thing like that of the people that live here, including you two knuckleheads. Why would you two do this ?"I ask.

"Because it sounded like fun. Our girl told us that making smut can be fun and exciting,"the early one tells me.

"Please don't separate me that you're now blaming your action at law on the twin,"I say to them.

"No, sir. We're not saying that. We made a small error in sagacity and am sorry for it,"

Allison comes over to me and pass me 5 DVD disks. I had one each to the CG boy. They sheepishly accept the phonograph recording.

"What night should we show it to the house ?"I ask.

"Um, we would opt you not do that please,"one says to me.

"But why not ? You wouldn't be embarrassed, would you ?"I ask.

"Um, yes sir we probably would be embarrassed,"they tell me.

"I would care you to lead this one DVD and hand it to your Uncle Fred. A man who has been patriotic and handles himself like a gentleman,"I say to them.

One of the boys accepts the DVD but just holds it staring at it. The other boy doesn't even look at the DVD. I know that asking them to give one of the DVDs to their uncle will block them and him. I hold my hand out and ask for the disk back.

The boy holding it exhales as he puts the record in my hand.

"Gentlemen, delight don't do this type of thing again without checking with me. If you want to cause Allison flick you and whomever, that's fine with me, but not here not on these reason, got it ?"I say to them in a very stern fashion. They both shake their heads in agreement and once again apologize.

"Gentlemen, please retrieve you are a invitee here and everything you do reflects on your uncle,"I say to them. They both thank me for giving them a instant chance.

"Please ask Aurora to come to sit with me,"I say to the CG boys.

Both get up and go over to her. She finishes her earpiece call up and paseo over to me and plonk herself down on the couch.

"Yeah, is there something you need ?"she asks.

"You to pack your poppycock and move out of my house,"I say to her. Her eyes get large and I see she is now pissed off.

"Oh, you're jealous of me choosing the two bozo to accept sex with. I'm an grownup. I'm a arise woman and can choose to have sex with or not have sex with anyone I choose,"she tells me.

"daybreak, you are absolutely redress. However, you violated one of my few dominion here. But clearly, you don't care. So, it's an well-to-do choice, you have until tonight to pack your stuff and leave. I'll call you a cab when you're set up to go,"I tell her in a becalm non-threatening voice.

"screw you. I'm done with this shit. Your regulation are dazed. I don't live here so they don't pertain to me. You should get that through your chummy read/write head,"she barks at me. I see a distich of the phone group turning to follow. Dakota changes tush to the end of the dining room tabular array, where I usually sit.

I just smile at her ; this I know really pisses her off. She tries to get under your cutis and horn in your push to get a response out of you, but when you don't react it only infuriates her.

She gets up and violent storm to the bedchamber that she is staying in. It takes less than 5 minutes for her to gather her stuff and nonsense and come stomping back to the sustenance way. Dakota had already called for a cab while she was packing her stuff.

"Your cab will be here in just a few mo. I'll let you go outside the logic gate to wait for the cab. The cab is already paid for and is going to take you back to your own home. I hope you have a good life,"I say to her again in a sedate manner. She is furious now and is stomping around. I open the front door for her and let her walk outside into the courtyard cussing and curse word at me. When she gets to the security logic gate, I poke the push to have it set forth opening. When she goes through the partially open gate, I poke the clit again and it begins closing.

I turn around and ask how things are going on the sound calls. I get a sunshine that they have completed all the phone calls. I tell them that we are through for the day. I missed my phone buzzing when I was speaking with the CG boys and break of the day. The text was from Rob. It read"organization FIXED. EVERYTHING IS BACK UP. WE NEED TO rich person A SERIOUS give-and-take ABOUT UPGRADING THINGS IN OUR system of rules TO PREVENT THIS FROM happening AGAIN. goodness dark, ROB ”.

I read the text to everyone and the totally way cheers. I tell the consortium house gallon and the CG boys to head back to their house.

I open the security shutters on the posterior but only the undercoat floor.

Sammy and Bobby want to consume an hour off to rest a bit before they make dinner. I offer to buy dinner party for everyone from either Outback or Carrabba's, the room chose Outback. I told them to publish down what they wanted to eat, and Dakota will foretell it in. She looked surprised that I assigned this to her to get done. She smiles and blows me a kiss.

I hustle on a higher floor to the authority to let Jill love that the system is back up. She thanks me and gets back to act with BJ. I tell them both that Outback is being ordered and to text Dakota what they want for dinner.

I kiss Jill and tell her she was great. I kiss BJ on the cheek and differentiate her thank you for keeping Jill sane for the day. She smiles at me and say me that I'm welcome.

CHAPTER 3

When the dinner from Outback arrives, everyone is circling the poor delivery boy like a shark circle a swimmer.

I put the intellectual nourishment on the dining room table and tell everyone to dig in. Most of the noblewoman took some of the Cesar salad but Diane and Dakota took no salad but took a steak each. Dakota texted Jill and BJ that the food was here, and they need to come down before John gets home.

I don't know why but an Outback steak didn't really sound that interesting. I did some quick mathematics to ensure that we had enough nutrient for everyone, including the single at the Hawk, the yell center, and the limo ship's company. I'm always impressed with Dakota. She anticipates matter, but she has done a rattling job at teaching John to counter both issues and fixes.

As it is now after 5 pm, I have Amy sort the varlet into two gobs, hotel pile, and eating house raft. I make the decision that we need to get a master listing here at the house for time to come problems.

My phone bombilation, its Agent Longmire.

"Hello federal agent, what do I owe this phone phone call ?"

"Mr. Graham Greene, I'm really glad you didn't heart-to-heart that email. Our techs moved that email into a blank information processing system and it fried the voiceless movement in about 45 second gear. It's a technology that we haven't seen used in quite a spell,"she tells me.

"I'm going to guide a conjecture that you believe that it belongs to that Mexican drug corporate trust. Am I close ?"I ask her.

"WOW, you are pretty good. However, you let me get away without discussing the two guys you say were Russian character that came to your security gate trying to get in. Agent Fernandez tells me you can prepare a DVD of them. If that is true, may I ask you for a favor to make us a couple of those DVDs please ?"she asks.

"I would be felicitous to. When will you come by to pick them up ?"I ask her.

"Um, can't I just send another agent ?"

"No, since you're getting a gratis dinner party out of me, you can finish by and plunk them up. We can also discourse when you're available for dinner and where you would wish to go,"I tell her.

"Uggggh, you're killing me. OK, how about tomorrow morning, I'll stop by and get the DVDs from you and we can discuss your ‘ introductions'to this guy,"she says with a bit of a giggle in her voice.

"That sounds wonderful. I look forward to seeing you, federal agent Longmire. Have a good dark,"I say to her as we end the call.

I decide to dial up Saint Patrick, break of the day's boss. In my read/write head, this might be a difficult telephone Call but I'm ready for virtually anything after today.

"hi, this is Patrick,"he answers the phone.

"Patrick, this is David Henry Graham Greene. Do you have a couple of moment to talk ?"I ask.

"Um, WOW, did you ever piss off Aurora. I've never seen her so mad and boy o boy does she not consume lady-like words for you. I thought that I was the only one that can piss her off that badly,"he says to me.

"St. Patrick, I have a delightful peeress who works as many minute a week as you do. I think, at least in my head, that you two might be well suited for each other. However, if you're in a family relationship, then forget I asked, but if you're not, then my wife and I would like to take you two to dinner. We will do the introductions. We'll have a nice dinner and if you and she are concerned, you can commute phone bit. Jill and I are only offering you dinner and an introduction. Sound like something that you might be willing to do ?"I ask.

There's a long pause. Just before I say something Patrick says,"Yeah, that sounds like a skillful evening. What variety of restaurant would this be, as I'm not much for the totally wooing matter,"he says to me.

"How about Outback, Carrabba's, or Longhorn's Steakhouse. Does any of those vocalise OK for you ?"I ask.

"Heck, all of them are marvelous. How about you and your wife make the pick. Just let me know where and when to show up and we're on,"he tells me. However, I have a program to piece him up in a limo and her as well, let them make a conversation before we even get to the restaurant.

After I hang up, I go on a higher floor to visit Jill and BJ. Once again, they are working hard. I'm not sure what they are doing, but they're having discussions about the descent and the transition to a whole new setup. I see Jill looking through paperwork from the SEC regarding conversion of publicly held neckcloth. Jill and BJ are ensuring that they follow the dominion for what's planned.

"Darling, we are going to be taking two people out to dinner soon, one of my presentation dinner, do you have a orientation for where we go to dinner, or should I just set everything up and let you know after its all set up ?"I ask.

"Just take concern of it, darling. You know I trust you,"she says to me.

I go over and kiss her, but she seems annoyed with me now. I kiss BJ on the brass and head back downstairs. Once there, I hear respective interpreter, everyone from the Hawk has made it home base. Paula and Donna, along with St. John the Apostle have all arrived as well.

Mom and Fred excuse themselves from the grouping. I think that Mom hasn't worked that hard in a foresighted, long prison term and she is just plain worn out. Fred has made her a dinner plate and is carrying it behind her as they head to her bedroom.

"Hey, Mom. Thank you for all the intemperate work that you and Fred put in today. We couldn't have gotten through it all without your help,"I say before they go into her room. I see her blow me a kiss through the air as they shut the door behind them. In my head, I really like having Mom here at the Chateau. She's sort of taking the nanna position giving some of the youthful girls'advice and for the one-time unity like Paula, she listens when they have questions. Mom will have a drinking glass of wine with some of the ladies, something she is probably enjoying. I make no honorable mention of Bob as she is enjoying life and there is no need to get her emotions all stirred up about being a widow.

I head over to the kitchen, where the group is hanging out. lavatory is eating like a man who hasn't had food in days. First, he attacked the Caesar salad, which surprised virtually everyone. From there he took not one, but two sirloin steaks, a with child sunbaked white potato, and some broccoli. He loaded the potato with butter, glum ointment, and bacon. Then he just sat down at the dining room table and began to eat. He didn't say a Holy Writ about the day, but I am very lofty of him. He probably is the understanding the call option centre of attention went as well as it did. In my headway, he is really showing signal of making undecomposed decisions and helping everything we have going on.

I sit down in one of the dining way chairs, I get kissed from Jennifer, Paula, and Donna as they are picking a chair at the board to eat their Outback dinner party. Diane gets her plate and sits down adjacent to John.

I see Allison sitting at the other end of the table. She is eating and not participating in any of the discussions going on. She looks up at me and then backs down at her food for thought. I make myself a home base and go sit by her.

"Interesting day today, eh ?"I ask trying to lighten the mood.

"David, I'm sorry,"she says flop off the bat.

"Hey, we're done with all that. I'm not looking to get rid of you. I see you as constituent of the family line, I hope you know that"I say to her. However, that draws the tears out once again. I still haven't figured out how to deliver this conversation with her without her sobbing.

I pull my death chair right up next to her. I put my arms around her and perpetrate her in tightly to me. I just hold her as she tries to bear the binge. I don't say a parole ; I just hold her. We probably sit there for about 9 or 10 moment before she has finally gotten control of her emotions.

As she lifts her drumhead off my shoulder, I lean in and kiss her. She responds kissing me as well. I begin to caress the back of her head as we embrace. I hear her purr a bit in my ear, which makes me smile. I lean back and see that she is now smiling a bit, not a big smile, but a smile none the LE. She goes back to eating her dinner and finally starts participating in our group discussion of the stallion day.

As I listen, I hear a family-like effort to overcome the events that were presented to us today. I need to spend some time on the sound with Rob, what will it involve to protect our organization ? Does it need new servers ? Are there firewalls that can't be broken ? Is there software that will help protect from an invasion ? Are there initiation for wildcat masses ? I have lots of questions for Rob, but I want to yield him a few hours of sleep first.

"David, you need to look at this,"Jennifer says to me.

I get up from my chair and walk over to the security measures photographic camera. Once again, we have three people standing at our gate shaking it and rattling it trying to get into the courtyard. I poke a button and say into the loudspeaker system,"Hello, who are you ?"

The three guys, who are speaking in a Spanish dialect say something that I can't understand."Guys, the police have been called. Please detain where you are until the authority arrive,"I say to them. This prompts them to take off running. Apparently, they have learned their example about driving a car down the service route.

"Saint John the Apostle, go get your gun,"I tell him. It only takes a match of moments before he returns with his pistol. I go to my bedroom and get my weapon as well.

"Let's go check the front gate out. I hit the security lightness, which lights the courtyard up like a baseball stadium. I unlock the front door and john and I step outside. I hear Dakota tell us to be measured. No one is at the gate, but there is something sitting on the ground. John and I approach it slowly. lav gets close to the box, but I warn him that it may be an explosive or something else that will harm him. He tries to look at the box without touching it.

He tells me he can't tell what is in it and will not try to actuate it. I hear something behind us, I turn and see both Bobby and Sammy with their guns on their hips. Bobby suggests that we call the police force and let them deal with it. I agree and pull out my cell telephone and dial up 911. I explain to the exigency starter what is going on and that three cat of Hispanic backgrounds have left a box at our front logic gate and we are unsure if it is good to open or not. The wheeler dealer tells me to not touch the box and building block should be at the house in just a yoke of moment.

I back Saint John the Apostle away from the gate and ask everyone to go back into the business firm. In about three minute of arc, police have arrived. I step outside and point in time to the box. They tell me that they are going to accept the bomb squad come to the household and check out the box. They want us all to stay inside, which I push everyone back in the house.

It takes the bomb squad about another 20 minutes before they show up. Once they do, it takes them a few more minute of arc deploying their robot. The robot picks up the box and takes it down the service road. Once it is away from everyone, the robot opens the box. null happens. The Sargent in care yells at me to come out to the gate, which I do. John follows me acting as my escort.

The Sargent introduces himself. He tells us that the box has a form drumhead decorated to front like me. I ask if he's trusted that there is no volatile textile, the Sargent tells me that they will take the heading back to the constabulary station and X-radiation it and dust it for fingerprints. He also told us that the forensic squad will scan the box and assure it for the remainder of explosive material. I watched as the golem took the box and loaded it into a police van.

I thanked the Sargent for his team's arduous workplace and asked when I will get a copy of the report, he told me it would be a mates of days, but they would make sure as shooting that I got a transcript. After about an time of day, they packed up all their stuff and left.

As I got inside, Jill came running down telling me she had a strange email on her computer.

"Don't open it. I'll call Special agent Fernandez,"I tell her.

I dial up Fernandez. It rings a duet of times before it goes to voicemail. I tell him on voice mail that we have, well Jill has, another one of those emails and that we are not opening it or touching it. I ask Jill to turn off her computer and unplug it. She heads back upstairs and does just that. As I begin to concern about this new email, I wonder if maybe I should be using a public use figurer, like the ones they have at the public program library. I'll bank check with Fernandez and ask his opinion.

Jennifer comes over to me, once I was back in the theatre and hands me an odd-looking envelope. It had my name and the house speech handwritten on it, with no return address and the postage stamp was that of an American language masthead, but it was upside down, a sign of distress.

I took the letter to the kitchen, where I retrieved a sharp paring knife from the butcher auction block to unfold this letter. Slowly and carefully, I slid the edge of the sword along the bound of the spine flapping. I let the knife cut through the sharpness of the envelope.

Carefully, I looked at it to see if there was anything that resembled some sorting of tripwire. I didn't see any, nor did I feel any. I decided to subscribe to the envelope out back by the pool. I figured if there is some variety of volatile material, I can fling it into the water. As I pulled the position of the envelope apart, I see that there is a objet d'art of paper inside the envelope folded in a tri-fold style. I gently pull the paper out of the envelope, setting the envelope down on the pool deck.

Looking carefully at the piece of trifold paper, I began to blossom out it. On the face of the paper is words that are obviously cut out from magazines and glued on the paper. I read the note. It says,"We asked you nicely the number one clock time to pay, but you refused. We asked you nicely a second sentence, and again you refused. Now, somebody close to you, that is authoritative to you will die before the end of the week. Maybe that will get you to pay. Trouble is coming and coming soon"

I sit and stare at this letter. I'm not sure how to respond. Trying not to touch the varsity letter, I fold it back up and put it back into the envelope.

I set the alphabetic character down on the tabular array at the end of the support room lounge. I dial up Fernandez, it goes to voicemail. I hang up and telephone dial him again, and again it goes to voice ring armour. I decide to dial up factor Longmire.

"hi, this is Agent Longmire. Who is calling ?"She asks.

"Agent Longmire, this is David Graham Greene. I'm calling because we have received an odd letter of the alphabet that is telling me that soul close to me will die before the end of the week,"I say to her.

"Have you touched the varsity letter ?"

"Yes, I held onto the edge of the envelope and used a paring knife to open the envelope. Once it was open air, I carefully pulled the alphabetic character out, trying not to touch the paper but I'm sure that I did. I'm really not sure as shooting what I should do about this,"I tell her.

"Mr. Graham Greene, that is OK. Please put the envelope into a Ziploc bag without touching it again. Use a yoke of pair of tweezers to nibble it up,"she says to me.

"Yes Ma'am, so you'll be here in the morning to get it from us ?"I ask.

"Oh no, I'm coming right now. I should be there in about 20 minutes, if that's OK with you,"Agent Longmire says to me.

"Of track, it's OK. netherworld, it could be 4 am and it would be OK,"I say to her. She thanks me and bent up.

I head over to the security system in the kitchen. I make the system of rules go back to midnight and get to a DVD of the front gate from midnight until about 5 minute of arc ago. I know that there is something there for the FBI to pursue.

My mind immediately goes to Dakota or Jill as the aim. I gather the entire family back in the TV room to discuss this new threat.

CHAPTER 4

Once I have everyone in the TV elbow room, I begin to tell everyone what we know so far and what the FBI and local police are doing.

"Right now, we have a threatening letter claiming that because I didn't pay the extortion money that they asked, someone close to me will die before the end of the week. I'm not certain if this letter is credible or not, but all of you know that we just replaced all the window because of the shooting back at the FBI party. Agent Longmire is on her way over here to collect the missive, the envelope, and a DVD of our protection camera for the preceding 24 60 minutes,"I tell everyone.

I see the concern in the middle of my family. I'm not sure what to do. I hear Fred's vocalization behind me asking me a question,"St. David, didn't you mention that you had 4 guys from the secret Service willing to be your escort and Jill's ? Maybe you need to hire them. I would also suggest that no one drives to shape alone. We should probably copulate up and those who have a sway permit should start carrying their weapon for safety,"Fred suggests to me, which makes a whole clump of sense.

"Fred, that is a serious estimate. Does anyone else have any ideas about how we can hold every one of the family safe ?"I ask the room.

Jennifer speaks first,"Maybe those of us who work at the Lapp place, such as the Hawk should all devolve on in one vehicle, say John's hand truck or my truck. Both hand truck have tinted windowpane, so coming out of the garage, it would be difficult for the bad guys to see who is in the vehicle,"she says.

Paula adds,"We could also schedule a limousine or two to amount to the house as if it is picking up somebody from the family, when in fact it isn't getting anyone."

Dakota joins the conversation,"I think you need to have your new PR person announce to the sensitive that someone is trying to stimulate you down by threatening you. denote that both the FBI and the local constabulary are involved

"We probably should alter our procedure of when we leave and return to the firm,"Donna says.

"I like all of these thought. Let me just say that this menace against one of you makes me concern. You all know that you mean the Earth to me and I don't want to risk even one life in this family. I just don't know what the proper motion it to protect you,"I say to the room.

"David, we're not shaver. We are a family line and will learn each other's backs until we know for for certain all is safe,"Saint John says to me. I know he's right, but I'm not willing to risk anyone. My mind begins to inquire if I should just pay and be done with it, but my gut tells me ‘ HELL NO ’, which is the route I'm taking now.

I hear my phone buzzing. I walk over to it and resolve it.

"how-do-you-do, this is Saint David,"I say into my phone.

"You should have paid senor. Now you are down one of your radical. Pay up or you'll be down another,"the somebody on the other end of the phone call option says to me in a Hispanic accent.

I scan the way trying to visualize out who I'm missing. The guy said that I'm down one, who is not here ?

Dakota, Jill, Amy, Jennifer, Donna, BJ, Danni, Diane, Allison, Paula, and Sharon are all here for the ladies.

"Someone go out to the consortium dwelling house and assure on the ladies and Fred's nephews,"I say to the room. bathroom hops up and head word outside to the pool house.

"Jill, shout Ronda. brand sure enough she is OK,"I say to Jill.

She picks up her phone and begins dialing. Ronda answers on the first ring. Jill chats with her and updates her on what's going on. She says she hasn't seen anyone following her or watching her. She did ask Jill when she gets to drag my ass into bed again. Jill giggled and asked,"Do you reckon about sex all the clock time ?"

"Of course of study, what else do you call up of my honey ?"Ronda asked giggling.

They wish each other pleasantries and end the call. Jill tells me that everything is OK with Ronda. I exhale a bit.

John comes back into the sign of the zodiac telling me that all three ladies are in the pocket billiards menage and both of Fred's nephews are there as well.

Now I'm confused. Who are they talking about ? Or are they even being truthful, maybe they are just trying to rattle my cage ? Either way, I put in another call to especial agentive role Fernandez. Again, it goes right to voicemail.

My earphone rings, it's agentive role Longmire. I know she's here to cull up the letter. I check the gate camera and see her car. I poke the button to open the gate, she pulls in and I poke the necessary release to close it right behind her. I wait for her to fare to the front door.

"Agent Longmire, nice to see you, please come up inside,"I say to her.

"Do you have this letter ?"She asks.

"Yes, and I have another computer issuing. This clip it's on my wife's estimator. We shut it off and am fix to impart you the hard private road pillar to take with you. I'm not sure what we should be doing, we still live by the information processing system and we need to be able to admission our system. Any suggestions ?"I ask the agent.

"fountainhead, you'll get your laptop back tomorrow. We installed a program that will give you another level of security. However, we also have installed a gun trigger guard. If you receive anything from the author of that last email, our plan will proceed whatever was sent into a freestanding filing cabinet and transfer it to our IT group,"she says to me. This idea makes me smile. I know that they could look at what my body of work is like, but I don't think that is what they are after. They probably have a listing of where the email was sent from and their programme will continually search for anything from them again.

Jill goes upstairs to the office to lend down her computing machine tower to hand it off to Agent Longmire. While Jill is upstairs, I get the envelope and carefully hand it to Longmire. She puts on a couplet of rubber baseball glove and puts the envelope in an grounds bag and cachet it up putting her initials on the front.

She asks about why whoremaster is wearing a firearm. I explain that almost of my group have carry permit and since it seems as if we are under beleaguering, we are trying to protect ourselves. She doesn't say anything to my point.

I do ask her when she is free for the merging dinner party."You mean you still want to go through with this even though you feel your family is in risk ?"She asks.

"Of course. I'm not going to hide for the rest of my life here in the business firm. They might get me to convert my routine for a day or two at the most, but that's all. Now, when are you available for dinner ?"I persist.

Longmire pulls out her personal cell telephone set to look at her calendar. She gives me several years that she thinks will shape. I grab my phone and put these days in the notes section of my phone and mark it on the calendar. Looking at the days she gave me I pick one and ask her if she is OK with that day. She thinks about it for a bit or two, then agrees to the day.

"Great, I'll send a car to blame you up and bring you to dinner,"I tell her.

"Mr. Greene, you don't need to institutionalize a car for me. I'm perfectly able-bodied to drive myself,"she tells me. However, I'm not backing down from my introduction dinner plan.

"feel, I own a limo party, just smile and say yes,"I say to her smiling myself.

"OK, Mr. Greene, you are persistent, aren't you ? Yes, sending a car to plunk me up would be exquisitely. However, I think you want to have me in a limo, so I don't try to leave other,"she says to me smiling.

"Yeah, that's it. I don't want you trying to run away before the dinner party,"I laugh a footling as I agree with her.

Jill comes down from the office carrying the tug. factor Longmire, still wearing the rubber gloves takes the column. I also hand her a DVD of the last 24 hours of our strawman gate. She puts the DVD in her pocket. I ask Gospel According to John to take the calculator tower to her car for her. She tries to object, but I won't hear of it. lav takes the tower from her and follows her to her car, where he put the tower on the level of the support seat.

As she circles the courtyard to decease, I open the front gate for her. Once she is past the gate, I hit the push to fill up it again.

Jill turns and takes a stern at the dining room mesa. I guess taking her computer tug put her at a standstill.

"Honey, should we go out and buy a new computing device for each of us, or can you take a dark off ?"I ask her.

"I'll take a night off. BJ and I certainly could use it,"she says. Jill makes herself another dental plate of food from the leftover Outback repast. It was gracious to see both Dakota and Diane decide to take a small plate of the Cesar salad. All three of them refill their cup with ice water. This is the beginning thing that has made me grin tonight.

I guess seeing the three ladies having some salad, I decided to join them. I encouraged anyone who was concern to have themselves some salad, as it is something that really doesn't restrain very well. Steaks and chicken hold on just okay as do baked potatoes and steamed broccoli.

As it gets into the eventide, it seems a bit odd that my married woman and BJ are out among the rest of us. They both seem happy and chipper to not be doing the work they have been slaving over the past few nights. BJ is engaged chatting with Danni. Jill is chatting with Dakota, Diane, and many of the ladies. I still sit following to Allison. I want her to sympathize that I'm not wanting to get rid of her and judgement by her actions throughout dinner, I think my message has sunk in.

Mom and Fred come back out for a distich of minute, as they heard agent Longmire leave of absence and were interested in what the Feds had to say. I updated them and they seemed to feel like things were OK at the Chateau. Fred looked around for one of Sammy's dandy desserts. Thankfully, he still had a twain of his nice cake in the big fridge in the big kitchen. He went there with John only steps behind him bequeath to ‘ service'Sammy. Of course of action, John took control condition of the double burnt umber cake to take it back to the dining room. Sammy brought his strawberry cream vanilla bar.

When whoremaster came to the kitchen with the chocolate cake, respective of the ladies made their way over to him to get a piece of the cake. John was the gentleman and just stepped aside letting the ma'am have first shot at the cake. Diane asked John to get her a slice of the strawberry bar. When he gave her a plate with a slice on it, Diane took a bite and moaned as if she was having an orgasm. She truly enjoyed the fade that St. John gave her.

After all the ladies who wanted a slice of the coffee patty got one, trick cut himself a larger slice and slid it onto a plate.

Just as I was about to resolve for a slice of the strawberry mark cake, Sammy appeared with a big container of homemade chocolate chip cookies. Each cookie was about the sizing of a drink coaster. I took 4 cookies and poured myself a drinking glass of Milk River. Just as I was about to sit down, I saw that Jill was taking the stopping point bite of her salad. I got up and got her a gash of the chocolate patty, knowing that she really likes cocoa cake. I also put three biscuit on the plate. Since I had the milk still out of the electric refrigerator, I poured her a cup of Milk River as well.

Having the slices of bar seemed to serve relieve the billet that had been building here at the Chateau. Diane sent whoremaster out to the pool household to offer them slices of strawberry cake, they declined but thanked him for the offering.

As Jill finished up eating her cake, she got up and took me by the hand to go with her to our bedroom. I heard a couple of red cent and whistles as Jill shook her ass at everyone, much like Dakota does with me. We went into our bedroom and shut the door behind us. There we stayed and played for the residual of the dark. We made passionate love for several hr and then again in the cascade cleaning the sex off us. It was so dainty to feel the implements of war and body of my darling wife.

Sleeping together with my wife after a couple of hours of loving sex was delightful, of course, us taking a foresighted hot shower together didn't hurt thing either.

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