Chapter 78

The technician took one last look at his instruments and made the call. “Room is secure, no critters of any kind.”  He had finally found a company he liked working for.  A good bunch of men and women, mostly vets like him.  They didn’t treat everyone the same like in the military, but there was that same sense of teamwork and pride.

The officers, management, were pretty good too.  They let people do things their own way, even encouraged it, as long as goals were met.  They were uncompromising on standards, but then so was he.  It almost seemed like they looked for chances to catch you doing things right.  That made what he had to do even worse.

The technician didn’t want to do what the priest asked, but he had no choice.  He loved his God and his Church more than anyone or anything.  The Church was really all he had after the wife left with the kids.  It was crazy.  He didn’t hit her nearly as hard as his father hit his mother almost every weekend.  The technician shook his head.  The priest said that the owner of the company was helping someone who was trying to hurt the Church.  The technician tried to explain it to the priest. If he did what they wanted him to do he would get caught and lose his job.

As the technician stored all of his tools and equipment neatly in their labeled boxes he checked off the job on his iPad.  Maybe there was a way to look like he was giving the priest what he wanted and not really do it.  Damn it, he liked the people he worked with and they loved the boss.  Hell, the boss was crippled up, just like him.  The boss was a decorated ex-ranger. And, the boss was a black man who’d made it in lily-white world of corporate security at that.  The technician had finally found a home.  He had to find a way to serve two masters.

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