This is a sequential story you will need to read the previous Parts before this Part will make sense.
I broke this story up into Parts to accommodate L's request to make into parts.
This is my very first story I've ever written. I'm an Engineer so I tend to be techno/detailed, hope it does not distract from the story too much. Some of the items in the story are real, some embellished, and some fantasy, I'll let you try to figure them out. If you seek lurid sex then this story is not for you - I allude to sex but I leave the details to your imagination - often less is more. Enjoy OB.
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Breach:
Against doctor's orders I drove my SUV to Chicago after I made a phone call to an old SEAL buddy I met in Nam. He was tough as nails, had four purple hearts and all the other fruit salad to prove he was a true Operator, a stealthy hero.
He was with me when I got my first purple heart. I had not seen or talked to him in nearly 20 years,
my gosh
how time flies
. You never forget the guy who saved your life or the guy who I took a bullet to save. We occasionally emailed Christmas greetings, when we remembered, but life goes on - too fast.
I pulled into his Libertyville driveway as he came out to greet me. Bill said "I knew it was you, all those antennas on an SUV with a HAM call sign license plate. You're real covert, Kevin," he chuckled.
We man hugged and slapped each on the back, and in harmony said "it's been way to long." He smack slapped my gut a twice with the back of his hand as we walked into the house while saying you really changed. I said, "yup now starting to sport gray sidewalls with less on top - that's all." He gave me the eye and we both laughed. He still had a body of a warrior just his white hair gave his age away, Billy as a dead ringer for the actor Capt, Dale Dye, retired another Nam vet.
He asked, "you just had to be a HERO didn't you?" You made the news here.
Well I was board and had nothing else to do - besides she is a GILF! Hmmm, what about Chakita you remember Ernie's-Third-Eye on Magsaysay in Olongapo? Ya, ya, ya, that's why I moved to the Cork-Room after you told her I was a butterfly and she knew how to use a butterfly - buuuuuuddy.
With the luck of the bell his foxy wife, a voluptuous younger Dolly Parton clone, walked into the room killing that topic or we both would be getting in trouble.
He exclaimed, "you finally used that move I taught you, only took ya 40yrs." My retort was, "as I remember it I taught it to you." His wife piped up "now now boys play nice" and we all laughed,
just like old times of long ago. I've known Bill a few years before I met my current wife.
Bill you still into doing security work? Hell yes, once in the blood, I even got my PI license and own the company. Good, you busy? Always!
Looking at his fox's expression (rolling her eyes) I may have touched on a sore subject.
I got an issue I know you can sort out for me. I think I have a dirty security chief, he touts his prior military training as his credentials.
When we met it was obvious he really did not like me being on the estate and was really pissed when Brandy told him "to take any orders from me as if she gave the orders." He stomped off. I saw a big fat RED flag from his demeanor, body language, and just the stare of evil contempt at us or I'm reading too many Clancy and Coonts novels.
I suspect he has everything bugged including her cell phone. He hired the limo driver a year before so I'm confident he had something to do with the kidnapping attempt. Per Brandy he has never apologized in hiring the would-be kidnapper, another red flag. I suspect he is lying low not knowing who is looking or watching but my presence has him spooked and pissed.
Bill asked "ya packen"? I can but rarely. Bill said with determination "you better start!"
When is the last time you put lead down range. Over a year ago. Before you go back you need to put some lead down range - I got an after hour key to a range.
Well I can be your NRA Range Safety Officer, he shook his head at me and chuckled. Did you bring your toys with you - hell yes, in my SUV. Good boy.
Damn Bill could shoot his custom 1911 better one handed than me doing a two-handed Weaver with my 9mm. At 50' he could make seven round Mel Gibson 'smiley face'...
Bill, I want you to run a full background on this Joe and the two he hired. Here is a list of the other staff, you can run when you have time. You know what to look for.
I also need to buy some burner phones, got a place nearby? He just shot me the look 'you dummy' for even asking.
Bill how can you get a team in to sweep for bugs without getting spotted? There are lots of cameras. Joe's days off are Tuesday and a rotation day.
He suggested the old tried and true Orkin™ ruse works best. Just give me 24hrs before you salt the mine.
I told him to bill me direct as I have an open expense account with no traceability. As I was about to leave, Bill gave me a jar of cockroaches.
Hmmm, this is going to get exciding.
The Sweep:
Roaches got deployed early Tuesday morning. A screaming day maid made an emergency (intercepted) Orkin call. Bill came in with his team and began spraying. Their spray wand doubled as a RF-bug detector antenna. All the boys wore contamination clean white bunny hoody suits with white masks that hid their faces and wireless company intercom - ear-buds w/mic. The ear-buds doubled to as an audible signal strength meter chirping near RF sources.
They found bugs in every room and hallway in the McMansion. There was a camera above each bed and in each bathroom. Brandy's bedroom and four cameras covering her bed, three in her private bathroom, her attached private office and her private balcony.
They found super-mics outside covering the patio, pool, tennis court and a camera looking at the Jacuzzi. Only the pond area and boathouse were clean.
Brandy and Sara's phones had hidden GPS tracker APPs and call/mic intercept APPs. The snoop could even turn on the phone camera/mic remotely to see and listen in real-time.
The back seat of the limo had two bugs, port & starboard. Brandy's Mercedes had a GPS tracker and two mic bugs, front and rear seats.
The house network was hacked, the server had masked/hidden ports for backdoor data accessing, and all computers had hidden key-tracker and display intercept programs.
The only place clean inside the house that was Joe's security office and computer. We found Joe's stash of DVD videos in a false compartment inside his locked file cabinet safe. He sure loved watching Brandy shower or release her frustrations in bed. He even had a few video's of Sara taking a bath - pervert. There were videos of guests, I did not know, being intimate. Even a video of me in the bathroom - the sick fuck. All DVD's were removed and replaced with blank DVDs.
I took Brandy out for super that evening (leaving her cell phone in the car) and told her of what my team found - she went ballistic. She wanted to first castrate him, then set him on fire, and then really FIRE him. I talked her out of all of that; we do not know how deep he is in and what he knows or other recordings or videos we did not find.
Firing him could set off destructive preset traps he may have setup - we are sure he has online access to all your accounts too. We need Joe away from the house for a few days while giving your house staff vacation.
Brandy can you do this, can you play along like nothing is afoot? Yes, but I want his balls she snarled.
Brandy has Joe had access to your HQ offices? NO... When is the last time you had your office swept for bugs? With embarrassment she said never. I called Bill and a sweep would be done tomorrow morning of HQ.
If your office is clean - then tomorrow from your HQ office you must change all your account(s) access and passwords but put your cell phone inside a metal file cabinet while you do this. You cannot access any of your accounts except email from home until this is over. We do not want to tip Joe off that we are on to him.
The super IT guru Micky you hired for the TEAM is about to earn her keep while you're gone. I will talk to Micky tomorrow to see if she can add some very trusted IT help to speed up the search-n-clean, the more eyes looking the easier to find the hidden crap-ware and clean.
Brandy who can you visit out of state for a week? My sister is in San Francisco. How is your relationship? Very good.
When is the last time you visited her? Over a year ago. Can you play up the close call you had with the kidnapping and the revelation of how important family is - you want to reconnect? Sure, I would really like that and I do miss her.
I gave Brandy a pre-programmed burner cell phone and told her to only use it where and when others cannot see her calling me and do not use it near her iphone. Check with me every evening. Keep this cell phone with you night and day - it has a hidden GPS tracker on it - just in case. Your iphone is compromised everything you say can be eavesdropped upon.
Teasingly I stated, "BTW Brandy, you are one super sexy woman", she flared red and asked, "you didn't leave those DVD's with him did you?" Oh no. they are in my personal files. She responded, "just make sure you are only one to ever see them.'
I was stunned. flabbergasted, she floored me with that lightening-bolt. I expected her to demand I destroy them all. I actual did destroy all of them in the patio fire bowl last night. Damn, I should have saved a few - my lecher side cometh.
Brandy and Sara spent a week with her sister taking in the Embarcadero, Navy Pier, Fishermen's Warf, and the sights. Bill had a few of his Operators keeping a loose tag on the girls, we did not know how good Joe nor his two extra bodyguards might be.
While Brandy was away we re-coded all the bugs and cameras to an encrypted IP address. All bathroom cameras were removed. All bed cameras were re-tasked and reposition to view room doors/windows.
I reasoned why toss all the money away when they could be used as intended for real security.
All computers were cleaned, her private server was firewalled, and locked down.
We found some interesting documents on Joe's office computer in a hidden-locked folder incriminating him as the mastermind behind the kidnap attempt.
Joe was also extorting kickbacks from most of the estate staff and sex from the new day-maid he hired. He had stolen ~$300K from Brandy's accounts that traced to an offshore account. This money was recovered and the account alerts disabled.
We also found Joe was making payments to the local DA, for what we do not know.
Rabbin contacted the FBI and OBI, turned over all the data on the extortions and Joe's complicity to the kidnapping. We also found that Joe was arranging for a group of men from the EU to come to the USA for another kidnapping attempt in a few weeks.
FBI got hot on this one, eventually Interpol (and I suspect NSA) cracked and tracked this group. They snagged all five men when they came through JFK Customs on false documents. I think all five got shipped to Gitmo as they were connected to an alpha-bit Slovakian paramilitary group and no one was singing.
