My family was fairly close growing up with all of us becoming partners in my father's financial services business. I had one brother who was fourteen years older than me and married while he was very young. He and his wife Melody had two sons with the first being born when I was only five years old. His second son would come a year later giving me nephews that were closer to me in age and interests than my brother and me. We all got along great and grew up to work in my father's business.
Dad had survived through the housing market bubble that burst ten years ago and with repos, refinancing, and buyers looking to capitalize on low home prices the mortgage business in our family was not hurting for customers at all. I was in my early twenties and making good money on origination fees and other financial products but was still single and able to splurge on foolish things occasionally. My brother Paul had opened his own branch location on the opposite side of the city we were closest to and was raking in the big bucks along with my nephews Dennis and Randy.
Dennis the older of the two went a route none of us were too fond of and took his income to mean he was someone special and above others. He had not been born when my father struggled and almost lost everything so he took it all for granted. This was at a time when many families were hurting and listening to him bragging about his financial status was just not something I thought was real cool. He had married a girl name Colleen that was every much as big a snob as Dennis was and I thought she was the driving force to his better than thou behavior.
They stretched way beyond their means and bought a big foreclosed house in a nice neighborhood, drove expensive cars, and didn't care too much for the people who weren't like them, as phony as they were. Colleen was a nurse who worked part time for one of those traveling mobile heart scan units and on two or three days a week she would go out to some remote location and would help the medical team with their customers for the day usually returning at night with the occasional overnighter.
Despite the fact that she was extremely fit and that most people considered her very attractive, we didn't get along too well and she knew I did not care for her bitchiness or attitude. We started avoiding each other at all costs. What was funny is that knowing their finances like I did, I knew she had spent a good fortune of her husband's money and that they were actually struggling for cash.
They were paying a huge mortgage each month and the cars they drove were not cheap either. She tried to keep everyone under the belief that she only worked to keep busy which was simply not true. They owed on everything and big time. This charade along with some others she played out told me to just avoid them at family gatherings and I would be less inclined to say something that would upend the flower cart.
With my brother taking the north side of the city for his first branch out my father asked if I could scout a couple of locations south and west of the city. The four locations he currently had offices in were already tapped out and he wanted to expand into another location versus expanding the size of a current ones. What surprised me is how far out some of the suggested locations were. However he convinced me when he showed me the statistics on where the originations were coming from that it made perfect sense.
Two weeks ago I was asked to go to Decatur and check on three potential locations along with the nearest realtors and find out about the market. He wanted on the street research and not off of the internet. Since I was still single I thought it could be a good break and something I could have some fun with. Little did I know how much fun I would really have when I embarked on my little fact finding tour.
The town was big enough and had plenty of survivable businesses which meant some housing turnover at least as employees came and went. The projected office locations didn't have one selling point over the other and the only choice to make would be a cosmetic difference if the choice had to be made at all. One was slightly larger but also more expensive and the lease per square foot was within pennies and dollars. I worked the car and phone driving around all day before I began to tire out and headed to the hotel I would make my home in for the next two days. That is when my fun started.
As I pulled into the hotel parking lot I saw a big tour bus size medical unit with the Healthy Heart and Vascular Scan logo all over it. This is the company Colleen worked for. I drove past the bus to find it empty. Apparently they were done for the day and most likely had gone out for dinner which is what I planned to do.
I went up to my room after checking in and took a quick shower, pulled on some nicer jeans, a dress shirt hanging loosely and decided to walk across the parking lot to one of the three restaurants that lined the street in front of the hotels. Nothing fancy just one of the barbecue joints that were popular down here was all I had in mind.
But that changed when I was taken to a table and walked right past Colleen with her arms draped around the shoulders of well-dressed younger guy in the booth next to her. When we got further away I asked the hostess seating me if I could go back to the booth right behind her and whoever he was. With a warm smile she acknowledged my request and seated me.
To make sure I would be hard to recognize I sat in the booth with my back to them making it so my head was only a foot away from them if they decided to break their trance and look over their shoulders. But fortunately they didn't and just kept talking in a voice loud enough for me to hear. Listening to their conversation was interesting and I found out that just like Colleen, the jerk she was clinging on was married and that he also had children.
The topics ranged from what a bitch his wife was to what a wuss my nephew was. They may have been right but that didn't matter as much as the fact that it was my family they were discussing. Plus they were both married and should have had some willpower to avoid the situation they were in. Only it was obvious to anyone who saw them that they were here intentionally and not together for the first time.
Colleen excused herself to go to the restroom at the perfect time as the waitress approached to take my order. I hadn't considered her recognizing my voice. After ordering myself a half slab, a baked potato, and a salad it dawned on me that I could use this to my advantage and to start filming it discreetly with my cell phone.
I couldn't have written a better performance as these two shared details about their marriages, their families, and their sex life both at home and with each other the last time they were together. They were proud of the affair they were having with each other and looking to take it up a notch.
The phone was picking up the audio but all I could get was the back of their heads. I would have to risk a trip to the bathroom myself to get a frontal shot of the two of them for proof which is what I decided to do. I put the phone in my hand facing backwards and walked away but was disappointed in the motion of the screen bouncing all over when I viewed the footage in the restroom. So when I walked back out I had my phone on zoom and stood in the darkened entrance to the bathroom hallway and captured a great close-up of her reaching up and kissing him on the cheek and remaining in an embrace complete with an seductive look into his eyes. This embrace allowed me to walk to my table directly behind them filming the whole time.
Recording the rest of the evening was mostly useless mush for now but with some editing I was sure I could pull out some good tidbits. One thing that did get asked was when Colleen mentioned having sex on one of the testing beds on the bus. The guy she was with laughed and said he had already tried that with Jenny. Now I had to figure out his name and also find out who Jenny was.
With a trove of information that I wasn't quite sure what I was going to do with I quietly paid my bill and snuck out to my car to catch them leaving. It only took about ten more minutes before they walked out with Colleen once again clinging to his shoulder. I zoomed in and continued filming as she stayed at his side until they entered the same hotel I was staying at. To remain unnoticed I had to linger back a little bit but made it into the lobby as they ascending the stairs at the far side.
I listened to my phone and was proud of the recording and found that the video from the bathroom was remarkable and unmistakable to the fact that it was her. There would be no denying her voice on the recording if any of it if it ever got out, which was going to happen one way or another I just wasn't sure how yet.
