I watched Dean out the corner of my eye as I collected the secure waste from the bins. As the copier finished Dean collected the papers and put them in a vanilla envelope, putting the originals back in a folder.
I left the room, rushed downstairs and turned the shredder on. This was my last job of the day. Every evening I picked up the secure waste and shredded it. Just one of the many menial tasks I performed. I had a long day starting at eight in the morning and finishing around six in the evening. Delivering the internal post, making coffee, doing the sandwich trolley twice a day and shredding the waste, plus of course anything else that I was asked. Office Assistant they called it. I called it general dogs body. The money wasn't that good but it was a job and not particularly hard. After my past I couldn't really complain.
I finished the shredding and locked up. Signed out at security and waited outside for my lift to arrive. Dave turned up almost immediately. I got in the car and we waited. Not long after Dean came out, got into his car and drove off. We followed him discretely. We knew where he was going as we had done this several times before. Once a month in fact for the last 6 months.
As usual Dean met up with his twin brother Donald, as they were not identical it was fairly easy to tell the two apart. Dean pulled up alongside Donald's car and handed the envelope through the window. Donald handed Dean an envelope in return, bulkier than Deans. That envelope we knew was filled with cash. They chatted for a couple of minutes and then with a final joke went their separate ways. Throughout the exchange I had been clicking away with my digital camera. I had reams of pictures of these transactions between the brothers all digitally dated.
Dave and I had been planning this for sometime. The four of us had all gone to the same school, even been in the same class. That's where any similarity ended however as the twins had married well and been introduced to there jobs by there new in-laws. The twins had married twin sisters from a middle class very Catholic family. Church every Sunday and all that stuff which made Dave and I laugh as we knew that the boys had almost as bad a background as we had. Only difference was they didn't get caught. Nothing serious, just boys being boys really but the girls involved were a world apart from the twins they had married.
Dean was well up in the business but was having to work his way up the ladder. He had given me a job out of sympathy more than any old friends loyalty. He turned Dave down flat when another vacancy turned up. This whole thing had started one evening as I was doing the security waste. I had seen Dean copying some papers. When I commented on the fact that the file was a security file he turned quite nasty.
"If you want to keep your job you will keep your nose out of other peoples business."
I didn't need telling twice, but after that I kept a close eye on him. That night I told Dave what I had seen "That's strange, maybe we should keep an eye on him. Let me know if it happens again and we can find out what he does with the stuff."
I kept an eye on him but nothing happened for weeks. Then I caught him again. This time I just ignored him. I called Dave and told him to be outside the office ready to give me a lift when I came out. I kept an eye on Dean from a distance. As everyone else had gone most of the office lights were out so I hid in one of the cubicles and watched hoping my breathing wasn't as loud as it sounded to me.
Once he had finished Dean put the envelope into his briefcase and then locked the original in a filing cabinet. I knew he would go to his own office before leaving so as soon as he was out of site. I signed out at security and rushed down to the underground car park that served the office block. I hid behind a pillar until I saw him heading for his car and then I jumped over the wall. Running to the road I called Dave on my mobile and waited for him to turn up.
He took so long we almost missed Dean as he left but luckily he got caught at the traffic lights. That was six months ago and we had followed him every month since. Always on the same day of the month. Once the copier ran out of paper so while he went to get some from the stationary cupboard I took a quick look at what it was he was copying. It was the monthly financial report, all gobbledee gook to me but the heading was plain enough. 'Financial Report. April 2006' and below that in red was 'Security Level 5 and Above Only."
Now that Dave and I decided to act on the information we had we couldn't make our minds up what to do with it. We could demand money, or even promotion for me and a job for Dave but it all seemed small to what they were doing. We knew they were selling the information to a rival company because that's where Donald worked. It was decided after the twin weddings it would look bad if they both got jobs together because of the marriage so an old friend of 'daddy' gave Donald a job. The friend had subsequently died and his son was brought back from the USA to run the business. He of course knew nothing of the brothers so just treated Donald like any other employee.
Deans company was well known in the area for it's fundraising for local charities. Every May they held a ball. All the local dignitaries were invited and the employees were allowed to buy tickets so they could mix with the hoy palloy, the local rich and famous. I got tickets for myself and Dave and it was at this event that we suddenly decided what we were going to do with our information.
Dean attended with his wife of course and as he walked in Dave and I stared goggle eyed. She was stunning, really gorgeous, great figure and about ten years younger than Dean, and us come to that. Long blond hair and legs that reached the sky. She mixed with the dignitaries like she knew them personally, which in a lot of cases she did.
Dave and I worked our way over to Dean and I said "Hi Dean going to introduce us to your wife."
Well the look she gave us could have killed an elephant and before he could reply she said, "I don't think so." She took his elbow and lead him away. He didn't even look back.
"Snotty bitch." I said
"Fucking right." Dave agreed "Mind you I wouldn't say no to a night in bed with it would you?"
And that's how it started. We made jokes about her all night, what she would be like, how we would make her beg for more and how she would just keep begging us to fuck her brains out. All the usual stuff guys say when they talk about a horny looking woman they know they will never get.
The following day while we discussed the night out we got back on the subject. I don't know which one of us suggested it but before long we were making plans on how to get her knickers off. The first thing we had to sort out was how we were going to approach Dean. We had enough stuff to put him away for years and the effect it would have on the credibility of his in-laws would be devastating so in a way we had them both. But we needed to get them together somehow and not in a public place In the end it was just luck that gave us the opportunity that we needed.
Dave and I were out having our usual Friday night on the town when we were walking down the high street and who should come out of the posh restaurant across the road but Dean and his wife. The owner showing them to a limousine that was waiting for them.
"It was so nice to see you both again. We do look forward to your anniversary each year and thank you for your continued custom." he said as he opened the door of the vehicle for Deans wife to get in. Dean crossed his palm as you would expect after posh nosh and then the car pulled away.
"Come on." I said grabbing Dave's arm. Not sure what I was up to he followed me back to our car. We knew where they lived so I headed in that direction. "If they are headed home this could be our opportunity."
"Shit! I never even thought of it." Dave said
Limo's don't go too fast up country lanes so we soon caught them up. While they went into the house and switched on some lights I grabbed some photos from the bag in the back of the car. We headed for the door set in this ancient stone building and I knocked as assertively as I could. A moment later Dean appeared.
He was not pleased to see us. "What do you want? Do you know what time it is?"
"Yes Dean we do but we have something to show you that we think is important."
"Well if it's work show me on Monday. I'm busy." and with that he closed the door.
"Not quite as planned." I said angrily and knocked again, this time louder and much harder.
The door flew open, "What!" I had taken out one of the eight by ten photo's of Dean and his brother and just held it at eye level. As soon as he saw it he grabbed it and said "What the hell is this?"
"I think you know what it is. Maybe we should discuss it inside." I said confidently. The blood had drained from his face and involuntarily he stepped aside. Dave and I brushed passed him and waited for him to shut the door. He was still staring at the photo.
"Just give me a minute. I will tell my wife I have some business to attend to." Dean said and walked off. He didn't realise we followed. As he stepped into the large lounge his wife turned around. "I just have something to sort out dear a I wont be long.
