CHAPTER THIRTY-FOUR #2
I can see Penny is nervous about this, but she has nothing to worry about.
I grasp her hands in mine and look her right in the eye.
“Babe, I’d be happy for you not to go to work at all if that’s what you want.
But to spend more time with Punkin, and be home when I finish for the day would be great.
I’m thinking of moving back to the construction side now that Rosemarie and the Anderson thing are sorted.
The bosses have everything running smoothly here now, and they have good security officers to rely on.
To go back to construction would give me back the day job, so to speak, and get rid of these evening and night shifts. ”
“Working only during the day would be good as we would always have evenings together, and Sunday after training and church.” Penny purses her lips in thought, but you know it’s way too tempting, so I do what all brothers would and place my hand behind her neck and draw her to me kissing her thoroughly.
“Hey, none of that smoochy shit in my canteen.”
Grinning against Penny’s lips and hearing her giggle before turning to Magnus. “You know you're jealous, right?”
“Yeah, I suppose I am, Ruger, I suppose I am.” Magnus turns and walks back into the kitchen area. Both Penny and I feel that he meant every word of that.
Jumping into the SUV later that evening, I give Travis a nod. He’s driving, so I’m shotgun, and I check my Ruger, taser and jiggle the handcuffs at Travis. “I’m fully armed and ready to go.”
“Geez, let’s get this show on the road. I’ve set the Sat Nav for our route tonight. If we stop midway and have a break, we’ll hit the home run just right.” Travis smirks, and I shake my head because it hardly ever runs as you plan it out.
Halfway, and we’ve walked around every building we are covering.
We don’t do a ride-by like many security companies do.
We check the doors are locked, and if it’s an enclosed building, we walk the perimeter.
Having eyes on the buildings and thoroughly checking is more important than riding past and seeing nothing.
That is not how the bosses want the company to be seen, and we all do what is necessary to make sure we comply with our business rules.
“Mr. Shipman’s place next. Do you want me to take the back this time?” Travis asks.
“Yeah, okay. I did around the back of the last three. This is a large building, and I’ve noticed when I’ve been here before that the back door seems to move in the frame. I’ve reported it, so just check it out when you get to it. This place is at high risk of a break-in.”
Travis nods as he climbs out of the vehicle. “I can agree with that Ruger. Selling high-end electrical goods to businesses means a lot of stock that could be sold on and sold easily, too.”
I watch as Travis heads left and around the back of the building, then walk over to the main door, giving the handle a pull, push and even shove the door with my shoulder.
Everything remains locked, and giving myself a nod I move to check the windows.
I reach the last window to the left of the frontage when I hear Travis shouting.
Running around the back of the building I have a taser in one hand and a Ruger in the other.
I’m ready for whatever the fuck is going on.
What I don’t expect to see is Travis with his knee in the middle of some asshole's back, and already cuffing him. “I didn’t know you had cuffs on you too?” I say as I amble over.
“Well, we are all supposed to have them, and I keep them in my back pocket. This fucker thought he could take me down. As if!” Travis laughs, gives the asshole an extra shove with his knee, then looks back up at me.
“I’ll contact Arrow who is in the office tonight, and you contact the Sheriff’s Department. ”
“Okay.” I reply and quickly take my phone out, hitting the department's number from my contacts. It is answered quickly, and I recognize Hand's voice. “Hands, it’s Ruger here. We are at Mr. Shipman’s place and have someone cuffed that had broken in. How fast can you get here?”
“On my way now, Ruger. I know the place. JP is with me tonight, and I reckon ten minutes.” Hands I can hear is already shouting to JP, and a door banging as he is responding to me.
“Okay, we’ll keep the fucker here ready for you.” I close the call and turn to look at Travis who is now literally sitting on the asshole as he talks on his phone.
Placing his phone away, Travis looks up after giving the asshole an elbow between the shoulder blades.
Oh, did I mention he’s taped the asshole's mouth so he can’t keep begging to be let go?
Anyway, Travis updates me on the call he made.
“Arrow is contacting Mr. Shipman. He’ll be here to check out what’s needed to secure the place.
Seems we got here just after this jackass, so he’s not had time to take anything yet.
But I see a van over there which isn’t one of Mr. Shipman’s because we know his vans have the company logo on them. ”
The next two hours are spent with the Deputies, Mr. Shipman and helping secure the building before getting back to our route and finishing our night shift.
Yeah, I’m thinking that going back to construction may be just what I need, because I’d be in bed with Penny at this time and not searching the streets for some asshole who wants to get into mischief.