The_gladiator
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Like a thief in the night
(Author’s note: this is a closed thread. As always please do not post without permission; however reading is welcomed as is feedback via pm.)
Evan Thomson was not someone that anyone would call scatterbrained. Meticulous, perhaps, punctual and exact were words that were more often used. If those things were true, then how had he gotten into this position? He absently beat his fist against his thigh as he asked himself this question. His eyes, blue fire burned holes in the rich leather upholstery, staring daggers at the place where his brief case should have been, on the front seat where it perpetually rode shot gun with him, unless someone else was in the car. This time though, the seat was empty for a different reason, the case was gone.
Evan hadn’t become a leading businessman by making stupid mistakes. He had worked his way from almost nothing. Born to a lower middle class family, his mother was a homemaker and his father had worked for a mill for 40+ years prior to his death. They had always wanted more for their son, pressuring him to go to school, get his education and escape the pull of the mill. He had done just that.
He had done just that, he had turned his love for music and other forms of entertainment into a lucrative business, running concert venues, casinos and other such establishments. Even though his business was entertainment and a partying lifestyle, Evan actually did not live the life most thought he did. He had married his high school sweetheart, a religious woman who was a good mother to their children. Those that said he had married his mother, or a woman just like her weren’t wrong. She was just as strict as his mother had ever been and the stress was growing tougher for him to bear.
Evan wasn’t careless; however this careless mistake could ruin him. In addition to all of his business files, music from artists on the rise, accounting information, details on secret business deals, all of that paled in that moment for Evan. That was just money; he could always rebuild his finances. No what worried him more were the other files on that computer. Because he could rebuild his businesses, he’d done so before, if certain information from his computer reached his wife, there would be no saving of his marriage and his reputation.
To Evan, watching pornography was far from being a mortal sin, especially when one was married to a woman who hadn’t touched him in at least5 years. For god sakes, they were 35, they weren’t 102, and in his opinion he had needs. However, he knew his wife would see things very very differently. She would consider it infidelity, and she would leave him, taking their children and his reputation with her. Evan could only hope that just a common thief had taken his case, and he/she wouldn’t know the value of what they had, and what it could do to hurt him.
He took a seat in his car and ran his hands through his slightly wavy dark hair. He had just run back into the office to grab his cell phone. Had he really been foolish enough to leave his car unlocked with the bag just sitting in plain view? Apparently—the answer was—that yes, he had. It was then that he got a text on that phone that he had gone back to grab. It showed up as unknown, and what the text said made the possibility that this had just been a crime of opportunity much less likely.
(Author’s note: this is a closed thread. As always please do not post without permission; however reading is welcomed as is feedback via pm.)
Evan Thomson was not someone that anyone would call scatterbrained. Meticulous, perhaps, punctual and exact were words that were more often used. If those things were true, then how had he gotten into this position? He absently beat his fist against his thigh as he asked himself this question. His eyes, blue fire burned holes in the rich leather upholstery, staring daggers at the place where his brief case should have been, on the front seat where it perpetually rode shot gun with him, unless someone else was in the car. This time though, the seat was empty for a different reason, the case was gone.
Evan hadn’t become a leading businessman by making stupid mistakes. He had worked his way from almost nothing. Born to a lower middle class family, his mother was a homemaker and his father had worked for a mill for 40+ years prior to his death. They had always wanted more for their son, pressuring him to go to school, get his education and escape the pull of the mill. He had done just that.
He had done just that, he had turned his love for music and other forms of entertainment into a lucrative business, running concert venues, casinos and other such establishments. Even though his business was entertainment and a partying lifestyle, Evan actually did not live the life most thought he did. He had married his high school sweetheart, a religious woman who was a good mother to their children. Those that said he had married his mother, or a woman just like her weren’t wrong. She was just as strict as his mother had ever been and the stress was growing tougher for him to bear.
Evan wasn’t careless; however this careless mistake could ruin him. In addition to all of his business files, music from artists on the rise, accounting information, details on secret business deals, all of that paled in that moment for Evan. That was just money; he could always rebuild his finances. No what worried him more were the other files on that computer. Because he could rebuild his businesses, he’d done so before, if certain information from his computer reached his wife, there would be no saving of his marriage and his reputation.
To Evan, watching pornography was far from being a mortal sin, especially when one was married to a woman who hadn’t touched him in at least5 years. For god sakes, they were 35, they weren’t 102, and in his opinion he had needs. However, he knew his wife would see things very very differently. She would consider it infidelity, and she would leave him, taking their children and his reputation with her. Evan could only hope that just a common thief had taken his case, and he/she wouldn’t know the value of what they had, and what it could do to hurt him.
He took a seat in his car and ran his hands through his slightly wavy dark hair. He had just run back into the office to grab his cell phone. Had he really been foolish enough to leave his car unlocked with the bag just sitting in plain view? Apparently—the answer was—that yes, he had. It was then that he got a text on that phone that he had gone back to grab. It showed up as unknown, and what the text said made the possibility that this had just been a crime of opportunity much less likely.