Chapter 95: The Ex-Longest Serving Deacon

With four naked people staring at him in the boardroom of the Redsands First Congregational Church the Area Elder really was at a loss as to how to proceed. Fortunately one of the other elders jumped in to give the meeting something to focus on.

“Well, I don’t know about anyone else but I am dying to see this little door everyone is talking about and to finally hear what Don Weasley has to say for himself about all this.”

Don Weasley shot a nasty glare at that elder - a glare that had daggers all through it. If looks could have killed then that look would have sliced that elder to pieces but that one particular church elder just shot back his own cold steely glare that forced Don Weasley to quickly look away.

That church elder then added, “Look I’m sorry, Bryce, I think I’ve helped land you guys in a whole heap of unnecessary trouble. I’ve been having a bit of trouble with the IRS lately and to be honest I probably haven’t been as truthful with them as I should have been. Don here has a sister that works in the IRS department and he promised to get her to help me out if I supported him in all this nonsense with the added incentive that he would say nothing to the IRS himself if things went according to plan. But I can’t buy into all this any longer and see you guys suffer. I’ve got nothing against the church being all progressive and culturally relevant on all this Lifestyle Nudism stuff and I was just trying to help Don out a bit and also keep myself out of a bit of hot water in the bargain. It was also me that leaned on these other guys to go along with all this just for the sake of appearance. I don’t like the idea of the church elder-ship board being divided over serious issues like this but I equally don’t like seeing good people hung out to dry just because I’ve been involved in some slightly shoddy business deals along the way.”