Chapter 7: No Body To Dispose Of

The next morning Lewis woke to his alarm. He lay there watching Ella’s face as she slept. When she opened her eyes soon after and saw him, her face broke into a beaming smile. She immediately felt ready for another session.

But knowing he had a meeting, she contented herself with a feel and a stroke of Lewis’s very hard cock, even though she knew most of its hardness was due to his need of a wee. When he got out of bed, she watched it waving about, then smiled as he struggled to get it to fit neatly into his shorts before he went off for a wee, and a shower.

When he returned to get dressed, Ella had fallen asleep again, so he finished dressing, gave her a gentle kiss on her forehead and left. He cycled over to the shop and arrived at ten to eleven. He opened up and put the kettle on.

MAJOR EDWARD, LEWIS & THE VIDEO SHOP

Almost on the stroke of eleven he heard a knock on the shop door. After letting the Major in, he closed up the shop and they went through to the back room. As he made them a coffee each, Lewis explained that this was where he worked on a Saturday.

‘How’s that lovely young lady of yours?’ Major Edward asked. ‘She’s fine thanks.’ Lewis told him. The Major took a sip of his coffee then asked, ‘Ok tell me what’s worrying you.’ ‘I’ve discovered what happens when you find new people to do your computer work.’ Lewis began.

‘Once you are satisfied that they are suitable, you then tell them who their employer will be and offer them a job, providing they sign the Official Secrets Act and go on a four-week training course. What that consists of or where it all happens, I have no idea.’

‘But I do know that all the people taking part sleep together in a dormitory, the description of which sounds to me like it’s on a military base. On the fourth week, everyone splits up, presumably for some training specific to their future job. I don’t actually know that is so, it’s just a guess.’

‘Some of them then spend one or a few nights sleeping elsewhere. As a result, on occasions during that last week there are occasions when there might be only one person sleeping in the dormitory. How often that happens, I don’t know.’

‘In charge of the dormitory, for at least part of the last twelve months was a Corporal Becket. On the one occasion I know about so far, he attacked one of your new boffins in the shower, stuffed his head down a toilet and tied his hands behind the toilet pan.’

‘He threatened to flush the toilet and drown him if he didn’t behave. He then raped him. After which he threatened him that he would kill him if he reported it. Corporal Becket then raped him again in his bed in the dormitory the following night.’

‘Fortunately, this man had good support at home. Although no one knew what had happened to him, they realised he was upset and supported him well. His nightmares eventually started to fade, and he coped with it.’

‘He was now enjoying his new job and putting what had happened behind him. I have no idea where he works or what he actually does. But he works in his own office to which no one else has access. There is also a guard on the front door of the building.’

‘Any official deliveries for him have to be left with the guard at the front desk, who then delivers it in person to your boffin. Recently there was a knock on his door. He closed his computer down as he was supposed to do, then pressed the button to open his door.’

‘To his horror, in walked not the guard, but Corporal Becket. That immediately brought all the horrors rushing back into his memory. Apparently, the guard had let him deliver it direct as he told him they were personal friends.’

‘Corporal Becket told his victim that he was now a delivery man and would make sure he delivered all of his packages in future. ‘Then we can have another session together.’ he told him. As he left, he added, ‘Oh, by the way, I’m now Sergeant Becket.’

‘His victim is now distraught and terrified naturally. But in my experience of rapists, it is most unlikely that Becket has not done it before or since, perhaps many times. I’m not suggesting he would, but it has to be a reasonable possibility that Becket may try in the future to use his hold over his victims to extract information about their work.’

‘Rape is a terrible thing for either sex, but for a man it often seems even more embarrassing. As a result, they will go to any lengths to stop it coming out into the public gaze. You should know,’ Lewis continued, ‘That nothing was disclosed to me that suggested your departments involvement until I picked up on a couple of things.’

‘Then when I did the ‘I’ on a piece of paper test and he discovered that I had signed the Official Secrets Act, he relaxed a bit. Even then he disclosed nothing that would affect your operation.’ Major Edward picked up his phone and requested everything known on Sergeant Becket.

As they waited for a response the Major told Lewis, ‘This is unusual, our vetting usually works well. We drop quite a few of those we consider, but usually well before they have any idea who we are. But then I suppose we haven’t had a Lewis on our side before.’ he said smiling.

By the time they had finished their coffees, the Majors phone rang. He listened carefully then said, ‘Ok thanks. Put the full report on my desk.’ ‘This could be awkward,’ he told Lewis. ‘Corporal Becket has been in the army for four years.’

‘He was promoted to corporal two years ago by his commanding officer. When we started using his base to house our boffins eighteen months ago, it was his commanding officer who put him in charge of the dormitory. He has done that for seventeen months.’

‘Then a month ago he was promoted to sergeant, again by his commanding officer. My department just asked for a reliable messenger boy and Becket was the one they sent us. He was only going to be a delivery boy so we didn’t look at him as closely as we would a stranger.’

‘Now it appears that Beckets grandfather is a Major General, who just so happens to be a close friend of Beckets commanding officer. Which makes it difficult to take any action against him without absolute proof. Any ideas?’ ‘Well,’ Lewis said, ‘I think it’s very unlikely, but we should first discover for sure if this is just a one-off event or not.’

‘Can you have a check on which boffins were ever in the dormitory on their own whilst Becket was in charge? If you give me their phone numbers, but not their names, I could talk to them and try to get them to tell me off the record if they were raped and by whom. Then at least we’ll know what we’re dealing with.’

The Major thought for a moment then picked up his phone and requested the information. ‘I want two lists,’ he said, ‘One of names, dates and phone numbers for the past eighteen months. And one of just dates and phone numbers.’

‘I’ll get that to you as soon as I get it,’ he said. ‘Anything else?’ ‘I’ll need you to contact them all in the way you normally do.’ Lewis told him. ‘So that they’re in no doubt it’s you. Tell them they will get a phone call from someone called Lewis who will ask then a couple of questions off the record. Tell them I only have their phone numbers, not their names and leave the rest to me.’

‘Suppose he’s as bad as you think he is,’ the Major asked. ‘What then?’ ‘There are three options as I see it.’ Lewis said. ‘Let me think through them and see if I can come up with any others.’ ‘Ok, we’ll see what you find out first,’ the Major said as he got up to leave.

‘Thanks for bringing this to my attention.’ he said shaking Lewis’s hand, ‘I’ll be in touch.’ Lewis showed him out and returned to Ellas. They had a family Sunday lunch and a lazy afternoon before Lewis returned home.

MONDAY – LEWIS

Monday after school when Lewis checked his phone there was an email with no sender shown. In it was a list of seven dates with phone numbers alongside. And three pairs of dates with phone numbers alongside.

He went up to the video shop. Mike was serving so he went through to the back and made them both a coffee. He took Mikes through to him and told him he had a lot of phone calls to make and needed somewhere quiet, so if it was ok, he’d use the back room.’

Mike agreed naturally and asked if he should keep out. Lewis assured him that wasn’t necessary. Lewis settled down at the table and wrote out the details from the email. Then he rang the first number. When it was answered he said, ‘Hi, this is Lewis, are you expecting my call?’