GOOD RIGHT REVEREND

CHAPTER SEVENTEEN

WITH ALL YOUR GETTING, GET UNDERSTANDING

Brocus lay on top of Donovan trying to calm his racing heart and get his breathing under control. Donovan lay beneath him in the same state. Brocus had returned from the studio to find Donovan naked in his bed waiting and he took full advantage of his vulnerability. He'd stripped as quickly as he could and crawled from the foot of the bed to straddle Donovan's body. They'd spent a good part of the morning pleasuring each other and really need to be looking at the financial records Donovan had received from the Deacons.

The deacons had informed Donovan that over the past year the church's renovation fund had been issuing checks but no work had taken place in the months of the checks issue dates. The amounts initially had been small amounts of five-thousand dollars or less but had increased and the last draft was for fifty-thousand dollars. The fund was easy to over look since it sat and basically took in funds unless it was needed to make repairs and since all the church renovations had been completed last year and thus brand new and under warranty funding was not needed. Donovan had been speechless in viewing the statements the company that they'd been written to was a Spalding Contracting and he was not familiar with the name. He was utterly speechless and looked like and idiot in trying to explain the drafts. He looked guilty on paper he was the one with access to the account and he solely authorized any payments for fifty-thousand dollars or less any more and it would need to go before the church council for a vote for necessity. He'd explained to the deacons that he'd never written any checks to this company and would have to speak with the bank and get copies of the checks. In the end they'd accepted his answers and assured him of their trust and they all agreed to meet at the same time next week.

The minute they'd left Donovan's office he'd call Brocus and told him what was going on and they next phone call was to the bank to request copies of the checks written from that account in the past year. The bank assured him that he would have the copies sent to his email within the next couple of hours. He'd come to Brocus' apartment so they could go over all the church's transactions just in case there were any more unusual transactions. He would admit that he'd side tracked them and nothing hand been looked at but he need this time with Brocus more than he needed to stress over the church funds. After all the damage had been done he just need to get the proof that he didn't do the stealing. What had occurred was theft no other way to look at it and if he was honest he knew right away who the guilty party was but he needed proof and he was confident he would find it.

Babe, the kids are getting out of school in two hours. Brocus offered.

Uh huh. Donovan replied sleepily. I'm too tired to move babe.

Van, we have to get up. We haven't even begun to look at the documents yet. Let's at least try to get things organized.

Donovan's hands roamed over Brocus' back which was soothing the feel of his warm smooth skin under his palm was the best therapy. Donovan sighed deeply he was not mentally prepared to deal with what he might find but Brocus was right. Brocus sat up with his legs straddling Donovan's hips and looked at him he could see the exhaustion wasn't just from their love making but also a mental exhaustion. Brocus leaned down and kissed him on the lips. "I know babe I understand but we can't let her get away with this. Have you heard from Mr. Spikes? he should have more by now."

"Yes and none of it good. Let's shower and get dressed I'll show you the latest."

Donovan handed Brocus a large vanilla envelope and watched as he carefully pulled the metal clips and tilted the documents into his hand. He wasn't shocked when Brocus gasped and looked at him with the flipping of each photo. He'd been in the same state of shock initially but he's had time to realize it really was not all that unbelievable considering it was Patrice. Quite a few questions were answered this morning when he met with the investigator. Such as now he knows where she was last night and he also is fully aware of who is the owner of the BMW and it wasn't any name close to Doris or a woman for that matter.