Lust and Greed

© 2025 JoshFrom53

Dear reader, first of all I'd like to thank Turning502019 for his insights and help to turn this in a readable story.

Disclaimer.

Of course everybody and everything entertaining each other in sexual activities has passed the age of eighteen years old.

Warning.

This is a story and it plays out in my universe and my universe has no connection with the real world. So, please don't take it too serious. I know that I don't.

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Mum, the blinds from the house across the street are open and there's light in the house." Tommy said to his mother, staring out of the window.

Tommy heard a plate shatter on the floor. He turned around and saw his mother white-faced leaning on the kitchen counter.

Elsbeth, or sometimes Beth, Wecksford looked stricken at her eldest son. "Are you sure?" She asked.

"Yes Mum, I just came back from my newspaper route, when I put my bike in the garage I noticed the blinds were open and saw the light go on.

"What's the matter Mum, you look scared."

"Nothing for you to be concerned about. Now wash your hands and call Charlie. We're eating in a minute."

Beth swept up the remains of the plate and threw them in the trash can. While setting the table she looked through the window at the other side of the street.

Tommy was right. The blinds were open and she saw a shadow moving around in the light. Now that the last residents had left, she had not expected the house to be occupied again.

If it was what she always feared, she has to face her demons.

What happened ten years before.

Charles and Beth Wecksford were entertaining their neighbors, Andrew and Melanie Mesman from across the street.

Earlier that day, Melanie and Andrew had a difference of opinion and that resulted in, to say the least, a heated discussion.

Andrew's career took off like a rocket after he investigated an accident that happened during building a bridge. Everyone was convinced that it was indeed an accident. That the load hanging in the crane hoists was secured wrongly and the hoist master was to blame.

When Andrew discovered that the lifting eyes on the load weren't examined, he checked them himself and found that they had been torn from the load.

When he wanted to examine the steel of the load his superior told him not to bother and refused to sign off on the order for the laboratory.

Andrew therefore paid for it out of his own pocket and the results were far-reaching. The steel was sub-standard and failed the specifications miserably. The difference in price was divided and pocketed between his superior and the engineering company.

As a result at twenty-six years old, he now held a PhD in Materials Science paid by the government and had his own investigation team to manage for the Ministry of Commerce, Industry and Safety.

He was also a member of the forensic expert's team for the Safety Council and as such was sent all over the world to investigate how disasters happened as they did. He was a volunteer and worked as risk-assessor and disaster rescue worker.

Andrew earned a very good salary and was also paid an on-site work allowance and a hazard allowance depending on the country in which the research took place.

He had also written a manual on observation and reconstruction that was compulsory reading for police, fire and ambulance personnel.

In all, he had a very nice income and a bright future ahead.

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