CHAPTER ONE

IT WAS A STORMY DAY IN TAMPA BAY. RHONDA BURROUGHS SUNDQUIST MY FIANCE' AND I LEFT ONE OF MOHAMMED FAROOQ BHADELIA'S MOTELS IN TAMPA AFTER BEING HIRED.  WE WERE HAVING A MAJOR DOWNPOUR OF RAIN. THE INCLEMENT WEATHER DIDN'T MATTER TO US. BOTH RHONDA AND I WERE EXCITED TO START OUR NEW MANAGEMENT POSITION AT THE BUDGET INN, DAVENPORT FLORIDA.

I TOLD RHONDA, EVEN THOUGH ALL THE PROPERTIES WE HAVE MANAGED OVER THE YEARS HAVE BEEN AMERICAN OWNED. THIS WOULD A DIFFERENT EXPERIENCE WORKING FOR BROTHERS WHO ARE FROM PAKISTAN. 

MY GRANDFATHER CAME TO THE U.S FROM NORWAY IN 1912 AS A LUTHERAN MISSIONARY. HE PREACHED THE GOSPEL IN IOWA, MINNESOTA AND CANADA! I BELIEVE IN LEGAL IMMIGRATION. 

RHONDA AND I HAD NO CLUE WE WERE WALKING INTO A PERMANENT LIFE CHANGING NIGHTMARE! 
WHAT WE DISCOVERED CHANGED OUR LIVES FOREVER! THE GATES OF HELL ON EARTH WERE WIDE OPEN AND WAITING FOR US! UNKNOWINGLY, WE WALKED THROUGH THOSE GATES!

ON OUR NEW ADVENTURE WE CROSSED TAMPA BAY ON THE HOWARD FRANKLIN BRIDGE, THE SKY WAS BLACK, THE WATER IN THE BAY WAS STIRRED UP AND SEEMED ANGRY. THE DEEP RUMBLINGS OF THUNDER WERE CONSTANT AS THE SKY WAS RELEASING BOLTS OF LIGHTNING AND FLASHING ALL AROUND US. I SAID TO RHONDA, IN THE MID 1500'S HERNANDO De SOTO FIRST NAMED OLD TAMPA BAY ESPRITU SANTO, WHICH BY INTERPRETATION IS BAY OF THE HOLY SPIRIT!
THE ROLLING THUNDER REMINDED ME OF HOW GREAT THOU ART AND WE SURE HEARD THE ROLLING THUNDER! IT ALSO REMINDED ME OF THE SEVEN VOICES OF THUNDER IN THE BOOK OF REVELATION AND WHEN GOD ASKED JOB  "CAN YOUR VOICE THUNDER LIKE HIS"? I WONDERED IF GOD HAD SOMETHING IMPORTANT ON HIS MIND! WE CONTINUED ON OUR JOURNEY TO DAVENPORT, THE STORM APPEARED TO BE ENDLESS. UPON OUR ARRIVAL, THE RAIN WAS HEAVY AND THE LIGHTNING AND THUNDER WERE RELENTLESS!

AS WE DROVE UP TO THE FRONT OF THE MOTEL, BOTH RHONDA AND I LOOKED AT EACH OTHER IN AMAZEMENT AS THE FLASHES OF LIGHTNING REVEALED WHAT A DUMP THE MOTEL WAS. THE GRASS AND WEEDS WERE KNEE HIGH, AS THE FLASHES OF LIGHTENING REVEALED. WE SAW TRASH BLOWING ACROSS THE PARKING LOT AND DOWN THE WALK WAYS. I THOUGHT MY GOD, WHAT HAVE WE GOTTEN OURSELVES INTO. WE HAVE CLEANED UP POORLY RUN BUSINESSES BEFORE, BUT THIS WAS DEFINITELY THE WORST WE HAD EVER SEEN. I SUGGESTED TO RHONDA THAT WE SURE HAD OUR WORK CUT OUT FOR US. RHONDA LOOKED AT ME WITH CONFIDENCE AND REPLIED, WE'VE DONE IT BEFORE, WE WILL DO IT AGAIN. 

AFTER WE PARKED OUR TOYOTA PRIUS WE RAN QUICKLY TO THE MOTEL ENTRANCE. LEAVES AND TRASH WERE SWIRLING AROUND THE INSIDE CORRIDOR.
TO THE LEFT WAS A LOUNGE THAT APPEARED TO HAVE BEEN CLOSED FOR A VERY LONG TIME, WE LOOKED THROUGH THE LOUNGE ENTRANCE AND WE SAW IT WAS IN COMPLETE DISARRAY!

WE ENTERED THE OFFICE DOOR TO THE RIGHT AND FAROOQ BHADELIA WAS SITTING AT A SMALL LOBBY DESK, HE SPOKE WITH HIS PAKISTAN ACCENT AND SAID. WELL, THIS IS WHAT YOU GOT.

RHONDA AND I NOTICED THE OFFICE HAD NO COMPUTER. RHONDA TOLD FAROOQ SHE WAS USED TO USING INTERNET SEARCH ENGINES SUCH AS PRICELINE, EXPEDIA, AND BOOKINGS. SHE ALSO SAID SHE WAS USED TO RESERVATIONS SOFTWARE. WHERE IS THE MOTEL COMPUTER? SHE ASKED. HIS REPLY WAS SURPRISING, WE DON'T HAVE A COMPUTER HERE. RHONDA ASKED, YOU ONLY TAKE RESERVATIONS BY PHONE AND WRITE THEM DOWN? HE REPLIED, WE DON'T HAVE A PHONE! I WAS ASTONISHED AND SAID, YOU ARE ONLY 20 MINUTES AWAY FROM ALL THE THEME PARKS AND YOU DON'T HAVE A PHONE OR A COMPUTER? YOU KNOW ARE MISSING OUT ON A LOT OF REVENUE! HE SAID! WELL, YOU KNOW, WE KNOW EXACTLY WHAT WE ARE DOING HERE!

RHONDA THEN INQUIRED, WHERE IS YOUR CREDIT CARD MACHINE AND CASH REGISTER? FAROOQ SAID WE DON'T HAVE THEM. RHONDA LOOKED PUZZLED, THEN QUESTIONED, HOW DO WE MAKE DAILY DEPOSITS?

FAROOQ REPLIED, YOU WON'T MAKE THE DEPOSITS, WE PICK UP CASH DEPOSITS BETWEEN 10PM AND MIDNIGHT EVERY NIGHT. 

I ASKED HIM, HOW MANY ROOMS DO YOU HAVE HERE? HE REPLIED 100. HOW MANY ROOMS ARE RENTABLE, HE INDICATED ABOUT 50, HE SAID THEY WERE REMODELING EACH ROOM ONE AT A TIME. I SUGGESTED YOU ARE LOSING REVENUE BY DOING IT THAT WAY. THIS MOTEL WAS SO CLOSE TO THE ORLANDO THEME PARKS. I THOUGHT FAROOQ WOULD CAPITALIZE ON THAT OPPORTUNITY! I COULD TELL BY LOOKING AT RHONDA, SHE WAS BEWILDERED BY ALL OF THIS. 

FAROOQ INFORMED US, A BLOCK OF SEVERAL ROOMS WERE BEING RENTED OUT TO HARVEST WORKERS, WHICH CONSISTED OF ALL MEXICAN LABORERS WITH FOUR MEN ON BUNK BEDS IN EACH ROOM. HE SUGGESTED WE LOOK AROUND AND THEN MEET HIS MAINTENANCE MAN WHO WAS ALSO THE GROUNDS KEEPER AS WELL AS THE NIGHT AUDITOR. 

WE WALKED DOWN THE FILTHY HALLWAY. I COULDN'T BELIEVE MY EYES AS I SAW THE CENTER COURTYARD, BRIGHT FLASHES OF LIGHTNING REVEALED PILES OF LEAVES MIXED WITH TRASH AND BRICK PAVERS OVERGROWN WITH WEEDS. THERE WAS AN ARTIFICIAL PUTTING GREEN THAT WAS VERY DIRTY AND OVERRUN WITH WEEDS AS WELL.

I MENTIONED TO RHONDA, THIS WAS A STRANGE PLACE AND SO DISGUSTING IN MANY WAYS. BUT ONCE WE'VE CLEANED THIS MOTEL UP, WE WOULD ADD IT TO OUR PORTFOLIO OF SUCCESSES. WE WOULD REALLY BENEFIT FROM THIS AS A COMPLIMENT TO OUR WEBSITE. 

WHEN WE RETURNED TO THE FRONT, FAROOQ WAS WAITING TO INTRODUCE US TO FRANK TROKEY. HE INFORMED US FRANK HAD BEEN LIVING AT THE LOW BUDGET INN FOR MORE THAN FOUR YEARS. HE WAS SITTING ON A BAR STOOL OUTSIDE THE FRONT ENTRANCE.

FRANK WAS A BONY LITTLE MAN. MOSTLY BALD WITH THINNING HAIR. HE LOOKED LIKE A PIRATE!
FRANK'S T-SHIRT WAS DECORATED WITH SKULL BONES AND HE WAS WEARING SMALL HOOP EARRINGS.
HIS APPEARANCE WAS VERY UNINVITING, ESPECIALLY FOR A HOSPITALITY BUSINESS.
WITH A GLASS OF WHISKEY IN HIS HAND, HIS DEMEANOR WAS QUITE UNAPPEALING!

WHEN RHONDA AND I WALKED BACK TO THE PRIUS, I TURNED TO HER AND I SAID, FRANK IS THE GROUNDS KEEPER AND NIGHT AUDITOR HERE! LOOK AT THIS PLACE, IT ONCE WAS A GREAT PLACE AND SOMEHOW A DISASTER CAME LOOKING FOR IT AND FOUND IT! I TOLD HER, ALL THE MOTELS WE HAVE MANAGED WERE ABOUT DEVELOPING FIRST CLASS HOSPITALITY SERVICE. THIS WILL BE OUR GREATEST CHALLENGE. RHONDA SAID, JIM, IT IS A MYSTERY TO ME AS TO WHY THEY HAVE A SPOOKY DRUNK GUY LIKE THAT WORKING IN A 100 ROOM MOTEL, SITTING ON A BAR STOOL, RIGHT AT THE FRONT ENTRANCE. IT DOESN'T CREATE A VERY INVITING ATMOSPHERE. WE ALSO WONDERED WHY THEY IGNORED THE ORLANDO THEME PARKS. THAT MADE NO SENSE AT ALL!

OUR MOTTO'S HAVE ALWAYS BEEN, DO ALL THINGS WITH A "SPIRIT OF EXCELLENCE"!  "HUNGER IS NOT AN OPTION, TREAT EVERYONE AS YOU WOULD WANT TO BE TREATED"!

POISE IS ONE OF OUR GREATEST ATTRIBUTES! IT IS A VITAL KEY TO OUR SUCCESS AS HOSPITALITY SUPERVISORS!

RHONDA AND I ALWAYS ENJOYED MEETING THE NEEDS OF PEOPLE!  THIS WOULD PROVIDE MANY OPPORTUNITIES FOR US TO HELP PEOPLE GET JOBS, GROCERIES AND HOOK THEM UP WITH LOCAL CHURCHES AND FOOD OUT REACHES! WE LOVE PROVIDING HOME COOKED MEALS FOR GUESTS. WE HAVE DONE THIS IN EVERY MOTEL WE HAVE OPERATED. THAT IS OUR MISSION, TO MEET THE NEEDS OF PEOPLE!

RHONDA'S BISCUITS AND SAUSAGE GRAVY WERE OUT OF THIS WORLD AND SHE COULD COOK AN AMAZING FIVE POUND MEATLOAF WITH ALL THE DELICIOUS FIXINGS! WE EMBRACED OUR NEW CHALLENGE WITH GREAT ANTICIPATION! WE WERE LOOKING FORWARD TO SERVING PEOPLE AND FEEDING THEM GOOD HOME COOKED MEALS.

ONLY GOD KNEW WHAT A DANGEROUS SCENARIO OF EVENTS WE WOULD ENCOUNTER WHEN WE EMBARKED ON OUR NEW ADVENTURE!        

THE RAIN FINALLY SUBSIDED, WHICH WAS VERY WELCOME NEWS FOR OUR BEST LITTLE BUDDY BUGSY, OUR BRINDLE COLORED, SMALL TWENTY POUND, JACK RUSSELL TERRIER MIX, HE NEEDED TO DO HIS PART TO WATER THE WEEDS. WE WALKED HIM AROUND FOR A FEW MINUTES. I SAID TO RHONDA, THAT'S BUGSY, HE THOUGHT HE NEEDED TO WATER THE WEEDS AFTER ALL THE RAIN. WE BOTH LAUGHED! 

WE WERE EXHAUSTED AFTER A VERY LONG DAY. DRIVING THROUGH THE EXTREME WEATHER HAD BEEN TAXING ON ALL THREE OF US!  

ON THE DRIVE OVER, BUGSY PUSHED HIS WAY TO THE FRONT SEAT TO SIT ON RHONDA'S LAP. HE NEEDED TO BE SAFELY COMFORTED IN HER ARMS. BUGSY NEVER LIKED THUNDER AND LIGHTNING, IT MADE HIM TREMBLE IN FEAR. HE WAS VERY TIRED FROM THE STRESS OF THE STORM! 

WE UNLOADED THE CAR INTO OUR NEW RESIDENCE AT THE MOTEL AND WENT TO BED IMMEDIATELY!    

                                                                             

                                                                                 CHAPTER TWO

                                                                 THE DAWNING OF A NEW DAY!    

THE SUN WAS OUT AND WE WERE UP EARLY IN ANTICIPATION OF WHAT NEW CHALLENGES LIED AHEAD. RHONDA AND I DIDN'T REALIZE WE HAD ALREADY ENTERED THE GATES OF HELL ON EARTH! IN A RELATIVELY SHORT PERIOD OF TIME ALL THREE OF OUR LIVES WOULD BE HORRIFICALLY, DRAMATICALLY AND PERMANENTLY CHANGED FOREVER!

BUGSY HAD HIS MORNING WALK. RHONDA MADE HIS HOME MADE BREAKFAST CONSISTING OF FRESH COOKED SALMON IN OLIVE OIL ALONG WITH FRESH BROCCOLI, CAULIFLOWER AND CHOPPED CARROTS. HIS EVENING MEALS WERE DIFFERENT. RHONDA COOKED CHICKEN BREAST INSTEAD OF SALMON. BUGSY JUST TURNED 17 YEARS OLD AND WAS GENERALLY IN GOOD HEALTH WITH NO ARTHRITIS. BUT AT AGE 15 HIS VET DIAGNOSED HIM WITH CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE. 

THAT'S WHY HE WOULD GET HEALTHY HOMEMADE MEALS BY MAMA RHONDA! HE WAS ALWAYS A HAPPY DOG!

WE CALLED HIM OUR LITTLE MAN!, WHEN BUGSY WAS YOUNGER HE RAN SO FAST HIS BUTT WOULD ALMOST PASS HIS HEAD. SO WE NICKNAMED HIM OUR LITTLE DIPPI DO!  RHONDA CALLED HIM DUDER BOO!

AFTER WE ALL HAD BREAKFAST, RHONDA AND I TOURED THE ENTIRE PROPERTY. WE WERE ASTONISHED AT WHAT THE SUNNY DAY REVEALED! WE HAD NEVER WITNESSED SUCH A GROSSLY DISGUSTING MESS IN ALL OUR YEARS OF BUSINESS! ALL OF THE TRASH RECEPTACLES WERE OVERFLOWING AND GARBAGE WAS EVERYWHERE! WE WALKED TO THE BACK OF THE BUILDING AND THE MOTEL SEEMED TO PREVAY ITS OWN MESSAGE OF BEING A HOPELESS PROJECT. THE TRASH THAT WAS PILED AROUND AND BEHIND THE DUMPSTER SHOWED THAT NO ONE HAD ATTENDED TO IT FOR YEARS. WE WALKED AROUND TO THE FRONT OF THE BUILDING AND LOOKED AT THE POOL AREA. THE WHITE VINYL FENCE WAS STREAMING WITH GREEN MOLD AND BLACK MILDEW. THE LARGE SWIMMING POOL LOOKED LIKE A CESSPOOL! IT WAS A DISGUSTING GROSS GREEN COLOR AND YOU COULDN'T EVEN SEE THE BOTTOM AT THE SHALLOW END! 

FRANK WAS NOWHERE TO BE FOUND. I WALKED TO HIS RESIDENCE IN THE BACK OF THE MOTEL AND WHAT AN INDESCRIBABLE MESS. NEEDLESS TO SAY HIS JOB PERFORMANCE AS THE GROUNDS KEEPER WAS WAY UNDER PAR. I WONDERED WHAT HE WAS DOING AT THIS MOTEL. 

MY THOUGHTS WERE, FRANK WOULD BE A GOOD FIT FOR SOMEONE PROMOTING A HAUNTED MOTEL! I DECIDED NOT TO ENGAGE IN A CONVERSATION WITH HIM.

I MET WITH RHONDA IN THE FRONT OFFICE AND SHE TOLD ME A GUEST INFORMED HER THE PREVIOUS MANAGER'S MERCURY MARQUE WAS STILL THE PARKING LOT AND HAD BEEN FOR QUITE SOME TIME. NO ONE HAD SEEN BRENDA FOR OVER TWO WEEKS. SOME OF THE GUEST RESIDENTS HAD INQUIRED AS TO HER WHEREABOUTS, BUT FRANK WOULD AVOID ANSWERING THEIR QUESTIONS. THEY WERE CONCERNED THAT ONE DAY SHE WAS GONE AND NO ONE SEEMED TO HAVE ANY INFORMATION ABOUT HER.  RHONDA AND I TRIED TO ENTER HER ROOM TO SEE IF WE COULD FIND ANYTHING HELPFUL, BUT BRENDA'S DOOR HAD A DIFFERENT LOCK THAN THE REST OF THE MOTEL ROOMS. 
 
THERE WAS SO MUCH WORK TO BE DONE WE COULDN'T CONCERN OURSELVES WITH BRENDA'S STRANGE DISAPPEARANCE.  
RHONDA AND I AGREED, HOPEFULLY THERE WAS A GOOD EXPLANATION AS TO WHAT HAPPENED TO BRENDA. ALL THE GUESTS INDICATED SHE WAS DOING A GOOD JOB AS MANAGER, SHE DIDN'T LIKE FRANK. WE DIDN'T NEED A DEGREE FROM NASA TO FIGURE OUT WHY! 

RHONDA STARTED TO GET ACQUAINTED IN THE OFFICE AND I STARTED THE ALMOST IMPOSSIBLE TASK OF PICKING UP GARBAGE AND CLEANING UP THE TRASH RECEPTACLES.

WE'VE HAD A LONG FIRST DAY OF GETTING ACCLIMATED AND ASSESSING HOW MUCH WORK WAS AHEAD OF US. FAROOQ ARRIVED AROUND 10:30 PM AND PICKED UP THE CASH DEPOSITS. I ASKED HIM ABOUT A LAWN MOWER, PRESSURE WASHER, WEED EATER AND A LEAF BLOWER. HE SAID, GO LOOK AROUND IN SOME OF THE VACANT ROOMS IN THE BACK BUILDING AND YOU MIGHT FIND WHAT YOU ARE LOOKING FOR. HE DIDN'T SPEND MUCH TIME AND THEN LEFT!  WE WERE BOTH TIRED AND TURNED IN FOR BED AS SOON AS FAROOQ DEPARTED. 

WE WERE WONDERING IF THIS ENORMOUS ELEPHANT WAS TOO MUCH. PERHAPS WE BIT OFF MORE THAN WE COULD CHEW! BUT NOT REALLY! WE BOTH KNEW WE WERE NOT GOING TO GIVE UP. WE ARE NOT GRASSHOPPERS, WE WILL DEFEAT THIS GIANT!

TIME WOULD SOON REVEAL, WHAT WE ENCOUNTER ON THIS ADVENTURE WOULD BE PAINFULLY, UNJUSTIFIABLY, UNBEARABLE IN SO MANY DIFFERENT WAYS! PERHAPS WE SHOULD HAVE LEFT THE VERY FIRST DAY! 

BUT IF WE HAD LEFT, NO ONE WOULD EVER KNOW WHAT WAS TAKING PLACE AT THIS MOTEL AND THIS BOOK WOULDN'T HAVE BECOME A NECESSARY REALITY, AN EXPEDITING FORCE TO EXPOSE WHAT THEIR AGENDA WAS AND WHO THEY ARE!

THE GOOD CITIZENS OF OUR GREAT NATION, THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, DESERVE TO KNOW THE TRUTH! THIS MAY BE HAPPENING IN YOUR COMMUNITY AND THIS COULD HAPPEN TO YOU! 


I MUST WRITE TRIALS OF BETRAYAL, IN ORDER TO RIGHT THE TRUTH!

WE ARE LIVING IN THE SHADOWS OF DARK TIMES! THIS WAS NO TIME TO HIDE OUR LAMPS UNDER A LAMP STAND!

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TRIALS OF BETRAYAL

THE POLK COUNTY DAVENPORT FLORIDA TERRORIST INCIDENT!    THE BETRAYAL OF DEPUTIES AND PUBLIC DEFENDERS!

   LOCAL SHERIFF'S DEPUTIES ARE PROTECTING BIOTERRORISM IN POLK COUNTY DAVENPORT FLORIDA WITH VIOLENCE ON US CITIZENS!

"ANY KINGDOM OR NATION DIVIDED AGAINST ITSELF CANNOT STAND" JESUS CHRIST 0000 AND ABRAHAM LINCOLN 1843

​ ​TRIALS OF BETRAYAL

AMERICA WILL NEVER BE DESTROYED FROM THE OUTSIDE. IF WE FALTER AND LOSE OUR FREEDOMS,

IT WILL BE BECAUSE WE DESTROYED OURSELVES! ABRAHAM LINCOLN

ANY SUPPORT IS GREATLY APPRECIATED THANK YOU!