Chapter 137 Chapter 137: Snowball Effect
Chapter 137 Chapter 137: Snowball Effect
“You’ve seen this map before?” Click asked. Where?”
Desi shrugged and replied, “It was in my mom’s to go bag. I have no clue why she had it or what it even was.”
“That just makes no sense at all.” Click grabbed her arm and swiftly escorted her out to the main room.
“What the hell are you doing?” Desi pulled her arm from his grasp.
Click nodded his head at her and announced to the men, “She’s seen this well map before. She told me it was in her mom’s to go bag. How could that be if Barrett killed her mom four years before he robbed that bank?”
“That is a very good question, isn’t it?” Leon quipped as he turned his head to stare at Desi. “What other secrets are you hiding, young lady?”
Desi took a step or two back and shook her head. “I didn’t keep this as a secret. I don’t even know what the hell this is all about! I swear I don’t know why or how my mom got her hands on that map. Hell, I didn’t even know what it was until Click just told me.” She turned her head to glare at Click. “And I don’t appreciate being manhandled or accused of something!” She poked a finger to his chest. “And here I thought you weren’t like the rest of these guys. Tutti maleducati e fottutamente ringhianti. All rude and fucking growling. Lei, signor, è uno stronzo! You, Mr. Click, are an asshole.” Turning, she stomped out of the room, heading back down the hallway.
Click stared at her receding form until they all heard a door slam and he winced when it did.
“Wow.” Captain chuckled as he shook his head.
Alfredo looked over at Click. “Oh, my. She does have that Italian temper. But I agree with her, you should not have handled this the way you did. I suggest that you apologize to her, Mr. Click.” He then looked over at Leon and Calderone. “As to this map and the well, I have thought of one possibility.”
“And just what would that be?” Calderone asked.
“Well, it is possible that Barrett has been using the old well as a storage until of sorts and he’s hidden more than just the bank robbery money here," Alfredo summed it up for them. "He could have been using it all along to store his ill gotten gains for years and no one knew about it. Because we now can see that he has had access to the property all along.”
Leon glared at Alfredo and growled, “We only know of the two robberies that he did and we found the jewels from one of them. What more is there?”
Alfredo shook his head. “It could be just about anything and this could have been taking place all along. One thing my father did preach about was to always have a backup plan. And always put something back in case you need it later. Barrett knew the jewels he ripped off couldn’t be touched for years without him being caught. Just like the bank money. And God only knows whatever else he did in his life.”
Shaking his head, Leon asked, “Did he still have any of the money from the Ponzi scheme left?”
“I know for a fact that he never had money to feed his family when we were growing up,” Delaney assured them. “We never had a lot of food in the house and it was worse when he went to prison for one dumb thing or another.”
Alfredo looked over at Leon. “And the jewels we found earlier could be something my father left for him to find.”
“Why do you say that?” Calderone asked.
Alfredo shrugged. “Because it seems like something dad would do, more so than something Barrett would do. If he began banking for his future, I don’t think he would have left it here in the house. He couldn’t be sure the house would still be his after I died. The old well I think would be his bank. It was out of the way and no one knew about it. He could come and go whenever he liked and no one would even know he was here.”
“Would he have told the boys about his little banking system?” Leon wanted to know.
Delaney snorted. “Oh, I doubt that. If they knew about it, they would have taken what my dad already stole. Those boys could go through money like it was water.”
Zeus nodded. “But they might have had their own banks.”
“What do you mean?” Leon asked.
“Vincent sold his own daughter for 700k just before he tried to take this place,” Zeus reminded them. “He’s in the custody of the US Marshals at the moment but after he got the money, no one has seen it since then. Not his men, not the cops. So what happened to that money?”
“That is a very good question, isn’t it?” Leon looked thoughtful as these facts built up.
Zeus scoffed while looking disgusted. “We’ve been dealing with Vincent for a while now. He hated the fact that we bought this place, he always claimed it belonged to his family. He’s been trying to run us off for years but recently, it got bad enough that he tried to kill us.”
Grave Digger nodded and explained what started all of this, “He sent in a mole named Samantha and she did some serious damage to our brotherhood. Zeus has a four year old daughter. Sam killed Angel’s mother and rendered her mute for almost three years. Told her to keep quiet or die. Sam also had a daughter with Vincent named Lily and she was forced to do his bidding because he used that against her. Then after Sam died, Marty got custody of Lily after Vincent told her he wanted a payoff for his own daughter. We didn’t know it at the time but Marty and Sam had money…big money. So Marty gave Vincent the 700K he demanded. After that, the money he received was just gone. Vincent faked his own death and came after us. We thought the nightmare was over and then we found out differently.”
“And that was when you called me into this mess,” Leon stated.
Zeus nodded. “We found some paperwork that told us about the gold and who the gold belonged to. We sure as hell didn’t want the gold but we also didn’t want the fight that was coming with it. So yeah, we called you in to come and get it.”
“And it has snowballed from there,” Grave Digger commented.
“Indeed it has snowballed,” Leon agreed. Rubbing his hands over his face, he wearily added. “And each day, something new comes up. It’s a mess and doesn’t seem to be getting any better.”
“So if Barrett was using the well as his private bank, could the boys be using somewhere else as theirs?” Delaney proposed. “The house and property already showed us that there were many places to hide shit.”
Alfredo looked over at Zeus and Leon to say, “She could have something there.”