Defiance Falls War: Defiance Falls Book 3 by Dean Ali

Author:Dean, Ali
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-10-29T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Sixteen

Cruz

“First on the agenda: Branden and Sean.” Jeremy was all business today, and the rest of us were right there with him. “They never reported what happened last Friday night, and I don’t think they will. The fire was their retaliation.”

Hazel sat beside me on one of the couches at the Spot, and she shifted forward now. “Maybe the fire was meant to be payback for that, but then we unleashed everything for the RICO charges, so what does that mean?” She referred to the organized crime act that the head honchos of the Malone Mafia were being charged under.

Jeremy looked at his daughter. “It’s not the same tit for tat game anymore, Haze. That ended when we put those boys’ fathers behind bars, and took away their power. They tried to make a move, ordering a hit on you, and failed. They’ve got nothing now.”

“Tit for tat,” Bodhi said under his breath, laughing. “That sounds like a phrase more appropriate for toddlers fighting over toys, Uncle Jeremy.”

Jeremy smiled. “Never said I was good with words.”

Hazel ignored them, asking, “But is that it then for Sean and Branden? We don’t bring anything else we have against them and we assume they’ll stay quiet about what I did to them?”

Gramps answered, “Those boys won’t want anyone to know what happened to them, Haze. You humiliated them. And if they reported it, they’d risk you reporting what they did to you.”

Moody jumped in, “Plus, we have plenty we can bring against them too. Not enough to get them under RICO, they weren’t in leadership positions, but there’s definitely evidence they committed crimes.”

“Like what?” Hazel asked, her voice a little shaky.

“Drug dealing to start,” Moody answered. “I got some backup evidence on that from your friend Meg, actually.”

“They weren’t involved in the higher-level fraud schemes, but they did the dirty work, on-the-ground stuff,” Spike said.

“What’s that mean?” Hazel asked.

“It means,” I told her, “it’s trickier to send the evidence to law enforcement in a nice tidy bow like we did for the more complicated schemes. Keegan and some of the other Malones at Harvard, along with Branden and Sean, moved shipments, threatened people, and even followed through on some of those threats.”

Hazel’s eyes shot to mine. “You mean they beat people up and killed them?” She didn’t beat around the bush and despite the gravity of her question, I had to fight a smile.

“Yeah. They only hired outside help for the real complicated jobs. So while there’s supporting evidence for those crimes that ties into the RICO evidence, there’s not much in the way of eyewitness testimony since they all have each other’s backs.”

Hazel’s eyes moved to her dad. “Did you have to do any of that?”

Jeremy shook his head. “No. Like Cruz said, those were the kinds of things the younger guys in the family took care of. Or hitmen,” he added.

“Okay, so there’s other stuff besides drug dealing we have against Branden, Sean, Keegan, the younger Malones, but it’s less

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