Owned by the Yakuza: A Japanese Mafia Bad Boy Romance by London Ariel

Author:London, Ariel [London, Ariel]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2016-08-30T07:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER NINE

Tadao

忠夫

I hadn’t gone home last night, instead, I went to the office and did what I did best – work. Counting and bundling money had kept my mind off of Oriana. I wished that I could have given her answers, but I had told her all I knew. There was no other information in the file and I hadn’t been working for my father full time when that happened. I was just starting out with small gigs while finishing up University. I was just as clueless as her and I hated it. Ignorance made me vulnerable.

Masaru had come to the office to report on the information his shatei had dug up on the new Shimazu-kai kumichō. His results were flawless as always. A stack of information now sat in the center of my desk.

With only a brief skim, I had learned more than I wanted to know about Akimoto Eito, the new leader of our biggest rival gang. He was something else, a seasoned gangster who had no qualms about stealing, murdering or torturing. How he had stayed out of the spotlight was beyond me. The press would have a field day with these sorts of stories.

Tatsuya sat on the sofa, his feet resting on the box of money that he finished collecting last night. He was sleeping with his head hanging back at a weird angle. Once Masaru had finished revealing the gruesome details of what he and the shatei discovered, he passed out.

“Masaru, I need a favour.”

Masaru looked up at me from his phone. “Sure, what is it?”

“I was hoping you could get some more information.”

Masaru glanced at the pile of papers as if to say what do you mean, more?

“Not on Akimoto, good job with that one,” I said with a wave of my hand. I was going to put that on the backburner for now. It would probably be better for us to tackle that sicko once my brother was back from his honeymoon. “It’s about Gregory McMillian.”

“I thought his daughter was working off the debt. He’s dead, what more is there to know?”

“Lots apparently,” I said. “When I spoke to Oriana about it last night, she didn’t seem convinced that her father would rack up some gambling debt and then never pay up. He doesn’t fit the profile for one of our usual dodgers. There’s more to it.”

Masaru exhaled and sat back in his chair. “No disrespect, but are you sure we should be wasting our resources on this while the Shimazu-kai are regrouping?”

“I’ll take care of that,” I growled. “In the meantime, I want some dirt on McMillian. Something is going on and I need to know what.”

#

That evening, I made deliveries of payments. I drove while Yuji and Tatsuya went in and dropped off envelopes stuffed full of cash. We had people to pay – doctors, lawyers, policemen, judges. Just about anyone who we dealt with got some sort of stipend.

We were nearly done our run when I got a bad feeling in my gut.

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