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“Damn it,” I muttered.
“Si…” My father nodded. “I told him we knew nothing about them. He laughed as he told us that you, Legend…Giovanni was a member of the Walker family and the Requiem MC. After all the years we searched for you, a man like this comes to our home and tells us where you are.”
“Yes, father. I have lived here for almost ten years.”
“Maybe someday, you can tell us how that happened, son. I mean I know you like motorcycles but this is a little too much. To actually become an MC member?” He shook his head. “But for now, we need to align forces and wipe this man out.”
“Amen to that,” Zed spoke up as he nodded his head.
“Why would you do that?” Justice asked my father. “Align with us?”
My father glared at him as he explained, “My son is aligned with you, the Walkers. And with that association, he is endangered by this war or feud. We do not allow family to be harmed.Ever.”
I shook my head at him. I knew this to be true, but I really didn’t want them to get involved with this.
“Do not argue on this point, Gio,” my father stated as he stared at me. “We, your family, are already involved in this and arguing won’t help. We have just skimmed the surface of this supposed FBI agent’s operation.”
Luca nodded. “However, we do not have all the pieces to this puzzle. Are we to understand that this is a family war? “
“Sort of,” I answered. “He is a Walker as well. But it all stemmed from his mother Olivia. She wanted revenge on the family.”
“Revenge for what?” Luca asked me.
Shrugging, I felt reluctant to answer this fully. “All of it was just a story I heard. I mean I’m not sure of the real reason it got to the point it has.”
Justice clasped his hands together and said, “I have spoken to the Walkers and had many conversations as well as being shown videos of O they had after they finally captured her. I didn’t understand either until I saw the video where she…” Justice shook his head. “...Committed suicide. Olivia had been mentally ill for perhaps her entire life as she finally confessed to killing her own parents at twelve years old, no less.”
“How on earth did she accomplish such a thing?” my father asked in incredulity.
“She burned the family home down,” Justice went on with the tragic story. “Luckily, her sister Bea wasn’t there. However,her other sister and parents did die in that fire. That was just one of the many murders she had committed. She went on to kill others in the family as well. My uncles were both murdered by that woman. In the end, she finally confessed why she had killed them. Although, her reasoning was twisted and not really explainable. Her parents had been talking about taking her to a specialist as they worried about her mental state. They had signs early on that she was causing harm to others.”
“So, she took them out,” my father concluded. “I imagine this woman was highly dangerous.”
“Even as early as eight years old perhaps,” Justice agreed. “When she finally reached adulthood, she was a full on serial killer. As to killing our uncles, she was in love with one uncle who’d married her sister Bea. My dad’s identical twin in fact. So she married the other brother in hopes to…Well, I’m not sure why. But she ended up killing him and a woman she chose to be her in death, in another house fire. So, Bea believed Olivia was dead for many years and never had any idea that Olivia was responsible for all these tragedies. Not until they captured her. She brought ruin to the town the Walkers lived in, she framed one of my cousins for a crime he did not commit and he did 7 years in prison. She ran gangs and killed anyone who opposed her. Buying up businesses, selling drugs and partaking in human trafficking. She became a criminal organization unto herself.”
“The notorious Ophelia,” my father whispered in a bit of awe as he now looked stunned.
I stared at him and asked, “You knew her?”
He tisked and raised his hands up at me. “I have only heard of her. We never dealt with her directly.”
“Well, since her passing, Deacon is now leading this war,” Justice said. “He was an actual FBI agent. She made the money with her illegal schemes to fund his college and advancement inthe government. To help her someday and it worked very well for many years. We also believe he still has contacts within dark government groups to this day. All while he works in crime. Not to break it up but to keep profiting from it.”
“We know a few people like that,” Luca said. “Not insane ones like Ophelia but people who are in the business.”
I looked over at him and wanted to roll my eyes at the gall of his statement. They know a few people like that? My family worked in those very businesses for profit as well. But I didn’t want to make this about that old but still touchy subject, so I kept my feelings to myself.
“She was known as being methodical,” my father concluded. “I heard stories. Si, she was highly feared because of her unbalanced mental state. A bad temper and she would kill people simply for kicks or if she felt they had slighted her in some way. Many felt she wasn’t safe to do business with.”
“So, her son took over for her then? And he feels justified, right?” Luca asked. “He believes he is going to get revenge for her death.”
“Yes, that seems to be true,” Justice said. “He was the one who dragged us into it.”
“I was taken prisoner by this Deacon,” Zed spoke up.
We all looked over at him.
“I, of course, never knew any of these people existed at the time. I was out in town one day and my men were ambushed with tranq darts. Then they threatened my men’s lives if I didn’t go with them. Oh yes, you can bet that Deacon is a psychopath just like his mother,” Zed explained. “He took me to force my son to hand over a woman my son was in love with.”
