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For a smile as wide as a country sunrise
Things were not looking good for Aari and the others in that old building. Apparently a rival gang had come along to fight with Luna and Brielle to hopefully stop them from teaming together with Aari and the Black Wolves. “We can go out through this side door,” said Luna and she went over to open it. But, it had been locked on the outside.
They and their men turned around, but Aari and his group had disappeared, quite literally, though no one saw them do it. They were too intent on getting out that side door to notice anything else. Then they heard the sirens from the police as they came driving up. It seems someone tipped them off that a gang war was about to erupt at that spot tonight.
Once the other gang was inside the building, Aari and his team made it to their van and quickly drove away. Rock and Bear did have to knock out 4 of the gang members who were hanging around the van. And as they drove away, Sky tossed one of her lightning balls at the door of the building, preventing anyone from coming back outside until the police arrived.
Those lightning balls have many varied uses. The police managed to round up most of the gang that had attacked, plus all but 3 of Luna’s group. Those 3 had been killed by the rival gang already. As the police brought Luna and Brielle out, along with the leader of the rival gang, two shots rang out. The leader of the rival gang and Luna fell to the ground, dead.
The police found where the shots had come from, but there was no sign of anyone in that building, or anywhere else in the area. Aari was planning to kill both Luna and Brielle, but that other gang interrupted his plans, or I should say, our plans. But, Luna, or Medina which is her real name, will not be bothering us anymore.
Obviously someone else wanted her dead, and succeeded where we had failed many times. However, there is still Brielle, though she has been arrested by the police and there are many charges against her, including 3 counts of murder, though the murder charges may be hard to prove. She likely had someone else do the killing, she was just present when they did it.
But, she should end up in prison for several years anyway, unless her lawyer can get her off on a technicality. Or she manages to escape before getting to trial, a very real possibility. The teams were called back home and Sienna got her lawyers looking into Lily’s bank account. Bad news came back about that one though, the account did not exist anymore.
It seems that Lily claimed that money 4 years ago and had it transferred to another account down in Brazil. It was actually one of Lily’s sisters that played the part of Lily, with all the right documentation needed and her mother with her for added verification. What happened to the money after that is anyone’s guess, there was only a little over $100 left in the account when we checked on it.
Somebody spent a lot of money. Lily wasn’t too worried about that though, she said there wasn’t any point in worrying about something she never had. She was saddened by the fact that her whole family had turned bad. Both parents had been found dead in their home, 4 of her brothers were killed, her remaining brother, his wife, her 3 sisters and their husbands will all be heading to prison.
Only Lily decided to follow a law abiding path, and Sienna probably had some influence in that. They had been friends since high school days even though Sienna is a bit older. Well, we are all back at the chateau now and relaxing a bit. Misty and Cristy just came walking into the library with a plate full of donuts. Fresh donuts.
“What are you two doing?” asked Jennifer. “Munching on donuts,” they said together with a smile. “Why are you not working?” Jennifer asked again. They looked at each other, then at Jennifer. “You were given a discharge from the clinic Misty,” said Jennifer, “that means you are fit for work. That means you should be working, not munching on donuts. Now, no more donuts, go look at the work list and get busy.”
She turned and went into the kitchen. Cristy laughed, loud…and not so long. “Why are you laughing Cristy?” said Jennifer, “You should be back at work too.” “But Steve gave me a special whatever it’s called,” she said with a worried look. “That was only while Misty and the cats were in the clinic,” she reminded her, “they are not in the clinic anymore.
And don’t look at Steve, he is back on inactive duty now that the case is over. Kat and I are back being Leader 1. Now, leave the donuts with me and get to work.” She put the donuts on Jennifer’s lap, then saluted. “Yes, commander Jennifer,” she said and went back to her computer. Misty could be heard laughing in the kitchen.
A short time later Misty and Cristy were cleaning a bathroom. “You just had to salute, didn’t you,” said Misty. “I’m sure it was your laughing that did it,” said Cristy. “There are 30 bathrooms in this place,” said Misty. “Actually it’s 33, and they all need to be cleaned today,” sighed Cristy. “If these bathrooms weren’t so big, we could have bigger bedrooms,” said Misty.
“If they were smaller it would take 2 hours to get a turn in one,” said Cristy. “So much for that idea,” said Misty. Then Misty scooped some water from a toilet and poured it down Cristy’s back, making her screech. “What’s with the screeching?” asked Kat as she stood in the doorway. “That wasn’t screeching,” said Misty, “this is screeching…”
A little later. “You just had to give her an example of a loud screech,” said Cristy, “now, instead of one week of bathroom duty, we have a whole month of bathroom duty, plus regular duties!” “Yeah, she didn’t really see the comedy of it,” said Misty sighing.
Meanwhile, back to Jennifer and I. “Great way to get this plate of fresh donuts,” I said. “I thought so too,” Jennifer replied smiling. Meow, meow.= Me too, burp. Meowy.= Me too too, burp. Meowr.= Me too three, BURP! Well, another rather odd case is over, and I’m thankful for that.
I kind of like having Kat and Jennifer as Leader 1, though it sounds kind of strange saying Leader 1 when there are two of them. Oh well. Trixie has asked to stay with us and I, or rather, Kat and Jennifer, said yes to that right away. Trixie also asked about her best friend, Candy, who had been disowned by her family for being involved in porn.
Actually, she had been kidnapped and forced into porn, a little different than what her family was saying. Candy had escaped and had been living in an abandoned house for 8 months, with Trixie helping her out with food when she could. They have already begun taking our tests and are doing very well. I hope our next case is a bit more normal than this one, they seem to be getting worse all the time. Guess we will have to wait and see.
The End. A new case will be here soon! ©2025 Steve McLeod.
Ryan and Aari had gone to meet with Luna and Brielle in a rather bad section of the city. The initial greeting wasn’t too friendly either. Ryan had walked forward a bit to sit down on one of the empty armchairs and was immediately shot dead by one of Luna’s bodyguards. Now, what will be Aari’s response to this?
“I see you are purging out some of your top people,” said Aari calmly, “seems like an odd time to be doing it.” “I see that killing Ryan didn’t seem to bother you much,” said Luna, “I must say that I’m impressed with your reaction.” “As for my reaction, I wasn’t worried about being the next one on your hit list,” said Aari, “I have all the protection I need.”
Just then Sky came out from behind Rock and stood beside Aari. Then Carine did the same thing. “My wife and her, uh, cousin are quite able to protect me from your gunmen,” said Aari, “they could kill them all before they fired one shot.” Luna and Brielle looked at Carine and Sky. “They don’t seem to have any kind of weapon on them,” said Brielle.
“I don’t need a weapon,” said Sky, “I am a weapon!” “She is right,” said Aari, “it would be a foolish thing to try. Never provoke her or my wife. As for Ryan, I think it might have been bad timing to kill him just now, he knew the city well and that can be very helpful. But he wasn’t very trustworthy.” “I could say that you are not very trustworthy either,” said Luna, “already making plans with Ryan about taking over my organization. Very naughty indeed.”
Aari had a good laugh over that one. “I knew Ryan wasn’t serious,” he said, “he was just checking me out, so I went along with him.” Now it was Luna that laughed. Brielle didn’t laugh however, she just sat there with a face of stone. “I told him it wouldn’t work,” she said, “but I let him do it, after all, it might give us some information about you, like how many men you have in the city.”
“Well, all you know is a number I gave to Ryan,” said Aari smiling, “which may or may not be true. I learned a long time ago never to share your weaknesses or your strengths. Both can be used to destroy you.” “That is true Aari,” said Brielle, “by the way, I’m staying as part of this organization, whether that meets your approval or not.”
“Makes no difference to me,” he said, “you do your part and I do mine, we will get along okay that way.” “Do you know a group called the Investigators?” asked Brielle. “Yep, but they are over in France,” he said, “not a problem for us, unless you’re planning on expanding to Europe already. Better to get things firmly in our grip here before expanding.”
“Oh, I wasn’t thinking about expanding,” said Brielle, “just wondering if you knew about them.” “I have heard a lot about them,” said Aari, “they have taken down large organizations before, but I have never had any dealings with them. From what I have heard, they only get involved if provoked, or if specifically hired for some reason.”
“Someone is outside,” said Carine, “there is danger waiting for us.” “A trick of yours?” asked Aari. “No, we have nothing planned,” said Luna, “but perhaps the cops followed you out here.” “No one followed us,” said Aari, “we are very careful about such things.” “Hey Luna!” a voice yelled, “Come on out, let’s see how tough you and your new friends are! Don’t make us come in there, you won’t like that!”
“How quickly can the rest of your men get here?” asked Aari. “You’re looking at them Aari,” said Luna, “what about your men?” “They are not far away,” he said and he took out his phone, “Clarence, we are surrounded, make some noise.” “Sounds like your men are out there too,” said Brielle sneering, “I don’t like surprises either.”
“Would you prefer that I let them come in here and kill you?” asked Aari, “you should be thanking me, not complaining.” Then the outside door to the main building was smashed open! Meanwhile, back to Kat and the cuckoo clock. She had been sitting looking around at things when that cuckoo clock tried to once again make it’s cuckoo sound, but without success.
So, she decided to check and see why. She took it off the wall and opened the back…and smiled. Tucked inside was a folded piece of paper, quite old, and when she looked at it she smiled even more. It was sort of a treasure map, but the treasure was inside the house, not outside. It took her upstairs to the third floor, which was only a partial floor.
She called for Jennifer to come and help and to bring Jewel too. Kat had Rusty and Tracker with her, Jennifer brought Jewel and Azura with her. The cats were busy looking for something, but they didn’t know what. But they did find a door that was shown on the map, but no longer existed. Kat and Jennifer went through the wall and into a small room on the other side.
It was an old home office that Lily’s dad used to keep track of his business, his legal business, before he and his family got involved in crime. In there they discovered that Edwin had opened a bank account for his daughter Lily which was to be turned over to her when she turned 25. Well, she is now 28.
At the time of the last entry there was 15 million dollars in her account. Getting at the account will take a bit, but Sienna’s lawyers will help with that. There was also a small safe which Tiger was able to open. Mac had allowed them to take Tiger to help look through the house. Inside were more business papers and a few beautiful gems.
They packed up everything and drove away. A short time later the old cottage was burning and the girls called the fire department but by the time they arrived, there wasn’t much left. Meanwhile, I hope Aari and the Black Wolves are okay…
To Be Continued.
©2025 Steve McLeod.
