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Leon sighed hard.“I knew your great grandfather.He was a very stern man and growing up, he might have even been a little harsh as his family grew up.But who am I to say another man didn’t raise his family right?I raised my son the same way I was raised, maybe he did the same.”
“I’ll look into the conversations between the two men and see what I can find,” John told them before he disappeared.
Leon turned to Rowen and asked, “Is your father going to know you came here?”
Rowen shrugged.“I don’t think so.I doubt he’ll even know we’re gone until he demands something to eat and neither of us show up to cook for him.Hell, he might not even know we’re gone if he stops at the bar on his way home first.”
“Does he do that often?”Calderone wanted to know.
“More often than not.When I got home this morning after I stopped here, I found Calli in his bedroom and the house all torn up.That means dad got mean this morning and he probably hurt Calli.”She just shook her head.“I’d had enough.We packed up and we left his house and I’m not going back.Calli will stay with me and we’ll start over again somewhere away from him.”She narrowed her eyes and said, “He won’t hurt Calli anymore if I have anything to say about it.”
“Commendable,” Calderone admitted.
“Commendable, hell.Calli is my brother and I will protect him even from our father,” Rowen swore.“I love him and I will not leave him behind.He’ll stay with me.”
Leon nodded but didn’t say anything.
Just then, John came rushing back inside the office.“Leon, did you read the whole conversation Calli showed you?”he asked urgently.
Leon slowly shook his head at him.“No, I didn’t.I just read the first page.”
John handed him a print out of the laptop convo.
Chapter Seven
Leon scowled as heread it now.When he got to the second page, his frown deepened and he snarled, “Questo non può essere reale!Are you kidding me?”He looked up at John and sneered.“This man must be pazzo to think he can do this and get away with it.”He got up to pace behind his desk.Then snapping his head up, he glared at John.“Read the rest of the conversations and see if you can find out more about this new wrinkle.I want to know how and why before I call this in.”
John nodded and left the room again.
Calderone stared at his father intently and asked, “Dad, what’s going on now?”
Leon pushed the papers toward him
Calderone picked them up to read the highlighted parts and he gasped.“Questo è folle.He must be insane to think he could do this and not die in the attempt.”
Rowen got up and leaned over the desk to grab the papers.She read the highlighted passages then dropped down into her chair.She had paled by at least two shades.“Oh dear God,” she whispered.Then she looked at Leon and asked, “Can you stop this?Stop them in their tracks?”
