138 Jonathan presents evidence

Yona goes to meet with Jonathan to see if he was able to dig anything up. When he gets to Marshal's bar he is there with an officer from the Attorney General's office. Yona greets them and Jonathan starts pulling out files.

"The Mayor must have thought he would never be investigated because he did not hide things very well. Here are his bank statements since he took office. He has embezzled money from the city for years. Amassing more than twenty million. Now his embezzlement stopped around three years ago when the governor did an audit on the city before building the new school. So he made sure that during the ongoing audits nothing was misused. Now here is the thing he paid out large sums of money to a known hit man. Roughly five years ago he paid him four days before Remi left the hospital . It was six days before Remi's father was killed in action . He had her father killed to keep her quiet. I bet that is why she doesn't speak at all. She is afraid he will kill someone else in her family. Now we got him red handed trying to kill her while she was in the hospital. If we can get evidence that he put a hit in her father he will never get out. We have the hit man in custody at a maximum security prison. If we cut him a deal he may spill the beans on Remi's father. " Yona thinks for a few minutes and asks Jonathan

"did you check for hidden room or closets? This area was filled with Underground Railroad and moonshiners over the years. If he lives in an historical house it could have one or two."

the attorney general agent looks at him confused. Yona explains

" My sister-in-law's family home is riddled with secret closets and rooms. Hidden so well that they are undetectable. I thought she was crazy when she told me to have my brother show me his. It's a huge room beneath the floor you would never find it unless shown. I'm sure their home was not the only Underground Railroad safe house. "

Jonathan pulls up his computer and begins to search. After about an hour he finds an old registry of the Mayors house. It includes blueprints. They call a judge for a second search warrant and he calls his contact at the prison to set up a meeting with the hit man. They agree to meet up after he has searched the Mayors home again.

Yona stays behind to talk to Marshal. Sitting at the bar Marshal gives him a cup of coffee and takes a seat beside him.

"So ask away I know you have a lot of questions ?" Marshal gives him the opening he needs. So Yona takes him up on it.

"Before I start just know I have a lot of respect for your family. I just don't get it at times. I mean how can your Aunt Charlie coddle Thomas so much and mistreat Remi?"

Marshal has seen how much Yona has been doing to try to help Remi. He is guessing it's not just because Aisling asked. So he tells him how he sees it.

"Thomas was just eleven  when his dad passed. Aunt Charlie took it hard. His life insurance covered the house and the funeral but little else. Aisling was just a child when she inherited everything and my father and uncle were left in charge of it. Aunt Charlie and my mom felt that it should have been divided between the four siblings and that the kids should be given only enough to get them through college. My dad told them that was not the case. That one of the ancestors left everything in trust to Aisling period there was no stipulations for anyone else. He showed them the legal papers. She met all stipulations to inherit. So they took care of the house and the three children till Aisling was an adult. Then everything was in her hands her decisions. Aisling stepped in to help my dad and aunt Charlie when they could have lost their homes. She knew that my mom and aunt Charlie resented her but she still took care of them. Now when Remi was hurt it came a year or so after Aisling had been  beaten .  Since Remi refused to talk my aunt felt that she was hiding the truth of the attack . That it might not actually been an attack just her supposed boyfriend angry because she was pregnant. My aunt told her she was no longer her child. Aisling of course took her in and supported her until she could stand on her own. My aunts resentment continued to fester and it spoiled the relationship between Thomas and Remi. " seeing how Remi  had refused to explain things to her mom . Her mom was stil under the misunderstanding of the attack . Yona has been curios about his chosen profession so since he is in the mood to talk he asks

"So do you and your dad get along considering you run a bar he is a minister?"

Marshal laughs and answers him

"at first he tried to talk me out of it. The whole selling liquor and all. Now he just tells me to get my life straight before it's to late he worries I will die a sinner. He sees that by my having this place for the most part it's a safe place for the girls in the family to work or have fun at. You know it's actually Aisling's bar she paid for everything. I just run it . She has allowed me to have my dream. I don't own anything here . I get paid a very good salary for running it. She allows me to make all decisions. I know she considers it mine but it's actually hers. My father knows this and now sees I'm just helping her run a business. My mom thinks I'm this big success and brags but I'm just a glorified manager. I love this place and most importantly I love my cousin who always has my back. "

Yona likes Marshal a lot he feels they could be friends given time. He has one more thing to ask.

" Every time we have needed to have a safe meeting you have let's us with out charge. Why is that?" Marshal lowers his head and sighs.

"Its because I feel as if I am a useless cousin. Both Aisling and Remi have been hurt , and I could not do anything to help. Aisling does everything for everyone and I couldn't do anything but beat the guy up after the fact. Remi leaves here and got hurt . I'm useless to help them. So when you guys need a place to meet where no one can question what your up to. I open , It's the least I can do. I also hear things that others don't . People forget I'm even around most times. So they don't watch what they say. So sometimes I get information that others don't. Such as the night Remi was hurt this last time. The day that Dean was going to sneak into her room. He was here on the phone with Sasha. I gave my uncle a call and he pulled strings to have police on site. He used the excuse of needing to watch the security tapes of Sasha to have them there. " Yona grins at the ingenuity of this family . He wondered how Steve was able to have half the state police force at the hospital. He tells Marshal what he thinks.

"You may not know this but those two women think the world of you. You do what you can to protect them and they appreciate it. We all cannot always be there to protect them. That's why as soon as my brother releases Remi from restricted activity. I'm going to make sure she knows how to fight and shoot a gun." Marshal nods and lets him in on a secret.

"Remi does need to learn to fight,but she is a sharp shooter with a pistol rifle and bow . Aisling too , they both can out shoot most men. They just have never let very many people see their skills. My dad and uncle taught us all before we were ten years old. Those two were the best. Everyone expected them to go into the military but after they were attacked they changed. They both became very timid and withdrawn. " Yona hopes to see Remi's skills someday soon . Thanking Marshal for the talk he leaves to go check in with his boss.

a few hours later Jonathan gives Yona a call.

"you called it ,the mayor had a secret room. We not only found what we needed to put him away for embezzlement . We found pictures that the hit man sent of Remi's dead father. pictures that were not in the police report. We also found pictures of Remi and Aisling at different times over the years. It looks like the Mayor kept close tabs on them. I guess making sure that they kept quiet.Also the Mayor knew Crystal was his granddaughter. We found where he had a DNA test run two days after she was born. He kept close watch on her as well he has hundreds of pictures of Crystal and Remi. The apartment building Remi lived belongs to him. He has to have secret cameras in her apartment. There are tapes of them inside of it. We are tagging and bagging now. I will let you know more once we look through them. "

Yona thanks him and hangs up. He needs to talk to the elder uncles to see what to do.

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