Chapter 39 : The Other Shoe

*Audry*

“Where’s Daniel tonight?” Franky asked, taking a seat beside me.

That was the million-dollar question, wasn’t it?

I didn’t say anything instead of voicing my worries out loud. I didn’t know for sure, but I thought he was doing everything in his power to avoid me. To be fair, the last couple of days had been extremely busy for everyone.

Everyone in the Molton Family had been researching the legal trades the Taddeos were making. While Chief Walker had assembled a team to look into the illegal ones they had been caught for, even though that was not a lot. Franky’s list of cops that weren’t crooked came in handy while Sara chose her team.

We were doing all this to learn more about the Taddeos’ weaknesses and to draw Aaron out. We wanted him to know we were looking into his deals. We wanted to entice him to personally look into us digging around.

This had been Daniel’s idea at our last meeting. Ever since his pep talk about how Sara and his family n