Chapter 11 - The Warehouse Beneath the Warehouse
The flash drive led investigators to a storage annex beneath the old shipping complex. The building had been renovated after the fire, but its foundation contained a sealed records room that did not appear on public plans.
Police recovered duplicate manifests, insurance files, and a ledger of bribes. Several names belonged to men who had once worked for Luca's uncle. One belonged to a city official who had signed off on the fire investigation.
I learned these details from Detective Price, not from Luca. I had insisted on keeping those boundaries.
The most important discovery was a letter my father had written to a federal investigator. It had never been delivered. In it, he named Adrian Bellini as the person arranging the illegal shipments.
When the detective showed me the letter, I recognized Dad's crooked handwriting. I touched the edge of the page and remembered him teaching me to spell my name at the kitchen counter.
His death had been treated as an accident. Now the investigators reopened the case.
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That evening, I told my mother, “They're finally listening to him.”
She covered her mouth with one hand and cried.
