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Me

Your brother and Louie could be best friends.

Cade

No, thanks. They'd lead each other to an early grave.

I laugh, but I know he doesn't mean it.

Jack has done fucked-up things and lost his girl to his brother through his own idiotic behavior. We taught the kid a lesson, but Jack has also grown a lot.

And Cade loves his little bro.

I'm fond of the prick, too.

Not that this helps.

If Louie gets caught up in an investigation, then I will, too.

Me

We need to get this clean.

I look over it.

Cade has more power right now than I do.

I press call. "How far back?"

"Man, this friend is a mess. But I can send you your safeguard program. You're on your laptop?"

"In a car."

"Make the tweaks and send it. I will put it in. His shit goes back at least two years."

"That is how long Barwon has been flying." I frown. "We should make sure the time right before is clean, too."

"I will look at all of it. I will be quicker here. Just update the systems, and I will put them in place."

I get started as soon as he sends me the program. I want to clean all of the money earned by the company since it started, so over the past two years.

I send it to Cade.

"Got it," he says.

Next, I start going over exactly what Louie did to Edoardo.

"Fuck me..." And I start to laugh.

"What?"

I send Cade all the things I find. Because Louie is great at keeping a trail of what he does, but not so good at self-preservation.

"Fuck," Cade says. "That is a long list. And he is still around?"

"Somehow."

"It is not really funny," Cade says.