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He knows to fucking stop then and he does. Snade turns to face us and we aim our guns at him, ready to kill his ass if he does any more shit.
I step forward, taking the lead again.
“Right, so no one has to guess whether or not that deal is still on the table. It’s off,” I roar. “But guess what? You fucking cunt, you get to keep your life if you talk,” I know how it works. Everybody does.
I won’t make the mistake of thinking we weren’t being watched today somehow, someway.
So people know we’re here.
Whoever they are. Fontaine scum.
We’re here and if we let him live, whoever he’s working for will know he talked, even if no one says anything to alert them. The fact that he lives is enough to end him.
I’m not stupid either, I could kill him, but that would rattle Pa and Vincent.
It’s not that I’m afraid of them. I just don’t want to piss them off.
I glower at Snade waiting for his answer. The bastard knows the ropes of the underworld. He can die now at my gun, or he can have a chance to get his ass someplace far away before someone else kills him.
I smile and he looks like he’s ready to shit himself.
“Talk, we’re waiting!” Salvatore yells.
Snade’s eyes grow wide when we pull the trigger back on our guns simultaneously.
“Fine.” He growls. “The Fontaines needed a way to smuggle a shipment of Chrysanthemum offshore to China. It was a billion dollar deal with an investor. They needed your shipping company because you have arrangements with certain officials to turn a blind eye.”
I tense as he explains.
Fucking asshole, and fuck. We’re not the only crime family with arrangements like that, but we do have certain privileges the others don’t have. It’s the transit route our ship takes. We have certain arrangements to get shit from A-Z without question.
“Continue… there’s more right?” I prod.
He nods. “Your friend owed the Fontaines a debt. A rather substantial debt for his drug problems. He got in trouble, so they paid it off for a favor,” he pauses and looks at me harsher when I growl.
I growl because fucking Tommy could have stayed clean. He should have come to me. I really wish he had. Now I know why he didn’t.
Snade clears his throat and continues. “He made a mistake and the feds got tipped off about the shipment and tried to seize it. Your stupid friend screwed with us all. With so much to lose, he had to pay.”
This is the answer.
I hate hearing it. I really do.
It’s confirmed that it’s the Fontaines. Fucking confirmed.
Fuck!
They were trying to use our shipping company.
It’s those bastards just like we thought. But who put the hit on Tommy?
Was it Snade?
He just said Tommy had to pay. He says ‘we’ and ‘us’. It shows he’s in thick with the Fontaines. Pretty sure a notable member of the Triad wouldn’t have worked for free.
“Did you put the hit on Tommy?” I demand tightening the hold on my gun. For a moment a surge of triumph comes over me when I think I’ve found the motherfucker who pulled the trigger on my best friend.
“No,” Snade shakes his head and the triumph fades into the ether. “I’m the link to the investor and that’s all I’m saying.”
