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Brody’s confidence simmers, as he reads the warning for what it is. If he crosses me, I will tell the peelers everything. Blood or not, I’m hunting him.
“Aye. I understand. Yer to make sure yer dead to the life ya once knew. No visitors, no contact with anyone. This is the only way it’ll work. For me to start afresh, y’ve got to be gone.”
What he means is for our colleagues to want to deal with him, they have to know I’m not coming back and that he’s the only one in charge.
“How can I trust y’ll keep to yer word?”
“I’m sure y’ll hear otherwise if not.”
He’s right. I’m sure the officers would love to tell me how my loved ones died by the hands of a Doyle if that ever happened.
“Fair play.”
“If I hear y’ve gone back on yer word, they’ll all pay. That includes those wains Connor loved. The deal will be off.”
“I heard ya the first time,” I reply firmly, but he has nothing to worry about. I’m doing them a favor by removing myself from their lives. I wish I could see the twins grow, but I cannot.
He nods, understanding this as goodbye. I don’t know what he has planned, but that’s not my business anymore. He walks away, taking my kingdom with him. When the van drives away, I stare into the distance, bidding goodbye to my family, bidding goodbye to me.
When I can no longer see it, I hobble toward the lorry and boost myself into the back and take a seat. The vegetables behind me are hiding £200,000 of drugs. The sirens grow closer before eventually, I see a convoy of cars coming over the hill.
I calmly smoke my cigar, awaiting my doom.
“Hands where I can see them!”
“Fucking hell, it’s a massacre.”
“We’re gonna need backup.”
That’s all I hear as I sit, laughing maniacally at the carnage I caused.
“Get on yer knees!” Chief Constable Moore orders as he yanks me from the lorry.
The arsehole who was manhandling Babydoll at the party is on my other side. “Now ya know who I am, ya dirty wee hallion,” he says, spitting on me. “Check the lorry, boys. See what’s onboard.”
“I’ll tell ya what’s onboard,” I say as I’m forced to my knees. “Drugs, and a quare amount.”
“Are ye thick, lad? Why would ya tell me this?” asks the chief constable.
When the peelers look at Connor and Uncle Sean, I accept my fate. “’Cause I’m the one responsible for all of this. I killed my uncle and dad because they got in the way. This is all on me.”
“That’s not what we heard.”
“Well, ya heard wrong. D’ye see anyone else here? D’ye see anyone left standin’?” I pose with a grin.
Chief Constable Moore knows I’m lying, but a haul such as this will make his name notorious. And with no one else to blame, this closed case means an easy win for him and the police. He put an end to the infamous Kellys and their illegal dealings.
There is no justice in this world, just survival of the fittest.
“Puck Connor Kelly, yer under arrest…” The chief constable handcuffs me, reading me my rights while I tip my face to the heavens, finally free, finally saving the people I love.
