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Dad turned then and shook. “The greedy mayor right over there took hundreds of thousands of dollars from the Blackwoods just to give them a chance to acquire the land.”
“What?” Mom cried, turning toward the mayor, who was now red in the face.
“It was just two hundred thousand.”
“You called thatjust?” Dad asked him, furious.
“I only took that for the processing fee,” the mayor cried, “I didn’t tell him he was going to have the land.”
“Then why are you here looking like you have been chased down the streets by a mad hound?”
The mayor sighed, shook his head, and looked away.
“What is happening?” Mom asked again, this time her voice laced with fear.
“It seems the Blackwoods want their money or money’s worth intact. In fact, it seems he’s the reason the feds are poking their nose into our business, because of your man,” Dad said, pointing at me. “In a bid to get back at me, he sent their business deal to his friends in the Feds after the Mayor could not fulfill his end of the bargain.”
“Christ, Mr. Edwards, I didn’t have any bargain with him. I just told him I would see what I could do, and soon he was blocking my office with some people from the Government who had been going through my books. God, they had so many men I could swear they didn’t want the books but me.”
“If they were so many of them and wanted you, how are you here?”
The mayor sighed and wiped the sweat off his face. “I snuck out through my office window.”
“You did what?” Dad shouted almost laughing at the disbelief.
“I was desperate. I didn’t know what else to do.”
“Now they likely believe every allegation they have against you, jumping through the window!” Dad turned away and grabbed his head, unable to believe what he heard.
“I was desperate.” The mayor hastily stood by the couch and rushed toward my still shocked Mom, grabbing her arms. “Please believe me, they were speaking about jail terms and such, I couldn’t make sense of them. And they had guns too, real guns.”
“You know,” Mom squeezed her hand out of the mayor’s grip. “You deserve to rot in jail.”
“Oh God, please.” The mayor cried, “I really didn’t think I was doing anything wrong?”
“You took money from an enemy who is trying to obtain MY land.”
“They were rich. I thought they were big enough to overlook the money,” The Mayor stated, “How can they bid for a small farm for five million dollars and can’t overlook a meager two hundred thousand bucks.”
“What?” Dad cried as he stretched out his hand and reached for the mayor. “Whose land are you calling a small farm?”
Before the Mayor could react, Dad grabbed his shirt and squeezed his neck. “Say that shit again. I dare you, idiot, I fucking dare you.”
“Honey!” Mom shouted as she rushed to Dad and began to pull him away from the man who was now struggling to breathe. “Let him go.”
“Say it one more time.” Dad dared him, grabbing the man tightly by the neck till his face began to turn white.
“Honey, please, for Christ’s sake, you will kill him. He’s not worth ruining your life over.”
“He deserves to die a thousand times, the idiot, selling me out to an enemy and insulting my legitimate business right in front of me, in my own home.”
A hard knock on the door stopped us all. Mom walked over to open the door and in came a man in a suit alongside two hefty-looking men.
The mayor wriggled his way out from Dad and adjusted his clothes.
“Seems the party started without me,” James said as he walked into the house and began to look around our home with contempt.
“I didn’t—”
