Chapter 38 Coping together charity

Grace pov

I just got a weird call from Judge Winters regarding a sizeable donation for Coping together. She tells me it came from frozen accounts dealing with human traffićking. She also asked if it would upset anyone if they found out about the donation? I think as long as its not public knowledge and could be kept anonymous it would be fine. She said well then expect a cashiers check soon. At least money from crime can go to help a worthy cause.

The doorbell rings and a messenger hands me an envelope. I open it up an inside is a ten million dollar cashiers check. A note telling us to keep up the great work.

Carrick Grey pov

I just reviewed the evidence against Hyde and I am sick to my stomache. I call and tell the court I will not defend Hyde for any reason. The evidence alone makes him a three lifetime sentence. I go see Grace and shes grinning from ear to ear holding a cashiers check. She tells me to not talk about this but Judge Winters called regarding frozen accounts that have been released to donate to charities involving children and families. And she thought of Coping together since we helped her so much. She said it must be kept anonymous and even her name can't ne used. She said it was from a human trafficking account, and what we have to do is not speak to anyone who donated it.

Grace I think I know where the money came from, but can't tell you anything either. What timing.

Anapov

I just got a call from one of our foster care group, Kate and Ethan are in the group as well. Christian knows I have friends everywhere, but has no idea who they are. He sees me getting post cards with messages, but nothing he understands. I tell him its from foster friends and they use codes to message certain things. Its our own vocabulary we came up with. He just says well if it helps foster children and adults then I am all for it.

Hyde pov

Grey refused to defend me, saying its a conflict of interest. Thats all he could tell me is what he stated. So now I am waiting for some Public Defender. They froze my accounts, but I checked on line and couldn't access the money. My recent shipment was just delivered and paid for. Ten million dollars.

Pd pov

Listen Hyde they have you dead to rights, I suggest you plea it out if not you are looking at three life time jail sentence. Hyde refused so off we go to defend the defenseless yet again.

Anapov

My post card code reads one Jack Hyde sex slave merchandiser in jail for now. Funds totalling over 2 billion in assets. All accounts will e donated to various children and family, homeless and foster care funds. Keep alert for any other human traffickers in your area. I doubt at 8 months pregnant I will be investigating any time soon I write in code back and mail a post card back. Kates has too many coals in the fire and her kids keep her hopping. Between running after children and running part of my publishing company she barely has time for her busy sex life. She says sex keeps her energy up. Okay.

Coping together is coming up and we want to include children this year, so its starting earlier and everyone is bringing their kids and grandkids. Grace and Carrick outnumber everyone on the guest list for number of grand kids. But they both love everyone of them even Roberts kids. And our four adopted ones.

Mia has been under the weather recently, I think its her being pregnant, but she says no way.

Unknown pov

I just got wind of my biological brother still be alive after Ana Lewis shot him. I can't believe we are related, identical twins at that. Luckily I was adopted by a wonderful couple and have a new last name Bryan Collins is my name now. Judge Winters and I joined the Foster group together and even after my parents adopted me I stayed involved to better the programs and to stop the abuse in the system. Judge Winters never was adopted, but that didn't stop her from getting her degrees. She's really done well in catching people who took advantage of the foster children.

She is actually a sitting Federal Judge working undercover to catch my brother in his crimes against Foster and runaway kids. He joined the group and was okay at first, then we got suspicious of him after a huge cash flow made it into his bank accounts. He thought no one knew, we just couldn't get the evidence on him and when we did get it, it disappeared.

Judge Winters had a plan in place to not only catch him, but to destroy him and put him away for life. She had it in place until he got shot by Ana Lewis. Since she thought he was dead after that, she just tracked the shipments and all the fosters in the system. When an odd fike came up and Jacks name was on her docket it confirmed her thinking he didn't die but had help getting from the scene.

I sent Ana a post card after Hydes arrest and wrote my message in code, I was a very busy man that weekend. Nearly a thousand post cards went out from me alone. I have assistants who do this for me. Ana however have other ways to get hers done. She and I along with more than a thousand others are part of this group of Foster kids who lead the way to justice for all foster children.

Somehow Judge Winters pulled the proverbial rabbit out of the hat yet again. I personally think she has had Hyde on her radar after he tried to rape her and Ana stopped him. Ana has long forgotten her actions of that day, since she lost part of her memory that day from a mild concussion.

She hasn't seen me since that day. I was adopted that day and moved to DC. Tamara moved out here when she got her judgeship. When she first met me she got hysterical. I explained to her Jack Hyde was my identical twin and told her who I was and she then knew I was one of the founding members of the Foster groups world wide.