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"Jasper?" Alexis's voice radiated through the apartment. She was able to get in because I gave her a key.
"Living room."
She walked through the hallway carrying a bag of food and a bag. She was still beautiful even though the was in scrubs.
"Hey."
"Hi. What are you doing here?" I asked getting up and grabbing the bag of food, carrying it to the kitchen.
"The loft is really loud tonight. My grams invited some of her colleagues over for drinks and that some turned into an apartment full. Plus, I wanted to see you."
"Well, I'll be happy to entertain you." I said wiggling my eyebrows.
"I have to study and by the looks of it. You do too." She said looking over my shoulder at the papers strewn across the coffee table.
"Oh that. That's just things that I have printed off about the investigation." I said grabbing the Chinese cartons out and placing them on the counter.
"Find anything?"
"Nope. If my father is involved, he sure knows how to cover it up." I said with a mouthful of noodles.
"Speaking of your father. Have you seen him lately?"
"Nope. His campaign is in full swing though. Ted keeps calling, asking if I will do solo interviews and host parties."
"Sounds fun."
"Yea, fun. You finished?" I said pointing to her cartons.
"Yea." She handed them to me. Our hands brushing and sending a shiver down both of our spines. It still amazed me at the intensity of our feelings.
After we cleaned the counter up, we went over to the couch. Alexis retrieved her textbooks and papers that she brought in earlier while I went back to investigating Detective Beckett's shooting.
A few hours later, I looked up from my computer and sighed in frustration. Nothing. Absolutely nothing. Nothing implicated my father in any of the crimes. I looked over to my right and saw Alexis curled up on the couch asleep.
I stood up, careful not to wake her. I leaned over her and picked her up. Carrying her to my bed, I had a sense of deja vu from the night we met. Seeing ho afar we have come, I wouldn't change a thing. I tucked her in and kissed her forehead. I went back to the couch and sat down.
When Bob Armen was killed, my father was ADA. But when Johanna Beckett was killed, he was starting out in the House of Representatives. My father went from ADA to Representative of New York in time span of 7 years or so. That was very hard to do. Money would be needed to make a very good campaign. He needed money to jump-start his political career. In all of these murders, my father was the kingpin. I didn't know for sure, I mean it was just a guess.
I stood up and grabbed my jacket. I quickly wrote a note to Alexis saying that I had a family emergency and rushed out of the apartment. Hailing a cab, I raced to my father's home.
I opened the door and walked into the dining room where my father and mother were talking with Ted.
"Jasper, how nice of you to stop by." My mother greeted.
"Mother, Ted. Can I please talk with my father? It's important." I said.
Ted then excused himself and left the house. My mother gave me a quick hug before going upstairs for the night.
"What is it Jasper?"
"You, me. Office. Now." I said walking hurriedly to the his glamorous office. The walls lined with mahogany book cases.
"What?" He said shutting the door.
"You have lied to me for so long. I am twenty years-old. I'm not a child. You are going to tell me what you are involved in. Or I am going to the police."
"Jasper, I have no idea what you are talking about." He stated. He then narrowed his eyes at me. "I don't know what kind of lies the Castles have been feeding you."
"Alexis and I broke up. I found this all out on my own."
"I don't have time for this nonsense." He said walking towards the door.
"You are involved in the murders of Bob Armen, Johanna Beckett and her team of lawyers, John Raglan, Gary McCallister, and Roy Montgomery."
He stopped dead in his tracks. Turning slowly, I could see all the blood leave his face and being replaced with rage.
"Do you want to know how I know?"
He said nothing.
"Those three cops at the time were rookies. They abducted mobsters for ransom. You probably heard about when you were ADA and blackmailed them into giving you the money. One night, it went wrong. Bob Armen, FBI, tried to stop Joe Pulgatti from being one of your victims. A gun went off and Armen is dead. You couldn't blame one of your own. So, Joe Pulgatti took the fall. And, you used that money to finance the start of your political career." I paused and tried to decipher his look. "Am I getting closer, Dad?"
Silence.
I continued, "Johanna Beckett and three other lawyers took on Pulgatti's case and you knew they were getting close. So, you ordered a hit on all four of them. You took a mother, a wife away from her family. You caused pain to them. And, you can't even take responsibility for your own actions. How can you even look in the mirror. Do you not have any guilt? Do you not have any humanity?" I composed myself. "Then you had all three cops killed by Hal Lockwood. Gary McCallister, John Raglan, and Roy Montgomery. And, then to top it off. You attempt to kill Kate Beckett at Montgomery's funeral."
Nothing.
"You know, you told me once that the person who holds the power is the one who controls everything. Well, guess what? I have the power now."
"No, Jasper. I still hold the power." He whispered.
"No, you don't. I'm going to the police." I stated.
"If you go to the police. I will personally order Miss Castle to be killed."
"You even touch her I will put a bullet in you."
"So we've come to an agreement."
"There's no chance in hell. I don't make deals with the devil." I said walking past him and out of the office.
I was the son of a monster.