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“It took me two years from the time you left but yes.”
“Why so long?”
“The first six months after January left me, I was more concerned with finding her. For a brief period, we considered perhaps Ziogas had taken the three of you but there was no link. The fact your entire house was packed up and emptied spoke to a plan which we felt was weeks in the making. Learning today you had the feds with their ace team boxing you up and sending you away, was enlightening. Then Glenn, who was the only person who knew the truth behind my artifice, had a child dropped on him. We had a new situation to navigate. He relocated permanently to New York out of London because his ex’s family were causing problems and it was time for him to have a fresh start. It took another year before we finally set a trap with bait big enough she couldn’t resist. We caught her breaking into our home when she thought we were all out of the country. We boarded a plane which she saw off. We took off. We landed back ten minutes later
and followed her and her father back to the house. She
used the code she’d stolen to get into the house, but she didn’t know the right code to the security cabinet. We let
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her think she knew what it was. We stood in our security bunker not twenty feet from her, watching on the screen as she set off the alarms. Guards rushed in. The police were called. A full investigation was done. It took a year after that for her to go through the trial with all evidence presented. She and her father were both sentenced for corporate espionage, and she was the one who got more time because she was the mastermind behind it all. She wanted to take her grandfather’s company to the next level but couldn’t do it without the work my grandfather, Glenn and I all worked so hard to achieve. Her grandfather suggested the spying, and she did as she was told and then some.”
“You put her in jail?” Terrance asked seriously.
January walked to the window and leaned against it, her head against the pane of glass as she stared unseeing out into the front yard where five cars all sat.
“Yes. She’s in prison. She was given five years for her
role in the game of espionage. As you can imagine my grandfather was quite surprised. When he was notified of their arrest he was quite apologetic.”
Why?”
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Again, the question came from her father. The conversation was continuing without her.
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“Because I’d been telling him for years and he wouldn’t believe me. He was supposed to entrust me to take over his company someday and he didn’t trust my judge of character, which is something we discussed at great length more than once. He has learned his lesson.”
Thisbe spoke softly, “he’s going to be so upset when he finds out his refusal to accept your decision and the fact you needed to be so secretive is what cause January to leave.”
“What a clusterfuck.”
The comment from her mother made January’s lip curl up in a sneer.
“Yes. It was a clusterfuck, but it is behind us. I am working diligently on being the leader in my family I need to be. I have been slowly assimilating some of the duties of my grandfather as he transitions towards retirement.”
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The dry question from her father made January huff a laugh.
“You knew the word before Davis, I presume?”
“Yeah. It’s how I knew to call him. My brother was working on a joint taskforce when he suffered his heart attack and Davis was part of it. My brother one night was going off about all the different names you give the heads of your mafia.”
“You?”
“Gangsters,” her father said without a hint of fear in his voice. “You can call it what you want, business or family, but it’s a mafia.”
“Fine.” Gulliver rolled his shoulders out. “We will have this discussion. How much of your house is wired?”
“The house isn’t wired.”
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“Yes.”
“Then this house is wired.”
“Why would he wire this house?”
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“In the event of something like today. Me coming here or me calling January. I bet hers, yours, Analia’s phones are all tapped. I bet if there is a houseline here, it’s bugged. I’d stake my entire fortune that your vehicles all have tags.”
“What would he have to gain?”
“A promotion if he thinks he can get dirt on me. There is none by the way. I’m clean as a whistle. I run a legitimate enterprise.” He looked at Thisbe, “Thisbe, can you go. outside and ask Ioannis and Adonis to come inside and
to bring their kits. Ask a couple other guys to back them up.”
“Kits?”
“Mm,” he nodded. “I’ll prove my point, unless you have objections.”
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“Have at it.”
January wanted to smack her father for being so
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reasonable. She spoke up, “if he is listening in, he’s going to automatically consider that you’re checking for devices so you can hide things.”
“Or he’s going to understand that illegally tapping a person’s home without their consent, spying on them, listening to their conversations and their everyday lives is against the law, an invasion of your privacy and a betrayal of your trust. Are you truly quite content to know that at the very least he’s been listening to your conversations for years? Intimate conversations between the two of you,” he pointed to where Analia was on her husband’s lap, “moments stolen when you thought you were alone in your home?” When Analia blushed hot red he looked to January, “or when you were singing off–key or crying when you thought you were alone or when you were arguing with your parents over anything. Families are messy and ones who love as deeply as this one also argue and fight. Imagine the laughter the FBI had over the fact your daughter brought a skunk into the house.”
As she shifted uncomfortably, turning to face him his face
set in stone.
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“Imagine them knowing every single intimate detail of your lives, including our daughter’s life, January, and tell me if you think I overreact when I say I find it highly distressing to think every single detail of your lives have been recorded from the day your father picked up the phone to call his brother’s buddy.”
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“Well, there’s probably nothing in here anyway,” she folded her arms over her chest defiantly.
“For your sake I hope you’re correct. As it is, I’ve already revealed far too much to them with the conversation
we’ve had thus far considering I set a woman up knowing she’d take the bait and then sued her for it.” He shrugged, “not that I care. My lawyer already answered all those questions in court.”
Two men came into the space with Thisbe and January recognized both men as people who’d been assigned to her more than once. The one she knew as Ioannis was sliding earphones onto his head and was adjusting a device that he was barely balancing in his hands. The other man, Adonis, was holding something no bigger than a cell phone and was waving it around as soon as Gulliver gave him the nod to begin.
Instantly the device in Adonis‘ hand started screeching and January noted the way her father sat up straighter, as if offended and furious. Adonis looked at Ioannis who adjusted his own device and pointed it towards a 1/7 thermostat.
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“Check them all. No exceptions.” Gulliver ordered the two
other men.
When the first thermostat was pulled open and a tiny
device was pulled out, January felt her nose stinging with the need to cry at the betrayal of their trust but before she could truly react, the device in Adonis‘ hand began sounding again. He looked at Ioannis and they both looked up to a vent which was set up for the HVAC unit.
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Gulliver, easily the tallest man in the room, walked to the vent and twisted it downward and pulled it out. He yanked hard on a wired in device, “this is video.” He held up the tiny camera, “a camera hardwired into the electricity in your home. He has cameras in your home, Terrance. You question me whether or not your daughter was ever in danger in my home, and the answer was a resounding no and yet, in your home, she is at risk of her being recorded and exploited. What are the chances you’ve walked through this room in your underwear, January? How many times does our daughter come into this room naked perhaps after a bath or getting ready for bed? I know Mitsos is six, approaching seven, and he loves to wander around wearing barely nothing. Is Kaylee any different?”
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She shook her head wordlessly as she paled and wrapped her arms around her belly. How many times had her daughter done exactly that?
“So, the FBI has video of our daughter naked. Nice. I hope that fucker or one of his friends are still listening because I feel the litigation from this unsanctioned surveyance is going to be a nightmare for the American government. Did you sign anything giving them authorization to record you?”
“No. I’ve signed nothing.” Terrance shook his head.
“They gave us everything already done. Driver’s licenses, banking stuff, everything.”
“They did it as a tradeoff thinking that perhaps January knew more than she let on and was hiding information from them. They made you feel secure, trustworthy but they were using you. Joke was on them because I know for a fact my wife knew nothing.”
“Not your wife.” She mumbled angrily, hating that he was so smug in the moment.
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Her father was getting off the chair and was following the men around looking at every single device they were pulling from the house.
In the end, six video feeds, twelve audio devices and one device nobody quite knew the purpose of but was still emitting signals, were pulled from the house. While there were no cameras in the bedrooms or bathrooms, the bedrooms did have audio in them. Outside the men noted on a power pole that there seemed to be surveillance focused on the house.
“How violated are you feeling, January?” Gulliver’s face was mocking. “On a scale of one–to–ten.”
She was tired of his arrogance, and she gave him an angry glare, “oh, I don’t know, Gulliver. I mean it sucks and it’s definitely a violation but if I’m comparing how violated I felt today versus how I felt when I stood outside your office at the house and heard you tell Thisbe that she should keep her mouth shut and continue lying to me for the rest of my life. I mean, knowing the man I’d had sex with only a few hours before that, had made me an unknowing mistress to a man who I thought loved me. Instead, I was a fucking joke, and it hurt. I think my trust and heart being betrayed that day, still feels worse than 41
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“Fair.” He rolled his shoulders out as if he were letting the weight of her anger settle there and absorbing it. “We’ll work through it.”
“As if.”
“We will work through it for the sake of our daughter. Who,” he looked around the room, “should be almost finished school for the day. Today you will be telling her that you lied to her about her daddy and that I am here, in the flesh and I very much want to be part of her life. You will make it a positive experience for her, and I don’t care what you tell her to make it so, but you will make it positive, January.”
“I hate you.”
The vitriolic words spewed from her lips.
“Again, I feel your emotions are fair.” He looked at his men, “are all the devices disabled?”
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“Good. The Ziogas family is ruthless. While my family is much more profitable, secure, and respected, their family is the kind of family you hire to do the shit nobody else wants to do. I hid our relationship, our marriage from them, January, because Duchess would have no problem walking up to you and stabbing you in the heart for
nothing more than being in her way. I needed to protect you from a raging psychopath who comes from a family of brutal bastards.”
“You think January could have been killed by this family?”
“Yes. I do.”
“You don’t think she’s still at risk?”
He gave a single shake of his head, “in the past I didn’t have my grandfather’s support. I was working on my own with only Glenn backing me. Even my parents were following my grandfather’s lead. I needed to play along to keep her protected. Now? Now I have a fucking army bigger than the American one, that is for sure, at my disposal. If anyone is capable of keeping January safe, it is me.”
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“He also dismantled their family brick by brick.” Thisbe gave a snort. “From the minute they were arrested, Gulliver with Grandfather’s support, systemically destroyed their business in a hostile takeover. He owns everything that was theirs and has left them only their family home. When that bitch ever gets out of prison, she’ll be extradited back to Greece because she’s not an American citizen. They’re fucked.”
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