Chapter 102: Drama Queen
"Keep on pretending, Leo," Lionel scoffed. "You are a pimp! You are a r*pist! You are enabling and protecting a r8pist! At least he can’t get it up anymore!"
Lionel walked to the door and opened it.
"Goodbye, Leo... It was good knowing you," he banged the door close and walked out.
"F*cking drama queen!" Leander scoffed and sat on the couch running his fingers through his hair.
Lionel glared at Steve who was standing by the doorway, blocking it. "Wasn’t Russo your cousin? Do you know why he died after the Abenney fire?" Lionel asked.
Steve turned his face away clearly showing his intent on not answering him.
"I hope the money’s good. I wouldn’t have been able to digest the blood money from my cousin’s killer!"
Lionel stormed off.
Lionel already figured out that Minerva or Darcia or whatever her real name, was the only witness to that horrifying crime Evander and Barnabas committed in that orphanage. Peter is influential, but the Church has influence too. If that crime got filed as a complaint, even the Kastello family wouldn’t have survived the ramifications.
How can they justify their heir and consigliere r*ping and murdering a fourteen-year-old lame girl? Especially when they were trying to "buy" their lands? No way that could have been buried with their influence. They would be crucified in the court of public opinion and the government would have been forced to take action too. They’d need a fall guy as Peter won’t throw Barnabas under the bus and certainly not Evander.
But there was a witness!
He got the reason the Kastello family burned an elementary school and an orphanage. They thought that the witness was dead and they had successfully buried the story.