That was the end of Ruby.
It was also the final nail in the coffin for the Leo family.
They'd never made their fortune cleanly, not from the start.
Now they'd been caught right in the crosshairs of a strict crackdown.
Kane said to me, "Go ahead. I don't have any dealings with them; it was just a few idiots in my family cutting side deals behind my back. It won't touch me."
Hearing that put my mind at ease.
I submitted every piece of evidence I'd collected over the years to the police.
The day the Leo family fell for good, I held a bouquet of flowers and took Kane to the cemetery to visit my mother.
In the photo on the tombstone, her smile was still so gentle.
Yet it always carried a trace of sorrow.
She was a kind and fragile woman, and she had truly loved my father.
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