My stomach knots at the memory surfaces. I'd felt about two inches tall that day.
Despite Blackwood's instructions to maintain leverage, I'd handed over the journal without conditions.
It was the right thing to do, even if it earned me a reprimand later.
The journal. Maybe there's something in there, something Mrs. Ferraza wrote about her arrangement with Ernie or Blackwood.
Something that could connect the dots between her death, Ernie's, and possibly even Rocco's kidnapping.
I don’t have it, but copies were made. Except, as I hunt for them in the files, I don’t see them.
Not even notes about them.
Something else that was either not recorded or has disappeared, making that dread in my gut about someone dirty in the FBI grow.
I wonder if Isabella would be willing to let me look at the journal again. I have to try.
If her mother's journal contained anything about her arrangements with the FBI, Isabella deserves to know the truth about her mother's death and I need to know if someone in the FBI…maybe even my own boss, is behind it all.
I feel sick to my stomach.
I've spent years believing La Corona commits crimes with no care or remorse.
Dom's words echo in my head: "Family is everything."
I've seen how fiercely protective the Vitales are of their own.
How Elena fought like a lioness when Rocco was taken.
How Dom speaks of his cousin with genuine affection.
Mrs. Ferraza’s murder was listed as a drive-by, but I saw from the notes that Blackwood was hinting that Marco Calabresi wasbehind the murder because he found out, maybe from Sal, that she was talking to Federal agents.
But if La Corona truly murdered Mrs. Ferraza, why not eliminate Isabella too?
She was an FBI informant.
Instead, they arranged her marriage to Roman Ginetti, Calabresi’s enforcer.
Maybe it was to control her, but if that’s the case, why not control Mrs. Ferraza?
I pull up Roman's file. His reputation is terrifying, efficient, loyal, lethal. Yet he's also a father.
For a time he was a single father after his wife died.
The surveillance photos show a man who walks his little girl to school, attends her dance recitals.
Would this man marry Isabella if he believed her family killed his boss's mother? Would Marco Calabresi allow it? Or again, was this a move to keep watch on her and control her?
The more I examine this puzzle, the less the official narrative makes sense.
If Blackwood orchestrated Mrs. Ferraza's death and pinned it on the Calabresis, then manipulated Isabella into becoming an informant by convincing her they were responsible...
My boss is all over the place in this case, but that’s unusual. He is the supervisor. And he’s dedicated. But has he overstepped and why would he do that?
Yes, we want justice, but it’s our job.
Becoming a criminal to bring down other criminals doesn’t make sense, unless it’s personal.
