“You never told me about Maddie,” Sal countered.
“I didn’t know. Not for sure.”
“Okay, before you two start, let’s talk about the files Caity found. Sal, you said at the house you knew about the files.”
“I knew there were secrets in that office. It was why I told Caity to stay out of it,” he said, glaring at his sister.
“Then maybe you shouldn’t have insisted on me moving in there,” Caity snapped back.
“Stop it, you two. What’s done is done,” Freyja ordered. “We can’t go backwards, so let’s move forward.”
I handed out the files so everyone could see what we were dealing with. “As you can see, most of these people are dead now.”
“Except him.” Sal pointed to the name on the list. The only person we knew was still alive.
“I have a hard time believing he was anyone important. He ran a motorcycle club. They were the muscle for theSociety.George Stone was the brains behind that particular division. With him gone, everything fell apart,” Duncan explained.
“Everything fell apart long before then,” Freyja offered as she stared at the list of names. “Eamon O’Malley was the bookkeeper. After he died, these divisions started to scramble.”
“What do you mean?” Mac asked, leaning his arms on the table.
“Eamon died in what... 2001?” She looked to Sal for confirmation. When he nodded, she continued, “So there is nothing here after 2001. Who took over as the bookkeeper?”
“We don’t know,” I added.
“How do we know anyone took over?” Caity asked.
“Someone had to. TheSocietywasn’t brought down until a few years ago. Jane Craven died just a few months ago. Someonehad to take his place. Someone had to take all their places. These men and women all died over the last twenty-four years. But theSocietykept going. We need to dig into each of these names and find out who took their places,” Freyja explained.
“Valentino Valentinetti, for example. He died in a car bomb in 2014. Giovanni took his place in the family, but Giovanni was instrumental in bringing down theSociety,” Mac elaborated.
“And Baranov? We know Maxim and the Golden Skulls took him and Petrovich out.”
“How do we know that Maxim didn’t just take Petrovich’s place?” Mac asked.
Caity gasped, her hand covering her mouth. “Henry.”
I moved over next to her and pulled her into my arms. “He won’t hurt Henry. Illyria won’t let him. I want him back as much as you do, but Salvatore and Illyria had a special bond. She won’t let anyone hurt his son.”
“I can promise you Maxim did not take Petrovich’s place with this shit,” Freyja said adamantly. “After what Remi went through, Vladmir would kill Maxim himself.”
“We need to go through each name,” Mac said. “It’s the only way we’ll find who took their place.”
“Kelley,” Sal said.
“What?”
He looked at me. “Kelley took Eamon’s place.”
We all stared at Sal. His hands were fisted on the table. “It would have been Eduardo. Eamon brought him in to run the books, but he was stealing from the family. When he took off, that was when Nolan stepped in. Eamon already had him running New York.”
“If Eduardo hadn’t betrayed the family, Father would have trained him to take over from him. But when you killed him, the other divisions started to scramble. That was when Nolan must have reached out,” Caity said.
“But to who?” I asked. “He couldn’t just walk up to Petrovich, or Jane Craven. He had to have an in somehow.”
“Tyran,” Caity whispered.
“What?”
