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Drago saw that he’d hit a nerve, and he hated it He didn’t want to hurt this man

“Why are you here after all these years?” David asked

“We need information, but it has to be done quietly” Carlos stepped forward, opening up the file on Belle It had the picture of her as a child as well as her of an adult, including the latest pictures of her beating “Her child was stolen from her, and we have reason to believe that so her life”

While Carlos showed the paperwork on the crooked official, and Drago filled in the blanks, explaining the timeline and especially hat Belle had told him

David didn’t look surprised by the accusation

“What do you know?” Drago asked

“Look, I need this job I’m not ready for retirement just yet”

“I can pay you a salary that is double what you’re on right now You can walk out of this office, and helpto a time, he didn’t for a second think that anyone would ever be able to stop it

Then he realized, it would only take one person So far, he had three Himself, Carlos, and Belle Three people, determined, and ready to end it all He didn’t want to hear of another child suffering, of thereedy bastard

David picked up the plaque that held his naht reports of rape, abuse, and physical violence, but each tiet a prosecution, they retract their states None of the charges have ever stuck Without evidence, without a witness, my hands are tied”

“Donald Ford has a history of this?”

“Yes”

Drago sat back “Then ould he be worried about Belle knowing?”

“These wos in their system, OD’d”

“Convenient,” Carlos said

“I always knew the fight clubs were bad news, but this goes er This is a sport to the death” David stood up and limped toward the“I know for a fact there are several officers who are paid to look the other way”

“I’ainst”

David sighed “What exactly is it you want? You want to blackround? What?”

“I want to end it for good, David Randal Aiello is huge in the underground I don’t want to think of another child being taken in, trained, hurt, abused because he didn’t hit hard enough It sickens ive you the credit of breaking the case”

This had all started with Belle being beaten in the ring by Deadet her kid back, but it had unraveled into so much more