Chapter 45.

**Narrator’s POV.**

“Yo, Gabe, come check this out!”, Alex hollered from the other side of the house, he had been checking out one of the boxes that was placed in his father’s childhood room, his call had not only drawn the attention of Gabriel but of Kevin and Drew as well,

“What is it?”, Gabriel questioned as he walked into the small space,

“Come and see this”, he urged, Gabriel steeped closer to him and saw an old photo in his hands, “I was checking through some of father’s old stuff and found this”, he handed the photo over- it was a picture of their father and some other men standing in front of a large house, “And a lot of other things like blueprints, an actual gun, old notes, newspapers and some other pictures”, Gabriel’s ears were fully turned to him but his attention was more on the photo.

“Let me see the blueprints”, he said,

Alex reached into the box and pulled out a long roll of paper from it, “That looks like its for a large ass house, don’t you think?”, he said as he spread the print unto the single bed at the corner of the room.

Gabriel placed the photo beside the paper and turned to Kevin and Drew, “Can you guys please dump the rest of the things in that box on the bed, I’m trying to connect something”, they nodded and did as they were told. He singled out all the photos from the items and put them all together, “These were all taken in the same location”, he pointed at the first photo, “This house”.

“What does that mean?”, Alex asked in confusion,

“I am not quite sure”, Gabriel whispered, trailing his eyes over to the blueprints, “Unless… these blueprints are the blueprints for this house”, he saw the similarities now, the structure of the hose in the photos correlated to the one in the blueprints,

“But why will he have the blueprints of the house he was working for when he was still a teenager?”, Kevin had joined Alex in the land of confusion and wondering- where was Gabriel going with all of this and how was he seeing things they couldn’t?

“When have we ever been able to figure out anything about him?”, Gabriel question back whilst rolling his eyes, “Wait, bring that”, his eyes had magically landed on one of the newspapers that hinted out so many clues. He was handed the newspaper and just has he thought, on the front page was a picture of the mansion in the photos, “Landlord of the Bandhee mansion was shot and killed by an unknown person, along with his family- all his heirs are gone”, Gabriel looked up from the news paper and took a short glance at his brothers before looking back into the newspaper, “Blueprints of the house were stolen and so were other vital and sensitive documents. The family fortune worth over five billion dollars was transferred into a private, anonymous account and we have not been able to trace it”, he dramatically looked up again before continuing, “The shell of the gun stated that the weapon used was a 1914 2mm Kolibri”.

“Holy shit, dad killed his boss and took everything”, Alex said with wide eyes, “That was how he started his fucking empire”, the four men were in shock, they were not expecting any of this,

“Kevin, search for the Bandhee mansion and see what comes up”, Gabriel ordered as he took off his shirt and wrapped it around his hands, he placed all the items back in the box and went back to the main home to search for some tape- this was evidence that his father was a dirty, filthy crook.

Once he found what he was looking for, he went back to the room, “I found something”, Kevin said as he walked in, “Apparently, the house was put up for sale by the government when none of their relatives came forward and since the documents of the home had been stolen, there was no proof of ownership”, he paused before continuing, “It says here that the mansion was bought by an anonymous buyer who once lived here as a child”, they all had no other doubts- it was their father, he had killed an entire family just for their wealth and riches.

Gabriel nodded his head, trying to pull his shit together. His father had killed an entire family, what on earth was stopping him from killing Tessa? How was he so sure that the bastard hadn’t already killed her? “We have to be quick now that we know what he is capable of”, he was breathing in and out rapidly to calm himself down and hinder the mental breakdown that was just begging to happen to him. “We are going to take all of these boxes and put them in the rental- there might be more things in the others”, he stated and they got to work,

“I booked us a motel so it won’t be hard to get these things in, plus, it’s quite cheap and I don’t think the owners will be all up in our business”, Alex said, he was clearly bewildered by the news- his father was a killer. He knew Andrew O’Connell was a bad man but he was not thinking it was this terrible, “I am thinking we should get this to the police first”,

Kevin, Gabriel and Drew shook their head, “No, they are probably on his pay roll. The FBI has a better chance to deal with this”, Drew said, “I have some people there, I will call them up and they will be here with a team in no time but its late now so they will probably make it here tomorrow- just the right time”.

“You are right”, Gabriel agreed before slipping on his shirt and picking up the box he had taped, “Make sure you tape the rest before bringing them down”, he was going back to the car- he needed to think. After dumping the items in the trunk, he went to the passenger’s seat and flopped down on it, resting his head backward with a loud sigh of exhaustion.

His father was a murderer- he did not know how to feel about that, what he did know how to feel though was fear and anxiety, fear that his girlfriend had been kidnapped by his murderous father and anxiety that after nearly three months, he might be seeing his love again- had things changed? Would thing change between them? Did she still love him as much as she used to? Was she going to be mad at him for not getting her earlier? Had she fallen for his father’s horrible words about her?

A rage of nerves crackled within him and his heart started to pound rapidly against his ribcage, for a second, he felt numb- as if he was just floating on this air, not breathing and not moving until…

“What the hell man? Are you trying to fucking kill yourself?”, his door was pulled open abruptly by a worried looking Alex, the cold air hit him all at once and he gasped out, “You know, suicide by car suffocation is actually a pussy way to die”, what could’ve been mistaken as one of Alex’s stupid jokes was actually a serious statement, “If you die, Tessa would probably just end up with me or Kevin, we wouldn’t want that now, would we?”,

Gabriel sighed, “I wasn’t trying to kill myself man, I don’t know what happened or got into me, I was just… thinking and…”, he trailed off,

“Look dude”, Alex said, leaning on the car, “You are going through a ton of shit right now- you’ve lost a shit load of weight, you look dead on the inside and out, you’ve fainted like a bitch but I really do not think actually killing yourself, purposely or accidentally is the right thing to do at the moment. We actually need you to get Tessa because it is more than obvious that you’re the one who genuinely loves her here and it was so obvious that she loves you too. You do not want to put her through that”, just as he finished his speech, Kevin and Drew stepped outside,

“We’re done”, Kevin said locking the door. “Next stop, the shitty motel that Alex booked for us”.