CHAPTER 12 moNey

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OVER THE NEXT FIVE YEARS, Rafael, Julieta and Adriana lived at Adriana's house together with their kids as Rafael and Julieta saved up their money to find and build a little house

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OVER THE NEXT FIVE YEARS, Rafael, Julieta and Adriana lived at Adriana's house together with their kids as Rafael and Julieta saved up their money to find and build a little house. 

Every night before bed, Julieta would sing the Rosary Prayer to her kids as a lullaby to get them to fall asleep. Some nights she would sing it in Spanish, and some nights she would sing it in English.

ADRIANA, after spending so much time with Rafael and Julieta, decided to become a Catholic and she confessed all her sins to a priest. 

She confessed about how she got herself pregnant with artificial insemination. 

After a couple of years she decided to become a lay religious sister. 

She would help at the church in her spare time and teach children about the religion.

AFTER THEY HAD MOVED INTO THEIR NEW HOME IN THE SOUTH PART OF THE CITY, Rafael and Julieta sold things from the submarine and bought things to rebuild and fix the broken down submarine. 

Rafael would go to and from the submarine rebuilding it while Julieta took care of the kids at home.

EVERY NIGHT that Rafael would leave to go work rebuilding the submarine, Julieta would kneel down by her bed and prayed to God to keep her husband and family safe. 

One night the twins saw her praying and being little kids, they copied their Mom and knelt beside her also praying. 

Julieta was surprised to see them and smiled.

FROM THEN ON, Julieta would have the kids say their prayers at night and she would put the kids into bed tucking them in. 

When Rafael came home after a hard days work the kids would run and hug him. 

They all would visit Adriana and Leo every day they could. 

They practically grew up together, Rafael and Julieta were as much a Mom and Dad to Leo as they were to Alex and Ana.

They read books to them and taught them how to read. 

They taught them how to swim secretly using the trap door under the floorboards of their bedroom leading down a ladder to the water under the ship.

Then Rafael and Julieta went to another ship and began secretly building a secret room to serve as a more accessible place to store the scuba gear and swim to and from the submarine.

MEANWHILE, IN A DIFFERENT PART OF THE CITY, a Man wearing a mask and a hood sold a gun to a black market vendor for a bag of money.

SOON AFTER, Captain Mason and Detective Waters investigated a crime scene at the Cargo Ships Part of the city. 

They had found two dead cargo ship workers who had apparently discovered another pair of cargo ship workers stealing supplies from the metal cargo containers. 

And after the workers threatened to tell the Police, the thieves killed them and disappeared.

Waters learned from one of the cargo ship workers that the workers that killed them had apparently worked as crane operators lifting and lowering the large metal crate cargo containers. 

Waters went into one of the cranes to investigate and had found a little girl's doll.

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