Jungle of Love

Chapter 11

"Families are like branches on a tree, we grow in different directions yet our roots remain as one."

Unknown  

Lorenzo 

A few hours before he got home

"Lorenzo are you sure you want to continue digging into her past like this, why not just ask her to be straight forward with you?"

Lorenzo sat in his main warehouse office with Rico, Matteo, Rocco, Marco and Leo surrounding him. They sat taking up the chairs in from of his desk and the sofas discussing Kamari's past. Something about the night they met told him that whoever targeted her was connected to her in the past or present. His gut was also telling him that it wasn't going to be the only incident and whoever was targeting her wasn't going to stop.

"It may not be a good idea but I need to know what she is running from. Her family is tight lipped on the matter and so is she. Whoever targeted her in Hawaii will be after her again and I intend to put a stop to them before it gets too far."

"You think someone is really after her?" asked Leo.

"Yea I do and whatever they want from her must be pretty serious if they planned to drug her the way that they did. Matteo any information on your research."

"Me and the men flew down last week and investigated the workers from the club. The bartender for the night has been missing since we departed the Island. Luckily one of the waitresses recalls that a man ordered all our drinks then would pass it to a waitress for delivery. She didn't think nothing of it since many VIP's have a tendency to have their own men order their drinks in the same fashion."

"Does she remember what he looked like? Any identifying marks on him?"

"That's the funny thing. She knows the man, in fact everyone on the island does. His name is Old man Jo."

"Pft, Old Man Joe? What kind of mediocre name is that!" Rocco and Leo both burst out laughing. Admittedly it was pretty comical to know that someone was really named after a typical character from fictional work. Lorenzo and Matteo also had to chuckle at that.

"His name is really Old Man Jo, yes. And before you ask Lo we already paid him a visit."

"And?"

"The place was empty, looked as though no one had been home in a while. We did a check through the property... and well.. look for yourselves." At that Matteo stood handing out papers he had in a folder next to him. "The first page is the information our men were able to dig up on him. The rest is what we found on the property. Lorenzo skimmed the first page looking over his information.

Joseph "Old Man Jo" Kanapoli

Born: 1969

Residence: Oahu, Hawaii

Occupation: Retired

The information provided was minimal and would make you think he was a normal resident however the photos on the next page were gruesome. Dismembered body parts littered what looked to be an outside shed. Photos of women being tortured, sexually assaulted and tormented littered the walls of said shed.

Marco looked on in disgust. "What the hell is this?"

"Looks like Old Man Jo had some secrets." They all nodded in agreement then flipped through the information Matteo supplied. What Lorenzo found at the end infuriated him to no end.

A photo of Kamari was found lying on the kitchen counter, worn out as if someone held it for some time, all the time. But it wasn't just the photo that caught his eye no, it was where the photo was taken. That caught his attention.