The Spot

Nicole was still dismayed over her twin brother Nolan’s burglary gone wrong, well at least that is what the cops are calling it. Supposedly, in the garage of his high rise apartment complex at gunpoint, but after they took what they wanted they shot him in the chest. That is what was seen on the surveillance camera at least. Nicole knew it was possible because robberies weren't unusual, it was 2020 and although they lived in Buckhead, a prestigious neighborhood in Atlanta it was still Atlanta.

Dammit, Nicole thought, it was just last week they were celebrating their 34th birthday. She closed her eyes and could see his face although tipsy, they had a serious moment, Nolan leaned in to his sister and said look if anything happened to me look in the spot. Nicole turned and stared at her brother and said “what the fuck”, Nolan. Nolan laughed and said take a joke Nicole jeez.

Nicole, eyes popped open from the memory of last week and now she knew her brother was serious and it wasn’t a fucking joke, something did happen and she is not so sure it was just a random robbery. She owes it to her brother to see it through because he might not ever wake up from that coma. Fuck!! She screamed nothing is never simple or random with this family, after all she is a Dirscoll.

Nicole never flaunts her money and people generally assume her money comes from her being a surgeon at one of the top hospitals in Atlanta and he is a lawyer for one of the biggest tech companies in the United States “DuTel Technology”. No one knows their money comes from being old money in Ireland. They are the Founders of the very first bank in Ireland in 1942, they became an international bank in 1953 and her parents and other family have been the sole owners ever since. No one looks at her and her brother as being Irish, although they have the Irish last name and Nicole even has the red hair naturally which everyone assumes she dyes that color it’s not assumed. You see her brother has caramel skin and her skin is two shades darker, when people look at them they are thought of as black american, nothing wrong with their roots go much deeper. They are in fact first generation american and parents are both from Ireland with mother having Nigerian thought a fresh start in American particularly Atlanta where they could blend in the exact words here mother would always use.

Nicole had to give herself a double soft slap on her cheeks and yelled at herself to stay focused. Asking to stop asking herself questions, she already knows the answer too!! Like why the fucked did here family move to Atlanta and focus on the task at hand, the spot. She found the key to the P.O. Box where it has been since her brother moved in three years ago. She rushed to the P.O. Box unlocked it and retrieved another key, which was to a safe deposit box that they called “ The Spot”, only they knew about. The safe deposit box was of course located in The First National Bank of Ireland, which her dad Lucan Driscoll brought to Atlanta. With a baseball cap and sunglasses on Nicole walked into the bank and asked to go to the safe deposit box, alone she opened box 24. As she shifted through the box she inorged the gold bars and passports and pulled out the only unfamiliar item they had put there in the last two weeks. She made it a point to check the spot at least once a month. Nicole looked perplexed at what she found was a little black book, a small white envelope and a letter from Nolan. She put the small white envelope and the little book aside and read the letter from Nolan.

It read:

My Sweet Nicole,

If you made it to the spot I am afraid, I didn’t make it and now it is up to you to finish what I have started. In the white envelope it’s two prepaid mastercards both loaded with ten thousand each they should bring the total up to twenty thousand, I left this money for you because after this in done you will have to hop on jet and fly to Ireland, find aunt Nessa and love low and only use the money off of these cards it should last you for at least a couple of months.

Next, thing you need to do is open that little black book and read it cover to. It will give you the detail on what you need to do to follow this thing through. I’m truly sorry to bring you into this Nicole, I thought I had it handled, had it all under control, and I could finish it on my own. I know you said you were out after college and I did too but the truth was I just got deeper. I am sorry, If you are reading this again I must be dead. I love you, tell mom and dad anything but the truth.

Love you even after death,

Nolan

If he wasn’t already in a comma she was going put his ass there , FUCK! FUCK! FUCK! Fuck you Nolan!!. Nicole took the twenty grand and black book and left the bank, instead of going back to buckhead where she knew they would be watching after they realized Nolan didn’t die and he had a twin. She went to the house they had in College Park, a safe house they referred to it as. FIrst thing was first she called the hospital her brother was currently at and had him moved to a more secured area in the hospital she worked at. A place they couldn’t get to easily. She then called her Aunt Nessa and said she is coming for visit and told the hospital she had a family emergency to attend too. Well she wasn’t lying. After arrangements were made she went to the basement, and there was all things Nicole needed.

The phone rang three times before it was answered, it was silent on the other end, Nicole pressed the number 2 then the number 4 , twice. They hung up, she jumped up, grabbed the book and rushed out. Twenty minutes later she was on the train, she off in downtown Atlanta. All she had to do is walk two blocks and there it was the place Nolan was the lawyer for “Dutel Technology”. Nicole stood there shaking her head and should have known her brother work there for a reason of course.

Nolan, made sure he put every detail on the last five years in that little black book that he left Nicole he listed every witness and how he found out that DuTel Technologies is just a cover and a front they are actually the biggest money launderer in the world , which was the only company standing in the way of the second biggest one which is , “The First International Bank of Ireland”. They had to go there father Lucan and Nebula Driscoll decided to branch the family business out of Europe and in America and it worked well until ten years ago they were the biggest money launderer in the world and every criminal had their money and shell companies connected with the bank. Then slowly but surely another company seemed to be stealing their clients . Nolan and Nicole was tasked with finding them.

Nicole quit when rotations started and told her brother to not do this by himself but that didn’t work. Now here Nicole was standing outside on the company pretending to be a client with a bag, but before she went in she had to double back to the coffee shop she passed. There she met the person that was silent on the other end of the phone. She brought Nicole what she needed to take them down. She had to do it for her family. They need to eliminate the competition as they always did.

Nolan gave instructions on how to pretend to be a client and wanted her hospital to work with them and maybe become a client, to get in. It was easy she was in. She was in the office of the CEO Brett Keller and after a short talk she invited him back to her place, the one in college park for longer talk. As soon as they were in the Uber she made it seem as though she wanted him. He told the Uber to hurry and they arrived at another location in College Park where she invited him in the house. When fixing the drink she offered him she poured the contents she got from the coffee shop after drinking a couple of sips he passed out.

She dragged him down to the basement and had him tied up. When he was awake, she gave him two options: give me names of all of your clients you move money for and live or don’t and die and we get them anyway.

He was confused who he was still a little drugged and how does she, SLAP!!! Shut the fuck up, Nicole yelled. Do you know who I am? You tried and I said tried to kill my brother for trying to shut you down and I am his twin motherfucker. So that still don’t tell me who the fuck you are he screamed. Oh yeah, Nicole said we are the twins of Lucan Driscoll ,Nolan and Nicole the shock on his face made her laugh. We can just work together, he pleaded, I can give you a percentage.

So I guess that is a no then, Nicole, took her favorite surgical scalpel and cut his throat. She went ahead and cut his hand and bagged it she needed to get in his office. After getting rid of the body she went back to his office and managed to tap in the system to get all the information she needed to shut him down. Nolan was setting up for them to go to prison for their dirty dealings, she made sure she got all the client names so she could give them the options of moving there money or going down with the sinking ship, she volunteered to move there money for a small fee. Most of them after finding out who she was did so.

Three months after being in Ireland she came back to the states, her brother was awake and vacation was over. By the time she got there their parents had gone and left. She ,punched his arm and said fuck you. Nolan, said Ha, so you found the little black book ,I am guessing. Nicole then chimed in and said now why do say that with a chuckle. But she knew why news broke after the CEO of DuTel Technologies went missing apparently running away for the investigation into his dealings with the Cartel and Mafia.

That meant The First International Bank of Ireland was the biggest Money Launderer in the world and they managed to be back on top with there two little assassins still alive. Her mother was right. Atlanta was just the right place to blend in.