Chapter 5 - The Billionaire Mafia Boss Chose the Maid Over His Own Family
Vincent didn't hesitate.
He assembled a team.
Luca.
Three trusted security men.
And Anna.
Luca objected.
“She doesn't belong in this.”
Vincent answered:
“She knows her brother better than you do.”
Anna stayed silent.
They reached the warehouse before midnight.
Noah was inside.
Alive.
Terrified.
A man stood behind him.
It wasn't Marcus.
It was someone older.
Someone Anna had never seen.
Vincent did.
His face changed.
“Uncle Paolo.”
The man smiled.
“You've grown.”
“You were dead.”
“So were you, apparently.”
Anna understood.
Paolo was the missing member of the Costa family.
The man who had ordered the poisoning.
The man who had manipulated Marcus.
And the man who had used Anna's mother decades earlier.
Paolo looked at Anna.
“So you're her daughter.”
Anna's blood ran cold.
“You knew my mother.”
“I knew her very well.”
“What did you do to her?”
“She chose the wrong side.”
Anna stepped forward.
Vincent grabbed her hand.
“Don't.”
Paolo smiled.
“You always were protective.”
Vincent stared.
“Let Noah go.”
“No.”
“Then what?”
“You give me the organization.”
Vincent laughed.
“You think I care about the organization?”
“You do.”
“No.”
He looked at Anna.
“I care about her.”
Paolo noticed.
Then smiled.
“Then I was right.”
He had expected that.
The warehouse lights came on.
More men appeared.
Anna realized they'd walked into a trap.
Gunfire erupted.
Vincent pushed her behind cover.
Luca returned fire.
Noah escaped his captor.
Anna grabbed him.
“Run!”
They moved.
Vincent stayed behind.
Anna looked back.
He was fighting.
Then he was hit.
She screamed.
“Vincent!”
Luca grabbed her.
“We have to go!”
“No!”
Vincent stood.
Blood covered his shirt.
“Take her!”
Luca dragged Anna away.
They escaped.
Vincent did not.
He was captured.
Anna refused to leave.
Paolo called her that night.
“Come alone.”
She went.
Vincent was tied to a chair.
Paolo stood behind him.
“You could have had money.”
Anna shook her head.
“I don't want money.”
“You could have had power.”
“I don't want power.”
“Then why are you here?”
She looked at Vincent.
“Because I love him.”
Paolo smiled.
“There it is.”
Vincent looked at her.
“Anna, leave.”
“No.”
“This isn't your fight.”
“Yes, it is.”
Paolo laughed.
“That's exactly why he chose you.”
Anna looked at the room.
She noticed a camera.
A red light.
Recording.
She smiled.
“What?”
“You made one mistake.”
Paolo's face tightened.
“You're talking too much.”
“No.”
She pointed toward the camera.
“You've been confessing.”
Paolo looked.
The camera was connected to a live system.
Luca was listening.
Police were listening.
Paolo panicked.
He reached for his gun.
Vincent moved.
The chair overturned.
Gunfire erupted.
The door exploded inward.
Federal agents entered.
Paolo was arrested.
Vincent was free.
Anna ran toward him.
He caught her.
“You disobeyed me.”
“I know.”
“You could have died.”
“So could you.”
He stared.
Then kissed her.
In front of everyone.
Afterward, they learned the full truth.
Paolo had been behind Vincent's poisoning.
Marcus had helped him.
The bomb had been a distraction.
The medication substitutions had been the primary attack.
The second attack had been designed to eliminate Anna after she noticed the first mistake.
Her brother had been taken to force Vincent into surrender.
But the final piece still hadn't been found.
The Black Ledger.
The document that contained every secret transaction.
Every bribery payment.
Every hidden account.
Every name.
Paolo refused to reveal where it was.
Then Anna remembered her mother.
The story about the old clinic.
The strange room.
The blue cabinet.
She told Vincent.
They searched the abandoned clinic.
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Behind the cabinet was a hollow wall.
Inside was the ledger.
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