Chapter 10 - We Traveled to Europe to Find the Final Vault—And Discovered Vane Wasn't the Enemy My Father Had Been Preparing Me ForThe final vault was beneath an old monastery.
My father's research had led there years earlier.
We arrived during a storm.
Inside, the walls were covered with symbols.
I translated them.
Knowledge belongs to those who protect it.
The vault contained the original journal.
The first one.
The source.
But there was another object.
A photograph of my family.
My father.
My mother.
Me.
And beside us—
Dominic's father.
They had all known each other.
They had once worked together.
My mother had been part of the archive.
Dominic's father had tried to control it.
My father had rebelled.
The feud wasn't between two families.
It was between two philosophies.
Power.
Or knowledge.
Vane believed power.
My father believed protection.
I realized why Dominic had been brought into this.
He was the son of a man who had once chosen power.
Yet Dominic had chosen differently.
The final vault required two people.
The heir.
And someone who had chosen not to control the archive.
I looked at Dominic.
He was the second key.
Vane arrived.
He had brought armed men.
He demanded the vault.
I refused.
He aimed at Dominic.
I stepped forward.
"Stop."
Vane smiled.
"You'd sacrifice yourself?"
"No."
I looked at the symbols.
"I'd expose you."
I read the final inscription.
It activated the vault.
Every file became public.
Vane's network collapsed.
His men surrendered.
The police arrived.
The final vault was secure.
Vane was arrested.
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The archive was preserved.
And the truth was finally free.
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