Chapter 4 - The Attack on My Mansion Was Meant to Force Me Into Hiding, but Elena’s Puppy Detected the One Tunnel My Enemies Forgot AboutThe explosion shook the entire mansion.
Glass shattered.
Guards rushed in.
Elena screamed.
Bruno barked.
I grabbed my daughter.
“Stay with me.”
Another explosion.
The eastern wing collapsed.
Smoke filled the hallway.
I heard shouting.
“Basement!”
“Move!”
I carried Elena.
But Bruno suddenly broke free.
He ran toward the library.
Elena chased him.
“Bruno!”
I followed.
The puppy stopped beside a bookshelf.
He barked.
My men moved the shelf.
A hidden passage appeared.
I remembered the hidden basement.
But this tunnel was different.
It extended beneath the estate.
We entered.
The passage led to an old railway tunnel.
A forgotten escape route.
My father had built it decades earlier.
We followed it.
At the end was another property.
Safe.
Elena hugged Bruno.
“You saved us.”
I looked at the dog.
“He did.”
Then we found something inside the safe room.
A wall covered in photographs.
Sofia.
Elena.
Me.
Gabriel.
Vittorio.
And Matteo.
Someone had been tracking all of us.
But one photograph was different.
It showed Sofia meeting a woman.
My mother.
The date was one week before Sofia died.
I stared.
My mother had been involved too.
I called her.
She refused to answer.
We found her at a private residence.
I confronted her.
She cried.
“I was trying to protect you.”
“By helping them?”
“No.”
“Did you know Elena existed?”
“Yes.”
“Why?”
“Because your father ordered me.”
“Ordered you what?”
“To make sure the child never inherited the empire.”
I stared.
“He wanted her dead?”
“No.”
“Then?”
“Hidden.”
She explained.
My father believed women couldn't control the empire.
He wanted a male heir.
Gabriel had been disowned.
I became successor.
Then Elena was born.
That changed everything.
Sofia refused to surrender her.
So she fled.
My father died.
But his network continued.
Vittorio took over.
Gabriel returned.
And Elena became the final piece.
I asked:
“What does Gabriel want?”
“The trust.”
“And after?”
“He'll kill the system.”
I stared.
“Why?”
“Because he believes the family destroyed his life.”
I understood.
The war wasn't just about money.
It was about resentment.
The next message came.
BRING ELENA TO THE OLD CATHEDRAL.
COME ALONE.
I looked at my daughter.
May you like
Then Bruno.
I knew the final confrontation had begun.
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