Chapter 5 - Gabriel Vale Finally Revealed Himself as My Half-Brother, and He Told Me the Empire Had Been Stolen From Him Before I Was BornThe old cathedral was empty.
Gabriel waited beneath the altar.
He looked like my father.
Older.
Harder.
Scarred.
But unmistakably family.
“You look like him.”
I said nothing.
He smiled.
“Father always preferred you.”
“Why?”
“Because you were easier to control.”
I looked at him.
“You kidnapped Sofia.”
“No.”
“Vittorio did.”
“On my orders.”
I stepped closer.
“You destroyed my family.”
“You inherited what belonged to mine.”
He explained.
His mother had been abandoned.
He had grown up outside the family.
My father rejected him.
Then built the empire around me.
Gabriel believed everything had been stolen.
He wanted Elena's inheritance to reclaim it.
But I showed him the original documents.
He had no legal claim.
My father had changed the trust before his death.
Gabriel had been deliberately excluded.
He was stunned.
“Who told you otherwise?”
“Vittorio.”
Gabriel realized he'd been used.
Then Vittorio appeared.
He shot Gabriel.
Everything changed.
Gabriel fell.
Vittorio raised the gun toward Elena.
I moved.
My men entered.
Vittorio escaped.
Gabriel survived.
He finally understood.
He had been manipulated by the same system he wanted to control.
The real enemy was Vittorio.
But Vittorio wasn't alone.
His ally was my mother.
And her betrayal was more complicated than I expected.
She had been forced to cooperate.
But she had also made choices.
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We needed the trust documents.
Only Elena could unlock them.
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