Chapter 4 - Mia Disappeared for Forty Seconds—and Adrien Realized Someone Inside the Family Was Helping His FatherMia's bedroom door was open.
Her bed was empty.
My heart stopped.
“Mia!”
Adrien ran downstairs.
Security flooded the hall.
Then he heard crying.
Mia was inside a linen closet.
She had hidden herself.
She wasn't hurt.
She was just terrified.
She held her rabbit.
“Someone came in.”
Adrien knelt.
“Who?”
“A man.”
“What did he look like?”
“He smelled like Grandpa.”
Adrien froze.
Victor.
But Victor was supposed to be dead.
Mia described a man with a silver cane.
We checked security footage.
One guard had opened the door.
The guard disappeared.
He had worked for Adrien for six years.
Someone inside the family had helped.
The traitor was eventually identified.
Marco.
Adrien confronted him.
“You lied to me.”
Marco laughed.
“You were always too soft.”
“You helped Victor.”
“I survived.”
“You helped kill Isabella.”
Marco's face changed.
“I never wanted her dead.”
“But you let it happen.”
“Yes.”
Adrien stepped closer.
“I will never forgive you.”
Marco smiled.
“You don't have to.”
Then he revealed another secret.
“Isabella had a daughter before you met her.”
Adrien stopped.
“What?”
“A child.”
“With whom?”
“Daniel.”
My world tilted.
Mia was not my daughter?
Marco handed over a DNA report.
I stared.
The result was impossible.
Mia was Daniel's child.
And Daniel was Isabella's secret son.
Which meant Mia was the direct heir to the trust.
Adrien's face hardened.
“They will kill her.”
I held Mia tighter.
“No.”
He looked at me.
“I won't let them.”
Then he did something unexpected.
He took a legal document from Marco.
He signed away his claim to the trust.
“All of it?”
“Yes.”
“For Mia.”
He looked at me.
“She never asked for this war.”
“You're giving up billions.”
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“I don't care.”
That was the moment I realized I loved him.
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