Chapter 9 - My Mother Walked Into the Wedding Hall Alive, and She Wasn't There to Save Me—She Was There to Stop the Man Who Had Controlled Our Family for Twenty YearsThe room was chaos.
Then the doors opened.
My mother walked in.
Alive.
Older.
Gray hair.
Tired eyes.
I couldn't breathe.
“Mom?”
She looked at me.
“I’m sorry.”
I couldn't move.
She walked toward me.
“I wanted to tell you.”
“You let me believe you were dead.”
“I had to.”
“Why?”
“Because they were watching.”
She looked at Adrian.
“You did what I asked.”
He nodded.
Then she looked at Ava.
She started crying.
“She's beautiful.”
My mother had been part of the plan.
She had spent years gathering evidence.
She had used Adrian.
Used Valentina.
Used me.
But she had also protected me.
She named the real leader.
Marcus Cross wasn't it.
The senator wasn't.
It was Adrian's grandfather's former partner.
A man named Victor Moretti.
Still alive.
Still controlling everything.
And he had ordered the original disappearances.
The room fell silent.
Agent Hale looked at my mother.
“You're saying Victor is alive?”
“Yes.”
“Where?”
She turned toward me.
“Under the old Moretti estate.”
I knew that place.
Adrian did too.
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He looked at me.
“We're going.”
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