Chapter 7 - Sebastian Betrayed His Own Empire to Save Us—and the First Bullet Came From Someone He Once Called FamilyThe betrayal happened at the family meeting.
Twenty-three men.
All loyal to the Vale name.
Or so Sebastian believed.
His grandfather appeared on a screen.
“Choose carefully.”
Sebastian stood.
“I already did.”
“You would destroy generations of power for a woman?”
“No.”
He looked at me.
“For my children.”
The room erupted.
Half the men raised weapons.
The other half hesitated.
Vincent, Sebastian's oldest lieutenant, stepped forward.
“I follow Sebastian.”
Another man followed.
Then another.
The empire split.
Gunfire erupted.
I stayed behind the armored partition with the children.
Sebastian fought his own family.
Not for revenge.
For freedom.
His grandfather escaped again.
But Adrian wasn't so lucky.
Federal agents arrested him.
He confessed.
He admitted altering our marriage documents.
Intercepting my letters.
Selling information about our children.
And helping the rival faction.
His confession cleared one final truth.
Sebastian had never abandoned us.
He had been deceived.
The years we lost had been stolen.
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But knowing that didn't give those years back.
That was the part nobody could fix.
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