Chapter 3 - My Dead Father's Name Appeared in Damian's Files—And He Admitted He Had Been Searching for MeMy father was Daniel Bennett.
He disappeared when I was eight.
My mother told me he had died.
I believed her.
Until Damian showed me the file.
Daniel Bennett had worked for Victor Falcone.
Not as a criminal.
As an accountant.
He had discovered financial records connecting the Falcone organization to a network of corrupt officials.
Then he disappeared.
But he hadn't died.
He had gone into hiding.
And someone had spent sixteen years searching for his daughter.
Me.
Damian admitted his father had ordered the search years ago.
I asked why.
He didn't answer.
Then he gave me a photograph.
My father stood beside a young Victor Falcone.
And beside Victor stood a teenage Damian.
On the back, my father had written:
Protect my daughter if I'm not here.
I stared at the words.
Damian looked away.
“My father kept that photograph.”
“Why?”
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“I don't know.”
But I knew he was lying.
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