Chapter 7 - My Wife's Final Recording Revealed the Real Villain—And It Wasn't SalvatoreWe found Isabella's final recording inside the wooden box.
Her face appeared on screen.
She looked tired.
Pregnant.
But smiling.
“Lorenzo.”
I couldn't breathe.
“If you're watching this, I'm gone.”
Tears filled my eyes.
She explained everything.
Salvatore had been working for someone else.
Someone outside the Rossi family.
Someone who wanted control of the entire criminal network.
A businessman named Victor Kane.
He owned shipping companies.
Hospitals.
Private security firms.
Political consulting agencies.
He had infiltrated the Rossi organization years earlier.
He had manipulated Salvatore.
But Victor wasn't the mastermind either.
Isabella revealed the final truth.
“The person behind all of this is someone Lorenzo trusts more than anyone.”
The screen paused.
Then resumed.
She whispered:
“Marcus.”
I stared at my lieutenant.
Marcus froze.
“No.”
I looked at him.
“Explain.”
He shook his head.
“I don't know why she would say that.”
Then he reached for his gun.
I drew mine first.
Everyone froze.
Marcus lowered his hand.
“I swear to you, boss…”
He looked at me.
“…I never betrayed you.”
The recording continued.
Isabella explained that Marcus had been framed.
Someone had used his identity.
His credentials.
His security codes.
The real traitor had access to everything Marcus controlled.
That person was—
The recording cut out.
A gunshot had destroyed the camera.
We never learned the name.
But we had a clue.
A fingerprint.
A silver ring.
The same ring my father had seen twenty-one years earlier.
It belonged to my mother's brother.
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My uncle wasn't Salvatore.
It was someone I had never suspected.
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