Chapter 6 - The Night We Found Sophia, She Was Sitting in the Room Where the Seven-Year Secret BeganWe found Sophia in the blue room.
She sat calmly on the floor.
Beside her was Marco.
He looked at Alessandro.
“No weapons.”
Alessandro raised his gun.
Marco laughed.
“You're going to shoot me in front of her?”
Sophia looked at him.
“You're the bad man.”
Marco stared.
“What?”
She pointed toward the wall.
“Uncle Toby said.”
Marco's face changed.
He grabbed her.
Alessandro moved.
“Let her go.”
Marco held a blade near her throat.
“Back away.”
I screamed.
“Leave her!”
Marco smiled.
“You see?”
He looked at Alessandro.
“This is what your family does.”
“What?”
“Uses children as leverage.”
Alessandro lowered his weapon.
“Let her go.”
Marco stepped backward.
Then the hidden wall opened.
Tobias appeared.
He knocked Marco down.
Security rushed in.
The room exploded into chaos.
Marco escaped through the tunnel.
Sophia ran into my arms.
Tobias stood breathing hard.
Alessandro stared at him.
“You saved her.”
Tobias looked at him.
“I should have saved you seven years ago.”
The brothers embraced.
I cried.
Then Tobias handed Alessandro a final envelope.
“Your father left one last message.”
Inside:
My sons,
If you are reading this, then the empire has fallen.
Good.
No family should inherit a prison.
Mara's father helped me hide the money.
Leon was protecting her.
And Marco has been waiting for the moment he could take everything.
Alessandro read the final sentence.
He cannot win if you choose your family over your name.
Alessandro looked at me.
Then at Sophia.
Then at Tobias.
The choice became clear.
He called the police.
Not his men.
Not his lawyers.
The police.
Everything.
Accounts.
Names.
Operations.
Evidence.
May you like
All of it.
The Moretti empire collapsed before sunrise.
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