Chapter 7 - Chiara Had Come Back for Me, Not the Children—and She Revealed Why My Father Wanted My Blood More Than Anyone Else'sMy father had discovered something when I was a child.
My blood contained a unique genetic marker.
It could stabilize certain treatments.
It could potentially create a cure.
But it could also enhance a dangerous biological compound.
My father wanted both.
The children in the photographs were test subjects.
My blood was the key.
Chiara had discovered the program before our marriage.
She had tried to expose it.
That was why she became a target.
She escaped.
But she knew my father would eventually come for me.
He hadn't killed me.
He had been waiting.
Valentina had been instructed to control my business and watch me.
She obeyed for years.
Then she learned the truth.
That's when she began secretly helping Chiara.
The cassette was their final attempt.
Chiara looked at me.
"Your father knows you found the tape."
"How?"
"The doctor who gave you the poison reported back."
I froze.
"The water?"
"That was a test."
"Why?"
"To see whether your body had the marker."
"And if it did?"
"They would take you."
I remembered the smell.
The pills.
The panic.
Everything.
My father wasn't trying to kill me.
He was trying to capture me.
We needed to move.
But before we could, the lights went out.
Gunfire.
Men entered the greenhouse.
Chiara grabbed Mia.
Valentina fired back.
I pulled Giulia behind a stone wall.
Someone shouted:
"Take Dante alive!"
That confirmed everything.
They wanted me.
We escaped through a hidden tunnel.
Chiara led us.
She knew the route.
At the end was an abandoned train station.
A vehicle waited.
Inside was a man I recognized.
Marco.
My security chief.
I looked at him.
"You knew?"
He nodded.
"Chiara found me six years ago."
"Why didn't you tell me?"
"Because she asked me to wait."
"Why?"
"Because your father controlled my family."
I understood.
Everyone had been trapped.
Every person who knew the truth was trying to protect someone else.
And now the network had finally exposed itself.
My father was alive.
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He had an empire beneath Chicago.
And he wanted me.
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