Chapter 5 - Marco Tried to Lure Me Into a Trap, but the Man Who Had Protected Me for Twenty Years Finally Admitted He Had Helped Kill ClaireThe meeting happened at an abandoned warehouse.
Marco was waiting.
He didn't draw a weapon.
He simply looked at me.
“You know.”
“Yes.”
“About the girls?”
“Yes.”
“About Claire?”
“Yes.”
He lowered his head.
“I'm sorry.”
“That's all?”
“What else can I say?”
“Tell me why.”
He looked at me.
“Power.”
I laughed.
“You had everything.”
“No.”
“You had my trust.”
“That wasn't enough.”
He admitted it.
The money.
The trust.
The empire.
He wanted control.
My mother promised him influence.
Together, they planned to manipulate the succession.
But Claire found out.
She threatened to expose them.
Marco arranged her death.
A staged accident.
I felt sick.
“You killed my wife.”
“I didn't pull the trigger.”
I stepped closer.
“You arranged it.”
“Yes.”
I wanted to kill him.
But remembered my daughters.
I needed him alive.
“Where is my mother's evidence?”
He smiled.
“Gone.”
“No.”
He underestimated me.
I had recorded everything.
Federal investigators had already received copies.
He was finished.
He surrendered.
But he gave me one last warning.
“My mother wasn't the mastermind.”
I froze.
“Who?”
Marco whispered:
“Your father.”
My blood went cold.
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He had been dead for twenty years.
Or so I thought.
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