Chapter 12 - Three Years Later, Marcus Returned to My Office With the Ledger’s Final Page and Told Me Who Had Been Protecting Him Since ChildhoodMarcus was nineteen.
He arrived carrying an envelope.
“Where did you get that?”
“My brother left it.”
The final page.
It contained a name.
My father's.
Then another.
My mother's.
And one final note:
The boy was never the target. The father was.
I understood.
Matteo had been trying to isolate me.
Marcus was bait.
Daniel knew.
He sent Marcus to me because he knew I would protect anyone who came asking.
The final page was proof.
My father had planned to dismantle the network.
He had left instructions.
He had tried to protect me.
I cried.
For the first time, I understood my father.
He had failed.
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But he had tried.
That mattered.
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Chapter 15 - My Silent Seven-Year-Old Screamed “Don’t Hurt Marcus” and Changed My Entire Life—Years Later, Her Voice Became the Reason I Destroyed the Empire That Had Taught Me to Rule Through Fear — THE ENDI still remember the first day.
