Chapter 8 - The Red Book Was Hidden in the One Place Nobody Would Search—Inside My Father's GraveWe opened my father's grave.
Inside the coffin was a metal box.
The red book.
It contained everything.
Names.
Payments.
Dates.
Photographs.
Evidence.
And one final confession.
My father had ordered the death of a federal informant.
That informant was Ethan's biological mother.
I stared at the page.
Ethan had spent his entire life believing his mother abandoned him.
She hadn't.
She had been murdered.
My father had hidden the truth.
Victor had helped.
Ethan discovered it.
That was why he had to die.
I closed the book.
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Then I called the FBI.
For the first time in my life, I chose the law over the empire.
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Chapter 9 - Victor Kidnapped Leo and Left Me One Message—“Come Alone or the Boy Dies”Victor took Leo.
Chapter 10 - Leo Asked Me If I Was Still His Uncle—And My Answer Changed the Rest of Our LivesAfter everything, the children stayed with me.
Chapter 11 - Rebecca Returned to Court to Testify—And Her Confession Finally Cleared My Brother's NameRebecca testified.
Chapter 12 - I Sold the Empire My Father Built and Used the Money to Give Leo and Maya the Childhood Ethan Wanted for ThemI sold everything.
Chapter 13 - Three Months Later, Leo Took My Hand at Ethan's Memorial and Said Something That Finally Let Me GrieveWe held a private memorial.
Chapter 14 - On Leo's Seventh Birthday, He Gave Me a Drawing That Proved Ethan Had Finally Been Right About MeLeo turned seven.
