Chapter 8 - Dominic’s Dead Father Was Alive—and He Returned to Claim the Children He Believed Belonged to HimThe man was real.
Dominic's father had survived.
He had been living under another identity.
He had orchestrated the original trust.
He had manipulated Adrian.
He had controlled the family.
He believed Dominic had become weak.
Because of me.
Because of Lily.
Because of Ethan.
Because of love.
He wanted the children.
He wanted control.
He wanted the empire back.
Dominic refused.
The confrontation was inevitable.
They met in the old Moretti warehouse.
Dominic's father stood waiting.
“You chose a housekeeper over your blood.”
Dominic answered,
“I chose my family.”
“You've become soft.”
“No.”
He looked at me.
“I've become human.”
His father raised a weapon.
I stepped back.
Lily screamed.
Dominic moved.
Security intervened.
The old man was arrested.
The empire finally fell apart.
But before he was taken away, he looked at me.
“You were never supposed to survive.”
I frowned.
“What does that mean?”
He smiled.
“Your mother knew.”
Then he was gone.
I called my mother.
She told me the final truth.
My grandmother had once protected the Moretti family.
She had hidden the trust.
She had chosen me as guardian.
She had known Dominic would one day need someone outside his family.
That someone was me.
I cried.
Everything had been connected.
Not by accident.
By choice.
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People had been protecting me long before I knew why.
The past finally made sense.
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