Chapter 6 - The Men Who Came for Emma Had Been Hired by My Family Years Before—And Their Leader Called Her “The Last Key”Lorenzo fired first.
The men scattered.
We escaped through the roof.
The orphanage burned behind us.
We watched from the woods.
Emma was crying.
Lorenzo held her.
“We're okay.”
She shook her head.
“Home is gone.”
He whispered:
“We'll make another.”
We drove to a remote cabin.
That night, I asked Lorenzo:
“Why didn't your father tell you?”
“He thought I was too loyal.”
“To Isabella?”
“To the family.”
That distinction mattered.
He had spent his life protecting people because they were blood.
Now he understood blood could betray you.
I found the answer in his father's journal.
The Bellmont and Duca families had once created an agreement.
If a daughter from one family married a son from the other, their children would control both trusts.
Emma was the first child to satisfy the conditions.
She wasn't merely an heir.
She was the key to unifying two massive fortunes.
Victor wanted her alive until eighteen.
Isabella wanted her under control.
Lorenzo's father had tried to break the agreement.
That's why he had created the second will.
He wanted Emma free.
The men who attacked us weren't ordinary criminals.
They were former family security.
Their leader was Marco Bellmont.
He was captured the next day.
He confessed.
Isabella had hired him.
Victor Bellmont had given the orders.
But Marco revealed one more thing.
“There's a second child.”
I stared.
“What?”
“The trust requires twins.”
Lorenzo looked at me.
“You're saying—”
“Emma isn't enough.”
The agreement required two heirs.
One from each bloodline.
We had only found Emma.
There was another child.
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A missing child.
And Isabella had been searching for that child too.
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