Chapter 6 - Alessandro’s Dead Brother Sent Me a Message Through My Daughter
That night, Emma received a package.
No sender.
No address.
Inside was a small wooden horse.
Emma loved it immediately.
“Pretty.”
I grabbed it from her.
“Don't touch.”
She frowned.
“Mine.”
“Emma, please.”
Alessandro examined it.
There was a hidden compartment.
Inside was a note.
Three words.
HE IS ALIVE.
Alessandro's face became empty.
“Lorenzo.”
The next message arrived ten minutes later.
A photograph.
Lorenzo.
Alive.
Standing beside Rafael.
And behind them was a third man.
Someone I recognized.
My former husband.
I dropped the photograph.
Alessandro caught it.
“You know him?”
I couldn't speak.
His name was Michael.
He had abandoned me when Emma was born.
I had believed he simply didn't want responsibility.
But the photograph showed something else.
He had been working for Rafael.
Alessandro looked at me.
“Why didn't you tell me?”
“Because I didn't know.”
Michael had disappeared three years ago.
He had left behind unpaid debts.
Threats.
And one final message:
You and the child will regret choosing him.
I suddenly understood.
He hadn't abandoned us.
He had been using us.
Alessandro stared at the photograph.
“Your ex-husband is involved.”
“I know.”
“He may have been the one who gave Rafael access to your name.”
I felt sick.
“Why would he?”
Alessandro looked at Emma.
“Because someone offered him money.”
Then another message arrived.
This time, it contained only one sentence.
BRING THE GIRL TO THE OLD TRAIN STATION.
Alessandro crumpled the paper.
“We're not going.”
But I knew something.
They weren't asking.
May you like
They were coming for her.
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