Chapter 7 - The Wedding That Became a WarSamuel survived.
The bullet had grazed his shoulder.
But the message was clear.
Victor wasn't finished.
The wedding was postponed.
Mara wanted to cancel it.
Gabriel refused.
“No.”
“They'll target everyone.”
“Then we stop hiding.”
The wedding became bait.
Gabriel leaked a false date.
Victor took it.
On the day, the church was filled with security.
Mara wore a simple white dress.
Gabriel waited.
Samuel walked her down the aisle.
He looked at Gabriel.
“Take care of my girl.”
Gabriel nodded.
“Always.”
Mara smiled through tears.
The ceremony began.
Halfway through, the doors exploded open.
Gunfire.
Screams.
Security moved.
Gabriel shielded Mara.
Samuel pushed his daughter behind a pillar.
Chaos.
Victor entered.
“Gabriel!”
Gabriel looked at him.
“This ends tonight.”
Victor smiled.
“Not until you understand.”
He pointed at Mara.
“She is the last piece.”
Mara stepped forward.
“No.”
Victor fired.
Gabriel moved.
Mara grabbed the gun.
The struggle ended with Victor pinned.
Police rushed in.
He was arrested.
The nightmare was over.
Or so they thought.
The investigation revealed something unexpected.
Victor had been working under orders from someone else.
A name appeared.
Robert Ror.
Gabriel's father.
Mara stared.
Patrick had been behind the entire plan?
Gabriel refused to believe it.
He confronted Patrick.
His father looked at him.
Then shook his head.
He couldn't speak.
Mara noticed something.
Patrick was trying to write.
She brought him a pad.
His hand trembled.
He wrote one word.
NO.
Then another.
TRUST.
Then:
BROTHER.
Gabriel understood.
Not Robert.
Richard.
Patrick's twin brother.
Gabriel's uncle.
Richard Ror had been presumed dead for twenty years.
He had orchestrated everything.
Victor.
The financial crimes.
The kidnappings.
Even the attack on Mara.
Richard wanted the family empire.
And the only thing standing between him and control was Gabriel.
But Richard had one weakness.
He wanted the trust.
The same trust Mara now had access to.
Gabriel and Mara built a trap.
They announced that they would transfer the trust.
Richard came.
He walked into the boardroom smiling.
“You're making a mistake.”
Gabriel sat calmly.
“No.”
Mara sat beside him.
“You are.”
Richard laughed.
“You think the two of you can defeat me?”
Mara opened a file.
“Your bank accounts.”
Another.
“Your offshore companies.”
Another.
“Your communications with Victor.”
Richard froze.
Gabriel stood.
“You're finished.”
Richard reached for a gun.
Security moved faster.
He was arrested.
The last enemy was gone.
Mara exhaled.
“It’s over.”
Gabriel nodded.
“Yes.”
But he looked at Patrick.
His father smiled.
Then looked at Mara.
And raised his hand.
Gabriel understood.
His father had chosen her.
Not because of money.
May you like
Not because of power.
Because she had stayed.
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