Chapter 5 - The Men Hunting Theo Were My Own Men, and I Realized the Betrayal Had Reached the Highest Level of My OrganizationMy security team attacked the church.
But they weren't mine.
They wore my insignia.
Someone had issued orders under my name.
We escaped through the crypt.
Theo carried the broken bus.
I carried him.
For the first time, I understood why children mattered more than empires.
We hid in a safe house.
Then I confronted Marcus.
He admitted everything.
He had been working for my father.
He had manipulated the accounts.
He had helped hide Thomas.
He had arranged Evelyn's death.
But he wasn't the mastermind.
My father was.
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The man I had mourned for twelve years had been alive until recently.
And he had been directing everything from another city.
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Chapter 6 - My Father Returned to Boston and Demanded Theo Be Handed Over, but the Boy Who Had Offered Me a Broken Toy Became the Reason I Finally Stood Against My Own BloodMy father arrived.
Chapter 7 - Samuel Was Kidnapped Because He Knew Where Thomas Had Hidden the Original Ledger, and Theo Led Me to It Without Understanding What It WasTheo remembered his father hiding a notebook.
Chapter 8 - The Ledger Proved My Wife Had Been Murdered for Protecting Theo, and I Finally Admitted That My Empire Had Been Built on People I Never Truly KnewEvelyn's final report was inside the ledger.
Chapter 9 - My Father Tried to Trade Samuel’s Life for the Ledger, but I Released the Evidence Instead and Destroyed the Power He Had Spent Forty Years BuildingThe evidence went public.
Chapter 10 - Theo Asked Whether I Was Going to Send Him Away Like Everyone Else, and His Question Forced Me to Promise Something I Had Never Promised AnyoneTheo sat beside me.
Chapter 11 - Theo Refused the Fortune His Father Had Inherited and Asked for Only One Thing—The Right to Keep His Broken Toy BusHe didn't want money.
