Chapter 9 - The Name on the Birth Certificate Destroyed the Last SecretTwenty-nine days after the new café opened, Sarah received a phone call.
Unknown number.
A man's voice.
“Sarah Quinn?”
“Yes.”
“You don't know me.”
“Who are you?”
“My name is Arthur Quinn.”
She dropped the phone.
Her father.
Alive.
Thirty minutes later, Dominic arrived.
Sarah was shaking.
“It's him.”
Dominic's face changed.
“Are you sure?”
“He knew my mother's name.”
They met that night.
Arthur looked older.
Much older.
But unmistakably Sarah's father.
She stared at him.
Then slapped him.
He accepted it.
“You deserved that.”
“Where were you?”
“Protecting you.”
“You left me.”
“To keep Salvatore from finding you.”
“You let me believe you were dead.”
“I thought it was safer.”
“You were wrong.”
Arthur looked at Dominic.
“You understand now.”
Dominic nodded.
Arthur handed Sarah a file.
Inside was one document.
A birth certificate.
Sarah read the father's name.
Then looked at Dominic.
Her world tilted.
The name wasn't Arthur Quinn.
It was Marcelo's father.
Victor Castellane.
Sarah stared.
“What?”
Arthur closed his eyes.
“Your mother was married before she met me.”
Sarah couldn't breathe.
“Who was my biological father?”
Arthur answered.
“Victor Castellane.”
Dominic looked as if the floor had vanished.
Sarah's father was not the missing accountant.
Her mother had been secretly connected to the Castellane bloodline.
Which meant Sarah wasn't merely connected to Dominic's family.
She was part of it.
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And that made her claim to the remaining Castellane trusts stronger than anyone had realized.
The last chapter of the empire was about to be rewritten.
