Chapter 7 - The Kidnapping That Started a WarI wanted to destroy the city.
Every road.
Every warehouse.
Every house connected to my father.
But Elena stopped me.
“If you start killing everyone, you'll never find her.”
“She has our daughter.”
“And that's exactly what he wants.”
Ricardo arrived before sunrise.
He was wounded but alive.
He brought twenty men.
“I know where she is.”
I pointed my gun at him.
“Talk.”
“Old Moretti textile plant.”
Victor shook his head.
“Too obvious.”
Ricardo nodded.
“That's why it works.”
We attacked at dawn.
The factory was abandoned.
Empty.
Except for one room.
Lucia was there.
Tied to a chair.
A man stood behind her.
Moretti.
He looked at me and smiled.
“You came.”
I raised my weapon.
“Let her go.”
Moretti laughed.
“You still think this is about money.”
“What do you want?”
“Your surrender.”
“You'll never have it.”
“I don't need it.”
He pressed a button.
A screen behind him turned on.
Live footage appeared.
Banks.
Warehouses.
Government offices.
Police stations.
All bearing De Luca security credentials.
Then the screen showed a file.
ADRIANO DE LUCA — INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL ORGANIZATION
My stomach dropped.
Moretti had prepared everything.
He had planted evidence linking my empire to crimes I had never committed.
“By noon,” he said, “every government agency in this country will believe you are responsible for everything.”
He looked at Lucia.
“And if you kill me, she dies.”
I lowered my gun.
“Take me.”
Elena grabbed my arm.
“No.”
I whispered.
“I have to.”
Moretti smiled.
“That's the man I remember.”
He took me.
Lucia was released.
But Elena came after us.
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So did Ricardo.
The final game had begun.
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