Chapter 6 - Dominic Finally Told Me What Happened the Night My Father Disappeared
We returned to the estate.
Dominic finally told me the truth.
My biological father was not a victim.
He had been involved.
He had worked with Dominic's father.
But he tried to leave.
He took money.
He stole documents.
He planned to expose the organization.
Then he disappeared.
“What did you do?” I asked.
Dominic looked at me.
“I helped him leave.”
“Why?”
“He asked me.”
“Where did he go?”
“I don't know.”
“Is he alive?”
“I don't think so.”
I stared.
“You don't think?”
Dominic lowered his eyes.
“I saw his car the night it exploded.”
My heart broke.
“You believed he died.”
“Yes.”
“And my mother?”
“She knew he might have survived.”
“Why?”
“She received a message.”
“What message?”
“Three words.”
He looked at me.
“RUN, ANA, RUN.”
I swallowed.
My real name.
Someone had known it then.
Someone had been watching our family since before I was born.
We traveled to the old harbor.
The place where the Costa shipping empire had started.
Beneath an abandoned office was a vault.
My grandmother waited.
She looked nothing like the woman from the photographs.
Older.
Tired.
But alive.
She looked at me.
“My granddaughter.”
I cried.
She held me.
“I have watched you from afar.”
“Why?”
“Because Daniel never stopped searching.”
She handed me the red ledger.
Inside was everything.
Every company.
Every transfer.
Every secret account.
Every name.
And the final pages contained something unexpected.
Daniel had planned to transfer ownership to himself.
But the documents had been altered.
The true heir wasn't me.
It was a trust.
The company belonged to its employees.
My grandmother had created it.
I stared.
“You never wanted me to own it.”
“No.”
“What did you want?”
“A life.”
I looked at Dominic.
He smiled.
“For once, someone built an empire without wanting to control it.”
My grandmother turned toward him.
“You remind me of your father.”
Dominic looked away.
“He wasn't a good man.”
“He tried to become one.”
That sentence stayed with me.
Then gunfire erupted outside.
My grandmother screamed.
Dominic pulled me down.
Men entered.
Daniel.
He stood at the entrance.
“You found the ledger.”
I held it.
“You won't get it.”
He smiled.
“I don't need it.”
He held up a phone.
A video.
My mother.
Victoria.
Thomas.
All alive.
My stomach dropped.
“Where are they?”
“In different places.”
“You kidnapped them.”
“Yes.”
“Why?”
“Because you finally found what I wanted.”
I stared.
“The trust.”
He laughed.
“The trust.”
Dominic stood.
“You're finished.”
Daniel looked at him.
“You're still alive.”
“For now.”
Daniel raised his gun.
“Give me the ledger.”
I handed it over.
Dominic looked at me.
I had placed a tracker inside the cover.
Daniel didn't know.
He took the book.
“Good girl.”
I smiled.
“Thank you.”
He looked suspicious.
Then understood.
“You.”
The tracker transmitted.
Federal agents were already listening.
Daniel's men moved.
Dominic attacked.
The fight lasted seconds.
Daniel escaped.
But the ledger remained.
We had him recorded.
My grandmother was safe.
My mother was found.
Victoria's daughter was rescued.
But Daniel was still free.
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And he had one final weapon.
Me.
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