Chapter 5 - Sophia Told Me My Father Had Ordered Emma’s Death, and the Truth Nearly Destroyed MeMy father had supposedly died when I was twenty-four.
A heart attack.
Private funeral.
Closed casket.
I had believed it.
Sophia showed me documents.
Bank transfers.
Encrypted messages.
Photographs.
My father had been alive.
He had funded Damien.
He had arranged the accident.
He had ordered Emma taken.
I stared at the evidence.
“Why?”
Sophia looked at me.
“Because he believed you were becoming too powerful.”
I laughed bitterly.
“My own father tried to kill me?”
“Yes.”
“And Emma?”
“He wanted her gone.”
I stood.
For the first time in years, I felt something stronger than anger.
Disgust.
We found my father at a private estate outside Albany.
He didn't resist.
He simply sat in a chair.
“You came.”
I stared.
“You ruined my life.”
He looked at Emma.
Then at me.
“I wanted you to become stronger.”
“You tried to kill my daughter.”
“She was a threat.”
“She was four.”
He looked away.
I wanted to kill him.
But Emma was watching.
I couldn't become that man.
Instead, I called the police.
My father was arrested.
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The empire began collapsing.
And I walked away.
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