Chapter 5 - Vittorio Tried to Take Emma From Me Before She Could Reveal the Rest of Elena’s Secret, but Isabella Stood Up to Protect Her Little FriendVittorio returned at dawn.
He didn't come through the front door.
He entered through the underground garage.
Security stopped him.
He smiled.
“I'm family.”
My head of security answered:
“No longer.”
Vittorio raised his hands.
“I only want to talk.”
He was lying.
I knew it.
I brought him into the dining room.
“You watched my daughter.”
“I protected her.”
“You manipulated her treatment.”
“No.”
“You ordered Elena's death.”
His face hardened.
“Careful.”
“I've stopped being careful.”
He smiled.
“You think you understand what happened.”
“I know enough.”
“You know nothing.”
“Then tell me.”
He looked at Isabella.
“She shouldn't have survived.”
Isabella froze.
I stepped forward.
“Explain.”
Vittorio admitted the truth.
The attack on Elena was meant to recover evidence.
Isabella was collateral.
When she survived, they changed plans.
They manipulated her treatment.
They told doctors she would never walk.
They erased parts of her memory.
Why?
Because Elena had hidden evidence inside the family trust.
Evidence that could destroy Vittorio.
The evidence required Isabella's neurological access.
The trust was designed around biometric memory patterns.
As Isabella grew older, the system would unlock.
Vittorio needed her dependent.
He needed me distracted.
He needed fear.
Then Emma entered.
Vittorio looked at her.
And his expression changed.
“There.”
He understood.
“She found it.”
I moved between them.
“You're not touching her.”
Vittorio smiled.
“Then you'll surrender.”
“No.”
He left.
That night, our security system failed.
Emma disappeared.
Isabella screamed.
I searched the house.
Nothing.
Then I heard a tiny voice from the courtyard.
“Daddy!”
I ran.
Emma stood beside Isabella.
My daughter was standing.
Holding Emma's hand.
She had walked.
Not perfectly.
Not far.
But she had walked.
“Dad,” Isabella whispered.
“I did it.”
I hugged her.
Then Emma pointed toward the gate.
“The bad man is leaving.”
Vittorio's car disappeared into the night.
He had failed.
For now.
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But he'd taken something else.
The family ledger.
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