Chapter 3 - The Photograph in My Father's Safe Changed EverythingThe next morning, I went into my father's old office.

Nobody entered that room without permission.

I opened the safe.

Inside were documents I'd never bothered reading.

Old contracts.

Photographs.

Letters.

And one black folder marked:

G. TORRES

My heart stopped.

I opened it.

The first photograph showed Gabriel.

Standing beside my father.

And beside them was a woman.

My mother.

I stared at the picture.

There was something strange about it.

Gabriel was holding a baby.

Me.

The date was six years before my mother's death.

I turned the photograph over.

A handwritten sentence was there.

Gabriel knows what happened to Elena.

Elena.

My mother's name.

I read the sentence again.

Then again.

My father had always told me my mother died from complications after an illness.

But suddenly, I wasn't sure.

I called my oldest surviving family lawyer.

“Tell me everything about my mother's death.”

There was silence.

“Mr. Hale…”

“Everything.”

He hesitated.

Then said,

“Your father ordered the records sealed.”

“Why?”

“I don't know.”

“Find out.”

That afternoon, Maria didn't come to work.

Neither did Sofia.

I immediately sent two men to check her apartment.

She was gone.

So was Sofia.

My stomach tightened.

I called Marcus, my head of security.

“Find them.”

“We're already looking.”

“Bring them back.”

“Alive?”

I stared at him.

“Obviously.”

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