Chapter 8 - The Betrayal Inside the Blackwood Empire Forced Daniel to Admit the Truth He Had Been Fighting Since the Day I Entered His LifeDaniel finally told me he loved me.
Not romantically at first.
He meant it differently.
"You became family."
I stared at him.
"You barely knew me."
"I knew enough."
He told me about his father.
A brutal man.
A man who believed fear was the only form of control.
Daniel had spent years trying to escape him.
But the ledger could expose everything.
Including Daniel's own crimes.
"I don't deserve forgiveness," he said.
I answered:
"Maybe forgiveness isn't something you earn."
He looked at me.
"Then what is it?"
"A choice."
For the first time, Daniel smiled.
But Marcus returned that night.
He kidnapped Eleanor.
He left a message.
BRING THE LEDGER OR SHE DIES.
Daniel wanted to trade himself.
I refused.
"We need another plan."
"What plan?"
"Use the key."
The necklace opened a hidden vault beneath an abandoned Blackwood property.
Inside was the ledger.
But there was another document.
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A birth certificate.
And my name was on it.
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