Chapter 7 - The Final Trap Was Waiting Beneath the Mansion
We returned to the estate.
The house was dark.
No security.
No lights.
No movement.
Too quiet.
Luca stopped at the entrance.
"This is wrong."
I nodded.
"The message wants us inside."
"Exactly."
Then the doors opened by themselves.
A speaker crackled.
Bellini's voice filled the hall.
"Welcome home."
Luca stepped forward.
"Come out."
Bellini laughed.
"Always impatient."
The floor beneath us locked.
Metal doors slammed shut.
A trap.
Smoke began filling the hallway.
Luca pulled me toward the emergency stairwell.
"Move."
We escaped into the underground levels.
Bellini had transformed the old vault into a command center.
Monitors covered the walls.
Files were everywhere.
He stood behind a glass partition.
"You should have accepted the agreement."
Luca stared.
"You wanted my company."
"No."
Bellini smiled.
"I wanted you."
Luca's expression hardened.
"You've always wanted control."
"I wanted the Moretti bloodline."
I realized what he meant.
He had wanted Luca to marry into one of his controlled families.
He wanted access through succession.
Then his gaze shifted to me.
"Until she arrived."
Luca stepped in front of me.
"You don't get to speak about her."
Bellini smiled.
"That's exactly your weakness."
"No."
Luca raised his weapon.
"That's your mistake."
Bellini activated the monitors.
Bank records appeared.
Court documents.
Photos.
Everything that could destroy Luca.
"You shoot me, and every piece of evidence goes public."
Luca didn't move.
I saw something on one monitor.
A countdown.
Ten minutes.
"What is that?"
Bellini smiled.
"The system will release everything automatically."
I examined the interface.
My father's coding style.
I recognized it.
"This isn't your system."
Bellini frowned.
"What?"
I stepped closer to the monitor.
"My father built this."
Luca looked at me.
"Can you stop it?"
"Maybe."
Bellini moved toward me.
"Don't touch that."
I smiled faintly.
"You just gave me the answer."
The countdown had a manual override.
Bellini didn't know I could read the Italian labels in the system.
I typed.
The release stopped.
Bellini's face fell.
"No."
Luca's security team stormed the lower level.
The glass partition shattered.
Bellini was captured.
He fought until the final second.
But this time, there was nowhere to run.
When the police arrived, Luca handed them every document.
No secrets.
No threats.
No revenge.
Evidence.
Everything went into official hands.
Months later, the trials began.
The Moretti organization changed completely.
Luca sold the businesses connected to illegal operations.
He kept the restaurants.
The legitimate properties.
The employees who had done nothing wrong.
He walked away from the world that had created him.
People expected him to remain feared.
Instead, he became almost invisible.
Just like I once had.
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Only now, invisibility wasn't survival.
It was peace.
