Chapter 3 - The Second Bomb Went Off Beneath the Dons, but My Daughter’s Tiny Warning Saved the One Man the Traitors Most Needed DeadThe explosion threw everyone across the room.
I hit the wall.
Emma disappeared from my arms.
“Emma!”
Smoke filled the air.
Men shouted.
Glass shattered.
Security rushed forward.
I crawled through the debris.
“Emma!”
Then I heard her.
“Mama!”
She was under a table.
Alive.
I pulled her out.
She was crying.
I hugged her.
“I'm here.”
Damiano appeared through the smoke.
Blood ran down his forehead.
But he was standing.
“Are you hurt?”
I shook my head.
Emma looked at him.
“You're bleeding.”
He touched his forehead.
“So are you.”
She showed him a tiny scratch.
He knelt.
“Does it hurt?”
“A little.”
He smiled.
“Then you're tougher than most men I know.”
The five dons had survived.
Barely.
One was injured.
But alive.
The peace agreement was now irrelevant.
Someone wanted all of them dead.
Damiano stood.
“Seal the estate.”
Every exit locked.
Phones confiscated.
No vehicles allowed out.
Everyone searched.
Then one don spoke.
“You have a traitor.”
Damiano looked at him.
“Several.”
The man laughed.
“Then you are more vulnerable than I thought.”
Damiano's gaze sharpened.
“No.”
He looked toward me.
“I was vulnerable.”
Then toward Emma.
“I'm not anymore.”
The room went silent.
He had made his choice.
He would protect us.
No matter the cost.
Later, in the medical room, a physician treated my injuries.
Emma sat beside me.
Damiano entered.
He held a file.
“I know who planted the second bomb.”
“Who?”
“One of my security officers.”
“Which one?”
“Martin.”
I remembered him.
He had always been quiet.
Always polite.
He had brought drinks to the security room earlier.
Damiano ordered his capture.
Martin was found trying to leave through the servants' passage.
He confessed.
But he gave us a worse name.
“Her father.”
I stared.
“Whose father?”
“Vivienne's.”
Damiano went silent.
Vivienne's father had funded the attack.
And his reason wasn't money.
It was revenge.
Years earlier, Damiano's father had destroyed his family.
The peace agreement would have ended a blood feud.
Vivienne's father wanted it to continue.
He wanted the five dons killed.
Damiano blamed.
He wanted to inherit the resulting chaos.
The mastermind wasn't Vivienne.
May you like
It was her father.
And he was already inside the mansion.
Related Stories
