Chapter 6 - My Mother Confessed to Helping Kill Claire, but Her Evidence Revealed Rafael Had Manipulated Everyone From the Moment My Daughters Were BornMy mother told the truth.
Finally.
Rafael had approached her years earlier.
He promised to restore the family to “its proper order.”
My mother believed the twins would divide the inheritance.
She wanted Lily to inherit.
She feared Sofia's medical condition would make the family vulnerable.
Rafael exploited that fear.
He convinced her to cooperate.
The accident.
The medical manipulation.
The missing records.
The necklace.
Everything.
But Claire found out.
She confronted him.
Rafael ordered her death.
My mother didn't pull the trigger.
She didn't need to.
She gave him access.
She deleted records.
She lied.
She helped bury the truth.
That was enough.
I asked:
“Why Elena?”
“She knew Marina.”
“She knew the truth.”
“Yes.”
“And the necklace?”
“Rafael wanted the family to believe she was a thief.”
“So she would be fired.”
“Yes.”
“Then?”
“She would leave.”
“And Sofia?”
“Without Elena, she'd stop progressing.”
I looked at my mother.
“You wanted my daughter helpless.”
She cried.
“Yes.”
The words hurt more than I expected.
Because this woman had held me as a child.
Then she had helped cripple my daughter.
I couldn't forgive her.
Not yet.
But I needed her testimony.
She gave us the location of Rafael's archive.
An abandoned monastery outside the city.
We went.
Inside, we found records.
Everything.
The family network.
The illegal empire.
The trust.
The assassination.
Claire's murder.
And one final recording.
Claire.
Alive.
The night before she died.
She spoke directly to me.
“Adrian, if you're seeing this, I'm gone.”
I cried.
She continued.
“I am not asking you to avenge me.”
“I'm asking you to protect the girls.”
“Both of them.”
“Do not let my death become another reason for violence.”
Then:
“Choose them over everything.”
I stopped the recording.
Elena stood beside me.
“She loved you.”
I nodded.
“And she trusted you.”
I looked at her.
“Did she trust you too?”
Elena smiled sadly.
“Yes.”
“How?”
“She said I was stubborn.”
I laughed through tears.
That sounded exactly like Claire.
Then a noise came from outside.
Rafael.
We went after him.
He escaped.
But left behind one final message.
THE GIRLS WILL NEVER BE SAFE WHILE THE EMPIRE EXISTS.
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I understood.
We needed to end everything.
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