Chapter 10 - The Day My Daughter Became the Target of Every Enemy I Had Ever MadeEmma's eighteenth birthday was approaching.
The foundation had become one of the largest in New England.
The family was stable.
Sofia and I were married.
Emma was preparing for college.
She wanted medicine.
She wanted to become a pediatric cardiologist.
I laughed when she told me.
“You'll have to study.”
“I know.”
“That is unfortunate.”
She smiled.
Then the first attack happened.
Her university application was hacked.
Someone sent her private messages.
Photographs.
Threats.
She didn't tell me.
I found out because security detected the intrusion.
I confronted her.
“You should tell me.”
“I didn't want you to worry.”
“You're my daughter.”
“Exactly.”
She smiled.
“That's why.”
I hugged her.
“You don't protect people by hiding from them.”
She nodded.
That was something I had once done.
Then another attack.
The foundation's accounts were frozen.
Our legal board was targeted.
A judge received a bribe.
The network was returning.
Anthony.
He had spent years rebuilding.
We traced him to New York.
Then Philadelphia.
Then Boston.
He wanted the trust.
But Emma refused.
At the final meeting, she stood before the board.
“I will not surrender my inheritance.”
“What will you do?”
She looked at me.
“Give it away.”
Silence.
The entire fortune.
Billions.
She wanted to establish permanent trusts.
For children.
Hospitals.
Education.
Victims.
Exactly what my father had intended.
Anthony appeared on a screen.
“You will regret this.”
Emma smiled.
“No.”
“You think you're powerful.”
“No.”
“I have spent my entire life building this family.”
Emma looked at him.
“And I spent mine learning how to end it.”
He froze.
She had won.
Then the screen went black.
The police arrived.
Anthony had been caught.
This time, permanently.
He would spend the rest of his life in prison.
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For the first time, the Moretti story was over.
Or so we thought.
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