Chapter 13 - The Last Enemy Had Nothing to Do With the MafiaThree years passed.
The medical center expanded.
Our family was happy.
Then a new threat appeared.
A private pharmaceutical company sued us.
They claimed ownership of the Lumen treatment.
They had purchased a patent.
The patent was based on stolen research.
Their CEO was a man named Victor Kane.
I recognized him.
One of Bell's old investors.
The final piece.
He wanted control over the treatment.
If he won, thousands of children would lose access.
We fought in court.
Elena led the scientific defense.
I handled the financial side.
Salvatore testified.
Sofia testified.
Daniel even testified through a recorded statement.
The court asked:
“Why should this treatment remain free?”
Daniel answered:
“Because sick kids didn't choose to be sick.”
The recording went viral.
Public opinion turned.
Kane lost.
The patent was invalidated.
The treatment became public.
And Daniel's story became known.
He was the boy whose father once ruled New York's underworld.
Now he was the face of a children's medical movement.
He hated interviews.
He preferred baseball.
We let him.
That evening, Elena found me on the terrace.
“You're quiet.”
“Thinking.”
“Dangerous.”
I smiled.
“You remember the first night?”
“The hospital.”
“Yes.”
“You were terrifying.”
“I was afraid.”
“I know.”
“You weren't.”
“I was.”
“Then why did you stand there?”
She looked at me.
“Because he was a child.”
I smiled.
“And now?”
“Now he's our child.”
I pulled her close.
“Your child.”
She laughed.
“Our child.”
We kissed.
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And the last chapter of the Moretti empire quietly became something else.
A family.
