Chapter 5 - The Man Who Turned His Back on the Empire for HerThe ledger was finally opened.
Names.
Money.
Secrets.
Enough to destroy the entire organization.
Nico read every page.
He found his father.
His uncle.
His grandfather.
Every generation.
Then Sienna saw one name.
Her own.
A note beside it.
Beneficiary — full authority at age thirty.
She froze.
"I turn thirty in two years."
Nico nodded.
"But I'm not thirty."
"That's why Victor is moving early."
"What happens when I turn thirty?"
"You inherit the remaining legitimate assets."
"And the illegal ones?"
"They dissolve."
Sienna understood.
Victor wanted control before that happened.
Her inheritance could end everything.
Nico made a decision.
He dismantled the last criminal accounts.
Turned over evidence.
Protected witnesses.
He gave prosecutors everything.
The consequences were enormous.
His company nearly collapsed.
But he refused to retreat.
Sienna stayed.
"You don't have to."
"Yes."
"Why?"
"Because I'm tired of protecting an empire built by dead men."
He looked at her.
"I want something else."
"What?"
"You."
She kissed him.
Their relationship became public.
The media exploded.
The feared mafia boss and the waitress.
People mocked her.
Called her a gold digger.
Called him reckless.
Sienna ignored them.
She went back to work.
Nico kept showing up at Vesper.
She made him carry trays once.
He nearly started a riot.
She laughed.
One evening, he asked:
"Why do you still work?"
"Because I like my life."
"You have everything now."
"I have you."
He smiled.
"That's dangerous."
"So are you."
They kissed.
Then Sienna found something in the ledger.
A final page.
A name.
Marcus Vale.
Nico went still.
"Who?"
"Your father's attorney."
"He's dead."
"Apparently not."
The man who had arranged the original betrayal was still alive.
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And he was funding Victor.
They had found the real architect.
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