Chapter 7 - Roman Learned His Own Father Had Ordered His Mother’s Death—and Our Marriage Was Almost Destroyed by the Truth
Roman's father was alive.
He had been living in a private facility under another name.
When Roman confronted him, the old man confessed.
He had ordered the attack on Roman's mother.
Not because she betrayed him.
Because he believed she would expose everything.
Roman was devastated.
He wanted revenge.
I stopped him.
“No.”
“He killed her.”
“And if you kill him, you become him.”
Roman looked at me.
Then lowered his gun.
His father began crying.
The man who had once terrified Chicago was suddenly an old man.
We handed him to the authorities.
The Black Ledger became public.
The city erupted.
Judges resigned.
Politicians were arrested.
Businesses were investigated.
The DeLuca name was dragged through the headlines.
Roman could have run.
Instead, he stayed.
He testified.
He dismantled the criminal businesses.
He gave investigators access to everything.
I stood beside him.
Not as the mafia boss's wife.
As Anna.
We faced the cameras together.
Roman said:
“My family built an empire.”
He looked at me.
“She taught me how to end it.”
That sentence changed everything.
Months later, we opened a foundation using the money recovered from legitimate assets.
It helped families harmed by organized crime.
My mother joined us.
My father testified.
Noah went back to school.
My relationship with Roman grew stronger.
But there was still one final mystery.
The first message sent to me had said:
THEY KNOW WHERE YOU ARE.
We discovered it came from inside our own house.
Someone had been watching us.
A hidden camera.
We traced it.
The signal led to one person.
David.
My old manager.
The man who had looked away when Preston humiliated me.
He had been working for Voss.
And he had orchestrated the restaurant incident.
Roman found him.
David confessed.
He had been paid to test whether Roman would publicly claim me.
The humiliation had been a trap.
But his final confession was worse.
“Voss didn't expect you to become his weakness.”
David laughed.
“He expected Roman to abandon you.”
Roman looked at me.
“I would never.”
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David's smile disappeared.
“That was the mistake.”
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