Chapter 6 - The Harbor of GhostsThe old harbor was abandoned.
Rusting warehouses lined the river.
Fog covered the water.
Alessandro entered first.
I stayed behind with Emma and Gabriel.
Then the speakers crackled.
A man's voice filled the warehouse.
“Alessandro.”
The old man stepped from the shadows.
He looked almost exactly like the photographs.
Older.
Thinner.
But unmistakably Moretti.
Alessandro stared at him.
“You're dead.”
His father smiled.
“I was supposed to be.”
“You killed Matteo.”
“I corrected a problem.”
Alessandro's gun rose.
I grabbed his arm.
“No.”
His father laughed.
“You see? She already controls you.”
Alessandro lowered the weapon.
“She doesn't control me.”
“She changed you.”
“Yes.”
The old man seemed confused.
“That is weakness.”
“No.”
Alessandro looked at me.
“That is the first thing you taught me that was wrong.”
Gunmen emerged from the shadows.
Gabriel fired.
Chaos exploded.
I grabbed Emma.
We ran.
The old man shouted.
“Take the child!”
Men chased us through the warehouse.
Emma suddenly stopped.
“Mama!”
“What?”
She pointed toward the floor.
A yellow crayon lay beside a metal door.
She had dropped one earlier.
I understood.
Someone had been marking our path.
The mysterious second man was helping us.
Daniel.
He appeared from the darkness.
“This way.”
We followed.
He led us into an underground passage.
Behind us came gunfire.
Then silence.
Daniel stopped.
“Your father is gone.”
Alessandro looked back.
“What?”
“He escaped through the river.”
But he left something behind.
A file.
Inside was the truth about Thomas's death.
Thomas had not been killed because he betrayed Alessandro.
He had been killed because he discovered their father planned to use the Moretti organization to build an international criminal network.
Thomas had tried to stop him.
He had died protecting Alessandro.
The brothers had spent years believing the wrong story.
Alessandro closed the file.
“My brother saved me.”
I touched his shoulder.
“Yes.”
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He looked at Emma.
“And she saved us.”
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