Chapter 4 - My Mother Opened the Estate Gates for the People Hunting Emma, and I Finally Learned Why She Had Been Protecting My Family’s Darkest SecretWe confronted my mother.
She arrived surrounded by armed men.
Not attackers.
Family guards.
I couldn't understand.
“Mom.”
She looked at Luca.
Tears filled her eyes.
“You're alive.”
Luca didn't speak.
She turned to me.
“I didn't know you would find him.”
“Tell me the truth.”
She sighed.
Then everything came out.
My grandfather had created the trust.
Nathan had tried to steal it.
My father resisted.
Luca discovered everything.
My mother helped him disappear.
She didn't betray us.
She had protected us.
The attacks were coming from Nathan's remaining network.
But there was another truth.
Nathan wasn't dead either.
He had faked his death.
And he wanted Emma.
Because Emma was the final heir.
My mother opened the gates because she wanted to force Nathan's people into the estate.
She wanted them contained.
I looked at her.
“You used us as bait.”
She nodded.
“I knew you would never come unless you believed Emma was in danger.”
I hated the strategy.
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But I understood the sacrifice.
Then the estate came under attack.
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