Chapter 4 - Marco Entered My Mansion With Armed Men, Believing I Knew Nothing, but Lily Saw the One Detail That Exposed His Betrayal Before He Could Reach the NurseryMarco walked into the foyer as if nothing had happened.
He was wearing the same dark suit he'd worn to my engagement dinner.
He smiled.
“Sebastian.”
I returned the smile.
“Marco.”
His eyes moved toward Isabella.
Then Lily.
He paused for half a second.
I noticed.
“What's happening?” he asked.
“Security issue.”
He nodded.
“I came to help.”
“Of course.”
Three armed men stood behind him.
They pretended to be security.
They weren't.
Lily noticed one detail.
His shoes.
She whispered:
“Uncle.”
“Yes?”
“That man has mud on his left shoe.”
I looked.
The same mud pattern was visible in the surveillance image from the night Lily was followed.
I knew.
Marco had been there.
He had watched her.
I raised my hand.
My guards moved.
Marco reached for his weapon.
Too late.
He was surrounded.
He laughed.
“You think this proves anything?”
“No.”
I stepped closer.
“The documents will.”
His smile disappeared.
I showed him the hard drive.
He went pale.
“You found it.”
“Yes.”
“Then you know.”
“Everything.”
He looked at Lily.
“You don't understand what she is.”
“She is my niece.”
“She is an heir.”
“She is a child.”
He laughed.
“That's why you're weak.”
I stepped closer.
“You made one mistake.”
“What?”
“You thought love was weakness.”
He was arrested.
But before being taken away, he said:
“Nathan already has Sofia.”
My blood froze.
Sofia was missing.
We searched.
Her car was gone.
Her phone destroyed.
A message appeared on my private line.
Bring Lily to the Hudson warehouse. Alone.
I refused.
Then another.
A photograph of Sofia.
Alive.
Tied to a chair.
My jaw tightened.
Isabella stepped beside me.
“We go.”
I looked at her.
“It's a trap.”
“Yes.”
“Then why?”
“Because she's still Lily's biological aunt?”
I frowned.
“What?”
Isabella looked at the photograph.
“Sofia is hiding something.”
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We went.
But I did not go alone.
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