CHAPTER 4 – The Real Mastermind
"No..."
Grandmother whispered through trembling lips.
"You don't understand."
Emily stared at her.
"Then explain."
Tears streamed down Eleanor's face as she slowly sat in her chair.
Twenty-three years earlier...
Emily's father, Daniel Carter, had discovered that the Carter family empire was being secretly drained by someone inside the company.
Millions disappeared every month.
The thief wasn't Marcus.
It wasn't Eleanor.
It was someone far more powerful.
Someone whose name could destroy the entire family forever.
Before Daniel could expose the truth...
He was kidnapped.
The family was told he had died in a boating accident.
Only Eleanor knew he was still alive.
But she stayed silent.
Not because she wanted the money...
Because the kidnappers had made one impossible demand.
"If you tell anyone he's alive..."
"We'll kill your daughter."
Emily's mother.
For twenty-three years...
Eleanor lived with unbearable guilt.
Marcus suddenly laughed.
A slow...
Cold...
Terrifying laugh.
"You still don't get it."
Everyone looked at him.
He calmly removed a small remote control from his pocket.
"You've all been blaming the wrong person."
Click.
Every television inside the mansion switched on at the same time.
A live security feed appeared.
The screen showed Emily's childhood bedroom.
Sitting quietly in the chair...
Was a woman no one believed could possibly be alive.
Emily dropped to the floor.
"...Mom?"
The woman slowly looked into the camera.
Her eyes filled with tears.
Then she whispered only four words—
"Don't trust your father."
Daniel's face turned completely white.
Because he recognized something no one else noticed.
The woman in the video...
Wasn't Emily's mother.
She was her identical twin sister.
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The sister the family had secretly erased from history.
And she had been alive all along...
