CHAPTER 6 She Risked Her Life to Save the Mafia Boss… Then Learned the Greatest Secret Was Never About Money
Doctors fought to stop Dominic's bleeding inside the mansion's private medical wing.
Outside...
The battle continued.
Sophie refused to leave his side.
One elderly doctor looked at her.
"If we don't get compatible blood immediately..."
"He won't survive."
Without hesitation, Sophie spoke.
"Test mine."
Everyone stared.
Minutes later...
The laboratory technician ran back into the room.
His face had turned pale.
"This can't be right."
Dominic opened his weak eyes.
"What is it?"
The technician swallowed.
"The DNA markers..."
"They're not random."
The room froze.
Sophie whispered,
"What does that mean?"
The technician looked at Dominic.
"Someone falsified the records twenty-four years ago."
"You aren't related by blood..."
"But your families are connected through something much bigger."
Dominic slowly sat upright despite the pain.
"What are you talking about?"
The technician handed him another sealed file recovered from the DeLuca archives.
Inside was a photograph taken twenty-five years earlier.
Two young men stood smiling beside a pregnant woman.
One was Dominic.
The other...
was Sophie's real father.
On the back of the photo were only six handwritten words.
"If one family falls, protect the other."
Dominic closed his eyes.
For twenty-four years...
He had believed he lost only the woman he loved.
Now he realized she had spent her final days protecting both families from a conspiracy that reached far beyond Chicago.
Just then...
Every phone inside the mansion vibrated simultaneously.
A video appeared on every screen.
Vincent smiled into the camera.
"You've all been chasing the wrong inheritance."
"The real fortune isn't money."
"It's a ledger."
"A ledger containing the names of every politician, judge, police chief, and billionaire who secretly built this empire."
"And I already know where the last page is."
Sophie's face turned white.
Because only moments earlier...
While reading her mother's final letter...
She had discovered a folded page hidden inside the envelope.
Without realizing it...
She had slipped it into her jacket pocket.
She slowly reached inside.
The paper was still there.
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And written across the top, in faded ink, were the words that could destroy the most powerful people in America.
THE MORETTI LEDGER
