💥 CHAPTER 4 — She Disappeared Without a Trace... Until the Mafia Boss Discovered the Secret She Had Hidden for Twenty Years
Vincent searched for three days.
Every airport.
Every train station.
Every hotel.
Every camera in Chicago.
Nothing.
It was as if Emma Carter had vanished into thin air.
His captains had never seen him like this.
He stopped attending meetings.
Ignored business deals.
Canceled shipments worth hundreds of millions.
One exhausted bodyguard finally whispered,
"Boss..."
"She's just a girl."
Vincent looked at him with hollow eyes.
"No."
"She's the reason I'm still alive."
On the fourth night...
A frightened nurse arrived at the mansion.
She carried a small metal box.
"I was told to give this to Mr. Vincent Moretti..."
"If anything ever happened."
Vincent immediately opened it.
Inside...
Was Emma's old medical school ID.
A faded photograph.
A silver necklace.
And dozens of hospital documents.
His expression changed instantly.
Emma Carter...
Had graduated at the top of her medical class.
She had been offered a residency at one of the best hospitals in America.
Then...
Everything stopped.
One document explained why.
Twenty years earlier...
Her father had testified against a powerful mafia organization.
Three days later...
He was murdered.
Her mother disappeared.
Emma was left alone in the foster system.
Vincent's breathing became heavier.
He turned another page.
A witness statement.
The name of the criminal family responsible...
Wasn't Moretti.
It was...
The Romano Syndicate.
The same family that had tried to assassinate Vincent.
Another photograph slipped from the folder.
Emma...
Standing beside her parents as a little girl.
In the background...
A young man was shaking hands with her father.
Vincent stared at the man's face.
His blood ran cold.
It was his own father.
Not as enemies...
As friends.
Someone had erased that history.
Someone had turned two families against each other.
Just then...
The mansion lights suddenly went out.
Darkness swallowed every room.
An explosion echoed outside.
BOOM!
Security alarms screamed.
Gunfire erupted across the estate.
Marco burst into the office.
"Boss!"
"They're attacking the mansion!"
Vincent didn't move.
His eyes were locked on one final sheet of paper inside the box.
It was a handwritten note from Emma.
"If you're reading this..."
"It means they've finally found me."
"Don't come looking for me..."
"Because the people hunting me..."
"Are the same people who murdered your mother."
Vincent's hands trembled.
His mother's death...
The betrayal.
The assassination.
Emma's past.
Everything was connected.
He slowly stood, picked up his pistol, and looked at Marco.
For the first time in years...
His voice carried not rage...
But purpose.
"Prepare every man we have."
"We're not defending the empire anymore."
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"We're bringing Emma home."
END OF CHAPTER 4...
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