Chapter 10 - THE GHOST IN THE MIRROR AND THE UNEXPECTED SANCTUARY
Ethan pressed the button, and heavy iron blast doors slammed down across every exit of the mansion, locking all of them inside the burning structure. "Thirty years ago, I stood at the top of those stairs while my father and brother laughed," Ethan said quietly, his voice cutting through the roar of the fire. "I knew who you were the day you walked into this house, Olivia. I knew about your father Arthur Vance. I knew you staged the fall. I let you play your game because I wanted my father and brother destroyed without dirtying my own hands."
As the flames licked the ceiling, the shocking truth was laid bare: Ethan was never the gullible victim. He was the architect who had orchestrated his family's downfall from the very beginning, using Olivia's thirst for vengeance as his ultimate weapon. He had allowed her to build her false sanctuary just so he could torch it with everyone inside once the debt was paid. As the iron gates outside stood wide open in the pouring rain, silent witnesses watched from afar as the grand estate burned to ashes, taking the dark secrets of two monstrous dynasties down into the flames forever.
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