CHAPTER 1: THE SECRET IN THE ATTIC
Isabella smiled sadly and brushed a curl from Daniel’s forehead.
“Out of the life that keeps following you home.”
Lucas nodded.
“I want us gone. You, me, Daniel. No bodyguards. No lies. No Moretti empire.”
For the first time in years, he allowed himself to imagine freedom.
But someone else had been listening.
Standing outside the study door was Vincent Russo—Lucas’s childhood friend and most trusted adviser.
And Vincent was terrified.
Because if Lucas left, everything Vincent had secretly built behind his back would collapse.
The illegal accounts.
The hidden businesses.
The millions stolen from the Moretti family.
For years, Vincent had used Lucas’s name while filling his own pockets.
If Lucas walked away, the truth would come out.
Three months later, tragedy struck.
A fire erupted inside the Moretti family vacation house.
The official report called it an accident.
By sunrise, Isabella and little Daniel were dead.
Lucas never recovered.
He buried his wife and son beside a lake Isabella loved.
Then he became colder than winter.
The dream of leaving disappeared.
Only work remained.
Only power.
Only revenge against a world he believed had stolen everything.
What he never knew was that the fire had not been an accident.
And Vincent Russo had personally made sure every witness stayed silent.
Now, years later, as Lucas sat recovering in his mansion after Lily saved his life, old memories returned.
For the first time, he began questioning that terrible night.
And upstairs, in a dusty attic nobody visited anymore, Lily discovered a locked wooden box hidden beneath loose floorboards.
Inside were photographs.
Documents.
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And a child's silver bracelet engraved with one name.
Daniel.
