Chapter 3 - The Secret Code
"No one gets in or out. You’re safe with me," Dante reassured her in a stern, gentle tone.
He stared out through the narrow glass slit of the reinforced doors into the pitch-black estate grounds, his eyes burning with cold, lethal resolve.
"I will bring your mother back," Dante whispered into the darkness.
He carried Lucy into his private study, setting her gently on the mahogany desk. He examined the wooden chess rook under the desk lamp. Tucked inside a small carved groove at the base of the piece was a thin piece of paper soaked in fresh blood.
Dante unfolded it with shaking fingers. Written in hurried, desperate handwriting was a single sentence: Enzo took me. He knows about the heir.
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Dante’s jaw tightened until his knuckles turned white. Clara, his former chief accountant who had vanished four years ago, was Lucy's mother. And Enzo—Dante’s treacherous underboss—had finally hunted her down.
👉 Keep reading to uncover why Enzo kidnapped Clara after four years in hiding.
