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Chapter 7 - Stripped of the Family Name

Victoria backed away until her spine hit the stainless steel refrigerator, her eyes wide with terror as her own son looked at her as if she were a total stranger.

"Dominic, I am your mother!" Victoria pleaded, her hands trembling as she tried to reach for his arm. "I did it for the family! For the Moretti name! That girl is a commoner! She would have ruined your standing in the syndicate!"

"You are not my family," Dominic replied coldly, stepping back from her touch as if she were poison. "You destroyed the only pure thing I ever had, and you left my daughter to suffer without medical care."

Dominic turned to Enzo, his tone sharp and decisive. "Effective immediately, Victoria Moretti is stripped of all signing authority, all credit accounts, and all access to the Moretti family properties. Transfer her personal estate holdings directly into a trust fund for Lily's medical treatment."

"You can't do this to me!" Victoria screamed, her aristocratic voice screeching in high-pitched hysteria as two guards grabbed her arms. "I am the matriarch of this house!"

"You are a criminal who targeted a child," Dominic countered with deadpan finality. "Enzo, place her under house arrest at the northern estate in isolation. She will have no phone, no internet, and no visitors for the rest of her natural life."

As Victoria was dragged screaming out of the service wing, her desperate cries echoed down the long hallway before fading into complete silence.

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Dominic turned back to Sophia, his eyes softening as he reached out to take her trembling hand.

👉 Read Part 8 to see how Dominic saves Lily's life.

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