Chapter 3 - The Secret Poison
Dante turned his head toward Clara with a dark, predatory deliberate movement. The room temperature seemed to plunge into absolute zero as the mafia boss took three slow steps toward the trembling nanny.
"What did you just say?" Dante asked in a low, dangerous growl.
Vivienne stepped between Dante and the changing table, gently picking up baby Leo and cradling his tiny body against her silk gown. She reached down with her free hand to grab an empty baby bottle resting in the waste bin beside the changing table.
"Ask your trusted maid who poisoned the baby's bottle..." Vivienne said in a chilling whisper, holding the plastic bottle up to the light of the chandelier. "And why she worked for your brother's murderer."
Dante stopped dead in his tracks. His eyes darted from the bottle to Clara, whose knees gave out as she collapsed onto the hardwood floor, sobbing in frantic panic.
Six months ago, Dante’s older brother—the previous head of the Moretti organization—had been assassinated in a mysterious hit that nearly destroyed their family. Infant Leo was his brother's only surviving heir, entrusted entirely to Dante’s protection.
For six months, Dante had searched every corner of the criminal underworld for the traitor who gave the assassins access to his brother's estate.
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Vivienne pointed to the clear liquid residue clinging to the nipple of the bottle. "This bottle was laced with a synthetic paralytic agent. It doesn't cause pain. It simply shuts down the infant's diaphragm over thirty minutes... making it look like sudden infant death syndrome."
👉 Read Part 4 to see how Vivienne uncovered the nanny's hidden identity.
