Chapter 4 - The Unmasked Traitor
Dante grabbed Clara by the collar of her maid uniform, lifting her halfway off the floor with effortless, terrifying strength. His bodyguards immediately stepped into the hallway, locking the nursery doors to ensure no one escaped.
"Talk," Dante commanded, his voice shaking with a rage that threatened to consume the entire mansion. "Who gave you the poison?"
Clara whimpered, her hands clutching Dante's wrist as she gasped for air. "I didn't mean to! They forced me! They said they would kill my family if I didn't finish the job!"
"Who is 'they'?" Dante demanded, slamming her back against the wooden trim of the window frame.
Vivienne walked forward, setting her navy leather purse onto the table. She pulled out a printed manila folder containing bank statements and encrypted communication logs she had compiled over the past forty-eight hours.
"Her real name isn't Clara Bell," Vivienne revealed, her voice dropping into a razor-sharp tone. "Her real name is Clara Vance. She is the younger sister of Julian Vance—the head of the rival Syndicate who ordered the hit on your brother."
Dante’s eyes widened in profound shock. Julian Vance was his primary business partner, the man who had sat at his table three nights ago to sign a historic peace treaty between their families.
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"She was placed in this house four months ago as a nanny," Vivienne continued, flipping open the folder to show wire transfers. "Every week, fifty thousand dollars was deposited into an offshore account in the Cayman Islands under her real name."
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