Chapter 4 - Hidden Malice
Dimitri retreated behind the service bar, his hands trembling as he pulled out his mobile phone. He dialed a secret contact under the shadowy overhang of the mahogany archway.
"She’s talking to Valente right now," Dimitri hissed into the speaker. "If she stays here any longer, Valente will discover what we did to her mother’s account!"
Four months ago, before Serafina’s mother passed away in the local hospice, Dimitri and his corrupt business partner, Julian, had fraudulently used Serafina’s mother's signature to siphon over two hundred thousand dollars from her late husband’s trust fund. They had forced Serafina into poverty, forcing her to work as a lowly waitress while secretly making sure she could never afford a lawyer to audit the hospital accounts.
If Matteo Valente took an interest in Serafina’s life, his dangerous network of investigators would unravel Dimitri’s fraud in hours.
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Dimitri slipped a small glass vial from his jacket pocket—a fast-acting sedative designed to cause an immediate medical emergency—and tipped two drops into the fresh cup of herbal tea prepared for Serafina at the service station.
👉 Read on to see if Serafina falls into the manager's trap.
