Chapter 7 - The Billion-Dollar Secret
Clara took a shaking step down the stairs.
"It's the real reason he wants me dead, Mr. Lorenzo," Clara said, her voice growing stronger as she realized her abuser was finally losing control.
Richard scrambled to his feet, sweating profusely. "Don't listen to her! She's crazy! Officers, arrest her!"
"Before my father died," Clara continued, ignoring her ex-husband, "he left a massive, two-hundred-million-dollar trust fund for Sofia. Richard can only access the money if he has full, uncontested custody of her. But my father knew Richard was corrupt."
Clara pointed a shaking finger at the flash drive in Lorenzo's hand.
"That drive was locked in my father's safe," Clara revealed. "I took it the night I ran away and sewed it into Sofia's bear. It contains every single offshore bank record. Every bribe Richard took from the cartels. Every wire transfer he embezzled from the state. And it has the hidden camera footage from my living room... proving he beat me, and proving he staged the robbery to frame me."
The silence in the grand foyer was absolute.
Richard was hyperventilating. His political career, his freedom, and his entire life were resting in the palm of a mafia boss's tattooed hand.
"Moretti, listen to me," Richard pleaded, his voice dropping to a desperate, pathetic whisper. "I can make you untouchable. I can pass zoning laws for your casinos. I can get the feds off your back forever! Just give me the drive and the girl, and we walk away as partners!"
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Lorenzo stared at the sniveling politician. He looked at the flash drive. Then, he looked up at Clara, who was clutching her daughter, waiting to see if she was going to be sold to the devil.
👉 How will Lorenzo use the ultimate leverage to destroy the corrupt Senator?
