Chapter 8 - The Price of Treason
Preston dropped to his knees on the wet tile, sobbing pathetically, reaching for Dante's shoes. "Dante, please! Take the money! Take all three million! It's in the safe inside! Just let me live!"
Dante looked down at him with complete, unadulterated disgust. "I don't want your stolen cash, Preston. That money belongs to your daughter's trust fund."
Marco stepped forward, tossing a thick legal document onto the patio table.
"You are going to sign over every offshore account, every property deed, and a full confession of your forgery to the federal prosecutor," Dante commanded coldly. "And then you are going to sign a total renunciation of your parental rights to Maya."
"And if I refuse?!" Preston whimpered, his hands shaking violently.
Dante stepped forward, leaning down until his eyes burned into Preston's soul. "If you refuse, I leave you in this room with the local authorities who know about your illegal smuggling operations. You will spend forty years in a Central American prison."
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With shaking fingers and tears streaming down his face, Preston grabbed the pen and signed every single line, stripping himself of his fortune, his freedom, and his family forever.
👉 Read PART 9 to see Victoria's reaction when Dante returned with her daughter's future secured!
