Chapter 9 - Isabella’s Death Had Nothing to Do With the Garden
Rumors started immediately.
That angered Alessio.
People heard “chemicals.”
Then heard Isabella had died.
The internet did what frightened people often do—
connected two facts before evidence did.
Alessio refused.
Isabella had died from an aggressive cancer diagnosed before the garden dispute began.
Her physicians found no basis for linking her illness to the substances identified in the flowerbeds.
Alessio made that distinction clear even when a more sensational explanation would have made Marco and Claudia look worse.
They did not need to become murderers for their actions to matter.
What they had actually done was already enough.
They exploited access to a grieving family.
They manipulated contracts.
They concealed containers.
They attempted to erase soil evidence.
And Claudia had turned that cover-up against a seven-year-old child who kept insisting her mother’s flowers remain untouched.
Truth did not need a fictional murder added to it.
Isabella had died from disease.
The Morettis’ wrongdoing came afterward—
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when they decided her death meant nobody would finish asking the questions she had started.
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