Chapter 10 - The Executioner's Wrath
Luca completely froze on his knees.
The warm, gentle, emotional son kneeling on the floor entirely vanished into the air. It was instantly, violently replaced by the cold, ruthless, and absolutely terrifying apex predator of the criminal syndicate. The muscles in his jaw clenched so tightly the dark neck tattoos visibly shifted beneath his skin.
He slowly let go of his mother's hands and stood up.
He turned his broad, heavily muscled back to the wheelchair and looked directly at his wife. The look in his dark eyes was completely devoid of any human mercy. It was the absolute, frozen stare of an executioner who had just been handed a signed death warrant.
"Luca... Luca, please, she's lying!" Valeria shrieked hysterically, completely losing her elegant mind. She stumbled backward, her expensive diamond earrings shaking as she desperately tried to back away from the table. "Her brain is damaged! She doesn't know what she's saying! I love you! I took care of her!"
"You kept my mother in a cage," Luca stated. His voice wasn't a shout. It was incredibly low, dark, and vibrating with an absolute, world-ending promise of lethal destruction.
He didn't need to hear another word. He didn't ask for medical files. The undeniable truth was written completely across his wife's terrified, pale, and deeply guilty face. Luca didn't even raise his hand. He simply gave a single, almost imperceptible nod to the massive, heavily armed enforcers standing near the doors.
The elite bodyguards moved instantly. They aggressively grabbed Valeria by her expensive dark burgundy silk dress, entirely ignoring her hysterical screaming, violently dragging her down to the soundproof depths of the mansion's basement.
Luca turned back to the wheelchair, a fierce, proud smile breaking across his handsome face. He immediately elevated Sophia to Head of Household, ensuring the brave maid who saved his mother would possess immense wealth and power forever.
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Justice had prevailed, the cruel parasite was cast out into the dark, and the fierce matriarch who had survived a year in a silent prison had finally, gloriously reclaimed her absolute throne.
What would you do if you realized the person sleeping next to you was secretly torturing your family?
