Chapter 2 - The Silver Secret
The cinematic tension in the bright foyer spiked to a paralyzing level.
Nora didn't cry from her little fall. She smiled proudly, her innocent blue eyes lighting up. She unclasped the plastic buckle of her tiny pink purse.
"A secret," Nora announced cheerfully.
Standing on the staircase behind her, Elena let out a sharp, breathless gasp. She gripped the marble banister so tightly her knuckles turned bone-white. She desperately wanted to scream, to run down the stairs and snatch the purse away, but the three heavily armed guards staring at her kept her completely paralyzed.
Nora reached her tiny hand into the purse and pulled out a heavy, antique silver pocket watch.
She held it up by its silver chain, offering it to the towering mafia boss.
Adrian’s smile completely vanished.
He stopped breathing. The air was violently crushed from his lungs. He stared at the silver object dangling from the child's hand, his dark, lethal eyes widening in absolute, earth-shattering shock.
With heavily tattooed, violently trembling hands, Adrian slowly reached out and took the pocket watch.
An extreme close-up captured Adrian turning the heavy silver watch over in his palm. Engraved deeply into the polished metal were the initials: J.C.
It wasn't just any watch. It belonged to Julian, Adrian’s older brother.
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Julian had been brutally murdered four years ago in a horrific, unsolved ambush. Adrian had torn the city apart looking for the killers, but he had never found them. The silver watch was the only thing taken from his brother's body.
👉 Adrian slowly looked up at Elena, and the terrifying executioner inside the billionaire officially awakened.
