Chapter 3 - The Five-Year Lie
To understand the absolute gravity of the moment in the ballroom, one had to understand the nightmare that occurred five years ago.
Dominic and Natalie had been deeply in love, building a life together away from the violent shadows of his syndicate. But Vanessa, his ambitious and deeply obsessive secretary, wanted the empire—and the boss—for herself.
While Dominic was overseas securing a massive cartel merger, Vanessa planted forged bank statements and a deeply manipulated audio recording suggesting Natalie was an informant for the federal government.
When Dominic returned, the stress of the underworld had made him paranoid and ruthless. Instead of listening to his wife, he listened to the fabricated evidence presented by his inner circle.
He didn't let Natalie speak. He didn't let her explain. He threw her out of his estate into a freezing, torrential rainstorm, warning her that if she ever showed her face in his city again, he would have her buried.
Natalie had left in tears, utterly broken, with absolutely nothing but the clothes on her back. And a massive secret she had planned to tell him that very night: she was pregnant with twins.
For five years, she had survived, built her own life, and protected her babies from the violent world of the mafia.
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But tonight, Dominic was staring at the undeniable, living proof of his own catastrophic mistake.
👉 Vanessa realized the mafia boss was putting the pieces together, and the desperate secretary was about to make a fatal miscalculation.
