Chapter 12 - Elena Finally Fought Back
Elena had spent three months running.
From Luca's disappearance.
From the strange calls.
From the questions.
From the possibility that someone wanted Mia.
But now she was done running.
She looked at Alessandro.
“I know where she'll go.”
He listened.
“Grace always talked about one place.”
“What place?”
“A storage facility near the river.”
Elena explained that Grace had once mentioned it while talking about cheap furniture.
At the time, Elena hadn't cared.
Now the location made sense.
It was close to one of Alessandro's abandoned warehouses.
They went there before dawn.
Alessandro refused to let Elena enter alone.
But Elena insisted.
“If she wants me, she'll talk.”
The warehouse was empty.
At first.
Then a light appeared in the far office.
Grace stepped out.
She wasn't holding a weapon.
She was holding a folder.
“Where's my daughter?” Elena asked.
Grace smiled faintly.
“She was never the target.”
Alessandro stepped forward.
“Then who was?”
Grace looked at him.
“You.”
The folder contained photographs of Alessandro's business associates, property records, family connections, and private schedules.
Someone had spent months building a map of his life.
Grace explained that the network wanted access to his financial operations.
Mia had been bait.
Elena had been the easiest person to manipulate because she was desperate.
Luca had discovered the plan.
Daniel had helped him.
Marco had unknowingly protected the wrong information.
Grace had orchestrated all of it.
But she wasn't the person in charge.
Alessandro asked who was.
Grace looked frightened for the first time.
“I never met him.”
“Then how did you receive instructions?”
“Through the same person who contacted Luca.”
Alessandro's expression tightened.
“What person?”
Grace placed the folder on the table.
Inside was one photograph.
A man stood beside Alessandro's father.
Alessandro hadn't seen the photograph in twenty years.
His father had always claimed the man died before Alessandro took over.
But the date on the back was from six months ago.
The man was alive.
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And he had been watching Alessandro's family for years.
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