Chapter 2 - The Night Emma Disappeared
Emma remembered the night she left Dante.
It had been raining.
She had stood outside his private residence with one hand over her stomach, waiting for him to answer.
He never did.
Derek had found her afterward.
He told her Dante had ordered his men to make her disappear.
He showed her a message.
Stay away from me. The child isn't mine.
Emma had believed it.
What she never knew was that Dante had never sent that message.
His phone had been stolen that night.
Someone had accessed his accounts.
Someone had known exactly what would make Emma leave.
Now, three years later, Dante stood in front of her with proof.
“I need to know,” Emma whispered. “How?”
Dante looked at Sophia.
“Because I ordered the test weeks ago.”
Emma stared.
“Before she was born?”
“Yes.”
“Why?”
“I received a medical file with her blood type.”
Dante paused.
“It matched mine.”
Emma's heart pounded.
Dante had quietly investigated.
But he had not come to claim Sophia.
He had come because someone was already trying to use her.
“The DNA report wasn't the reason I came here,” he said.
Emma looked at him.
“Then what was?”
Dante glanced toward Derek.
“Your ex owes money to people who don't forgive debt.”
Derek's face went white.
Emma turned.
“How much?”
Derek didn't answer.
Dante did.
“Enough to make your daughter worth more to them alive than dead.”
Emma pulled Sophia closer.
Dante's expression softened for only a second.
“They're not getting near her.”
Emma shook her head.
“You don't get to walk in here and decide you're her father.”
Dante nodded.
“I know.”
He looked at the ring in her hand.
“But I can decide whether the people hunting her reach her first.”
Then the maternity ward lights flickered.
May you like
A nurse screamed from the far corridor.
Someone had entered the nursery.
