Chapter 6 - The Woman Who Knew Before Everyone
The photograph led them to a private clinic.
The doctor who had taken it was Dr. Helena Ward.
She had delivered Sophia.
She initially denied knowing anything.
Then Dante placed the photograph on the desk.
Helena closed her eyes.
“I was told never to speak.”
“By whom?”
She looked at Emma.
“Your mother.”
Emma stopped breathing.
“My mother was alive?”
Helena nodded.
“She visited me three years ago.”
“Why?”
“To ask whether Dante's child would survive.”
Dante stepped forward.
“She knew?”
“Yes.”
Helena explained that Emma's mother had discovered Emma was pregnant.
She knew Dante was the father.
But she also knew someone inside the Salvatore organization wanted Dante dead.
If the pregnancy became public, the child would become a target.
So she created a false medical record.
She made it appear the pregnancy belonged to another man.
Derek had been chosen because he was desperate enough to cooperate.
Emma stared at him.
“He knew?”
Helena nodded.
“He was paid to stay away from Dante.”
Derek looked down.
Emma's anger became quiet.
That frightened him more than shouting.
“Who paid him?”
Helena hesitated.
Then said:
“Your mother's employer.”
Dante's expression changed.
“My father?”
“No.”
Helena looked toward the window.
“Your father's lawyer.”
Jonathan Reed.
A man everyone believed had died years ago.
Dante realized the entire conspiracy had been protected by someone who was supposed to be dead.
And suddenly Victor Valenti was no longer the only enemy.
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There was another man.
A man who had been hiding behind both families.
