Chapter 10 - Marco's Reason
Marco disappeared before Luca could confront him.
The security team searched the estate.
His room was empty.
His phone was gone.
But he left one thing behind.
A handwritten letter.
Luca read it silently.
Then handed it to Emma.
Marco confessed to moving through restricted areas.
He admitted creating the duplicate cart.
He admitted monitoring Emma.
But he denied trying to steal the family property.
He claimed he was searching for someone.
Someone who had threatened his younger sister.
The threat demanded that Marco create evidence making Emma appear guilty.
If he refused, his sister would be harmed.
Emma looked at Luca.
“He was being blackmailed.”
Luca nodded.
“Who?”
Marco's letter named a person.
Gideon Shaw.
But Gideon wasn't working alone.
The person behind him was still unknown.
Then Emma noticed the final line.
Ask Teresa about the old account.
She looked up.
Teresa had gone completely still.
Luca turned toward his mother.
“What old account?”
Teresa closed her eyes.
“There was a private family account before your father died.”
“Why didn't I know?”
“Because your father didn't trust you with it.”
Luca's face hardened.
“What was in it?”
Teresa looked at him.
“Money wasn't the important part.”
“Then what was?”
“Names.”
She explained that the account had been used to protect people who had helped the Moretti family escape a violent period years earlier.
If those names became public, innocent people could be endangered.
Gideon had discovered the account.
But Teresa had never told anyone where the records were.
Until now.
Emma quietly said:
“Maybe that's what they've been looking for.”
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Teresa nodded.
“And now they know we found it.”
