Chapter 9 - The Second Coffee Pot
The duplicate coffee pot contained a hidden compartment.
Inside was a tiny storage card.
Luca's security team examined it.
It contained photographs.
Schedules.
Door codes.
And pictures of Emma.
Emma stared at the images.
Someone had been watching her for weeks.
Luca's face became cold.
Teresa touched his arm.
“Don't.”
“I know.”
But Emma stepped forward.
“No.”
Luca turned.
“What?”
“Let me see.”
He hesitated.
She looked at the photographs.
Most were ordinary.
Emma carrying laundry.
Emma entering the kitchen.
Emma delivering coffee.
Then she saw one photograph that made her stop.
It showed her standing outside Luca's office.
The timestamp was from three weeks earlier.
She had never entered his office that day.
Someone had staged the photograph.
“That's fake,” she whispered.
Luca nodded.
“Someone wanted a record showing you near my office.”
Emma suddenly understood.
“They were building evidence against me.”
“Yes.”
“And the duplicate cart?”
“To make the story believable.”
Emma looked at Luca.
“They wanted you to think I was the leak.”
Luca's expression hardened.
“But why?”
Before anyone could answer, the storage card displayed one final photograph.
Camille.
Standing beside a man Emma recognized.
Not Gideon.
Someone else.
Someone who worked inside the Moretti organization.
Luca stared at the image.
His voice dropped.
“I know him.”
Teresa looked at the screen.
“So do I.”
Emma asked:
“Who is he?”
Luca didn't answer immediately.
Then he said:
“Marco.”
His head of household security.
May you like
The man who had been responsible for protecting the house.
And suddenly the person who had supposedly been guarding them was the person who had been watching them.
