Chapter 8 - What Isabella Had Really Found
Isabella finally told Lorenzo everything.
Six weeks before the wedding, she had found Daniel injured behind the estate.
He had not disappeared.
He had been hiding.
Daniel had discovered that someone inside the household was changing security schedules.
Before he could expose them, he was attacked.
Isabella found him because she was taking laundry to the guest wing.
She helped him escape.
Before leaving, Daniel gave her one warning.
“Don't trust the adviser.”
She had entered Lorenzo's household afterward under a false identity.
Her goal was simple.
Find the traitor.
But she had made one mistake.
She had trusted the wrong clue.
The list found in her room had been planted.
Arthur wanted her to investigate him because he needed her attention away from the real traitor.
Lorenzo stared at her.
“Who?”
Isabella shook her head.
“I don't know.”
Then Daniel stepped from the shadows.
Lorenzo raised his weapon.
“Daniel?”
The security chief looked exhausted.
“I didn't disappear.”
“You were hiding.”
“I was trying to find proof.”
Daniel handed Lorenzo a small envelope.
Inside was a photograph.
Arthur.
Standing beside someone.
Lorenzo recognized the face immediately.
His own chief financial officer.
Marcus Vale.
Lorenzo's expression hardened.
Marcus had managed the Bianchi accounts for ten years.
Every missing payment.
Every false shipment.
Every unexplained loss.
He had access to all of it.
But there was one problem.
Marcus had been shot and killed three days earlier.
Daniel looked at Lorenzo.
“He isn't dead.”
The room fell silent.
And suddenly the entire plan made sense.
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