Part 2: The Estate of Secrets
The Moretti estate sat on forty acres beyond the city, hidden behind iron gates and old oak trees.
Sarah had never seen anything like it.
She rode in silence beside Dominic while baby Leonardo slept in her arms. Matteo drove. Three black SUVs followed behind them.
No one spoke until the gates closed.
Then Dominic turned toward her.
“Tell me exactly what you saw.”
Sarah explained everything.
The rash.
The smell.
The unusual reaction to the tubing.
The way Leonardo improved the moment the machines stopped.
Dominic listened without interrupting.
When she finished, he nodded once.
“Someone tampered with the equipment.”
“That’s what I think.”
“No,” Dominic replied quietly. “That’s what I know.”
Sarah stared at him.
Dominic opened a folder and slid photographs across the table.
Three accidents.
Three dead family members.
All within eighteen months.
His younger cousin.
His aunt.
His brother.
Each death ruled natural.
Each death connected to one person.
Dr. Alister Sterling.
Sarah felt cold.
“You think he murdered them?”
“I think someone paid him to.”
That night, Matteo and his security team raided Sterling’s office.
What they found shocked everyone.
Hidden inside a locked safe were offshore account statements showing millions of dollars deposited over the last two years.
The payments came from a shell company.
One that traced back to a member of the Moretti family itself.
Dominic stared at the evidence.
“Who?”
Matteo hesitated.
“You’re not going to like the answer.”
The name hit the room like an explosion.
Victor Moretti.
Dominic’s uncle.
The man who had helped raise him.
The man who had attended Leonardo’s birth.
The man who stood beside the family at every funeral.
Victor had secretly been paying Sterling.
And according to the documents, Leonardo had been the final target.
Because if the baby died, Victor would inherit control of everything.
Sarah looked at Dominic.
His face revealed nothing.
But his hands trembled.
For the first time, she saw not a mafia boss.
She saw a nephew whose family had betrayed him.
“We bring him in alive,” Dominic finally said.
“Why?”
“Because I want to hear him admit it.”
The next morning, Victor agreed to meet.
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He had no idea they already knew the truth.
And that mistake would change everything.
