Chapter 1 - The Blue Inhaler
My name is Isabella Reed.
For nearly two years, I had worked inside the Chicago mansion of Alexander Romano, a billionaire businessman whose name carried another meaning in the darker corners of the city.
Alexander controlled hotels, construction companies, shipping corporations, and an empire built on fear, loyalty, and secrets.
But despite all his power, there was one thing he could not control.
His lungs.
Years earlier, a warehouse explosion had left Alexander with severe asthma. He always carried a blue rescue inhaler inside his jacket.
Then, on a stormy morning when my eight-year-old daughter Mia came to work with me because school had closed, Alexander suddenly suffered a terrifying asthma attack.
His inhaler was missing.
While security panicked and Alexander struggled to breathe, Mia pointed at his elegant fiancée, Victoria Laurent.
“She has it.”
Nobody believed her.
Until Victoria's handbag was opened.
Inside was Alexander's inhaler.
But the discovery became even darker when a medical document fell from Victoria's bag. Someone had deliberately altered Alexander's medication schedule and predicted the exact time he would suffer respiratory failure.
The authorization carried the name Romano.
Someone inside Alexander's own family had planned his death.
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And because of one observant little girl, the most feared man in Chicago suddenly understood that his greatest enemy wasn't outside his empire.
The enemy was sitting at his own table.
