Chapter 1 - THE BROKEN GLASS THAT EXPOSED A TWENTY-FIVE-YEAR SECRET
“Take off your shoes, Rebecca. And pick up every piece.”
Rebecca Morgan stared at the shattered glass covering the white stone beside the swimming pool.
Catherine Harrington, sister of the powerful Mafia boss Nicholas Caruso, stood over her with a cold smile.
“Please, ma’am. I'll cut my feet.”
“Then you'd better be careful. Unless you want your daughter to lose her medical treatment.”
Rebecca's eight-year-old daughter, Hannah, suffered from severe asthma. Without her job, Rebecca couldn't afford the care her little girl needed.
She removed her shoes.
Minutes later, blood was spreading across the expensive stone.
Nearly a hundred guests looked away.
But Nicholas Caruso didn't.
The forty-four-year-old Mafia boss approached, his tattooed hands tightening into fists.
“Why is she barefoot?”
Catherine claimed Rebecca had broken a wineglass.
Nicholas examined one of the fragments.
“This isn't from a wineglass,” he said quietly. “It's from my office security window.”
His sister went pale.
After arranging medical attention for Rebecca, Nicholas questioned her privately.
She revealed that Catherine had been searching his office with a silver-haired stranger wearing a gold ring with a black stone.
Nicholas recognized the description immediately.
Thomas Whitaker.
His father's former business partner.
A man supposedly dead for twenty years.
Rebecca also described a photograph showing a woman, a little girl wearing a yellow ribbon, and a red pickup truck.
Nicholas searched his office and discovered documents connected to Rebecca's family, including a confidential $750,000 agreement signed by his father following a mysterious fire in 2001.
The agreement demanded silence about a second child.
Then Nicholas's security chief, Owen, recovered an old recording.
In the video, Nicholas's father warned that Rebecca must never learn what happened that night.
Whitaker asked about the missing child.
Vincent Caruso replied:
“That depends on whether Nicholas ever discovers who his real mother is.”
A woman appeared carrying a baby wearing a Caruso hospital bracelet.
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At that exact moment, Catherine sent Nicholas a message.
DON'T WATCH THE REST. THAT WOMAN IS STILL ALIVE.
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