Chapter 1 - THE BROKEN HEEL
At Eleanor Moretti’s seventieth birthday celebration in Philadelphia, maid Claire Bennett accidentally crashes a three-tier cake into feared mafia boss Adrian Moretti after someone sabotages her shoe and apparently pushes her from behind. Adrian immediately notices that the heel was deliberately cut, while his fiancée, Vanessa Cross, suspiciously accuses Claire of being drunk before Claire has even explained what happened.
Adrian orders that no one leave the mansion.
Claire later realizes Vanessa’s hostility is connected to something Claire discovered three nights earlier in Eleanor’s private sitting room: an old photograph of a younger Eleanor standing beside Vanessa’s mother, Rebecca Cross, near a hospital. A handwritten message on the back suggested there was a secret concerning Adrian’s biological father.
Security footage reveals that the service corridor camera was deliberately disabled before Claire fell. Adrian confronts Claire, and she finally admits what she found. Eleanor is forced to confess that Michael Moretti—the man Adrian believed was his father—may not have been his biological father at all.
Another photograph is discovered beneath Eleanor’s desk. In it, a mysterious man holds newborn Adrian, but the man’s face has been scratched away. A distinctive wristwatch suggests someone in the Moretti family’s past may know the truth.
Then Claire receives threatening messages from an unknown person watching them inside the supposedly private room. A video arrives showing the person who sabotaged Claire’s shoe.
It is Adrian’s longtime godfather, Thomas Vescari.
Before Adrian can confront him privately, Thomas takes the microphone downstairs in front of the birthday guests.
Eleanor becomes terrified.
She reveals that Thomas is not really Adrian’s godfather.
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Then Thomas announces to the entire ballroom that one of the men in that room is Adrian’s biological father.
And Eleanor knows that the ruined birthday cake was never the real target.
