Chapter 10 - The Last WarThe confrontation came three nights later.
A convoy approached the penthouse.
We knew they were coming.
The building went into lockdown.
Hannah carried Leo into the secure room.
I stood beside her.
“Stay here.”
“No.”
“Hannah.”
“You promised you'd come home.”
“I will.”
“Then don't make me wait alone.”
I looked at her.
Then I handed her the emergency communication device.
“If anything happens, press this.”
She nodded.
The doors below exploded.
The Moretti assault began.
But this time, they had underestimated us.
My team had prepared every floor.
Every exit.
Every elevator.
Every stairwell.
The battle lasted seventeen minutes.
Then silence.
The Moretti leader was captured.
His empire collapsed within days.
And with it came the final truth about Sophia's murder.
She hadn't been the target.
I had been.
She had died because she stepped between me and the assassin.
That knowledge destroyed me.
Hannah held me that night.
For once, the billionaire, the gangster, and the feared Lorenzo Rossi disappeared.
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I was simply a husband mourning his wife.
And Hannah was simply the woman holding me together.
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