Chapter 13 - THE FALL OF THE THORNE EMPIRE The first companies collapsed on Monday morning.
Stocks plunged.
Banks froze accounts.
Federal agents raided offices.
News helicopters filled the sky.
Silas Thorne watched the destruction from his penthouse.
He didn't panic.
He smiled.
Because he had expected it.
A hidden account transferred billions overseas.
Private jets waited.
Safe houses were activated.
Silas intended to disappear.
But Isabella had one advantage.
She knew his psychology.
He couldn't abandon everything.
Men like Silas didn't run from power.
They ran toward it.
She predicted his destination.
The old Thorne chemical plant.
Mateo sent a team.
They arrived too late.
The building was empty.
Except for one thing.
A photograph.
Lorenzo.
Katerina.
And Silas.
Standing together twenty-one years earlier.
On the back was a message.
"You still don't know why I did it."
Isabella stared at the photograph.
Then she noticed something.
A date.
The date of her birth.
Her mother had not merely hidden her from Silas.
She had hidden her because Isabella was connected to something far more dangerous.
Something Silas believed could destroy him.
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The final secret wasn't the fortune.
It was the identity of the person who had originally funded Silas.
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