Chapter 14 - THE NAME BEHIND THE EMPIRE The answer was hidden in Katerina's private letters.
Isabella read them slowly.
Her mother had discovered that Silas was not acting alone.
He was being financed by an international consortium of criminals and corrupt businessmen.
But one name appeared at the center.
The founder of the organization.
A man known only as The Architect.
Mateo stared at the page.
"Who is that?"
Isabella shook her head.
"I don't know."
Adrian suddenly remembered something.
"Father used to talk about someone called The Architect."
Eleanor looked disturbed.
"That name appears in classified investigations."
They searched every database available.
Nothing.
Then Victoria spoke.
"I know who he is."
Everyone turned.
Victoria looked exhausted.
"Silas was afraid of one person."
"Who?"
She whispered:
"Mateo's father."
Silence.
Mateo froze.
"My father died when I was a child."
Victoria shook her head.
"That's what you were told."
Mateo stared at her.
"Explain."
Victoria swallowed.
"Your father was working with Lorenzo."
A hidden alliance.
A secret investigation.
A staged death.
Mateo's entire past suddenly became uncertain.
And for the first time, Isabella realized something terrifying.
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This wasn't just her family's war.
Mateo's family was part of it too.
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