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THE MAFIA BOSS’S FIANCÉE ORDERED ME TO PUT HIS PREGNANT DAUGHTER IN A CAB BEFORE THEIR ENGAGEMENT DINNER—BUT WHEN I WALKED HER INTO THE DINING ROOM, LUCA MORETTI DROPPED HIS FORK AND WHISPERED, “YOU’RE HAVING A BABY?” / Chapter 6 / 10

Chapter 6 - THE DEAD MAN'S TRAP

Vanessa’s knees gave out. She slumped against the concrete wall of the basement, her red dress collecting grey dust.

"How did my wife get Anthony Bellini's private financial records seven years ago?" Luca demanded, stepping toward Vanessa until he loomed over her like a shadow of death.

Vanessa closed her eyes, tears of terror finally leaking past her mascara. "Anthony... Anthony didn't die of a heart attack, Luca," she whispered, her voice barely audible over the hum of the basement furnace. "He was murdered by the Morellos because he was stealing from their offshore accounts."

The truth began to unravel like a pulled thread.

"Anthony knew they were coming for him," Vanessa continued, sobbing softly. "Before he died, he transferred all the stolen Morello assets into a blind trust and hid the access codes inside that ledger. He gave the ledger to Maria... because Maria was his half-sister."

Emily gasped, clutching her stomach. "Mom was... Anthony Bellini’s sister?"

"Half-sister," Vanessa corrected, looking up with bitter eyes. "Your mother kept it a secret from Luca because she knew if Luca found out about the money, it would trigger a full-scale war with the Morello syndicate. She hid the ledger in this cabinet to protect both of you."

Luca stared at the leather ledger in his hands, realizing the incredible weight his late wife had carried alone to her grave to keep him safe.

"And how did you find out about it, Vanessa?" Luca asked, his voice dripping with venom.

"Two years ago, after Anthony died, the Morellos found out about the trust," Vanessa confessed. "They came to me. They said if I didn't get that ledger back for them, they would kill me and my children. So I got close to you, Luca. I made you fall in love with me. I spent two years searching your estate, your office, your safes... but I couldn't find the key."

She pointed a trembling finger at Emily. "Then I realized Maria had passed everything down to her. When Emily got pregnant and started calling you, I panicked. I knew if she came back into your life, if you reconciled, you would come back to this house together and find the cabinet before I could get the ledger."

"So you tried to break her," I spoke up from the stairs, unable to keep quiet any longer. "You tried to make her feel abandoned, unloved, and homeless so she would take a few hundred dollars and run away to another state."

Vanessa didn't deny it. She just looked away in shame.

"You used my grief," Luca said, his voice breaking with immense pain. "You used my late wife's memory. You pushed my daughter away while she was carrying my grandchild... all to save your own skin with the Morellos."

Suddenly, the heavy wooden floorboards above our heads creaked violently.

THUD. THUD. THUD.

Heavy footsteps echoed from the floor above us.

"Marco!" Luca yelled, reaching for his weapon.

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At a family dinner, I stood up smiling and announced I was pregnant. The whole table went completely silent — then my mother-in-law suddenly let out a laugh and yelled: “She’s pretending to be pregnant just to milk money from us!” Before anyone could even react, she seized my hand and pushed me off the hotel rooftop to “prove” I was faking it. Broken and barely conscious, I came to in the hospital with my husband by my side, pale as a ghost and shaking. But the moment the doctor stepped in and opened his mouth, the words he said made the entire room freeze in utter disbelief and horror.

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At Christmas dinner, my mother-in-law pushed my plate away and said, “Leave—this table is for people who bring money into this family.” I turned to my husband and asked if he agreed, but his cold silence was the biggest mistake of his life, because two months later, my father’s true net worth destroyed his entire bloodline…

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Before Marco could draw his gun, the basement door at the top of the stairs blew inward with a deafening CRACK.

Two flashbang grenades bounced down the wooden steps, blinding white light and thunderous explosions filling the basement.

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