Accountant Sold By Her Stepbrother—Then 3 Mafia Bosses Claimed Her As Their Own
Chapter 10
Marcus’s voice echoed through the dark hospital corridor.
“You should have listened to me.”
Clara stepped forward.
“Where are you?”
“Somewhere you can’t reach.”
Dante tried the doors.
Locked.
Luca looked at the ceiling.
“Cameras.”
Adrian nodded.
“They’re watching.”
Marcus continued.
“You think these three men are protecting you.”
Clara looked at them.
“They are.”
Marcus laughed.
“You don’t know them.”
Clara replied:
“I know enough.”
“You know what your father told you.”
“What do you know?”
“Everything.”
Marcus revealed the truth.
He had been working with Black Meridian for six years.
He had accumulated gambling debts intentionally because it gave him an excuse to transfer company assets.
The kidnapping had been arranged.
The sale of Clara had been deliberate.
But he had underestimated her.
“Why me?”
Marcus answered:
“Because your father trained you.”
Clara understood.
Her father had spent years teaching her accounting.
Not merely to prepare her for a career.
To prepare her to decode the system he had created.
Marcus continued:
“Your father knew Black Meridian would come eventually.”
“What happened to him?”
“I don’t know.”
“You were there.”
“I arrived after.”
Clara didn’t believe him.
“You’re lying.”
A long silence.
Then Marcus said:
“Maybe.”
The doors suddenly opened.
Armed men entered.
Luca, Dante, and Adrian fought back.
Clara ran toward the exit.
A man grabbed her.
Adrian reached her first.
He pulled her free.
They escaped through a service tunnel.
Outside, police sirens approached.
Clara stared at Adrian.
“Did you call them?”
“No.”
Dante shook his head.
“Neither did I.”
Luca looked at Clara.
She understood.
Her father had prepared another safeguard.
The police had been alerted automatically when the hidden ledger was accessed.
The evidence was already moving.
Black Meridian’s network was beginning to collapse.
But Marcus remained free.
And he had one final weapon.
Clara’s mother.
