The Mafia Boss Was Ready to Marry Another — Until His Maid Revealed the Secret She’d Hidden
Chapter 8
The mansion descended into chaos.
Luca pulled Elena behind a stone column.
Rose was taken to safety.
Security returned fire.
Richard disappeared.
But the trust documents were gone.
Elena stared at Luca.
“He took them.”
“No.”
He pointed to her hand.
She was still holding one page.
She had grabbed it when the lights went out.
The page contained the location of the trust.
Not a bank.
Not a safe.
A hospital.
The same hospital where Luca’s father had died.
Elena understood.
“My mother hid it where they would never look.”
Luca nodded.
They drove to the hospital.
It had changed names.
New building.
New staff.
But the old basement remained.
They found a locked room.
Inside was a safe.
The key was hidden inside a medical records archive.
Elena opened it.
There were recordings.
Photographs.
Legal documents.
And the original trust.
Luca stared.
“It’s worth hundreds of millions.”
Elena didn’t smile.
“That’s why they killed them.”
The recordings showed Richard.
Vanessa’s father.
Luca’s grandmother.
Everyone.
The final recording was from Elena’s mother.
She spoke directly to her daughter.
“If you’re watching this, then the family has finally caught up with you.”
Elena cried.
Her mother explained the truth.
She had hidden the trust because she wanted Elena to have a choice.
Not power.
Choice.
She wanted her daughter to be able to leave the family forever.
Or change it.
Luca looked at Elena.
“What will you do?”
She stared at the trust.
Then the recordings.
“I don’t know.”
He took her hand.
“That’s okay.”
She looked at him.
“No one has ever said that to me.”
“What?”
“That I can not know.”
He smiled.
“You don’t have to decide tonight.”
She leaned against him.
Then the hospital lights flickered.
A man appeared at the doorway.
Richard.
“You’re too late.”
He raised a gun.
Luca stepped in front of Elena.
Richard laughed.
“You’ve always been a protector.”
Luca said:
“And you’ve always hidden behind other people.”
Richard fired.
The bullet missed.
Security rushed in.
Richard was arrested.
The trust was secured.
The recordings were released.
The remaining criminal network collapsed.
But Elena knew the real battle was just beginning.
Because now she had to decide what to do with the fortune that had nearly destroyed her family.
