Chapter 4 - The Ghost of My Past
Clara screamed and backed away until she hit the bedroom wall.
She looked at me as if I were the grim reaper coming to collect a debt.
I begged her to calm down, telling her I was just trying to thank the little girl who saved my life.
Clara pulled her knees to her chest, tears streaming down her pale face.
She confessed that the car crash had been a carefully orchestrated illusion.
She told me Marco Bianchi had discovered she was pregnant with my child seven years ago.
Marco knew a legitimate heir would ruin his chances of seizing control of my financial empire.
He threatened to murder both Clara and the unborn baby if she did not disappear forever.
I felt a blinding, violent rage rising in my chest.
Marco was not just my business partner, he was a man I had trusted with my life.
I told Clara to pack whatever she could carry so I could move them to a secure fortress.
She grabbed a duffel bag, but a violent fit of coughing brought her to her knees.
I reached out to help her, but I noticed a strange tattoo on the back of her neck.
It was the insignia of the Bianchi crime family.
Clara looked up at me with terror in her eyes and whispered a secret that shattered my reality.
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She told me Marco was not just my business partner.
Marco was my biological half-brother, and he was the one who had poisoned me years ago to cause my heart condition.
