“Daddy!” A seven-year-old girl screamed as she ran across the orphanage, threw her arms around the most feared man in Chicago, and refused to let go. Everyone stared in disbelief because the man she was calling her father was a powerful mafia boss whose only daughter had vanished six years earlier. Then he opened her intake file and discovered the little girl wasn’t mistaken, and someone he trusted had known the truth all along.

I stared at the glowing screen in sheer disbelief.

Only Carlo knew about this location, and Carlo was completely loyal to my father.

I looked frantically around the small room for hidden cameras.

Then my eyes locked onto the shiny silver locket resting against Sophia's chest.

"Where did you get that necklace, Sophia?" I asked gently.

"Uncle Matteo gave it to Mommy a long time ago," she answered innocently.

I carefully unclasped the necklace from her tiny neck.

I pried the silver casing open with my pocket knife.

A microscopic GPS transmitter was blinking a steady red light inside the metal shell.

Matteo had been tracking my wife and daughter for six entire years.

I crushed the tracker beneath my heavy boot and tossed it out the window into a passing garbage truck.

"We have to leave right now," I told Sophia.

We moved across town to a high-rise hotel using a stolen car.

I left Sophia in the room with four of my most elite, uncompromised bodyguards.

It was time to pay a visit to the attorney who had arranged the orphanage paperwork.

I kicked down the door of Daniel Mercer's luxury penthouse an hour later.

I found the lawyer bleeding out on his expensive white carpet with a gunshot wound to his stomach.

Matteo was already cleaning up his loose ends.

I grabbed Mercer by his collar and lifted him off the floor.

"Where is my wife?" I demanded violently.

When my newborn 'passed away,' my mother-in-law leaned in and said

My Husband Left Me Alone in My Car While I Was in Labor

“You’re Dead When We Get Home,” He Snapped

Mercer coughed up blood and smiled a weak, pathetic smile.

"She is still alive, Marco," he whispered with his dying breath.

Chapter 3 - The Tracker