Chapter 7 - The Revelation
Dante looked at the engraved bullet in Sadi's hand and let out a heavy, tired sigh.
He slowly sat up on the edge of the steel table, clutching his newly stitched side.
"The Falcone family is not just a group of low-level loan sharks, Sadi," Dante explained quietly.
"They are the most ruthless crime syndicate on the entire east coast."
Sadi shook her head in utter confusion.
"But my father only owed them a gambling debt," she protested.
"Your father did not have a gambling problem," Dante corrected her.
"He was the lead accountant for the Falcone family, and he stole their master financial ledger."
Sadi felt the air completely leave her lungs.
The man she remembered was a quiet, sad widower who worked late nights at a boring office job.
"He hid the ledger to protect you," Dante continued, his gray eyes softening slightly.
"When they caught him, they tortured him for the location, but he never broke."
Tears welled up in Sadi's eyes as the horrifying truth about her father's death finally shattered her illusions.
"They faked the gambling debt to force you into a life of desperate poverty," Dante revealed.
"They knew that eventually, you would sell everything you owned to pay them back, and they hoped you would accidentally hand over the hidden ledger."
Sadi backed away from the medical table, her mind spinning with the sheer magnitude of the lies.
"If that is true, then why did you hire me to clean your house?" she demanded.
Dante looked down at the concrete floor, looking genuinely guilty for the very first time.
"Because I have been trying to find that ledger for three years to destroy the Falcone family myself," he confessed.
He looked back up at her.
"I hired you because I knew you unconsciously possessed the only thing capable of ending this war."
Before Sadi could process the fact that she was nothing but a pawn to both syndicates, the bunker shook violently.
A massive explosion tore the heavy steel door entirely off its reinforced hinges.
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Thick gray smoke flooded the sterile medical room.
The Falcone family had found the safehouse.
