Chapter 9 - The Ultimate Sacrifice
Celeste looked at the two newborn babies and smiled wickedly.
"How incredibly touching," she mocked, stepping closer to the military cot.
She aimed the barrel of the gun directly at Layla's temple.
"Sign the transfer documents, Dominic, or I kill the mother and the bastards right now."
Dominic gently placed his crying daughter next to her brother in Matteo's arms.
He stood up and slowly walked toward his former fiancée.
He placed his own chest directly in front of the gun.
"Take my empire, Celeste."
"Take the money, the territories, and my life."
He looked back at Layla's peaceful, unconscious face.
"Just let my family walk out of this tunnel alive."
Celeste laughed, a harsh and grating sound in the quiet bunker.
"You really became soft over a pathetic maid."
She pulled the hammer back on the pistol.
"I am going to take your empire, and I am going to kill them anyway."
She tightened her finger on the trigger.
A single gunshot echoed deafeningly through the concrete room.
Dominic did not feel any pain.
Celeste's eyes widened in absolute shock as a dark red stain spread across the front of her expensive dress.
She dropped the gun and collapsed dead onto the dusty floor.
Matteo stood in the shadows behind her, lowering his smoking weapon with a grim nod.
Dominic exhaled a shaking breath and rushed back to his family.
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He knew in that moment that he could never subject his children to this violent world again.
He pulled his phone from his pocket and dialed the direct number of the FBI director.
