Chapter 10 - The Bloodline
They watched Vincenzo's estate fade into the stormy night through the rearview mirror.
Dominic lowered his gun and finally exhaled a long breath.
Norah smiled as her heart rate finally began to slow down.
She believed the worst of the nightmare was finally over.
They drove for two hours until they reached a safe house in the city.
It was a quiet apartment that Dominic kept off the official books.
Norah went into the bathroom to wash the blood and grime from her face.
She reached into her scrub pocket to retrieve her grandmother's locket.
Her fingers brushed against a folded piece of paper she had grabbed from the hidden safe.
She unfolded the heavy document on the bathroom counter.
It was a weathered birth certificate and a recent DNA lab report.
The document clearly proved that Dominic was never a Moretti by blood.
He was an adopted orphan used as a decoy to protect the true heir.
Norah read the name of Salvatore's only biological grandchild printed on the official results.
It was Norah Gallagher.
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Dominic stepped into the bathroom doorway with a loaded gun pointed directly at her head.
I really wish you had never found that, he whispered.
