Chapter 7
My mind went completely blank as the cabin seemed to spin around me in dizzying circles.
The man who owned forty percent of the airline was the older brother of the monster I was running from.
I instinctively pulled Maya three steps back, reaching for the curtain to flee toward the back of the plane.
“Don’t run, Lily!” William commanded, holding his hands up in a universal gesture of peace.
“If Julian is your stepfather, then you are running from the most dangerous man in New England.”
“He’s your brother!” I shouted, my voice breaking as tears poured down my cheeks.
“You’re probably going to hand us right back to him the second this plane touches the ground!”
“Julian tried to have me assassinated six months ago to take over our family estate, Lily,” William stated coldly.
“He told the entire family that my late wife had died in a car accident, when he was the one behind it.”
“And three months ago, my son Leo’s mother vanished without a trace after visiting Julian’s house.”
The entire cabin gasped as the dark puzzle pieces began clicking together in terrifying clarity.
The screaming baby resting in the flight attendant’s arms was Julian Sterling’s motherless nephew.
And the monster who had locked us in the attic was part of a massive, bloody family empire war.
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“You aren’t going to Rome to stay with a cousin, Lily,” William said, standing back up to his full height.
“Because Julian’s men are already waiting for you at Leonardo da Vinci airport.”
