Chapter 3 - Elias Listens To Every Word From The Shadows
Just beyond the heavy swinging pantry door, Elias Marchetti stood motionless in the darkened hallway.
His bruised ribs ached, but the pain in his chest was sharper and infinitely more destructive than any physical injury.
For twenty-four hours, he had believed Sienna’s tearful vows of loyalty in the hospital room were genuine.
Now, standing in the quiet corridors of the Ashford estate, he heard the true face of high-society greed laid bare.
He heard Margaret cold-bloodedly plotting to substitute a vulnerable young housekeeper into a fraudulent engagement just to protect shipping contracts.
Gabriel Ferraro, his security chief, stood silently behind him in the shadows, his hand resting near his holster.
“Should we clear the house and take the mother into custody, Boss?” Gabriel murmured in a low, dangerous tone.
“No,” Elias replied, his voice colder than the winter wind blowing off Lake Michigan. “Let them finish digging their own graves.”
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He watched through a narrow crack in the pantry door as Maeve stood trembling before the ruthless Ashford matriarch.
Elias realized that while Sienna had treated his supposed handicap as a prison sentence, the humble housekeeper was willing to sacrifice everything for her brother.
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