Chapter 21 - A Cryptic Package Arrives At The Estate Gates
Late one quiet evening, as storm clouds gathered over the Chicago skyline, a unmarked delivery truck stopped outside the main gates. The security guard accepted a heavy, steel-bound wooden crate addressed directly to Lord Cesario Moretti.
Cesario stood in the grand foyer, watching his head of security pry open the wooden lid with a heavy crowbar. Inside rested an old, blood-stained family signet ring—the exact ring Julian had worn before his exile to the offshore facility.
Tucked beneath the ring was a handwritten letter written in dark red ink that chilled the room to absolute zero:
May you like
“You locked me away, Father, but you forgot that Salvatore had a brother in New York... and he wants the little girl.”
Cesario's eyes hardened into ice as he slowly turned toward the grand staircase where Elsie slept peacefully in her room...
