CHAPTER 4
Elena paced the tiny, cramped apartment she had been renting since her escape from the rehabilitation facility where Marcus had illegally committed her. Her hands shook as she dialed the number of the one private investigator she trusted, a man who didn't care about bribes or high-society payoffs.
“Jack, it’s Elena,” she said, her voice dropping to a low, intense whisper. “They took him. Marcus and that woman. They took my son from the park today.”
On the other end of the line, the investigator sighed, the sound of papers shuffling filling the silence. “Elena, I told you that going public was dangerous. If you step out of the shadows, they will send you back to that facility.”
“I don’t care!” she snapped, her eyes darting to the locked door of her apartment. “I will burn their entire world to the ground if I have to. Find them, Jack. Please.”
She hung up and looked at the wall, where she had pinned photos of Mateo, receipts of Marcus’s shady business deals, and bank statements showing the money laundering. She had spent months gathering the evidence needed to destroy him, and now, she had the perfect motive to act.
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She opened the floorboard beneath her bed and pulled out a worn, leather-bound notebook. It contained the names of judges Marcus had bought, the politicians he had bribed, and the location of his offshore accounts.
She wasn't just a mother anymore; she was a woman on a mission of total, uncompromising vengeance. She would become the storm that would strip their wealthy, arrogant lives of everything they had stolen.
