Chapter 10 - Vittorio Discovers What Happened to His Late Wife
As the underground vault files continued to decrypt, a deeper, more devastating folder appeared on screen.
It was labeled simply under a private encryption key that required Vittorio’s personal biometric authorization.
He pressed his thumb against the scanner pad on his desk terminal in the mansion study.
A series of medical documents, diary entries, and covert audio recordings popped up instantly.
Vittorio clicked on the oldest audio file, pressing play with trembling fingers in the silent room.
The speakers hissed softly before his late wife’s gentle voice filled the dark study space.
She was talking to Bernadette about feeling constantly dizzy and weak after every evening meal served at home.
Bernadette’s recorded voice could be heard smoothly dismissing the symptoms as routine postpartum fatigue.
Vittorio gripped the edge of the mahogany desk, tears of fury burning hot behind his eyelids.
His wife’s untimely death years ago had never been a tragic natural illness as the doctors had claimed.
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It had been a calculated, slow-motion assassination executed inside her own dining room.
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