THE MAFIA BOSS GAVE HIS WIFE A FIFTEEN-MINUTE DAILY SCHEDULE—UNTIL SHE LOST THEIR UNBORN BABY ALONE AND LEFT HIM A NOTE THAT DESTROYED HIS ENTIRE EMPIRE

Two months later, the legal battles were finally over.

Moretti Holdings was officially dissolved, its assets redistributed into public trust funds and survivor support charities—including a major endowment for miscarriage research and maternal healthcare in honor of our lost baby.

Vanessa Reed was sentenced to fifteen years in federal prison for conspiracy, corporate espionage, and attempted murder.

Vincent Moretti pled guilty to financial fraud and racketeering, accepting a seven-year sentence without parole in a maximum-security federal penitentiary in Colorado.

Before he was transferred, he sent me one final letter through his attorney.

I opened it in my new, sunlit apartment overlooking Lincoln Park.

Claire,

You were right about everything.

I built an empire of schedules and forgot how to love a human being.

I hope one day you can find peace.

I am signing the divorce papers without contest.

Yours truly,

Vincent.

I folded the letter neatly and slid it into the shredder.