THE MAFIA BOSS’S THREE-YEAR-OLD NIECE SECRETLY LED HIM UPSTAIRS—THEN HE HEARD HIS FIANCÉE THREATEN THE MAID AND WHISPER, “CHILDREN DISAPPEAR TOO”
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Chapter 10 - VIVIEN’S FATHER WAS ALIVE
Officially Richard Fairchild died nine years earlier.
He hadn't.
Rocco traced payments.
Switzerland.
Then Quebec.
Finally Rhode Island.
A private nursing facility.
Richard Fairchild had suffered a stroke.
Vivien visited monthly under a different name.
We arrived before her.
Richard could barely speak.
But he recognized Elena’s pendant instantly.
Terror entered his eyes.
“Hayes.”
“Yes.”
Elena leaned closer.
“Where is my father?”
Richard began crying.
Then forced out two words.
“Salvatore Duca.”
My uncle.
Dead fifteen years.
Supposedly.
Then:
May you like
“Not dead.”
Everything changed.
