Part 3: The Secret That Changed Everything
Serena waited until midnight.
Then she returned to Victor's office.
The document was still there.
Hands trembling, she opened it.
What she read made her knees weaken.
It wasn't random.
Her hiring wasn't coincidence.
Victor had been searching for her.
For months.
The file contained records from seven years earlier.
The year Lucia was born.
The year Serena's husband died.
The year Victor's wife was killed.
And one name appeared over and over.
Marco DeLuca.
A powerful crime boss.
The same man connected to both tragedies.
Serena stared at the pages.
Her husband's death hadn't been an accident.
Victor's wife's death hadn't either.
Someone had orchestrated both.
A voice suddenly came from behind her.
“You weren't supposed to find that yet.”
Victor stood in the doorway.
Serena spun around.
“You knew my husband?”
Victor nodded.
“He saved my life.”
The room fell silent.
Years ago, Serena's husband had secretly worked undercover against DeLuca.
Before he died, he left evidence behind.
Evidence powerful enough to destroy an entire criminal empire.
But it vanished after his death.
No one knew where it was.
Until recently.
“Why hire me?” Serena asked.
Victor's answer surprised her.
“Because someone is coming after you.”
The color drained from her face.
“What?”
“They know Lucia exists.”
Fear exploded inside her chest.
Victor stepped closer.
“For seven years I couldn't protect the people I loved.”
His voice cracked.
“I won't fail again.”
At that exact moment, alarms erupted throughout the mansion.
Red lights flashed.
Security guards shouted outside.
Victor grabbed a pistol from a drawer.
“Stay with the boys.”
“What happened?”
His expression turned deadly.
“They found us.”
Gunfire echoed across the estate.
And upstairs, four little boys woke screaming.
Serena realized her life would never be the same again.
The nanny job had been a lie.
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She hadn't come to save the Rinaldi family.
The Rinaldi family had been trying to save her.
