Chapter 6: The Name Behind Everything
That night, Aria couldn’t stay in the mansion.
She went to her childhood home and confronted her father.
At first, he refused to speak.
But when she showed him the documents… he broke.
“I never meant for you to be involved,” he said, shaking. “I thought it was just business.”
“Business?” Aria snapped. “You sold my life into a contract!”
Her father fell silent… then whispered:
“It wasn’t Victor who started it.”
Aria froze.
“There was another man,” he said. “Victor’s business partner back then. A man named Adrian Cole.”
At the mention of the name, Aria felt an unfamiliar chill.
Her father continued:
“He was the one who offered the original deal… and he was obsessed with Victor’s wife long before she died.”
Aria’s breath stopped.
“So Elena’s death…?”
Her father looked away.
“I don’t know what happened inside that house,” he said. “But after she died, Adrian disappeared… and Victor took control of everything.”
Aria stood there, shaking.
This wasn’t a marriage.
This wasn’t even a mistake.
It was the continuation of something that started with obsession, betrayal, and a woman’s death that no one fully understood.
And now Aria realized something terrifying:
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She was never the target.
She was the next move in a game that never ended.
