Chapter 8 - THE TRAP SET FOR THE MAFIA KING
Within hours, the news spread everywhere.
“Damiano Verrone linked to wife’s death.”
“New evidence creates shocking questions.”
“Was the mafia king hiding a dark secret?”
The same people who feared Damiano yesterday now wanted to see him fall.
Inside the mansion, everyone was tense.
Damiano stood silently while watching the news.
Mia walked into the room.
She saw his face.
“Are you sad?”
Damiano looked at her.
“No.”
Mia frowned.
“You are lying.”
Nobody spoke to Damiano like that.
Nobody.
But Mia did.
And somehow…
He allowed it.
“Sometimes adults hide pain.”
She sat beside him.
“My mommy says bad things don’t become true just because many people say them.”
Damiano looked at her.
Those words sounded exactly like Isabella.
For a moment, he remembered the woman he lost.
Then Rafael entered.
“We found the source.”
Damiano turned.
“Who?”
Rafael placed a name on the table.
Silvio Marchetti.
The same man who mocked him in front of the five families.
Damiano’s eyes became cold.
“He wants my empire.”
“Yes.”
“Then why frame me?”
Rafael answered quietly.
“Because a king without trust is not a king.”
Damiano understood.
This was not about money.
It was about destroying him emotionally.
Taking away the one thing that made him human.
Mia.
That night, Damiano made a dangerous decision.
He would attend the meeting of the five families.
Alone.
Rafael looked concerned.
“Boss, it could be a trap.”
Damiano adjusted his suit.
“It is.”
“Then why go?”
Damiano looked at Mia sleeping upstairs.
“Because they need to know something.”
“What?”
Damiano’s voice became ice cold.
“They can attack me.”
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“They can attack my business.”
“But they cannot touch my daughter.”
