Chapter 3 - THE SECRET HER MOTHER TOOK TO THE GRAVEAvery is stunned when she sees the photograph.
Her mother had always claimed she had never met the Moretti family.
Luca tells Avery his father died eighteen years ago.
Officially, it was an accident.
Luca has never believed that.
The photograph suggests Avery's mother knew his father personally.
Avery returns home secretly with Luca's help to search her mother's old belongings.
Inside an antique jewelry box, she discovers a hidden letter.
The letter was written by Luca's father.
It reveals that Richard Bennett once worked with the Moretti family.
But Richard betrayed them.
Avery's mother tried to expose him.
The betrayal caused the collapse of an old business alliance and eventually led to Luca's father's death.
Avery realizes her entire family history has been a lie.
Then she finds something worse.
A financial document dated only three weeks earlier.
Her father's signature appears beside Caleb Mercer's.
The document transfers control of Bennett Atlantic Logistics after Avery's marriage.
Avery realizes that if she married Caleb, her father could legally move everything into Caleb's control.
She wasn't just being married off.
She was being used as the final signature on a massive financial takeover.
Before Avery can take the documents, someone enters the house.
She hides.
Luca arrives just in time.
They escape through the back entrance.
During the drive, Avery asks:
"Why are you helping me?"
Luca finally reveals the truth.
He believes her father may have been responsible for his father's death.
Avery realizes that Luca has a reason to hate her family.
Yet he still protected her.
Chapter cliffhanger:
Luca tells Avery:
"If your father knows what you found, he won't try to bring you home anymore."
Avery asks:
"What will he do?"
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Luca looks at her through the rearview mirror.
"He'll make sure you never come back."
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