Chapter 8 - THE SISTER WHO DISAPPEAREDLuca finally reveals his deepest secret.
He had a younger sister named Sofia.
She disappeared when she was six.
Everyone believed she died.
But Luca never found her body.
Avery studies the photograph.
The child beside Avery's mother has the same distinctive birthmark described in Sofia's missing-person records.
Avery realizes her mother may have secretly protected Sofia.
They investigate.
The trail leads to a woman living under another name.
They find her.
She is alive.
Sofia has spent twenty years believing her family abandoned her.
She tells Avery that Richard Bennett helped hide her after Luca's father was killed.
But Richard wasn't trying to save her.
He was using her disappearance to manipulate the Moretti family.
The truth becomes even more complicated.
Avery's mother eventually discovered what Richard had done and tried to expose him.
That's why she died under suspicious circumstances.
Luca is devastated.
For years, he believed his father had abandoned him emotionally.
Now he discovers that his father may have been trying to protect his children.
Avery stays beside him.
For the first time, Luca allows himself to cry.
No threats.
No power.
No mafia boss.
Just a man mourning the family he lost.
Chapter cliffhanger:
Sofia gives Luca one final piece of information.
"Your father wasn't killed by Richard."
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She looks at Avery.
"He was betrayed by someone much closer."
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