Chapter 5 - ISABELLAVincent returned to the mansion.
Isabella was waiting.
She didn't run.
She didn't deny anything.
Instead, she removed the necklace.
“I knew this day would come.”
Vincent stared at her.
“Who are you?”
Isabella looked at him.
“My name is Isabella Moretti.”
Vincent froze.
“My father's name was Anthony Moretti.”
Vincent knew that name.
His father's younger brother.
The uncle everyone said died in a boating accident.
But Anthony hadn't died.
He had been murdered.
Because he had discovered the charity fraud.
Isabella revealed that she had spent years investigating the Moretti family.
She had approached Vincent deliberately.
She wasn't trying to marry him for money.
She was trying to get close enough to expose Bellamy.
Vincent didn't know whether to believe her.
Then Isabella said something that shattered everything.
“Sofia asked me to marry you.”
Vincent stared at her.
“What?”
“She knew she might never be able to return.”
“She believed you would be safer with me than with the people hunting you.”
Vincent shook his head.
“You expect me to believe my missing wife wanted me to marry another woman?”
“No.”
Isabella stepped closer.
“She wanted you to survive.”
Then the front door opened.
Grace screamed.
A woman walked into the ballroom.
Older.
Thinner.
Her hair shorter.
A scar along her cheek.
Vincent stopped breathing.
“Sofia?”
The woman looked at him.
Tears filled her eyes.
“Hello, Vince.”
Vincent moved toward her.
Then Sofia whispered:
“Don't come any closer.”
Vincent stopped.
“Why?”
Sofia looked at Isabella.
Then at Emily.
Then at Grace.
Finally, she said:
“Because the man who betrayed me is standing right behind you.”
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Vincent slowly turned.
Dominic was gone.
