Chapter 12: The Accountants Arrive
For the first time in five years, Matteo had nothing to say.
Bianca collapsed into her chair, sobbing without elegance now.
Luca cursed and stormed toward the door, but Vittorio’s driver blocked his path.
“Sit,” Vittorio ordered. “The accountants arrive in twenty minutes.”
That was when they finally understood.
They had not lost an argument.
They had lost the future.
Three months later, Bianca no longer ruled the villa like a queen.
Vittorio sold it and placed the proceeds into a protected trust for his great-grandchild, administered by an independent board and, at his insistence, reviewed by me.
Luca faced criminal embezzlement charges.
Serena’s boutique collapsed beneath debt and unpaid taxes.
Bianca moved from marble halls into a small apartment where nobody feared her opinions anymore.
Matteo tried charm in court.
Then anger.
Then tears.
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