All Chapters of The Mafia Heir’s Forbidden Bride: Chapter 51 - Chapter 60

The words from the intercepted message still lingered in the air.Prepare the heir. The buyers are asking questions.Nobody spoke for several seconds.Then Alessio closed the file.“Ignore it.”Lucia blinked.Marco frowned.“What?”Alessio tossed the report onto the table.“It doesn’t connect to anything we’ve uncovered.”Marco seemed surprised.“So we’re dropping it?”“No.”Alessio’s voice remained calm.“We’ll investigate it separately. Right now we focus on what’s actually affecting this family.”Lucia understood immediately.Bianca.Matteo.The Bratva.Roman’s secret.Those were the real problems.Not another conspiracy.The room slowly relaxed.Even Bianca seemed relieved.Because she looked exhausted.Tired of secrets.Tired of being the center of them.Lucia couldn’t blame her.The next morning the entire mansion felt different.Word had spread.Everyone knew Roman Romano had hidden Bianca’s pregnancy.Everyone knew the marriage alliance had been built on information he chose n

The garden became silent.Bianca stood frozen with the phone in her hand.Matteo looked as though he has seen the name before.Lucia’s heartbeat quickened.Nobody moved.Nobody spoke.The second message remained on the screen.A single name.A name that should have been impossible.A name connected to both the Morettis and the Romanos.A name Lucia had known her entire life.“What does it say?” she asked again.Bianca slowly handed her the phone.Lucia looked down.The moment she read the message, her stomach tightened.The name staring back at her wasn’t some forgotten enemy.It wasn’t a Bratva commander.It wasn’t a rival mafia leader.It was someone who had once sat at family dinners.Someone trusted.Someone welcomed into their home.Someone her father had once considered a friend.For several seconds Lucia simply stared.Then she looked up.“No.”Matteo rubbed a hand across his face.“That’s exactly what I said.”The message contained more than a name.It contained dates.Old fin

The enemy wasn’t only outside the Romano organization anymore.The enemy was somewhere inside it.The realization settled heavily over the mansion.For the first time in weeks, the Bratva wasn’t the only concern.Now everyone had another problem.Someone with access.Someone trusted.Someone feeding information to the wrong people.Lucia sat quietly as Marco finished presenting the reports.Four failed operations.Four separate locations.Four incidents where the enemy somehow knew exactly where to be.That wasn’t luck.It wasn’t coincidence.Someone was helping them.The question was who.The meeting lasted another hour.Names were discussed.Access levels were reviewed.Security procedures were questioned.Yet by the end nobody had answers.Only suspicions.And suspicions were dangerous.In their world, suspicion could destroy lives long before proof ever appeared.When the meeting finally ended, Lucia followed Alessio from the conference room.Neither spoke until they reached his o

Lucia’s heart slammed against her ribs.“What happened?”The guard listened for several more seconds.Then handed her the phone.Without a word.Without explanation.Which frightened her far more than shouting would have.Lucia grabbed it immediately.“Marco?”His voice came through the line.Calm.Too calm.The kind of calm people used when the truth was dangerous.“Lucia.”Her pulse quickened.“Is Alessio okay?”A brief pause followed.The silence felt endless.Then—“He’s alive.”Relief hit her so suddenly she nearly lost her balance.Alive.Thank God.Thank God.But Marco wasn’t finished.“There was an attack.”Her grip tightened around the phone.“How bad?”“Bad enough.”The answer did nothing to calm her.“Marco.”Another pause.Then he finally explained.One of the Romano properties outside Naples had been targeted.A meeting location.Not a warehouse.Not a business.A meeting location.Someone had known Alessio would be there.Someone had known the schedule.Someone had known

Lucia stared at the page.Her name remained there.Clear.Impossible to miss.For several seconds, nobody in the conference room moved.Nobody spoke.The only sound came from the distant hum of the mansion’s security system.Then Lucia finally looked up.“What is this?”Marco pushed another file across the table.His expression was grim.“We found it among the documents recovered from the dead man’s apartment.”Lucia grabbed the file immediately.The pages inside contained meeting dates, coded messages, and lists of transactions connected to the leak investigation.Then she reached the final page.Her stomach tightened.Someone had written her name beside a series of scheduled contacts.Not once.Multiple times.As if she had been communicating with the man for months.“That’s impossible.”Her voice came out sharper than intended.Roman remained silent.Matteo looked confused.Marco looked frustrated.Only Alessio seemed completely unmoved.His eyes never left Lucia.Not the file.Not