He called me. Powered off.Then he summoned the downstairs guard. "Where did Anna go?"The guard went pale. "Sir, Miss Vale was picked up this afternoon by a convoy. They used council-level clearance. We didn't dare stop them."Luca snatched up the ring. "Find her flight, cards, phone location. Pull every record."Half an hour later, Marco, the Moretti chief of security, hurried in with a tablet."Her public records are gone. As of this afternoon, Anna Vale looks like she never existed.""But we found another name."On the screen, a young woman in a black evening gown stood beside a cold-eyed man whose cane bore the Valenti silver eagle."Her name isn't Anna Vale," Marco said. "It's Anna Valenti.""She's the Mafia Chairman's daughter."When I returned to the Valenti estate, dawn had just begun to pale the sky.The car followed the Hudson north to a gray stone mansion without gold gates or obvious armed men. Valenti security was invisible, quiet, and exact, like my father.Carmine Valen
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