Chapter 2: A Secret Buried for Twenty Years
The next morning, Enzo searched through the files his investigators had collected on the Whitcomb family.
Something didn't add up.
Medical records disappeared.
School records had been altered.
Photographs from Harper's childhood were missing.
Then an elderly nun from an orphanage agreed to meet him.
She handed Enzo a faded envelope.
"I promised never to reveal this," she whispered. "But Harper deserves the truth."
Inside was a birth certificate.
The father listed wasn't Richard Whitcomb.
It was Matteo DeLuca.
Enzo stared at the paper in disbelief.
Matteo.
His late uncle.
Harper wasn't Richard Whitcomb's daughter.
She was a DeLuca by blood.
Richard had stolen her after Matteo was murdered during the feud years earlier.
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Harper had never been his daughter.
She had been his hostage.
