“What did he do?”
Vittorio leaned toward the intercom.
“He stole from me.”
Then he stepped away from the gate and walked toward his car.
The police arrived before he could leave the street, but by the time officers reached the vehicle, it was empty.
The driver had disappeared.
They searched the surrounding area without finding him.
Camilla spent the night at a friend’s apartment.
For the first time since she was sixteen, she left Dorato behind without feeling certain that everything would be fine.
But she had no idea that the next discovery would connect the python, the hidden passage, and her father’s final letter in a way she could never have imagined.
The Recording Her Father Left Behind
Two days later, the police found a small digital recorder inside the metal box in the basement.
It had been hidden beneath the property documents.
The device contained a single audio file.
