Chapter 5
Damian raised his hand, halting the guards. The absolute, terrifying calm returned to his features, though his gray eyes burned with a lethal intensity. "Where is he, Celeste? Where is my son?"
Celeste breathed heavily, her diamond necklace rising and falling against her chest. "The doctor placed him with a private foster family in the northern suburbs. A quiet, anonymous couple. They named him Leo. He has no idea who he is, Damian. He thinks he is just a normal, middle-class kid."
"Give me the address," Damian ordered, holding out his hand.
A cruel, venomous smile slowly crept back onto Celeste's face. The manipulative woman realized she still held a single, terrifying card to play. "I don't have it on me. But it wouldn't matter if I did, Damian. You are already too late."
The air in the ballroom seemed to turn to ice. Damian’s broad shoulders tensed, his polished leather shoes shifting slightly on the marble. "What did you do?"
"I told you, I will not let an illegitimate bastard steal my future children's inheritance!" Celeste spat, her voice ringing with ruthless triumph. "When my investigators confirmed his identity this afternoon, I didn't just plan to destroy the music box. I sent a team to the suburbs. A professional extraction crew from my father's faction."
Damian’s jaw tightened so hard the muscles visibly flexed beneath his fair skin. "You sent a hit squad after a seven-year-old boy."
"I sent them to erase a threat," Celeste corrected coldly. "They were ordered to make it look like a standard home invasion. By the time you drive out there, Leo will be nothing more than a tragic statistic on the evening news."
Damian did not yell. He did not strike her again. Instead, he stepped back, adjusting his luxury wristwatch with a terrifying, mechanical precision.
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"Lock her in the vault," Damian instructed his men, his voice completely devoid of humanity. "If my son is dead, she doesn't come out."
As the guards dragged a screaming Celeste away, Damian pulled his phone from his pocket. The father was gone. The Mafia Boss had entered a state of total war.
