The betrayal struck five days later, swift and merciless. It happened at sunset along the winding, tree-lined bluffs of Sheridan Road. Francesca was returning to the lakeside fortress from a meeting with the Moretti Foundation board, escorted by two armored SUVs carrying six of Nikolai’s elite guards. As her convoy rounded a blind curve near the wooded ravines, a massive semi-truck hauling gravel barreled out of a side road, slamming…
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