My Billionaire Husband Sent $500K. I Got $300. novel · Chapter 21 of 24

Chapter 21: Dario's POV: The Statement

Dario's POV

At a quarter to four in the morning, I stood in a hospital corridor with my father's letter in one hand and the ledger in the other.

I wanted to drive to the airport.

I wanted it badly.

I could see it perfectly.

The runway, the white plane, Aldo at the foot of the stairs in his pressed suit, and my hands.

Behind the door, Callie was asleep with a monitor strapped across her stomach.

She had made me promise the same thing twice.

*You don't touch him at all.*

I leaned my forehead against the wall.

If I went, I would be the man I had been at nineteen, the one who signed the first paper put in front of him.

If I stayed, Aldo would be in Naples by lunch.

He would have a house there, and a name, and a son in a cell.

The woman from the Gaming Control Board had given me her private number on Wednesday.

She had said, *If you ever have something you can prove, call me before you do anything stupid.*

I called her.

She answered on the second ring.

"Corvino," she said. "It's four in the morning."

"He's leaving at six."

"Who is?"

"Aldo. I have the proof, and I have a witness who's alive."

"Where?"

"Here. With me. Bring a prosecutor."

She was quiet for a moment.

"Dario. If I bring a prosecutor, everything you tell me goes on the record. All of it. What you did for nine years with Lowell Hatch's name on your license."

"I know."

"That's a crime."

"I know what it is."

"You could go back to prison."

"Then I'll go," I said. "Come now."

She arrived at twenty past four with a federal prosecutor in a rumpled coat who had clearly dressed in the dark.

They sat on two plastic chairs in the waiting room, and I put my father's letter and the ledger on the table between them.

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