Rejected at the Altar, Married to the Mafia Alpha novel · Chapter 19 of 32
Chapter 19: Open Books
Valerio held his father's signature under the warehouse lamp.
"He knew," he said.
"So do we. What will you do with it?"
He looked down the rows of locked boxes.
"Open them. All of them."
By morning, the Lake pack had gathered in the old auction room.
The place once held furniture taken from homes his father collected.
Valerio stood at a long table with the seven account files spread before him.
He had invited the tribunal clerk, the people named in the files, and his own lieutenants.
I came with Rita and the two residents from the charred page.
Valerio did not call me to stand beside him.
I chose a place where I could see the exits.
"My father profited from false oaths," he told the room. "I inherited those profits."
One lieutenant shifted far enough that a dark wolf muzzle broke through his face.
"You're making our pack liable for fraud," he said.
"The fraud made us rich."
Valerio opened the first file and laid out its original oath.
He showed the photographed clasps, the nicked R, and the copied witness signature.
He did not claim my scent as proof.
He let the people whose addresses were on the pages speak.
The engine repairer said how he had slept in his truck after losing his apartment.
A woman said she still kept the key to a door another family used.
The lieutenant stared at the files.
"If you release the fees, we lose the docks."
"Then we lose the docks."
Valerio signed an order opening every account in the warehouse to the tribunal.
His guards carried the boxes out in sight of both packs.
No one could put the papers back unseen.
The lieutenants left without shaking his hand.
Outside, I caught up with him beside the loading doors.
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