Chapter 16 — A Family Reunited After Ten Years
# The Girl Who Ran Into the Mafia
## Chapter 16 — A Family Reunited After Ten Years
A week after Richard Whitmore was arrested, Grace and Sophia temporarily moved into Damian's waterfront estate overlooking Boston Harbor.
The mansion felt overwhelming after years of fear.
Grace had her own bedroom for the first time.
No locked doors.
No shouting.
No footsteps outside her room in the middle of the night.
Every evening, Damian joined Sophia and Grace for dinner.
At first, their conversations were awkward.
Grace didn't know how to call him.
"Mr. Moretti?"
"Sir?"
Damian simply smiled.
"You can call me Damian until you're ready."
One afternoon, Sophia showed Grace an old photo album she had secretly kept hidden for years.
Inside were dozens of photographs.
A younger Damian teaching Sophia to sail.
Picnics by the harbor.
Birthday celebrations.
Engagement pictures.
Grace slowly looked up.
"You really loved each other."
Sophia nodded with tears in her eyes.
"We never stopped."
Grace quietly walked across the room.
Without saying anything...
She wrapped her small arms around Damian.
He froze.
Then gently hugged her back.
For the first time...
He wasn't protecting someone else's child.
He was holding his own daughter.
The family that had been stolen from him for more than twenty years had finally begun to heal.
