When Blaze finished his meeting and returned to the office, he had barely sat down before a troubling message came in from the hospital—Leano's mother was in critical condition, just wheeled into surgery.
Leano was one of Blaze's key leads in the Bruno investigation. Since the man's body had never been found, Blaze had intended to use Leano's family as bait—to smoke Bruno out, force him into a mistake.
But before Bruno even made a move, Leano's mother had already collapsed.
That… was unexpected.
"Do everything you can to save her," Blaze ordered grimly. Then he called Cecilia, and the two of them rushed to the hospital together.
On the way, Cecilia's thoughts were in chaos. She hesitated for a long time before deciding she couldn't keep lying to him.
"To tell you the truth," she said quietly, "Leano's already dead. His family doesn't know. I've been keeping it from them all this time…"
