Chapter 26: Inheritance of Death
****Isabelle’s POV****
I never imagined stepping into my father's estate would feel like walking through a graveyard.
The gates creaked open with a metallic groan, rust scraping rust, as if even the steel protested my arrival. Past the high walls lined with cameras and thorns, the main mansion loomed like a wounded animal, regal and rotting. The stone lions that once guarded the entrance now looked blind from years of decay. I stood frozen on the steps, unable to move forward—not from fear, but from the crushing weight of everything this place represented.
This was where my real father—Angelo Cassano—had lived, loved, and bled.
And now it was mine.
The irony clawed at me.
All my life, I believed Victor Raze to be my brother, my protector. My origin s
