Falling for My Ex’s Mafia Dad — Episode 62
The recording sounded authentic, but Fay remembered Ivan’s warning about edited audio. The sentence might combine words spoken across different conversations. Grant wanted emotion to outrun forensic review.
Kent heard a confession. He ordered his men to locate the transport carrying Ivan. Fay blocked the command before another extrajudicial pursuit could become evidence supporting Grant’s case.
Mara obtained the detention logs. Ivan had signed a voluntary transfer into federal protective custody at 3:17 a.m., hours before warning Fay that Grant remained alive. The signature suggested cooperation, but the form omitted a destination.
Fay focused on the board meeting. Lorenzo had requested her suspension for moral misconduct, concealment of evidence, and exposing clinic property to violence. Each accusation converted attacks against her into proof she was unfit to lead.
Kent offered to stay away from the meeting. His absence would reduce the appearance of influence, though it would also leave Fay facing Lorenzo alone. She accepted, trusting Mara and the independent directors instead of criminal power.
The meeting began under intense press attention. Lorenzo displayed photographs of Kent leaving Fay’s apartment and argued that her affair invalidated every negotiation involving Lippert funding. Fay did not deny the relationship.
She said consenting to love an imperfect man did not transfer her judgment to him. The clinic’s independent audit, lease, finances, and patient policies proved she separated private choice from governance more carefully than Lorenzo separated fatherhood from commerce.
Mara introduced the intercepted port appendix and audio of Lorenzo offering access to Fay. Several directors demanded his resignation. Lorenzo countered by producing the stolen cassette.
The duplicate recording described Grant, Ilya, Elise, and the plan involving Victoria. Lorenzo claimed Fay withheld material evidence while using the clinic as a base for a private investigation that endangered staff.
Fay admitted the investigation but revealed that the cassette was a watermarked copy stolen from her apartment that morning. The tracking record showed it passed directly through an Alden server before reaching the board.
Lorenzo’s attorney called the data fabricated. Mara displayed independent timestamps preserved by a judge. The room turned against Lorenzo as every attempt to control Fay exposed another layer of coordination.
The board rejected Fay’s suspension and voted to remove Lorenzo pending investigation. He remained composed until Fay asked why he gave Grant her address. Then his expression became openly paternal and cruel.
He said he had tried every civilized method to separate her from Kent. If Fay insisted on choosing the man who destroyed both families, she would learn what that choice cost.
Security escorted Lorenzo out. Before leaving, he told Fay Victoria had also mistaken defiance for freedom. “Ask your mother where it left her,” he said.
The words suggested Victoria lived—or that Lorenzo wanted Fay desperate enough to believe she did. Fay refused to chase the claim without evidence, but hope entered like a blade.
After the meeting, the forensic report on Ivan’s intercom recording arrived. The sentence contained four audio seams. His apparent threat had been assembled from unrelated statements.
Relief came with a warning. Grant needed Fay and Kent to believe Ivan had betrayed them before the next stage of the operation. Distrust itself was being prepared as evidence.
Daniel called from Colin’s apartment. Federal agents had arrived with a subpoena for every communication involving Kent, Fay, and Ivan. The fake engagement was now part of an official conspiracy inquiry.
Fay asked whether Ivan’s name appeared on the warrant. Daniel read the authorizing affidavit and went silent. Ivan had not merely provided information; he was identified as the undercover officer whose testimony established probable cause.
At that moment, Fay received a secure message containing a photograph of Ivan inside Grant’s command office. He held the original Victoria cassette—and Special Agent Grant stood alive beside him.