Falling for My Ex’s Mafia Dad — Episode 78
Grant’s death threatened to close every door he had held. The detention center reported no camera malfunction, no unauthorized visitor, and no obvious external injury. The perfection of the record made Fay suspicious.
Victoria recognized the method. Lorenzo’s organization had staged suicides by controlling medication and observation logs. Grant may have known too much to survive once the authentic ledger surfaced.
Lorenzo remained hospitalized under guard, but a nurse had accessed his room minutes before Grant died. She used credentials belonging to the same Alden medical shell connected to Kent’s poisoned meal.
State investigators arrested the nurse. She admitted delivering a phone, not poison. Lorenzo had spoken privately with someone inside Grant’s facility.
Call routing led to a deputy warden already implicated in *Custodial Silence*. He disappeared before officers reached his home, leaving behind cash and a Kozlov passport.
Ivan denied authorizing the document. Sergei could have supplied it, or Lorenzo might be framing the syndicate to keep the remaining enemies divided.
Grant’s autopsy found a rare sedative obtainable through prison medical contracts. The dose could be self-administered, but bruising suggested someone held his arm.
Mara argued the death made Ivan’s recordings more important, not less. A dead conspirator could not be cross-examined, so independent corroboration became essential.
The forensic accountant matched Grant’s hidden payments to Lorenzo’s companies. The chain proved corruption but stopped short of ordering Kent’s murder.
Fay searched Victoria’s files for the deputy warden’s name. She found him listed beside a rural property where witnesses were moved before disappearing.
Daniel organized a lawful search with state police. Colin remained at the operations center, now openly introduced as Daniel’s partner to every official present.
The rural property contained burned records and an empty medical room. In a locked freezer, investigators found preserved blood samples labeled with names from Grant’s task force.
One vial carried Kent’s identification and a collection date after his arrest. The samples could plant DNA at crime scenes or falsify medical evidence of violence.
Another vial bore Fay’s alias from her pregnancy test. Lorenzo’s medical network had taken more than results; it had retained her blood.
The discovery made the threat to her child biological as well as political. Fay ordered every sample transferred to an independent laboratory under court seal.
A hidden notebook described a plan to fabricate fetal-paternity results naming Ivan rather than Kent. Such a result could fracture Fay’s alliances and give Lorenzo grounds to involve the Kozlov syndicate.
Ivan looked genuinely horrified. His attraction to Fay had been converted into a false claim over a child, repeating the ownership he once pretended to reject.
The notebook carried the deputy warden’s handwriting but Lorenzo’s corrections. It was direct evidence that Fay’s father continued directing operations from custody.
The hospital jail moved Lorenzo into total isolation. As guards searched him, they found a capsule identical to those used by Grant’s disposable operatives.
Before anyone could stop him, Lorenzo bit down—and collapsed while whispering that Victoria would never testify against a dead man.