Chapter 5 - THE SECRET BENEATH THE VARENNA ESTATE

The original hospital records were incomplete.
Several pages were missing.
A laboratory report had been replaced.
And the physician who signed Luca's diagnosis had retired suddenly eleven years earlier.
Luca hired an independent investigator.
The investigation led to an old storage room beneath the Varenna estate.
Inside were boxes of family documents.
Medical correspondence.
Financial records.
And a sealed envelope addressed to Luca's father.
Luca opened it.
Inside was a letter from the physician.
The letter described pressure from a member of the Varenna family to alter Luca's medical records.
I stared.
“Who?”
Luca read the signature.
Then went still.
May you like
His brother.
Matteo Varenna.