The Secret of Arbella

Everyone knew her as Arbella Trump; the beautiful granddaughter of the former President of the United States, a girl raised among the pomp of aristocratic palaces and silent bodyguards. From time to time, the media would publish pictures of her: large eyes, olive skin, and dark curly hair—bearing no resemblance to the Scandinavian heritage of her mother, Ivanka. Donald Trump always spoke of her with a forced smile but never brought her much into the public eye.

But there was something no one knew—except Ivanka. A secret that began years ago on a rainy night in Dubai.

On the eve of her sixteenth birthday, Arbella found a letter without a sender in her room. The letter was written in Persian.

My daughter... When you read this, you probably won’t know me anymore. I am your father. A father who was never allowed to be by your side. You are half Iranian; your roots come from a land that still speaks under the moonlight...

Arbella, who had never read Persian, could not understand what was written. But with every word, a strange feeling welled up inside her. That night, she dreamed of a man with a short beard and dark eyes calling her from within the flames.

Ivanka had hidden this secret for years. When she was working on a project in Dubai, she secretly entered Iran. An Iranian man—a silent revolutionary, an architect, a lover—captivated her heart. The result of that love was Arbella.

But to protect her future, and to keep Trump from erasing her name from his will, Ivanka was forced to hide the secret of her Iranian father. At first, Donald wanted to eliminate the child, but when Ivanka threatened to expose his financial documents, he reluctantly agreed to let the child grow up in silence.

As Arbella grew older, the signs of her Iranian father became more apparent. She showed an unusual skill in Eastern languages, a deep feeling for Hafez’s poetry, and dreams of deserts, dome architectures, and the call to prayer echoing from minarets.

On a family trip to Venice, when they visited the old market, an old man recognized her. He whispered:

You are the girl... from the lineage of silent lions.

From that moment on, Arbella decided to discover the truth. She secretly learned Persian. She spent countless nights decoding her father’s letter. She realized her father was still alive—hidden somewhere in the heart of the Zagros Mountains.

Trump, despite his old age, was still trying to erase all traces of his daughter’s past. He had assigned a shadow team of agents to control Arbella’s connection with the outside world. But they did not know that inside her, a fire had been lit—one that would never be extinguished.

To be continued...

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