CHAPTER 3 — THE SECRET INSIDE THE TWO-MILLION-DOLLAR FILE
Three days later...
Damien appeared at my front door.
Alone.
No security.
No expensive suit.
Only regret.
"I need the truth."
I invited him inside.
The boys were upstairs.
For the first time in five years...
We talked.
Really talked.
He admitted he had never wanted me to end the pregnancy.
He admitted he had panicked.
His father had been dying.
The company was collapsing.
His mother convinced him that having children would destroy everything.
"I believed her."
"You chose to."
He lowered his head.
"I know."
Then he handed me a thick legal folder.
"This is what Mother tried to hide."
Inside were contracts.
Bank records.
Emails.
Secret trust documents.
Everything proved Victoria Mercer had illegally moved millions from the Mercer Foundation into private accounts for years.
The money she offered me...
Was never hers.
It belonged to the family charity.
If the truth became public...
She would lose everything.
Even worse...
There was another document.
A DNA report.
I frowned.
"This was done five years ago."
Damien nodded slowly.
"I never ordered it."
Victoria had.
Without telling either of us.
She had secretly collected Damien's DNA.
The report confirmed with 99.99% certainty...
He was the father.
She had known from the beginning.
She didn't separate us because she doubted the babies.
She separated us because she knew they were Mercers.
She feared that heirs would divide the empire she controlled.
Damien closed the folder.
"My mother stole five years from us."
I looked upstairs toward the twins.
"No."
I corrected him quietly.
"She stole five years from you."
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The boys had never lacked love.
Only a father.
