CHAPTER 2 — The Billionaire Father Chose Me
Within twenty minutes...
Black SUVs surrounded the mansion.
Not police.
Private security.
Richard Voss stepped out wearing an old navy coat instead of his usual designer suits.
He looked older than television remembered.
But far more dangerous.
He walked past Adrian.
Ignored him completely.
Stopped in front of me.
His eyes fell on the bruises around my neck.
Then the fingerprints on my shoulder.
Then my pregnant stomach.
Finally...
He knelt.
"I'm sorry."
The entire courtyard froze.
Camille gasped.
"The founder is apologizing to...her?"
Richard removed a small velvet box.
Inside lay a silver ring engraved with a tiny circuit board.
"Our company's first prototype."
He placed it into my shaking hand.
"You built the encryption."
I nodded.
"You knew?"
"I knew from day one."
Adrian screamed.
"Father! She's lying!"
Richard turned slowly.
"No."
"You've been lying."
He pressed a button on his cane.
Every television changed again.
Old security footage appeared.
Eight years earlier.
A tiny garage.
Me.
Coding.
Sleeping beside my laptop.
Writing thousands of lines of software while Adrian practiced investor presentations.
Richard looked at every board member.
"The woman standing there..."
"...is the real architect of Voss AI."
Silence.
One director quietly removed Adrian's nameplate.
Another stood up.
"I move to remove Adrian Voss as CEO."
Every hand rose.
Except Adrian's.
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He had just lost the company.
But that wasn't even the beginning.
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