CHAPTER 4 — “The DNA Test Exposed A Secret More Dangerous Than The Fortune”
Emma couldn't sleep.
The final sentence in her mother's diary echoed through her mind all night.
"Ethan is not Victoria's son."
It made no sense.
If Ethan wasn't Victoria's biological child...
Who was he?
The next morning, Emma secretly asked the family lawyer to reopen the Sterling archives.
Hidden inside a locked cabinet was an envelope marked:
CONFIDENTIAL — NEVER OPEN UNLESS AMELIA RETURNS.
Inside were two birth certificates.
One belonged to Ethan Sterling.
The other...
To a baby boy named Lucas Sterling.
The same birthday.
The same hospital.
But different mothers.
Emma frowned.
"What is this?"
The lawyer looked terrified.
"I prayed this day would never come."
He explained that twenty-eight years earlier, Victoria had given birth to a stillborn baby.
Unable to accept the loss, she committed an unthinkable crime.
On the very same night, another exhausted young mother had delivered a healthy baby boy.
That mother...
Was Amelia.
Victoria bribed the hospital director.
Within hours, the babies' identities were switched.
Amelia was told her son had died.
Victoria walked out of the hospital carrying Amelia's child...
And raised him as Ethan Sterling.
Emma felt the room spinning.
"No..."
"That means..."
The lawyer nodded with tears in his eyes.
"Ethan isn't just innocent."
"He's your mother's stolen son."
Emma's hands shook uncontrollably.
The man she had fallen in love with...
The man who had stood silently while she was humiliated...
Was actually her own biological brother.
Before Emma could process the truth, alarms suddenly echoed throughout Sterling Tower.
Security guards ran through the hallways.
One of them shouted,
"Someone broke into the company vault!"
They rushed downstairs.
The vault door hung open.
The original will...
The DNA records...
And every document proving the baby swap...
Had disappeared.
On the security monitor, only one shadowy figure could be seen leaving the building.
The person stopped beneath a security camera just long enough to smile.
It was Victoria.
But she wasn't alone.
Walking beside her...
Was a man the entire Sterling family believed had died twenty-three years ago.
Emma stared at the screen in horror.
The old butler whispered only one sentence.
"Henry Sterling's younger brother... is still alive."
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And suddenly everyone realized...
Victoria had never been acting alone.
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