Chapter 6 - The Bloodline DeceptionTwo weeks passed.
The fall of the Brooks family made national news headlines. 'High Society Horror: Wealthy Family Staged Fake Pregnancy to Lock Away Heiress Daughter.'
My father's law firm collapsed within forty-eight hours as clients pulled their money out in disgust. My mother sat in a state penitentiary awaiting trial with a set bail of $5 million—money no one was willing to pay.
I took full control of my grandmother's $2.5 million trust and bought out the remaining assets of Brooks Legal Holdings, rebranding it as Sterling & Brooks Advocacy Group, dedicated to helping victims of domestic and financial abuse.
Marcus became my head of security and chief logistics officer, getting paid a high six-figure salary he richly deserved.
One evening, while going through the final property deeds of my mother's foreclosed mansion, I found a hidden metal lockbox inside her bedroom wall safe.
Marcus forced the lock open with a crowbar.
Inside were medical files dating back twenty-six years from Saint Jude Memorial Hospital.
I opened the top folder, expecting to see old pediatric records. But as I read the stamped yellow pages, my jaw dropped in sheer disbelief.
The DNA test results conducted at birth showed something scientifically impossible under normal circumstances:
Sarah Brooks: Biological parentage matching Linda Brooks and Arthur Brooks.
Emily Brooks: Biological parentage matching Linda Brooks... and an unidentified third party.
Emily wasn't my full twin sister. We were a rare case of heteropaternal superfecundation—twins fathered by two different men during the same ovulation cycle.
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My mother hadn't just lied about who was born first. She had spent twenty-six years hiding the fact that Emily was the result of an affair with my father's greatest political rival—a disgraced billionaire named Victor Vance.
My father had been raising another man's daughter while helping abuse his own biological flesh and blood.
