CHAPTER 2 – The Brother Who Never Died
The internet exploded overnight.
Videos titled:
"Millionaire Walks Again."
"Homeless Boy Performs Medical Miracle."
Hundreds of millions watched.
Doctors argued.
Scientists demanded explanations.
News stations called it impossible.
But Adrian didn't care.
He had only one question.
Who was the boy?
Private investigators searched every shelter.
Every school.
Every orphanage.
Nothing.
The child seemed to vanish into New York itself.
Three nights later...
A handwritten note appeared on Adrian's penthouse balcony.
Only five words.
"Come alone if you regret."
No signature.
No fingerprints.
No cameras captured anyone entering.
At midnight...
Adrian followed the directions.
They led him beneath an abandoned subway station closed decades earlier.
There...
Waiting beneath flickering lights...
stood the boy.
And beside him...
An old man wrapped in blankets.
Thin.
Weak.
Gray-haired.
Adrian stopped breathing.
"...Lucas?"
The old man slowly lifted his head.
The scar above his eyebrow remained exactly the same.
His older brother.
Alive.
Adrian staggered backward.
Eight years earlier...
A terrible accident had left Adrian paralyzed.
His company collapsed into chaos.
Lucas had wanted to expose dangerous business partners who caused it.
But before he could...
Lucas disappeared.
The police never found him.
Adrian believed his brother had abandoned him.
The truth...
Was much darker.
Lucas spoke softly.
"They kidnapped me."
"They needed me alive."
"They wanted your company."
For years...
Powerful executives secretly imprisoned Lucas while convincing Adrian that everyone had betrayed him.
Including his own family.
The barefoot boy had found Lucas months earlier while delivering food to homeless people hidden beneath forgotten tunnels.
He listened.
He believed him.
No adult ever did.
Then he found Adrian.
Not for money.
For justice.
Adrian collapsed into tears.
He embraced the brother he thought he had lost forever.
But someone else had been watching.
High above...
A sniper's laser slowly appeared on Lucas's chest.
The conspiracy wasn't over.
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It had only begun.
TO BE CONTINUED...
