Chapter 5 - The Secret Marcus's Mother BuriedThe man ran.
Marcus chased him.
Two security officers joined.
He escaped through the garden wall.
But he left the photograph behind.
It was a picture of Lily taken outside the mansion six weeks earlier.
My blood turned cold.
“Why would anyone photograph my daughter?”
Marcus stared at it.
“I don't know.”
But I knew he was lying.
Not to me.
To himself.
Because by then, the evidence was connecting.
The stolen phone.
The remote software.
Vanessa.
The CFO.
The greenhouse.
My mother.
Lily.
And Marcus's family.
That night, Marcus asked me to sit in his study.
He placed an old file on the desk.
“My mother kept this hidden.”
Inside were documents from sixteen years earlier.
A financial investigation.
Millions of dollars transferred from a Cole Meridian foundation.
A missing employee.
A settlement.
And a birth record.
My mother's name appeared on the first page.
Evelyn Bennett.
I stared at it.
“What is this?”
Marcus looked uncomfortable.
“My father had an affair.”
My heart stopped.
“With my mother?”
He nodded.
But there was something else.
A second document.
A DNA report.
Marcus stared at it.
Then at Lily.
“No.”
I felt my stomach drop.
“What?”
He pushed the paper toward me.
The report wasn't about Lily.
It was about Marcus.
His father had secretly tested his DNA years before.
The result revealed something impossible.
Marcus wasn't his father's biological son.
Someone else was.
And that person was connected to my mother.
The room went silent.
Marcus leaned back.
For the first time since I had known him, he looked genuinely lost.
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“My father wasn't protecting the family fortune,” he whispered.
“He was hiding who should have inherited it.”
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