CHAPTER 2: THE BILLIONAIRE'S FIANCÉE WAS HIDING EVERYTHING
Nathaniel canceled the engagement party immediately.
Victoria was furious.
“You're humiliating me over an orphan?”
Nathaniel looked directly into her eyes.
“No.”
“I'm uncovering a crime.”
Hours later, security footage from the ballroom appeared on every screen inside Sterling Manor.
The guests watched in disbelief.
Victoria herself had planted the pearl inside Emily's purse.
Then she deliberately smashed the purse onto the floor.
She had framed the child.
But Nathaniel wasn't interested in that anymore.
He wanted to know why.
His investigators reopened Eleanor Harper's old files.
And that's when they found it.
A hidden adoption document.
Emily wasn't an orphan.
She was the legal granddaughter of Eleanor Harper.
But something else was attached.
A DNA report.
Nathaniel read it twice.
Then a third time.
His hands trembled.
Emily was his sister.
Twenty years earlier, his father had secretly had another child.
His mother discovered the affair before she died.
Instead of exposing the scandal, she protected the baby.
Eleanor raised the child in secret to shield her from the ruthless Sterling empire.
But someone eventually discovered the truth.
Victoria.
She wasn't marrying Nathaniel for love.
She was marrying him to inherit Sterling Industries.
Emily's existence threatened everything.
And if Emily was recognized as family…
Victoria would lose billions.
So she decided to erase her before anyone discovered the truth.
Nathaniel stood up.
The man everyone feared suddenly looked furious.
“Arrest her.”
Victoria's face turned white.
“You can't do this!”
Nathaniel answered without emotion.
“You tried to destroy a child.”
“You destroyed yourself.”
Security escorted her out while every guest watched.
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But the biggest battle was still ahead.
Because the Sterling empire itself had been built on decades of hidden lies.
