CHAPTER 1: THE NAME HIDDEN FOR THIRTY YEARS
The entire banquet hall remained frozen.
No one dared to breathe.
The elderly billionaire slowly knelt beside the shattered pendant.
His trembling fingers carefully picked up the silver pieces from the marble floor.
Then he opened his own shirt collar.
Gasps erupted across the room.
An identical pendant hung around his neck.
The same engraving.
The same delicate craftsmanship.
The same family crest.
Thirty years of searching suddenly came crashing back into his life.
Tears gathered in his eyes.
He looked at the little girl.
"What was your mother's name?"
The child hesitated.
Then softly answered.
"Her name was Amelia."
The billionaire's entire body shook.
The room erupted into whispers.
Amelia Hart.
His missing daughter.
The daughter who had disappeared thirty years ago after refusing an arranged marriage that would have secured the family's empire.
He had spent billions searching for her.
Private investigators.
International agencies.
Nothing.
No trace.
Until now.
The billionaire, Jonathan Sterling, slowly dropped to his knees before the little girl.
Tears rolled down his face.
"You…"
He struggled to speak.
"You're my granddaughter."
The socialite who had broken the necklace suddenly felt her legs weaken.
Her smile vanished instantly.
Because she knew exactly who Jonathan Sterling was.
One of the richest and most powerful men in America.
And she had just humiliated his only remaining family.
Then Jonathan slowly stood up.
His voice became ice cold.
"Nobody touches my family ever again."
The room went silent.
But this was only the beginning.
Because another truth was still waiting to be uncovered.
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What happened to Amelia?
And why had nobody known she had a daughter?
