The Secret Behind the Forged Report
Chapter 03 - The Secret Behind the Forged Report
Noah traced Lucas Grant’s movements through the mansion’s security system. Twelve minutes before Victoria’s announcement, Lucas had entered Daniel’s private office using a staff access card. He stayed inside for less than four minutes, then left carrying nothing.
Daniel searched the office and discovered that one drawer had been forced open. Inside, he kept family trust documents, medical records, and the signed agreement that transferred a large share of Whitmore Holdings to his firstborn child.
Suddenly, the fake paternity test made sense.
If Daniel rejected Emily’s baby, the child could be removed from the family succession plan. Control of those shares would temporarily pass to the next eligible male heir—Noah. But Noah had never wanted the company. Someone was trying to frame him as the beneficiary of the scandal.
The second contact in the security footage was Daniel’s chief financial officer, Marcus Vale. Marcus had managed the family fortune for fifteen years and was treated like a trusted uncle. Yet bank records revealed secret transfers from Whitmore accounts into companies connected to Lucas.
Daniel confronted Victoria at the hospital. She admitted paying Lucas for the test, but insisted Marcus had introduced them.
“Marcus told me Emily was planning to take the company and leave you,” she said, trembling. “He said the test would expose her.”
“You nearly killed my wife and child because you believed a rumor,” Daniel replied.
Victoria’s pride collapsed. For the first time, she looked less like the powerful head of the family and more like a frightened woman who had destroyed what she claimed to protect.
Before Daniel could call the police, Marcus vanished.
That evening, Emily received a message from an unknown number: LEAVE DANIEL AND SIGN AWAY THE BABY’S SHARES, OR THE NEXT ACCIDENT WON’T FAIL.
Attached was a photograph taken through the hospital window.
Someone was watching her.
The hospital went into lockdown. Noah coordinated with security while Daniel refused to leave Emily’s side. Their marriage was still fractured, but the threat forced them to face the same enemy.
Emily revealed one more secret. Years earlier, Lucas had stolen charity funds, but Marcus had secretly repaid the money and convinced the hospital not to prosecute. Emily had assumed Marcus was protecting the Whitmore name. Now she understood: he had been buying Lucas’s silence and loyalty for years.
Marcus was not trying to protect Daniel.
He was trying to steal the company before an audit exposed millions in missing funds.
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Then the lights in Emily’s room went out.
In the darkness, the door handle slowly turned.
