The Name Hidden in the Lab
Chapter 03 - The Name Hidden in the Lab
Marcus ignored Olivia’s first three calls. On the fourth, Dr. Patel left a message: the hospital result proved he was the twins’ father, and the private report had been altered.
He arrived twenty minutes later with Rebecca.
Marcus looked exhausted. Olivia expected an apology, but he walked straight to the computer and demanded proof. Dr. Patel showed him the matching genetic markers, sealed collection records, and the impossible timestamp.
“Private labs make clerical errors,” Rebecca said. “That does not mean anyone planned this.”
“No,” Dr. Patel replied. “But this might.”
She enlarged the digital record. The false report had been released through an emergency Bennett Holdings account and approved by an administrator with the initials R.B.
Marcus slowly turned toward his sister.
“I manage the family account,” Rebecca said. “That proves nothing.”
Olivia remembered the leaked gossip, the settlement message, and Rebecca’s fear when the doctor protected the sample. “Then let the police decide.”
Rebecca rushed toward the door, but hospital security was waiting. Dr. Patel had contacted the clinic’s legal department before the meeting.
Investigators recovered footage of Rebecca entering the private lab after closing. Her former boyfriend, night supervisor Colin Voss, had attached Marcus’s information to an unrelated sample. In exchange, Rebecca promised to pay his gambling debts.
The motive was hidden in their messages.
Marcus’s late father had created a voting trust for Bennett Holdings. Marcus controlled it temporarily, but permanent control would pass to his first biological child at age twenty-five. If Marcus had no children, Rebecca would inherit the deciding shares.
Twins ended that future.
Rebecca had spent years telling Marcus his fertility was gone. She even intercepted a newer medical letter saying his condition had improved. When Olivia became pregnant, Rebecca turned his deepest insecurity into a weapon.
“I was protecting what Dad built,” Rebecca insisted.
“You were protecting what you wanted to steal,” Marcus said.
Olivia watched him understand: Rebecca had created the evidence, but Marcus had chosen to use it cruelly.
He stepped toward Olivia. “Come home. Please.”
She shook her head.
“You threw me out before the truth had time to arrive,” she said. “You made my babies a scandal. Proving they are yours does not prove you deserve us.”
Marcus lowered his eyes.
Outside, Rebecca was escorted away. Inside, one twin kicked hard enough for Olivia to gasp.
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Dr. Patel checked the monitor, then frowned.
“One baby’s heart rate is dropping,” she said. “We need to move now.”
