เข้าสู่ระบบChapter 28: ****Adrian, his security chief, and I walked into the private archive together. The file that had been opened repeatedly was not about me at all.It was about Kane Global's original ownership structure.Adrian looked confused as he scanned the screen. "I know every major file in this company. This one should not even be accessible to anyone at all."The security chief pulled up the oldest document, a list of names tied to Kane Global's earliest private investments. Then we saw something: one investor never appeared in any public record connected to the company.He's been a silent investor with no name. Just a code.Adrian focused on it for a while. "I have never seen this before.""Could this person be behind everything?" I asked."Maybe."The security chief kept scrolling, then stopped. "Sir."Adrian moved closer to the screen. The silent investor had funded several of Kane Global's early expansion projects, then went quiet for years. Until recently. The account was rea
Chapter 27:****I woke up to Adrian standing by the window; he was on call. I had no idea who he was talking to. But I could tell from his face that something had gone wrong.He ended the call and turned to me. "Kane Global just lost the Ardent contract."I sat up immediately. "What?"Ardent was one of our biggest technology partners. Losing them was not a small setback. It would obstruct three projects already in motion and cost us millions in penalties alone.Adrian walked to the desk and opened his laptop. "They received documents claiming Kane Global falsified some financial records."I stared at the screen as the files loaded. The documents looked real. Too real, but I noticed something off about it.A signature on one of the pages belonged to me."I never signed this, Adrian," I quickly said."I know." Adrian zoomed in on the image. The signature had been lifted from an old contract I signed years ago, copied so precisely that even I would have believed it was mine if I had not
Chapter 26:****Ryan barely slept that night. The next morning, he picked up his phone and read the message from the anonymous sender again. "Elena has a son. And he is approximately six years old."Six years.That number kept circling back to him. Not because he remembered Elena being pregnant. He did not. Their marriage had been a total mess even before their divorce.So, as far as Ryan knew, Elena wasn't pregnant, and she had no child. But Elena's boy is six years old, and her marriage with Adrian is yet to clock six years in a few months.So why is this boy six already?He zoomed in on the photograph again. Ashley looked comfortable beside Elena. He looked like a child who had grown up knowing exactly who his mother was.Ryan became extremely restless. "Who is his father?" He asked himself in a low tone. Then he called his investigator. "I want everything you can legally find about this boy.""His name is Ashley," the investigator said. "That is all we have confirmed.""Who is t
Chapter 25: ****Ryan spent the entire night staring at the photograph. Elena and a boy who looked nothing like Vanessa's son, but something about the shape of his eyes felt familiar in a way Ryan could not explain.He pulled out old documents from his marriage; he started comparing dates against the message on his phone. When he divorced Elena, she didn't look like someone who was pregnant. The series of test results we did said she couldn't conceive, so how could she possibly give birth within a short period of time after their divorce?The dates lined up in a way that made his hands unsteady.But something else bothered him more. The photograph looked recent; it was taken within the last year, yet the anonymous message said Ashley was approximately six years old. Whoever sent the message had not just discovered this child yesterday. They had been watching Elena for years, patient enough to wait for the right moment to strike.Ryan called the private investigator who once tracked E
Chapter 24:****The next day, at the Ashford mansion. Ryan walked into his father's private study immediately after he was summoned.His father didn't waste time; he immediately started pouring his heart. "I don't have any more time; this file here is my will, and apparently, you no longer have an heir."Ryan's throat tightened. "Father, please....""Don't interrupt me." His father's voice stayed cold. "The boy we all thought was yours is not your son. He cannot inherit this family's fortune. He cannot carry the Ashford bloodline, and he cannot become the successor I intended.""I understand.""No, you don't." His father opened the file and removed a document. "I have changed my will."Ryan's face lost its color immediately. "What?""The majority of my companies will no longer automatically go to you."Ryan stepped forward. "Father, please. Give me time.""Time for what?""I will give you a true heir this time." His voice was shaking, but he refused to back down. "A child of my own.
Chapter 23:****I could not take my eyes off the laptop screen. My hands slowly rose and covered my mouth."No..."Adrian looked at me immediately. "You know him?"I could not answer him. Not because I refused to. Because I could not believe he was still alive.Adrian stood beside me and looked back at the frozen image. "Who is he?"I stared at the screen for several long seconds before I finally found my voice. "His name is Victor Dorian."Adrian frowned. "I have never heard that name before. Who is he?"""I never wanted you to, because I felt it was in the past."I pulled out the desk chair and sat down slowly, and the memories came rushing back. "Years before I met Ryan, before I even became an Ashford, I worked part-time while trying to finish school. My supervisor was Victor. He looked kind. He spoke gently. He treated everyone well. But he was nothing like the man people believed him to be."Adrian remained silent."He became obsessed with me. He said I belonged to him. When I







