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The Secret Son Of Lucien Ardent

The Secret Son Of Lucien Ardent

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last updateLast Updated : 2026-07-26
By:  Fillani PutriOngoing
Language: English
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Dark Romance

First-Person POV

Contemporary

CEO

Hidden Identity

Doctor

Revenge

Runaway with a Baby

Second Chance

"Sign it. Your role as a breeding vessel is complete." I was Elowen Hart, a woman who believed in fairy tales until my husband, the cold and powerful billionaire Lucien Ardent, handed me divorce papers the moment my pregnancy was confirmed. Our marriage was never about love. I was a pawn, carefully selected by the Ardent family to produce a worthy heir, only to be discarded like trash once my purpose was served. But they underestimated a mother’s resolve. I didn't sign. I didn't cry. I disappeared. Five years later, the world knows me as Dr. Elowen Hart, a world-renowned surgical genius with a heart of ice and a reputation that makes the powerful tremble. I have returned to the city stronger, untouchable, and harboring a secret that could topple the Ardent empire: a son who bears Lucien’s exact gaze. When a medical emergency forces the ruthless Lucien Ardent to beg for my help, he doesn't recognize the woman I’ve become. He wants the doctor who can save his legacy, but he has no idea he is kneeling at the feet of the wife he once destroyed. The hunter has become the prey. And this time, I won't be the one who bleeds.

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19 Chapters
Chapter 1: The Vessel’s Exit
"Sign it, Elowen. Your role as a vessel is complete."I stared at the thick leather folder on the mahogany desk, then up at the man I had called my husband for the last two years. Lucien Ardent didn't look like a man who had just been told he was going to be a father. He looked like a CEO closing a tedious, low-stakes merger."A vessel?" I whispered, my voice sounding foreign to my own ears. "Lucien, I just told you I’m pregnant. This is our child. Our son.""It is an Ardent heir," Lucien corrected coldly. He leaned back in his chair, his grey eyes as lifeless as polished stone. "And you were the carefully selected biological incubator. Don't tell me you actually started believing the fairy tale? You were chosen for your health, your genetic markers, and your complete lack of social ties. Nothing more."The positive pregnancy test felt like a burning coal in my palm. "Two years, Lucien. We shared a bed. We shared a life. Was every single night just a part of the script?""I never said
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Chapter 2: The Price of a Heart
"You have ten seconds to sign those consent forms, Lucien. Every tick of that clock is another thousand cells dying in your father’s brain."I stood by the scrub sink, my back to him as I washed my hands with methodical, rhythmic precision. The scent of antiseptic was the only thing keeping me grounded. Five years ago, I would have been trembling under his gaze. Now, I was the one holding the stopwatch."You're enjoying this," Lucien’s voice rasped behind me. It was a low, dangerous sound, like a predator caught in a trap. "You’re using my father’s life as a bargaining chip for your revenge."I turned, shaking the water from my hands. I didn't look at him with hatred; I looked at him with the detached curiosity of a scientist examining a specimen. "I’m using my skill as a surgeon to offer a service, Mr. Ardent. Revenge would be walking out of that door and letting Nature take its course. Do you want to sign, or should I call the morgue to start prepping a cold slab for the Chairman?"
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Chapter 3: The Golden Cage Reopens
"Is this the place, Mommy? Is this where the giants live?"Liam’s small hand was trembling in mine as we stood before the towering iron gates of Ardent Manor. Five years ago, I ran from this place with nothing but a broken heart and a secret. Now, I was returning in the back of a black Rolls-Royce, flanked by the man who had turned my life into a calculated survival game."No, Liam," I whispered, glancing at the cold, stone-faced man sitting across from us. "This is just a house made of expensive rocks. Don't be afraid.""He shouldn't be afraid of his own heritage," Lucien snapped, his grey eyes fixed on Liam with a hunger that made my skin crawl. "The boy needs to get used to the scale of his future. This is the Ardent legacy.""It’s a graveyard of emotions, Lucien. Don't try to dress it up as a playground," I countered.The car stopped. The heavy doors were opened by a line of servants who stood in eerie, perfect silence. I stepped out, pulling Liam close to my side. The air here al
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Chapter 4: The Blood Contract
"The chairmanship for my son?"My voice was a ghost of a sound, echoing against the cold marble of the foyer. I looked at Lucien. I waited for him to roar, to deny it, to strike Silas down for such a lie. But Lucien remained motionless, his eyes fixed on the glinting collar around Liam’s neck. The silence was my answer."You traded him before he was even born," I whispered, the air in my lungs turning to ash. "That’s why you wanted the divorce. That’s why you wanted the 'vessel' out of the way. You didn't just want an heir, Lucien. You wanted a currency.""Elowen, don't listen to him," Lucien said, his voice low and vibrating with a tension that felt like it was about to snap. "Silas is a snake. He’ll say anything to destabilize me.""A snake? Maybe," Silas countered, his thumb hovering over the remote. He shifted Liam’s sleeping weight, and my heart hammered so hard against my ribs I thought it would shatter. "But a snake doesn't sign corporate bylaws, Lucien. Section 4, Paragraph 12
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Chapter 5: The Zero Hour
"Three seconds, Elowen. Cut the blue one!"Lucien’s voice was a jagged rasp against my ear. His blood-slicked hands held Liam’s head with a terrifying, statue-like stillness. The air in the ballroom was thick with the scent of ozone and the frantic, high-pitched beep-beep-beep of the timer.I didn't breathe. I couldn't afford to. My micro-forceps hovered over a hair-thin copper wire buried deep within the translucent casing of the collar. If my hand shook by a fraction of a millimeter, the pulse would trigger."If we die, Lucien, I am spending eternity making you miserable," I whispered."Count on it," he replied.I snipped the wire.The silence that followed was deafening. The red light on the collar flickered once, turned green, and then went dark. The timer stopped at 00:01.I slumped against the sofa, the adrenaline leaving my body so fast I felt physically sick. Lucien didn't waste a second. He ripped the collar off Liam’s neck and threw it across the room. He gathered our son in
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Chapter 6: The Viper’s Breakfast
The sun hadn’t even fully cleared the horizon before the war for Ardent Manor moved from the ballroom to the breakfast table. I had barely slept, my mind replaying the moment Lucien’s forehead rested against mine. It was a dangerous lapse in judgment. I needed to remember that even a wounded predator was still a predator.I walked into the dining room, my lab coat draped over my arm. Eleanor was already there, sitting as rigid as a tombstone, staring at a silver pot of tea."You’re still here," she said, her voice like sandpaper."I’m the Chief of Surgery, Eleanor. I don't leave until the patient is out of the woods. And currently, your husband’s heart is the only thing keeping this family from a total inheritance bloodbath.""You speak of inheritance while you keep that boy hidden in the west wing like a stolen treasure," Eleanor hissed. She finally looked at me, her eyes red-rimmed but sharp. "I saw the report from last night. Silas Vane is in custody. The contract is in the wind. Y
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Chapter 7: The Landlord’s Decree
The silence in the dining room was so thick it felt like it could be cut with a surgical blade. Thomas stood beside me, his hand resting possessively on my shoulder, while Lucien looked like he was ready to commit a crime in broad daylight."My wife is the majority shareholder of Vane Holdings?" Lucien’s voice was a low, dangerous rumble. He didn’t look at the documents. He looked at me, his eyes searching for a betrayal he hadn't prepared for. "How?""My father wasn't just a doctor, Lucien," I said, my voice finally finding its edge. "He was the silent partner Silas Vane spent twenty years trying to buy out. He knew Silas was a shark, so he kept his shares in a blind trust in Zurich. I didn't even know the extent of it until Thomas unsealed the will this morning.""It is a majority stake, Mr. Ardent," Thomas added, his Swiss accent smooth and cold. "Sixty-two percent. Which means the merger Silas was forcing is now entirely under Dr. Hart’s control. Including the debt the Ardent Grou
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Chapter 8: The Queen’s Gambit
"You look like a woman who just bought the world and found out it was overpriced."Thomas stood at the entrance of my dressing suite, leaning against the doorframe as the stylist made the final adjustments to the emerald-cut diamond necklace. The deep green silk of my gown clung to my curves like a second skin, reflecting the cold determination in my eyes."The world is cheap, Thomas. It’s the people in it that are expensive," I replied, checking my reflection. I looked every bit the powerful matriarch Eleanor Ardent feared I would become."Lucien is waiting downstairs. He’s already fired three security guards for breathing too loudly near the nursery door. He’s on edge, Elowen.""He should be. Tonight, he hands me the keys to his kingdom in front of every shark in the city." I turned to face him, my expression unreadable. "Did you verify the encryption on the embezzlement files?""The second the announcement is made, the files go live on the SEC server. Eleanor won’t even have time t
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Chapter 9: The Ghost of the Chairman
"Your father took him? Lucien, he can barely stand without a machine!"I crushed the note in my hand until the vellum turned to dust. The handwriting was slanted and weak, but the message was as sharp as a scalpel piercing my heart. Arthur has Liam. "He lied to all of us, Elowen," Lucien hissed, his face deathly pale, yet his eyes burned with a suppressed, lethal rage. "He faked his frailty to steal his grandson while we were distracted by the board's chaos.""Check every exit! Now!" I screamed, my voice piercing through the corridors of this cold, arrogant house. "He is a sick old man, Lucien! He couldn't have carried Liam past your guards alone!""He wasn't alone," Julianne said, appearing from the stairs with ragged breath, her face as white as a sheet. "The old butler... the man has been loyal to Father since before I was born. I saw them at the rooftop helipad. They’ve already flown, Lucien! Father is taking Liam to the Ardent private island in the middle of the Atlantic!"Lucien
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Chapter 10: The Queen of Debris
"If I survive tonight... will you still send me to prison with my mother?"Lucien’s voice was a ragged whisper, barely audible over the rhythmic crashing of the Atlantic waves. He lay on the wet sand, his expensive silk shirt shredded and stained with salt and blood, yet his gaze remained locked onto mine with a terrifying intensity."Don't talk, Lucien. You’re losing too much blood," I snapped, my fingers pressing firmly against the gash on his shoulder. My medical training was the only thing keeping my hands from shaking."Answer me, Elowen. Is this rescue... or an arrest?""It’s a complication," I replied, glancing back at Liam. Our son was wrapped in Thomas’s dry jacket, sobbing quietly as he watched the paramedics approach. "You saved him. That buys you a head start, not an acquittal.""A head start," Lucien coughed, a bitter smile touching his bloodied lips. "I’ll take it."Thomas approached us, his face a mask of professional concern, though his eyes flared with a brief flash o
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