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FORBIDDEN: Pregnant By My Boss’s Husband의 모든 챕터: 챕터 21 - 챕터 30

32 챕터

CHAPTER 21

"Stella found us."The words landed like a gunshot.For a moment, Dani simply stared at Julian.The penthouse alarm continued blaring.Red emergency lights flashed across the walls.The city skyline beyond the windows looked surreal beneath the pulsing glow.Everything felt unreal.A nightmare layered on top of another nightmare.Julian's expression had transformed completely.The shock from moments ago was gone.The fear.The uncertainty.The disbelief.All gone.Replaced by something colder.More dangerous.The version of Julian Carter Vance that built empires and destroyed enemies."What does that mean?"Dani hated how small her voice sounded.Julian was already moving.Crossing the room.Opening a secure drawer built into a cabinet."Security says she forced her way through the c

CHAPTER 22

"They found Thomas's DNA results."Nobody moved.Nobody breathed.The penthouse seemed to shrink around them.Julian stood frozen beside the table, his phone clenched tightly in one hand.The color had completely drained from his face.Dani's pulse thundered."And they're not mine."The words echoed through the room.Not mine.Not mine.Not mine.For a moment, nobody seemed capable of understanding what that meant.Then Stella sat down very slowly.As though her legs had suddenly lost strength.Dani looked between them.Confused.Terrified.Trying to piece together a puzzle that seemed to gain new pieces every minute."What does that mean?"Julian's eyes remained fixed on the message."It means Thomas tested someone else's DNA."His voice sounded distant.Distracted.

CHAPTER 23

"Finally. Now we can talk."The voice came from somewhere inside the penthouse.Not through a phone.Not through a speaker.Not through a recording.Inside.Physically inside.Dani's heart nearly stopped.The darkness felt absolute.The sudden loss of power had swallowed everything.The city skyline beyond the glass walls had vanished.The elevators were dead.The lights were dead.Even the emergency backup systems had failed.Someone had planned this.Every second of it.Nobody moved.Not at first.Then Julian's voice cut through the darkness.Cold.Sharp.Controlled."Stay behind me."Dani felt his hand find her wrist.Strong.Steady.Protective.The gesture happened so naturally it startled her.Especially considering everything that had happened between them over the last twenty-four hours.The pregnancy.The public exposure.The lies.The secrets.Yet his first instinct had still been to shield her.The realization sent a strange ache through her chest.A soft click echoed somewh

CHAPTER 24

Everyone turned toward Julian.The silence inside the penthouse became unbearable.Dani could hear her own heartbeat.Fast.Loud.Relentless.The folder of evidence remained scattered across the dining table.Birth records.DNA reports.Hospital documents.Photographs.Decades of secrets sitting in plain sight.And at the center of it all stood Julian Carter Vance.Looking more shaken than Dani had ever seen him.The stranger—the woman claiming to be Stella's sister—watched him carefully.Patiently.Like someone waiting for a bomb to explode.Julian stared at the DNA report in his hand.His grip tightening.His jaw locked.The color drained from his face.Again.Stella looked equally stunned."What are you talking about?"Her voice cracked slightly.A

CHAPTER 25

Thomas Reed was alive.For a moment, Dani genuinely thought she was hallucinating.The penthouse seemed to tilt beneath her feet.The photograph on Julian's phone remained frozen on the screen.Clear.Sharp.Undeniable.An older woman exiting a black SUV.And beside her—Thomas Reed.Very much alive.Very much breathing.Very much not dead.Silence swallowed the room.Nobody moved.Nobody blinked.Nobody spoke.Because there was no logical explanation.Thomas Reed died three years ago.There had been a funeral.A death certificate.An investigation.A burial.People didn't come back from that.Yet the photograph existed.And the image looked recent.Painfully recent.The anonymous caller had made sure of that.Finally, Stella

CHAPTER 26

Three remain.One dies tomorrow.Choose carefully.The words seemed to burn themselves into Dani's mind.She stared at the paper.Read it once.Twice.Three times.Hoping the message would somehow change.It didn't.The list remained exactly the same.Julian Carter Vance.Stella Carter Vance.Elena Cross.Daniella Mitchell.Four names.Yet the note claimed three would remain.Meaning one of them was marked for death.Within twenty-four hours.A cold sweat broke across Dani's skin.For the first time since this nightmare began, the danger felt immediate.Personal.No more anonymous texts.No more mysterious photographs.No more decades-old secrets.Someone was threatening murder.Again.And this time, her name was on the list.---The underground garage had become absolute chaos.Police officers swarmed the crime scene.Detectives barked orders.Evidence teams photographed everything.Yet Dani barely noticed.Her gaze remained fixed on the page.On her own name.A name that absolutely

CHAPTER 27

Elena Cross was holding a gun.Every screen in the penthouse displayed the same image.A live surveillance feed.A hospital corridor.Room 214.Present day.Not twenty-eight years ago.Not an archived recording.Now.The timestamp in the corner updated every second.Proof.Terrifying proof.Dani stared at the screen.Unable to look away.The woman who had supposedly died nearly three decades ago stood beneath the fluorescent hospital lights.Older.Grayer.But unmistakably the same woman from the photographs.The same woman Thomas Reed had been investigating.The same woman connected to the switched babies.And she was armed.Nobody spoke.Nobody moved.The room had become frozen.Locked in collective disbelief.Then Stella whispered:"Oh God.

CHAPTER 28

Not Julian’s baby.The words glowed on Dani’s screen.Bright.Cold.Impossible.For a moment, she forgot how to breathe.The penthouse disappeared around her.The conspiracy.The murders.The switched babies.Elena Cross.The living nurse.Everything faded behind those three devastating words.Not Julian’s baby.Her hand instinctively moved to her stomach.A protective gesture.A frightened gesture.A furious gesture.Because whoever had sent the message had crossed a line.A dangerous line.Julian saw it immediately.The change in her expression.The tension in her body.The fear.“What is it?”His voice sounded sharp.Controlled.Dani couldn't answer.Not right away.Because if she said the words aloud, they would

CHAPTER 29

The results were stolen.For a moment, Dani thought she had misheard him.The city noise faded.The wind disappeared.Even the distant sounds of traffic seemed to vanish.There was only Julian.And those four devastating words.The results were stolen.Her hand instinctively moved to her stomach.Fear twisted inside her chest.Because suddenly the anonymous message from earlier felt much more dangerous.Not Julian's baby.Whoever had sent it had known something.Or wanted them to believe they did.Either possibility was terrifying."What do you mean stolen?"Her voice sounded thin.Barely recognizable.Julian's expression remained grim."The lab was breached."The answer did nothing to calm her."In person?""I don't know yet."The fact that he didn't know was almost wo

CHAPTER 30

"The nurse was murdered twenty minutes ago."The words hit the room like an explosion.Everything stopped.Julian stood frozen near the penthouse door.His phone still pressed against his ear.His knuckles white.His expression hollow.For a moment, nobody spoke.Nobody moved.The rain hammered against the floor-to-ceiling windows.A relentless rhythm that somehow made the silence feel even heavier.Dani stared at him.Hoping she'd heard wrong.Praying she'd misunderstood.But one look at Julian's face told her the truth.The nurse was dead.Really dead this time.The final witness.The woman who had been there.The woman who knew what happened.The woman who could have explained everything.Gone.Again, they had been too late.Again, someone had gotten there first.

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