All Chapters of FORBIDDEN: Pregnant By My Boss’s Husband: Chapter 21 - Chapter 30

"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

"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

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

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.

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