All Chapters of FORBIDDEN: Pregnant By My Boss’s Husband: Chapter 31 - Chapter 40

“The baby isn’t the surprise. You are.”The words echoed through Dani’s head.Again.And again.And again.The recovered DNA report trembled slightly in Julian’s hand.Nobody moved.Nobody spoke.The rain battered the penthouse windows like a thousand tiny fists, turning the city beyond into a blur of gray lights and shadows.Dani stared at Julian.Her heart hammering so hard it hurt."What does that mean?"Her voice came out thinner than she intended.Fragile.Afraid.For the first time in weeks, she wasn't thinking about Stella.Or Elena Cross.Or Thomas Reed.Or the murders.She was thinking about herself.And somehow that terrified her more.Julian didn't answer immediately.His eyes remained locked on the report.His jaw clenched.The muscle there twitching.A sign she had learned to recognize.Julian Carter Vance was rattled.Deeply rattled.And that almost never happened."Julian."This time Stella spoke.Sharp.Impatient."What does the report say?"Slowly, Julian lowered the

Sarah Mitchell was dead.Dani stared at the name.Once.Twice.Three times.Hoping it would change.Hoping she'd misread it.Hoping exhaustion was finally catching up with her.It wasn't.The news article remained exactly the same.BODY IDENTIFIED AS SARAH MITCHELLThe letters seemed to blur together.Her pulse pounded violently in her ears.Because the name wasn't just familiar anymore.It wasn't just the mysterious name from the anonymous message.It was her name.Mitchell.The same last name she'd carried her entire life.The same last name as her parents.The same last name printed on every legal document she owned.A coincidence.It had to be.Except nothing about this situation felt like coincidence anymore.Julian watched her carefully.The concern in hi

If anything happens to me, promise you'll protect my daughter.The words stared back at Dani from the yellowed letter.Simple.Clear.Devastating.Her pulse thundered in her ears.The room seemed to shrink around her.The walls pressing closer.The air becoming heavier.Harder to breathe.Because there was only one question that mattered now.One question so terrifying she almost didn't want to ask it.Almost."Whose daughter?"The words came out as a whisper.Her mother's eyes filled with tears.Her father's face crumpled.And in that moment, before either of them answered, Dani already knew.Not the whole truth.But enough.Enough to understand that her life was about to split into two parts.Before this moment.And after.The silence stretched painfully.The

"But Elena's baby died."The words echoed through the basement.Nobody moved.Nobody spoke.The silence stretched so long it became unbearable.Dani stared down at the journal in her hands.Certain she had misread it.Certain there had to be some mistake.Because everything they had uncovered over the past thirty-six chapters pointed in one direction.The switched-baby conspiracy.The Room 214 mystery.Elena's disappearance.The witness list.The murders.Everything.Yet Sarah's journal had just dropped a bomb directly into the center of that narrative.Elena's baby died.Not switched.Not hidden.Not stolen.Dead.The statement threatened to unravel everything.Across the room, Stella looked stunned.The stranger looked confused.Julian looked furious.Not

"Grace."The name slipped from Dani's lips before she could stop it.The room fell into stunned silence.It wasn't the ordinary kind of silence that followed surprising news.It was heavier.Sharper.The kind that arrived when everyone present realized something irreversible had just happened.Dani stood motionless in the center of her parents' living room, her pulse roaring in her ears.She didn't know where the name had come from.One second she had been staring at the old music box resting on the coffee table.The next...A little girl's laughter.Bright carnival lights.The scent of caramel popcorn.A silver necklace bouncing against a tiny pink sweater.Then a woman's gentle voice."Don't wander too far, Grace."The memory had vanished before Dani could see the woman's face.Leaving only one thing behind.A name.Grace.Her mother's face drained of color.Her father slowly lowered himself into the nearest armchair as though his knees had suddenly given out.Julian's gaze shifted