บททั้งหมดของ The Alpha's Hidden Heir: บทที่ 111 - บทที่ 120

The gossip item appears before nine in the morning.Owen finds it first.He walks into the breakfast room carrying the clean tablet with both hands, his face already flushed with anger.Finn looks up from a bowl of oatmeal he has been pretending to eat. “What happened?”Owen does not answer immediately.That tells Finn enough.Everett is across the room near the windows, speaking quietly with Dean about the staff investigation. Rachel has not arrived yet, but she is expected within the hour.Owen places the tablet on the table.“You need to see this.”Everett turns.Finn’s stomach tightens before he even touches the screen.The headline belongs to one of Riverton’s most aggressive society sites.BILLIONAIRE HEIR’S SECRET OMEGA SCANDAL THREATENS LAWSON ENGAGEMENTFinn stops breathing for a second.His name is not there.Neither is Owen’s.But the first paragraph is enough.The article claims that a prominent Alpha heir has been hiding an “emotionally unstable, medically vulnerable Omeg

By late afternoon, the story is no longer contained to gossip sites.Financial channels pick it up first.Then local news.By six, Finn’s life has become a discussion panel.He sits on the sofa in the estate library with the television muted for several minutes before finally turning the sound back on. Owen is beside him, restless and angry, while Everett is still at Stone Tower dealing with the board after refusing Andrew’s demand.Rachel sits at the far end of the room with her laptop open.Dr. Bishop arrived twenty minutes earlier because Finn’s headache has not gone away.On the television, a well-dressed business commentator gestures toward a photograph of Everett entering Stone Tower.“The real concern,” the man says, “is whether private Omega complications are affecting Mr. Stone’s judgment at a critical point for the Lawson partnership.”Finn feels something inside him tighten.Private Omega complications.The phrase is almost elegant.That is what makes it worse.The woman be

Dean’s call comes at 8:17 the next morning.Finn knows something is wrong before Everett answers.He is sitting at the kitchen table with a mug of tea cooling between his hands while Dr. Bishop’s instructions from the night before replay in his mind: eat, rest, avoid unnecessary stress.The universe seems determined to make the last part impossible.Everett looks at the phone, then at Finn.“Dean.”He answers and walks toward the windows.Finn watches his face change.It does not happen dramatically. Everett becomes quieter. Colder. Every trace of softness disappears until he looks like the man Riverton’s business pages describe instead of the man who sat beside Finn through the Harborline reconstruction.“When?”A pause.“Do not touch anything else.”Finn sets down the mug.Everett listens.Then his eyes close briefly.“I’m coming.”Finn stands.“What happened?”Everett ends the call.“Miles is gone.”The words hit Finn so hard that he forgets to breathe.“What do you mean gone?”“De

Vera Lawson cries beautifully.Finn realizes that within the first twenty seconds of the clip.She stands beneath the white stone arches of the Riverton Children’s Foundation, surrounded by reporters, donors, photographers, and enough security to make the appearance look both spontaneous and carefully controlled.Her dress is pale blue.Her hair is pinned back.She is wearing almost no jewelry except a narrow diamond bracelet that catches the afternoon light whenever she lifts one hand toward her face.Finn watches from the estate library with Rachel beside him and Owen standing behind the sofa.Everett is at Stone Tower again.That bothers Finn more than he wants to admit.Vera begins by thanking the charity.She talks about children.Responsibility.Families supporting one another during difficult times.Then a reporter asks whether recent rumors surrounding the Stone-Lawson engagement have affected her.Vera looks down.The pause is perfect.When she looks up again, her eyes are we

Rachel gets through the next layer of encryption just after midnight.Finn knows because he is still awake.Dr. Bishop told him to rest. Everett told him nothing this time, which somehow feels even more deliberate. Owen went upstairs almost an hour ago after making Finn promise not to stay up until dawn.Finn made the promise.He never said anything about midnight.The estate study is dim except for the desk lamps around Rachel’s equipment. The black-and-gold token remains sealed inside the shielded enclosure, connected to the isolated system by a thin cable.Rachel sits hunched over the laptop.Everett stands behind her chair.Finn occupies the sofa with a blanket over his legs and a glass of water he keeps forgetting to drink.Dean is near the door, speaking quietly into an earpiece.Then Rachel stops typing.Completely.Finn looks up.“What?”Rachel does not answer.Everett notices too.“Rachel.”She lifts one hand.“Give me a second.”That immediately makes Finn sit straighter.Ra