All Chapters of THE BILLIONAIRE’S UNWANTED HEIR.: Chapter 1 - Chapter 10

POV: Elena "Let go of me, Chairman Vance." I kept my voice cold, even though his fingers were crushing my wrist. Alexander's grip didn't loosen. His dark eyes stayed fixed on mine, hard and unreadable, but I could feel the fury underneath them. He knew I was afraid. He just didn't care. "Mom?" Leo's small voice cut through the tension. Before I could turn, his little robotic car slammed against the back of Alexander's expensive leather shoe. "Let go of my mom." Alexander's eyes dropped to him. For the first time since he'd grabbed me, his expression changed. Not anger. Shock. Leo stood directly in front of me, his tiny body shielding my legs as if he could actually protect me from the most powerful man in the country. "You are hurting her," he said. Alexander stared at him. Something in his face went completely still. "What's your name?" "Leo Lin." Leo didn't look away. "You are hurting her." "Let her go, sir, or I'm triggering the airport security alarm right no

POV: Elena "Are you insane?" I ripped my hand from beneath Alexander's palm and moved backward until my spine hit the velvet headboard. My heart was pounding. I grabbed the DNA report from the mattress. "This is impossible." "Look at the data, Elena." Alexander's voice was louder now. The calm, controlled Chairman Vance was gone. He slammed his palm against the report. "The paternal markers don't match me." I scanned the columns again. Numbers. Genetic sequences. Percentages. None of them made sense. Then I saw the result stamped in red. DIRECT LINEAGE MATCH: NATHANIEL VANCE. My stomach twisted. "No." Alexander stepped closer. "The algorithm detected a thirty-percent overlap that exists only in Nathaniel Vance's direct genetic line." I looked up at him. "You think I slept with your grandfather?" His expression tightened. "I didn't say that." "You didn't have to." My voice broke with fury. "I never even met your grandfather until the day we signed our marriag

POV: Alexander "Step back, Vivian," I said, my finger tightening against the trigger of the gun concealed beneath my shirt. Vivian laughed, a high-pitched, ugly sound that didn't match the sweet girl I thought I knew for a decade. She racked the bolt of her silver submachine gun, pointing it straight at my forehead. "Or what, Alex? Look at the glass. My man doesn't have a contract with Vance Global. If I twitch my finger, he fires. Your little bastard dies first." Through the observation window, the armored guard slammed Leo against the metal medical cart. Leo's small glasses fell to the tiles, shattering instantly. He didn't cry out. He just stared at me, his little chest heaving under his damp navy coat. "Alex," Elena gasped from the operating table behind me. She tried to pull herself up, the IV lines taut against her skin. The glowing blue fluid spiked in the clear tubes as her blood pressure monitors began to alarm. "Don't let them... don't let them take Leo..." "Lie down, El

POV: Elena"Get away from her, Diana."Alexander's voice was a low, terrifying growl as he pulled me tighter against his bare, bruised chest. His heartbeat was hammering wildly against my cheek. Even in the mud, with his entire empire stolen, he stood like a king ready to tear down anyone who approached us.Diana Sterling laughed, a dry, aristocratic sound, and leaned heavily on her silver cane. "Look at yourself, Alexander. You are bleeding, you are bankrupt, and your security chief is dying in the front seat of a garbage truck. You have no cards left to play. I am the only one with a helicopter and a private medical team that can save your twins. Unless you want to deliver them in a mud puddle.""We don't need your charity," I said, my voice cracking as I held Leo closer to my hip. "You kept this a secret for twenty-five years? You let me grow up thinking I was an orphan while you sat on billions?""Nathaniel Vance paid for your erasure, Elena," Diana said, her sharp gray eyes narro

POV: ElenaThe cold wind coming off the river whipped my wet hair across my face. I kept my hands steady on the rifle, my eyes locked on the driver's window."Step out of the van!" I yelled into the megaphone, my voice tearing through the sound of the rain. "Do it now or I will fire into your engine!""Dr. Lin, you are committing a federal crime," Logan muttered from the driver's seat of the armored truck beneath me, his eyes darting to the side mirrors. "If they call for backup, we have about three minutes before reinforcements swarm this bridge.""I don't care," I said. "They are going to execute him, Logan. I am not letting them take another step."The driver's door of the transport van slowly opened. The director of the security bureau stepped down into the mud, holding his hands up, though his face was twisted in a smirk."You really think you can play hero, Dr. Lin?" the director called out, his voice loud over the engine hum. "You're a scientist. You don't have the stomach for