All Chapters of The Son They Stole: Chapter 1 - Chapter 10

The hospital room fell silent.Nolan Brooks stared at me in a daze. "Dad? What's wrong?"Looking at his face, filled with concern, I spoke slowly and deliberately. "Don't call me Dad."His face turned even paler.My wife, Julianna Brooks, assumed I hadn't fully regained consciousness and hurried to check on me. "Landon, are you feeling unwell? Look at him. He's our son."I brushed her hand away, my cold gaze settling on Nolan. "I'm telling you again. Starting today, I'm cutting all ties with Nolan. He's no longer my son."My mother, Gemma Brooks, came rushing into the room with her cane. She nearly tripped over the threshold when she heard my words."Landon, have you lost your mind? Nolan gave up a kidney to save your life! He nearly died doing it, and this is the first thing you say when you wake up? Have you no conscience? Are you even human?"I leaned against the headboard without offering an explanation.Julianna supported my mother, tears streaming down her face. "Mom, pl

Nolan braced himself against the edge of the bed and struggled to his feet. Then he suddenly spoke."Dad," he said suddenly. "I don't want the shares you promised me anymore. Please don't be angry."Julianna panicked. "Nolan, don't make a decision like this just because you're upset!""Mom, I'm not acting out of anger." Nolan looked at me, the last glimmer of hope still lingering in his eyes. "As long as Dad agrees to take back what he said about disowning me, I'll give up everything."Half an hour later, the equity relinquishment agreement arrived.Nolan signed his name without hesitation. He pushed the agreement toward me, his eyes red. "Dad, do you believe me now? I don't want the company or the shares."My mother wiped at her tears, her heart breaking. "Landon, did you see that? Nolan is even willing to give up his position as the Brooks family heir. What more do you expect him to do to prove himself?"My mother continued, "He's already given up the shares. Surely that's eno

My mother noticed her strange reaction and hurried over. "Julianna, what does it say?"Julianna didn't answer. She stared at the report, unable to utter another word.My mother snatched it from her hands, but even after studying it for a long time, she still couldn't make sense of it. "Landon, what does this mean?"I didn't answer. Instead, I pressed the call button beside my bed.A moment later, a nurse opened the door and stepped inside. "Mr. Brooks, are you feeling unwell?""Please get Dr. Henderson."The nurse glanced at the tense atmosphere in the room. Without asking any questions, she turned and left.Nolan was still kneeling beside my bed. He hadn't spoken a word since the document was brought out.His head hung low, and I couldn't see his expression. All I could see were his hands resting on his knees, clenching tighter and tighter.Before long, Dr. Henderson returned to the room.I gestured for my mother to hand him the report.At first, his expression remained rel

My mother clutched the report tightly, and tears finally spilled down her cheeks. "Then whose child is Nolan?"She looked at him as though she were seeing him for the first time. "The grandson I've loved for eighteen years... He's actually someone else's child?"Nolan clenched his jaw. "Grandma, I didn't know either!"I raised my head and looked at Julianna and Dr. Henderson, both of whom had gone ashen. "Are you two still refusing to tell us the truth?"Julianna forced herself to remain calm. "Landon, has someone been putting these ideas into your head?"I turned to Dr. Henderson. "Dr. Henderson, did you really think you could get away with switching the samples?"His forehead was covered in cold sweat. "Mr. Brooks, I have no idea what you're talking about.""Is that so?" I gestured to Robert, asking him to turn on the large smart TV in the hospital room and cast the surveillance footage from my phone onto the screen.The screen lit up, and the footage appeared before everyo

In the hospital room, Nolan was still trying to defend himself."I don't know anything about the kidney donor. Dr. Henderson told me something was wrong with my body and that the transplant ultimately hadn't been successful..."Dad, I was deceived by them, too!" He quickly pointed at Julianna and Dr. Henderson. "They arranged everything. I had nothing to do with it!"Julianna stared at him in disbelief. "Nolan, what are you saying?""Mom, you told me that if I pretended to be the kidney donor, Dad would be grateful to me and hand over the company!" Nolan crawled on his knees toward my hospital bed."Dad, I was wrong. I just wanted your approval so badly that I lost my head for a moment. Please, give me one more chance."I looked at him without feeling the slightest stir of emotion.He was exactly the same as he'd been in my previous life. The moment the truth came out, his first thought was always how to save himself. He admitted his mistakes with his mouth while secretly plotti