All Chapters of The Billionaire's Forbidden Bride: Chapter 61 - Chapter 70

Elena stared at the message on her phone.YOUR FATHER IS STILL HIDING THE BIGGEST SECRET.She read it again, hoping she had misunderstood.But the name remained the same.Daniel.“What's wrong?” Adrian asked.She handed him the phone.His expression hardened.“Who sent this?”“I don't know.”Jonathan approached them.“Daniel Bennett has been involved in this family longer than any of us realised.”Elena turned towards him.“Then tell me what you know.”Jonathan hesitated.Catherine stepped forward.“Daniel wasn't simply protecting you. He was protecting someone else.”“Who?”Catherine looked at the declaration in Victoria's hands.“Your mother.”Elena frowned.“Margaret?”“No. The woman who gave birth to you.”The words struck Elena like a physical blow.She looked towards Margaret, who had just entered the garden with Samuel's assistant.“Catherine, stop playing games. Margaret is my mother.”Catherine shook her head.“Margaret raised you. But the original hospital records suggest so

Catherine couldn't take her eyes off the photograph.For twenty-one years, she had believed her daughter was dead.Now a doctor stood before her, claiming the child had survived.“Tell me everything,” she whispered.Dr. Hayes closed the folder.“Your daughter was born shortly before midnight. She was healthy, but someone had already arranged for her identity to be changed.”“Who?”“Evelyn Bennett.”Catherine shook her head.“Why would Evelyn take my child?”“Because she believed Charles would use the baby to control the Vale inheritance.”Charles's name made Jonathan's expression darken.“Where did Evelyn take her?”Dr. Hayes hesitated.“I don't know. I was instructed to record the child as deceased. I refused to write the final report until I was certain she had left the hospital.”Catherine grabbed the edge of the table.“You let me bury an empty coffin?”The doctor lowered his head.“I was threatened. I thought keeping quiet was the only way to keep the child alive.”Catherine turn

The room fell silent.Elena stared at Margaret.“Michael Hayes was your husband?”Margaret nodded slowly.“Before I married Daniel, yes.”Catherine took a step forward.“That isn't possible.”Margaret turned toward her.“I wish it weren't.”“You told me Michael died before I discovered I was pregnant.”“I know what you were told.”Catherine's eyes filled with anger.“Then explain why you were married to him.”Margaret looked down at the photograph in Elena's hands.“Because someone needed to give him a reason to disappear.”Jonathan's expression hardened.“Margaret, be careful.”She ignored him.“Michael was already in danger when I met him. He had discovered something about the original inheritance agreement. Something that could have destroyed the Vale family.”Charles folded his arms.“And you expect us to believe you married him to protect him?”“No,” Margaret replied. “I married him because he asked me to.”Catherine shook her head.“Why would he ask you?”“Because he needed a le

Elena couldn't move.Evelyn stood at the entrance, holding the photograph against her chest.For years, the family had searched for her.Some believed she was dead. Others believed she had abandoned them.But she was standing there.Alive.And apparently, carrying another secret.“What do you mean?” Elena finally asked. “What other child did you take?”Evelyn looked around the room.“Before I answer, I need everyone to understand something. The hospital records were not changed to protect one child. They were changed to protect several.”Catherine stepped forward.“You took my daughter.”“I saved your daughter.”“You separated me from her!”Evelyn lowered her eyes.“I know.”Catherine's voice broke.“Do you have any idea what that did to me?”“I do. And I have regretted it every day.”Charles moved closer.“You don't get to return after all these years and pretend you were protecting everyone.”Evelyn looked at him.“You're the last person who should question my decisions.”Charles's

Adrian stared at the message.DON'T TRUST DANIEL. HE KNOWS WHO THE CHILD IS BECAUSE HE HELPED HIDE HIM.Daniel watched him.“What's wrong?”Adrian turned the phone around.“Richard says you helped hide the fourth child.”Daniel's expression barely changed.“Richard doesn't know what he's talking about.”“Then why is he warning me about you?”“Because he wants to turn you against me.”Elena stepped forward.“Enough. We need the truth, not another argument.”Daniel looked at her.“I've spent years protecting you.”“By lying to me?”“By keeping you alive.”The words silenced her.Margaret moved closer to Daniel.“You knew Isabella?”Daniel nodded.“She was my wife's sister.”“Then why didn't you tell me?”“Because Isabella made me promise never to reveal what happened to her child.”Margaret's eyes filled.“You let me believe she disappeared without explanation.”“She had to.”“Why?”Daniel opened his mouth, but Adrian's phone rang again.Richard.This time Adrian answered and put the ca