Chapter 7 - Daniel Confronts His Mother
Daniel confronted Margaret with his attorney present.
“Did you pay Evelyn Cole?”
Margaret denied it until Daniel placed copies of the checks on the
table.
Her confidence collapsed.
“What was she being paid for?”
“Silence.”
Margaret admitted the hospital had briefly mixed up identification
bracelets.
Robert privately arranged DNA testing when Daniel was six months old.
Margaret claimed the test proved Daniel was her biological child.
“Where is it?”
“Your father destroyed it.”
Daniel frowned.
“If it proved everything was fine, why destroy it?”
Margaret looked away.
Daniel realized she was still lying.
Then he asked why Vanessa had been invited into a surrogacy meeting.
Margaret began crying.
“I needed her close.”
“For what?”
“To get Evelyn’s papers back.”
Daniel stared at his mother.
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She had used his marriage and Emma’s infertility as bait in a
decades-old family secret.
