Chapter 3 - The Terrifying Medical Mark That Changed Everything Forever
Elena looked around the crowded luxury hotel lobby, her chest rising and falling in rapid, shallow gasps.
She reached out, gently pulling Alma’s tiny wrist away from Lucas’s grip to cover the scar once more.
“They tried to take her from me when she was only two weeks old, Lucas,” Elena confessed through tears.
“Who tried to take her? Name names, Elena!” Lucas demanded, gripping the handle of the gray stroller.
“Your mother’s corporate associates; they claimed an heir born outside the board’s approval was a liability,” she said.
Lucas stared at her in utter disbelief, the dark reality of his family’s corporate ruthlessness crashing down.
“My mother... she knew about Alma?” Lucas asked, his voice shaking with a mix of shock and pure rage.
“She orchestrated the hospital raid while I was still recovering in the maternity ward,” Elena sobbed quietly.
“That’s why I had to fake our deaths and disappear into the shadows of the city two years ago.”
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Lucas straightened up, his eyes hardening into steel as he realized the deadly game his family was playing.
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