Chapter 15 - The Confession
"He threatened to destroy our family, Connor!" Beatrice wept, real tears finally spilling down her heavily makeup-caked cheeks.
"Twenty-eight years ago... when your father and I couldn't have children... Charles Sterling ran a private adoption clinic in Richmond."
Connor felt his breath catch in his throat as the world seemed to tilt on its axis.
"What are you saying, Beatrice?" Arthur asked, stepping closer to the table with a sharp frown.
"Connor is not my biological son..." Beatrice confessed, her voice dropping into a raspy, agonizing whisper.
"Charles Sterling forged the adoption records and birth certificates to make Connor appear as my legal biological child."
"For twenty-eight years, Charles has used that secret to blackmail me for millions of dollars!"
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Connor sat completely frozen, his heart hammering in his ears as twenty-eight years of his identity dissolved into air.
"Then who are my real parents?" Connor asked, his voice barely audible in the quiet interrogation room.
