Chapter 2: The Exile of the Innocent
The fallout was nuclear. Daniel didn't scream; he didn't throw things. He simply looked at Elena with eyes that had gone completely cold, then walked out of the room without a word. Within an hour, security was at the door, informing Elena that her access to the apartment, the accounts, and even her phone service had been terminated.
She was alone.
Elena realized then that the DNA test was a trap, but not the one Seraphina intended. If the baby wasn't Daniel's, then who was the father? She knew the truth—she had never been with anyone else. The math didn't add up.
She spent three days in a daze, ignored by nurses who had been paid off by Seraphina’s family. But Elena wasn't weak. She was a software engineer, a woman who built complex architectures. If there was a glitch in this story, she would find it. She managed to use the hospital’s public Wi-Fi, her fingers flying across a borrowed tablet, digging into the digital records of the fertility clinic they had used.
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The revelation hit her like a physical blow. The DNA test Seraphina presented wasn't just a paternity test; it was a genetic markers comparison. And it showed that Daniel wasn't biologically related to his father—the billionaire patriarch of the Sterling family.
"Oh, my God," she whispered to the empty room. "Daniel isn't a Sterling. That’s why the baby didn't match. The baby is a Sterling, but Daniel... Daniel is an outsider."
