Chapter 5 - The DNA Test Revealed the Truth I Wasn't Ready to HearI took Eli to Samuel.
The DNA test took three days.
Three of the longest days of my life.
When the results arrived, Samuel didn't speak immediately.
He looked at me.
Then Eli.
Then the paper.
I knew.
“What does it say?”
Samuel exhaled.
“Eli is biologically related to you.”
My knees weakened.
“How?”
“Your father had another son.”
I stared.
“Impossible.”
“He did.”
A name appeared on the report.
Nathan Crowe.
My older half-brother.
A man I had never known existed.
Nathan had disappeared decades earlier.
Eli was his grandson.
My nephew.
Not my biological son.
But my family.
My blood.
I looked at Eli.
He had been sitting quietly.
“Does that mean you're my uncle?”
I nodded.
“But I want you to be my dad.”
I knelt.
“You can call me whatever you want.”
“Dad?”
I smiled.
“Dad.”
He hugged me.
And suddenly the mystery became clear.
Victor Kane had been using Eli because Eli was the legal heir to a hidden Crowe trust.
A fortune my father had concealed.
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Kane wanted access to it.
And I was the only person standing between him and the boy.
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