Chapter 4 - The Dead Uncle Returned for the Heir
Marcus contacted Adrian.
He demanded a meeting.
Adrian refused.
Marcus sent a photograph.
Naomi leaving the clinic.
Taken ten minutes earlier.
Adrian's blood ran cold.
“He knows about the baby.”
Naomi nodded.
“What does he want?”
“The Vale inheritance.”
“But you're alive.”
“The legal heir isn't me.”
She frowned.
“Who is?”
He looked at her stomach.
“The child.”
Naomi's eyes widened.
Marcus couldn't inherit if Adrian had a biological heir.
The old family trust was written that way.
The baby would become the controlling beneficiary.
Marcus wanted the baby gone.
Then he could control the trust.
Adrian told Naomi the truth.
“You're not just carrying our child.”
“You're carrying the key to the entire Vale empire.”
She stared.
“That sounds like a nightmare.”
“It is.”
Then Marcus attacked.
Adrian's security team fought back.
Naomi escaped through a hidden corridor.
But Marcus had anticipated everything.
He kidnapped Adrian.
Naomi returned to the mansion.
She found his office destroyed.
Blood on the floor.
His phone smashed.
And one message.
COME ALONE.
She went.
Not because she was reckless.
Because she loved him.
She found Marcus at an abandoned warehouse.
Adrian was tied to a chair.
Marcus laughed.
“You should have married someone else.”
Naomi looked at him.
“You're insane.”
“No.”
He pointed to Adrian.
“Your husband was supposed to die three years ago.”
Naomi froze.
“What?”
Marcus explained.
Adrian had been targeted.
Naomi was supposed to be bait.
Their marriage had been designed as protection.
But someone inside Adrian's organization had betrayed him.
Adrian had been poisoned.
Naomi had unknowingly saved him by insisting he seek medical treatment.
Marcus smiled.
“You were always the weakness.”
Naomi answered:
“No.”
She looked at Adrian.
“I'm the reason he kept fighting.”
Marcus raised his weapon.
Then the lights went out.
Adrian broke free.
The warehouse exploded into chaos.
Naomi ran.
Adrian found her.
They escaped.
But Marcus disappeared.
Before dawn, the old family lawyer arrived.
He gave Adrian a document.
“It changes everything.”
Adrian opened it.
Naomi looked over his shoulder.
The marriage wasn't just a marriage.
It contained a secret clause.
If Naomi became pregnant, she automatically became co-trustee of the Vale estate.
And if Adrian died, she would inherit full control.
Naomi stared.
“Your family planned this before we married.”
“Yes.”
“But who knew?”
“Everyone who mattered.”
She looked at him.
“Did you?”
“No.”
“Then who added the clause?”
Adrian's face went pale.
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“My mother.”
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