CHAPTER 2: THE TEST RESULTS THAT CHANGED EVERYTHING
Two days later, the results arrived.
The entire mansion seemed to hold its breath.
Victor sat at the head of a massive table.
His attorneys stood nearby.
Doctors waited nervously.
Armed guards lined the walls.
No one spoke.
The lead physician finally opened the file.
His face turned pale.
Victor immediately noticed.
"What is it?"
The doctor swallowed hard.
"Mr. Moretti... there is no easy way to say this."
Victor stood.
The room grew tense.
"Say it."
The doctor looked down at the report.
"The DNA results confirm that Noah is not your biological son."
Silence.
Absolute silence.
Even the air seemed frozen.
Several guards looked toward Victor, expecting an explosion.
Instead, he didn't move.
Didn't blink.
Didn't speak.
For nearly thirty seconds.
Then he quietly asked:
"Run the test again."
"We already did."
"Again."
Three more tests were ordered.
Three more tests produced the same result.
Victor Moretti was not Noah's father.
The revelation shocked everyone.
But Sarah noticed something strange.
Victor wasn't angry.
He wasn't demanding revenge.
He wasn't asking who the real father was.
Instead, he stayed beside the crib.
Watching the sleeping baby.
Hours later, Sarah found him alone in the nursery.
"Mr. Moretti?"
He didn't look up.
"Do you know what's funny?" he said.
Sarah remained silent.
Victor stared at Noah.
"I knew."
She froze.
"What?"
Victor finally looked at her.
"I've known since the day he was born."
Sarah couldn't believe what she was hearing.
"Then why—"
"Because blood isn't what makes someone a father."
His voice cracked slightly.
The feared mafia boss suddenly looked like a broken man.
"My wife died giving birth."
Sarah's heart sank.
Victor continued.
"Before she died, she confessed everything."
The room became quiet.
"He wasn't mine."
Sarah slowly sat down.
"Yet you stayed."
Victor nodded.
"Because when I held him for the first time, none of that mattered."
A tear rolled down his face.
The first tear anyone had ever seen.
"I promised her I'd protect him."
Sarah suddenly understood.
The world's most feared criminal wasn't fighting to save his heir.
He was fighting to save the last piece of the woman he loved.
But tragedy was still coming.
Because the genetic tests uncovered something else.
Something far more dangerous.
A rare inherited disease.
A disease Noah could only have received from his biological father.
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And according to the medical team...
The child had less than three months to live without treatment.
