Chapter 273 A Shocking Discovery
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He didn’t care who his father liked, or who he slept with. He didn’t care whether his father truly loved him
or not-
What he cared about was the title of heir, the money, and the power.
But now, an unexpected variable had suddenly appeared-
His father had left a bastard child out in the world.
Thomas had asked him once, straight out, if he had any illegitimate children. The old man had sworn up and down that he didn’t.
And it had seemed believable. His father wasn’t fond of children to begin with, and all his lovers had been under close watch–none had shown signs of pregnancy.
Even if one had somehow gotten pregnant, Thomas had always taken care of it “properly.”
And yet, despite all that, one had slipped through the cracks.
It had started on a night when Thomas had gotten a little too drunk.
With his mind dulled by alcohol, he retained a sliver of clarity, but most of it was lost in fog and disorientation.
That night on Tri Street, he had “messed around” with a girl.
She had reported him to the police without hesitation.
To be honest, when he heard she’d filed a report, he hadn’t been even the slightest bit nervous.
In this world, there’s nothing money can’t fix. And if there is-
Just throw more money at it.
His first instinct was to settle with the girl financially, but before meeting with her, he needed to remember what had actually happened that night.
Because of the alcohol, he was missing most of the night from his memory.
He needed to know exactly what he’d done, and gather any footage or evidence he could use to negotiate with her.
So, surveillance footage from the entire street that night was pulled and delivered straight into Thomas’s hands.
After watching it, he didn’t think he’d done anything wrong. It was all just human nature, wasn’t it?
But once he finished going through all of it, he made an unexpected discovery-
There appeared to be two witnesses to the incident on Tri Street.
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Chapter 273 A Shocking Discovery
For a moment, Thomas even thought he’d been set up.
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Maybe the girl and that boy were working together. Maybe this was all a scam, a coordinated attempt to
extort him.
So, while investigating the girl, he looked into the boy as well.
And what he found-
Shocked him to his core.
The boy tailing him was named Asher. His mother was Mindy and his father was unknown.
It wasn’t just a regular single–parent family. Asher’s father had never shown up at all.
And no one comes into this world without a father–he wasn’t born out of thin air.
Curiosity sparked. Thomas decided to dig deeper into this family–and what he uncovered…
Led straight back to his own father.
Asher’s birth was directly tied to some dirty business his father had been involved in over a decade ago.
At that moment, Thomas felt a kind of shock he’d never experienced before.
Unease and disbelief crept in from deep inside. He instinctively pulled out Asher’s ID photo from the file and studied it closely-
There was no
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His facials
proof, but this boy, this Asher…
his eyes and brows–there was a subtle resemblance. To their father. And to himself.
It couldn’t be a coincidence.
All signs pointed to one conclusion-
Asher was his father’s illegitimate son.
A bastard. A new obstacle in the fight for inheritance.
Thomas had always been intolerant of that kind of threat. But despite all his precautions, the one thing he didn’t want to see had still appeared.
Luckily, his father didn’t know. The rest of the Lawson family didn’t know either.
Which meant-
He still had time to “eliminate” this problem quietly.
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