Chapter 6 - The Paternity Trap
Six months passed in absolute, peaceful silence.
I moved to a beautiful, quiet coastal town in Maine, entirely insulated from Chicago high society. My pregnancy was healthy, and my attorney ensured Dominic couldn't contact me while the divorce was finalized through proxy.
But back in Chicago, Dominic’s perfect new life was violently unraveling.
Vanessa had given birth prematurely. Dominic had proudly stood in the hospital, ready to sign the birth certificate and claim his son.
But standard medical protocol required a routine blood typing for the premature infant.
When the pediatric doctor returned with the results, the cinematic realism of the moment shattered Dominic’s entire universe. The baby's blood type was biologically impossible for Dominic to be the father.
Vanessa hadn't been a "songbird" trapped in a cage. She had been sleeping with his best friend, Gabriel, for two years. She had simply pinned the pregnancy on the billionaire mafia boss to secure a massive financial payout for both of them.
The betrayal hit Dominic with the kinetic force of a freight train. He had thrown away a perfectly loyal wife, faked a disability for years, and alienated his entire social circle, all for a woman who was actively conning him.
Dominic violently kicked Vanessa out of the estate, firing Gabriel from his firm the very same day.
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He was completely alone in his massive, echoing mansion. The silence he had faked for years was now his permanent, agonizing reality.
👉 Desperate and broken, Dominic hired a private investigator to find me, completely unaware of what he was about to discover.
