Chapter 5 - The Stolen Heir
"Please, Damien, I can explain!" Dr. Hayes wept hysterically, completely abandoning her dignity right there on the upscale sidewalk.
Two of Damien’s massive, heavily armed guards noticed the commotion and immediately stepped out of the armored black car. They flanked the doctor in seconds, completely blocking her escape.
"Explain how my wife gave birth to twins, and you only gave me one," Damien whispered, his eyes pitch black, completely devoid of any human mercy. "Explain how my own flesh and blood has been begging on a sidewalk in a faded dress while I grieved a dead woman."
Dr. Hayes fell to her knees, sobbing uncontrollably.
"It wasn't my idea!" she shrieked, terrified of the executioner standing over her. "It was your brother! It was Silas!"
Damien completely froze. His heart stopped hammering and turned to absolute ice. Silas was his fiercely loyal underboss.
"Clara didn't die from hemorrhaging," Dr. Hayes confessed, her tears hitting the pavement. "She delivered beautiful, healthy identical twins. But Silas was in the delivery wing. He paid me two million dollars to fake the medical records. He told me to poison Clara right on the operating table, and to steal the second baby."
Damien’s chest heaved. The apocalyptic reality of the betrayal was suffocating. His own brother had murdered his wife and stolen his child to fracture the bloodline.
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"Silas ordered me to throw the second baby in the river," Dr. Hayes cried. "But I couldn't do it! I couldn't drown her! I took the money, I ran, and I raised her in secret! I gave her Clara's necklace so she would always have something from her mother!"
👉 Damien realized his wife was murdered by his own blood, and his violent, unstoppable revenge was about to tear Chicago apart.
