The crowd stood frozen.
Liam looked from Victor to the mysterious stranger.
“Dad… who is he?” Liam asked through the phone.
His father answered with a trembling voice.
“Run.”
Instead, Liam stayed.
The stranger slowly walked toward Victor.
“You stole my company…”
Another step.
“My family…”
Another.
“My identity.”
Victor could barely breathe.
“I watched you build your empire using my name while the world believed I died in that explosion.”
The billionaire fell to his knees.
“It wasn’t supposed to happen like this…”
The stranger pulled a worn envelope from his jacket and handed it to Liam.
“Everything your father hid is inside.”
Liam opened it.
The first page revealed a shocking headline from twenty years earlier.
OFFICIAL DEATH CERTIFICATE
The name printed across the top made Liam’s blood run cold.
It wasn’t the stranger’s.
It was his own father’s.
Liam slowly looked up, unable to speak.
“Then… who has been raising me all these years?”
