You’re looking at the wrong woman.
For a moment, she assumed someone was trying to protect Sophia.
Then another image arrived.
It showed William entering a private office late at night with an elegant older woman she had never seen before.
The timestamp was only two days before Oliver’s birth.
There was no explanation.
Only another sentence.
Follow the money.
Charlotte did exactly that.
While recovering in the hospital, she quietly asked the Sterling family’s legal team to investigate several financial transfers William believed no one would ever notice.
The results arrived the morning of the divorce hearing.
Every document now rested inside the black folder beneath her arm.
Back in the conference room, William tapped the unsigned divorce papers.
“Charlotte, this doesn’t have to become ugly.”
She looked at him calmly.
“I agree.”
Sophia smiled with quiet confidence.
“We all deserve a chance to move forward.”
Charlotte finally placed the black folder on the polished table.
Neither of them looked concerned.
William actually laughed.
“What is that? A custody request?”
She slowly opened the folder.
“No.”
“The truth.”
One by one, she slid certified bank records across the table.
Hidden accounts.
Shell companies.
Unauthorized transfers.
Millions of dollars diverted from Hawthorne family investment funds over the previous three years.
William’s smile disappeared.
Sophia leaned forward, confused.
“I’ve never seen those before.”
“I know,” Charlotte replied.
“Because they weren’t created for you.”
William abruptly stood.
“Where did you get these?”
Charlotte didn’t answer.
Instead, she revealed the final document.
It wasn’t a financial record.
It was a DNA report.
Sophia frowned.
“What does that have to do with anything?”
Charlotte met William’s terrified eyes.
“Everything.”
The report confirmed Oliver was William’s biological son.
It also proved something else.
The unborn baby Sophia was carrying shared no biological connection to William whatsoever.
The room fell silent.
Sophia slowly turned toward him.
“You told me you already confirmed…”
William couldn’t speak.
Before anyone recovered from the shock, the conference room doors opened.
Three federal investigators entered alongside Hawthorne Corporation’s chairman.
The chairman looked directly at William and quietly said, “Your father knows everything now.”
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