Chapter 10 - BOX 714North Harbor Data Vault contained the truth.
Box 714 was filled with files documenting five years of surveillance.
Grace's name appeared on the first binder.
MERCER, GRACE — CONTAINMENT.
Photographs.
Medical records.
Financial threats.
Lily's childhood.
Even photographs of Lily sleeping.
Nathan stared at them in horror.
“My father knew what she looked like.”
Grace whispered:
“He knew everything.”
Then they found the second ledger.
Names filled the pages.
Payments.
Bribes.
False medical evaluations.
Manipulated court orders.
One entry contained Judge Malcolm Reeves.
Another contained the dead notary Helen Ward.
Then Nathan found something that broke him.
A DNA report.
Four years old.
Charles had secretly obtained Nathan's DNA.
The result proved Lily was his daughter.
Charles had known.
Victoria had known.
Eleanor had known.
For eighteen months, Victoria had known Lily existed.
She had still accepted Nathan's proposal.
She had still planned their wedding.
She had smiled at Grace.
Nathan closed the file.
The betrayal was no longer theoretical.
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It had a face.
Victoria's.
