Too Late, Mr. Billionaire: You Can't Afford Me by Thedora Birnir

Chapter 1044:

“Ernest.” Nyla’s voice grew stern. Her eyes narrowed as she watched her eldest grandson closely. “Tell me, do you know something I don’t? Have you always known that he isn’t Eric?”

Ernest’s expression tensed. His lips pressed together tightly as he avoided her gaze.

With Nyla’s insistence on a DNA test, there was no hiding it. Once the results came back, the truth would be laid bare.

Nyla, who had a keen sense of Ernest’s character after raising him herself, felt a dread solidifying inside her.

She gasped, choking back sobs as she spoke. “God, it’s really true!” Nyla suddenly reached out, grabbed Eric by the collar, and pulled him close. Her eyes searched his face, desperately seeking answers.

“You bear such a resemblance to my Eric, yet you’re not him! If you’re not Eric, then who are you? Where is my grandson? What have you done to him to take his place? Speak!”

“Grandma…” Eric’s head drooped, shame rendering him speechless.

“Refusing to speak?” Nyla’s frustration surged as she turned to Ernest and grabbed his arm. “Then you must tell me! Where is your brother?”

“What happened to him?”

at a loss

man was an

aged eyes clouded with

memory struck her, causing her to gasp. “I get it now. The year you were both kidnapped… the one who

point, his silence

as she closed her eyes,

She remembered now!

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different. The boy who had always been gentle and reserved had turned unpredictable

I was so sure…” Nyla’s voice broke off, her thoughts

in her grandson’s

“It turned out…”

that it wasn’t a change in personality; it was a completely different person taking

safe and sound, Nyla’s heart had been so flooded with relief and joy that she hadn’t

had felt then was now met with an