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?”

Ernest was equally at a

knew this man

eyes clouded with confusion and

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

this point, his silence spoke

she closed her eyes, overwhelmed by pain. Tears rushed down

She remembered now!

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was rescued and came back home that year, he was different. The boy who had always been gentle and reserved had turned

sure…” Nyla’s voice

grandson’s behavior was the aftermath

“It turned out…”

a change in personality; it was a completely different person taking Eric’s

Nyla’s heart had been so flooded with relief and joy that she hadn’t dwelled on the

was now met with an equal measure of