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?”

equally at a

man was

aged eyes clouded with

now. The year you were both kidnapped…

this point, his silence

escaped Nyla as she closed her eyes, overwhelmed by pain.

She remembered now!

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

sure…” Nyla’s voice broke off, her

her grandson’s behavior was

“It turned out…”

turned out that it wasn’t a change in personality; it was a completely different

so flooded with relief and joy that

she had felt then was now met with