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Chapter 273 A Shocking Discovery

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He didn’t care who his father liked, or who he slept with. He didn’t care whether his father truly loved him

or not-

What he cared about was the title of heir, the money, and the power.

But now, an unexpected variable had suddenly appeared-

His father had left a bastard child out in the world.

Thomas had asked him once, straight out, if he had any illegitimate children. The old man had sworn up and down that he didn’t.

And it had seemed believable. His father wasn’t fond of children to begin with, and all his lovers had been under close watch–none had shown signs of pregnancy.

Even if one had somehow gotten pregnant, Thomas had always taken care of it “properly.”

And yet, despite all that, one had slipped through the cracks.

It had started on a night when Thomas had gotten a little too drunk.

With his mind dulled by alcohol, he retained a sliver of clarity, but most of it was lost in fog and disorientation.

That night on Tri Street, he had “messed around” with a girl.

him to the

filed a report,

money can’t

more money at

but before meeting with her, he needed to remember what had actually

alcohol, he was missing most of

any footage or evidence he

that night

anything wrong. It

all of it, he made an unexpected

to be two witnesses to the

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Thomas even

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working together. Maybe this was all a scam, a

extort him.

girl, he

And what he found-

him to his

Asher. His mother was Mindy and his father was

a regular single–parent family. Asher’s father had never shown up

world without a father–he wasn’t born out of

deeper into this family–and what he

back to his

tied to some dirty business his father had been involved in over a