Chapter 2

I was forcibly evicted from the mansion I'd lived in for over twenty years.

As I left, when no one was looking, I took the remainder of the cigar Logan had been smoking.

Once outside, I rushed to the hospital and took my uncle's stored blood sample to a DNA testing center.

The wait for results was agonizing.

My uncle had lived a clean life. Despite his vast wealth, he never indulged in excess.

Apart from necessary social obligations, he lived more ascetically than a monk.

I racked my brain but couldn't imagine him having an illegitimate son.

But if not, how else could I explain why he changed his will to favor Logan?

After an excruciating wait, the results finally arrived.

The moment I saw them, I froze completely.

The words "Biological paternity excluded" were like sharp daggers piercing straight through my heart.

My uncle had actually left the massive fortune he'd worked his entire life to build to a complete stranger with no blood relation?

I couldn't understand it. I really couldn't.

Did my uncle have some weakness Logan was exploiting?

But the police investigation had shown Logan was just an ordinary employee. What leverage could my uncle possibly have that Logan could exploit?

Unless... they had that kind of relationship?

Combined with my uncle's aversion to women, it didn't seem entirely impossible.

I was nearly stunned by this thought.

My mind was in chaos.

Should I just watch the fortune that was within my grasp slip into someone else's hands?

Let my uncle's life's work be inexplicably stolen?

After sitting dazed for a long while, I picked up my phone and called a private investigator I knew.

"I need you to investigate someone named Logan Hayes. Everything from birth until now—everyone he's met, bank transactions, every detail. The more thorough, the better. And fast."

After hanging up, I found a five-star hotel to check into. When I tried to pay, the "card frozen" notification echoed particularly harsh in the empty lobby.

I'd forgotten that my cards were all secondary cards linked to my uncle's account. Now that the assets had gone to Logan, he would have frozen my cards immediately.