Her fifth daughter died, so she deleted his bloodline. novel Chapter 261

Chapter 8

Nathan had gone completely pale.

His lips parted and his throat made a choking sound-something between a gasp and a stutter-but not a single word came out.

My second question had sliced straight through the glossy lie he’d crafted, cutting clean to the filthy truth underneath.

Richard’s expression darkened instantly. He knew-if I kept going, there’d be no way to cover this

“Why are you all just standing there?!” he barked at the security team. “Get her out of here! Now!”

Three large security guards started closing in, their stances aggressive, their

eyes hard.

But I didn’t flinch. Didn’t even blink.

I just stared at my father-the man I used to think was larger than life.

“You’re in such a hurry to drag me offstage,” I said softly.

“Feeling guilty?”

My voice wasn’t loud, but it hit him like a hammer to the chest.

Just as one of the guards reached out to grab my arm, I raised my phone and tapped the screen.

A video began to play-broadcast directly onto the auditorium’s massive screens.

The footage showed me inside my private lab.

I was facing the camera, my voice clear, calm, clinical.

“Today is the night before the Neptune-X is scheduled to launch. Time: 11:37 PM, Veyrahn Standard Time.”

“I’ve just detected an unauthorized access attempt in the vessel’s core control system.”

“As a preventive measure, I’m initiating a full physical lockdown of the remote rescue interface using a custom military-grade lock.”

“This footage is being recorded for documentation.’

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Aubrey suddenly snapped like a cornered cat, her voice shrill as she shouted across the room at me.

“Rowan! Why would you fake that video just to smear Nathan?!”

“He saved all of us-he’s the reason we’re alive! How could you do this to him?!”

Her voice broke as she cried, tears glistening in her eyes like some picture-perfect betrayal victim.

It was her final act, one last attempt to salvage the image.

I didn’t even bother responding.

Her performance was pitiful.

Instead, I reached into my coat pocket and tossed a USB drive onto the stage.

“Smear him?” I said coolly. “You sure about that?”

“Because everything on that drive is the result of a three-month investigation conducted by my

private investigator.”

“Nathan. Aubrey.”

“The two of you have been working together since last year-using a shell company registered in the Calypsia to secretly transfer ownership of seventeen of my deep-sea tech patents.”

“This was never about a rescue.”

“This was a setup. A clean, professional assassination attempt disguised as a disaster.”

“All you had to do was let me die down there-and once I was out of the way, you’d inherit the credit, the patents, the reputation.”

“You’d rewrite the narrative. Make my life’s work your legacy.”

“And that so-called ‘underwater earthquake’? That ‘communication failure’? Yeah… all part of the script.”

One of the tech staff-hands visibly shaking-plugged the USB into the main terminal.

The projector flared to life.

On screen, the evidence rolled out like a dam bursting-

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Clear as day.

Black and white.

Richard Carter and Aubrey Carter: biological father and daughter.

The entire room went nuclear.

If the patent fraud was a bombshell, this was a nuclear warhead.

The “half-sister”? Not half at all.

Aubrey-the sweet-faced, shining national hero-was a secret child Richard had hidden for over

two decades.

And Theresa?

Once a lowly housekeeper, now exposed as the woman who slept her way into the family-and stole

everything.

As for Richard, the oh-so-righteous Director of the Oceanic Research Bureau?

He’d just been unmasked as a lying, cheating hypocrite who’d deceived everyone for twenty years.

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