His Secret Baby: Six Months After Divorce (Mia and Ethan) novel Chapter 275

Chapter 275

Nina Torres’s face was ashen as she dialed Aunt May’s number.

No one picked up.

Mia Carter tried as well. They spent the next half hour calling repeatedly, one after another, but the line remained ilent.

Outside, a torrential downpour began to fall, drenching the early summer heat.

However, Mia’s heart only grew more restless.

She had the creeping sensation of being a frog in a pot of boiling water. She felt the temperature rising degree by legree, a deep sense of impending crisis gnawing at her. Yet, whenever she tried to calm herself, the water didn’t eel quite hot enough to jump out yet.

The rain was too heavy and sudden, blocking their path to the orphanage to confront Aunt May.

The wast expanse of Northbrook was swallowed by the storm.

Water lashed against the floor-to-ceiling windows, washing over the man’s reflection again and again. Yet, nothing could wash away the oppressive, dark aura surrounding him.

At 11:00 PM, Ethan Hale placed a call to Leo Martinez.

The matter I asked you to investigate-what’s the status?”

Of the three-day deadline, only tomorrow remained.

n the past, whenever Ethan gave Leo a task, he would have it finished a day early. But this time-

Leo had spent the entire day dodging him, specifically picking moments when other people were around to deliver locuments to Ethan’s office. He was terrified of being alone with his boss.

But he couldn’t dodge the phone call.

Mr. Hale, the situation is… a bit complicated. It’s tricky, especially since it happened a while ago-”

Click.

Ethan hung up.

A wave of crushing pressure seemed to travel through the phone. Leo swallowed hard. Before he could even get

he lump out of his throat, his phone buzzed again. It was a message from Ethan.

t was a warning: if there were no results by tomorrow, he was finished at the company.

Leo’s face went deathly pale. He began to rehearse his words, organizing his phrasing and imagining a thousand different ways Ethan might react tomorrow and how he should respond.

Would Ethan be like he was that night? Would he take another custody agreement and hunt Mia down?

Everything was about to spiral out of control…

But then he had a second thought. If he just claimed the child was Ethan’s without absolute proof, wouldn’t he be

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making things worse? What if Mia denied it, or what if the child actually wasn’t Ethan’s?

With the deadline looming, Leo decided he needed to be prepared for every “what if.”

He immediately ordered someone to the hospital to investigate every single one of Mia’s prenatal records. He needed to find a way to confirm the child’s paternity for certain.

Early the next morning, an electronic copy of a detailed medical file was sent to Leo’s inbox.

When Cole Preston had performed the amniocentesis for Mia, he had generated two reports. One was a prenatal risk assessment, and the other was a paternity test.

Although he had only given Mia the risk assessment, the record of the paternity test was stored in the electronic

archives.

Leo took one look at it, and the world seemed to go dark for a moment.

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