The IVF Secret That Shook a Dynasty novel Chapter 54

Harvey caught the file and flipped it open. His eyes went wide.

“Holy hell… The odds of this…”

Even though he had already suspected it, seeing the proof in black and white left him stunned.

“Harvey, do you have any idea what kind of legal trouble you’re in for this? If I decided to press charges, you’d be facing serious consequences,” Joseph, ever the lawyer, threatened him.

Harvey flinched. “You’re not actually going to send me to prison, are you?”

“The thought has crossed my mind.”

Harvey felt a genuine flicker of fear, but he was fairly certain his friend wouldn't go through with it.

“Joseph… look, I know I messed up. You can punish me however you want, just… don’t send me to jail.” Harvey pleaded guilty, but inside, he was buzzing with excitement.

Joseph, however, was still trying to process everything and fell silent again.

After a few moments, Harvey sensed his friend had calmed down a bit and cautiously sat down beside him. “So, how did you find him? How old is the kid? Is it a boy or a girl?”

Joseph shot him a look that made him shrink back and shut his mouth.

“He’s a boy, almost three,” Joseph began, his voice flat and precise. “He has leukemia and is being treated at Riverdale Children’s Hospital. Same floor as my mother, different wing. We ran into him by chance. He looks exactly like Lennon did as a child.”

He had summarized the entire unbelievable story in a few concise sentences. Harvey was floored all over again. “So that’s it… No wonder you asked me to check if Lennon’s sample had been used. You thought the kid was his from the start.”

Now, learning the boy was his biological son meant he was, undeniably, a Baird. So… maybe he could let his parents continue to believe the boy was Lennon’s child? It would give them something to hold onto, a reason to hope.

But how could he possibly broach such a topic with Vivica? Would she ever agree to such an arrangement?

Seeing his friend lost in thought, Harvey ventured another question. “Joseph, what are you going to do now? Who are the child’s parents? What’s their situation? Do you… want to be a part of his life?”

Joseph didn’t answer directly. Instead, he turned to Harvey. “Why does he look more like Lennon than me?”

This was a question squarely in Harvey’s area of expertise.

“That’s perfectly normal,” he explained immediately. “It’s common for a nephew to resemble his paternal uncle. Certain genes from your parents were recessive in you but dominant in Lennon. Through you, those genes were passed down and became dominant in your son—so he ends up looking more like Lennon. It makes perfect genetic sense.”