Three years of loving him, three days to erase myself from his world novel Chapter 365

Arthur's heart clenched painfully, but he agreed. "Understood."

He then dragged a completely devastated Cillian out of the room.

Moments later, the office returned to a dead silence, the only sound being the quiet hum of the computer on the desk.

Julian stood frozen in place for a long time. Cillian's confession and the sheer agony Clara had endured played on a loop in his mind. The regret was so crushing that he raised his hand and violently slapped himself across the face!

The sharp crack echoed loudly through the empty office.

Julian closed his eyes, taking several long moments to compose himself before slumping back into his leather chair. He reached for his phone to call the bodyguards still searching at The Old Ironworks.

An overwhelming sense of dread gripped him.

He was utterly terrified that Clara was truly gone...

His trembling fingers tapped the screen, but his hand slipped, and the phone clattered onto the floor under his desk with a sharp thud.

Julian curled his fingers into a tight fist, bending down to retrieve it. As he did, he noticed a document lying on the floor.

It was a black folder. It clearly wasn't a business contract, which meant it had to be... a private dossier.

He froze, a strange sense of foreboding washing over him. Slowly, he picked it up, straightened his posture, and flipped it open.

His eyes landed directly on the bold black header printed at the top of the first page.

It felt as though he had just taken a sledgehammer to the skull. He sat completely paralyzed.

[DNA Discrepancy Report: Seraphina Shaw vs. Reference Sample]

This was the report he had ordered Arthur to commission in secret!

Cursing himself for not noticing it until now, Julian pulled the pages out and began reading.

With every line he read, the string in his chest pulled tighter and tighter.

By the time he reached the final conclusion, the string snapped violently.

[Conclusion: Seraphina Shaw's DNA does not match the reference sample!]

Seraphina was not the girl from all those years ago!

Julian frowned deeply, finding the entire situation completely absurd. The girl he had painstakingly protected for years was a total fraud.

He couldn't wrap his head around it!

But the undeniable proof was written in black and white right in front of him. Every single word felt like a brutal slap to the face.

It was mocking his sheer, unadulterated stupidity!

He was only just finding out the truth, but Seraphina had undoubtedly known all along. She had intentionally sought him out, using her accomplices to keep the lie buried.

And that accomplice was obviously Cillian!

They had played him for an absolute fool!

Julian crushed the report in his fist, his rage boiling over.

Thinking of how he had so foolishly tormented Clara time and time again for the sake of an imposter,

Julian's eyes turned murderously dark.

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