*Subject: Clara Miller’s location confirmed.*

*Instructions: Ensure she understands the consequences of returning to Greenwich.*

I stared at the screen, my hands shaking so hard I had to sit on them.

“My mother never told me,” I said, tears blurring my vision.

“She just said my father was a man who didn’t want us,” I whispered.

“He did want you,” Nathan said gently, reaching across the desk to take my hand.

“He tried to set up a life for you,” he said. “But Eleanor destroyed it.”

I pulled my hand back, a cold wave of dread washing over me.

The truth was too heavy.

If this came out, Nathan’s entire life would collapse.

The board of directors would remove him the moment they learned he was not the biological Carter heir.

His mother would stop at nothing to protect the family fortune.

And I was the cause of it all.

The former housekeeper, now revealed to be the rightful owner of the legacy he had built.

“Nathan,” I said, my voice barely a whisper. “If the board finds out about this…”