Episode2
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The Billionaire’s Hidden Heir
Episode 2: The Boy with His Eyes
The airport buzzed with travelers, but for Ethan Blackwood, every sound faded into silence.
His eyes remained fixed on the little boy walking away beside Ava.
Gray eyes.
Dark hair.
The same sharp jawline.
It was like staring at a younger version of himself.
Impossible…
Or was it?
“Ethan?”
His assistant, Daniel, noticed the strange look on his boss’s face.
“Sir, your meeting starts in thirty minutes.”
Ethan didn’t answer.
Instead, he asked one question.
“Find that woman.”
Daniel blinked.
“Sir?”
“The woman who just left.”
Ava’s hands trembled as she buckled Lucas into the back seat of a taxi.
“Mommy…”
Lucas tilted his head.
“Who was that man?”
“No one.”
“But he kept looking at me.”
Ava forced a smile.
“He probably thought you looked familiar.”
Lucas nodded innocently before returning to the toy car in his hands.
But Ava couldn’t stop shaking.
Five years.
She had spent five years making sure Ethan would never know.
She wasn’t ready for fate to ruin everything.
Back at Blackwood Holdings…
Daniel placed a tablet on Ethan’s desk.
“I found her.”
Ethan looked up immediately.
“Ava Hart.”
“Twenty-seven years old.”
“Works as a pediatric nurse.”
“Recently returned to the city after living abroad.”
Ethan frowned.
“What about the boy?”
Daniel hesitated.
“There are no public records listing the child’s father.”
Ethan leaned back in his chair.
His heartbeat quickened.
“No father?”
“No, sir.”
For the first time in years…
Hope crept into his heart.
Across town…
A sleek black SUV pulled into the driveway of the Blackwood mansion.
Inside, Sophia Lancaster smiled as she walked toward Ethan.
She wrapped her arms around him.
“I missed you.”
Ethan gently stepped away.
“We need to talk.”
Her smile disappeared.
“What’s wrong?”
Instead of answering, Ethan looked out the window.
His mind wasn’t on his fiancée.
It was on the woman he had loved…
And the little boy who looked exactly like him.
That evening…
Ava tucked Lucas into bed.
“Mommy…”
“Yes?”
“Will I ever meet my daddy?”
Her smile froze.
Every night, she dreaded that question.
She kissed his forehead.
“When the time is right.”
Lucas smiled sleepily.
“Goodnight, Mommy.”
After he fell asleep, Ava quietly closed the bedroom door.
The tears she’d been holding back finally fell.
“You promised you’d never come back into my life, Ethan…”
“So why now?”
At that exact moment…
Ethan sat alone in his office.
He opened the old silver necklace again.
Then he picked up his phone.
“Daniel.”
“Yes, sir?”
“I don’t care what it takes.”
“I want every detail about Ava Hart.”
“And find out…”
He paused, staring at the photo Daniel had secretly taken of Lucas at the airport.
“…who that little boy really is.”
To be continued…
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