“Why didn’t you tell us?” Dad whispered.
“Because the people involved had connections everywhere.”
Michael looked at Jason.
“And he was part of it.”
Jason shook his head.
“This is ridiculous.”
But Michael continued.
“Lily found me after discovering financial transfers connected to my childhood nickname. We began investigating together.”
I remembered how stubborn Lily could be.
Once she found something suspicious, she rarely stopped until she understood it.
But one question still haunted me.
“What about Noah’s DNA?”
Michael took a breath.
“There’s another son in this family.”
Dad looked confused.
“What?”
“Your son, Dad. From before you married Mom.” Financialplanning services
Dad went pale.
He remembered a woman named Rebecca, who’d once told him she’d lost their baby.
Michael shook his head.
“She didn’t lose the child.”
He turned toward Jason.
“That child was Jason Reed.”
The church erupted.
Jason was our father’s biological son.
