Isabella POV
The second DNA test results arrived via encrypted email while Damien and I sat in our penthouse office, planning our working honeymoon to London and the European expansion that would mark Cross-Sterling Industries' first major international venture as a married partnership.
"The independent laboratory confirms negative genetic relationship," I read aloud from Elizabeth Chen's summary. "Richard Morrison shares zero percent DNA with Isabella Morrison Sterling Cross. He is not her biological uncle or any other family relation."
The words hit like ice water, carrying implications that transformed everything I'd believed about the inheritance challenges threatening our business empire. If Richard Morrison wasn't my biological family, if his claims about uncle relationship were completely fabricated, then his legal challenges to my inheritance rights were based on fraud rather than legitimate family connections.
