Hillbilly Girlie Marries a Billionaire – Episode 29
If Lucas’s sample remained sealed in the archive, the laboratory’s paternity result could only be fraudulent. Noah compared the original inventory logs with the technician’s access records. Someone had duplicated Lucas’s label and attached it to another man’s genetic material.
The technician’s break-in appeared designed to correct the mistake before investigators noticed. Security cornered him inside the archive, but he smashed several storage alarms and escaped through a maintenance exit. The cryogenic case he carried contained unrelated samples rather than Lucas’s.
Police issued a warrant. Adam froze every payment connected to the clinic and discovered large transfers from Sophie through a shell company. One smaller payment went to a household employee dismissed months earlier—the same servant who once cleaned Lucas’s private rooms.
Victoria recognized the name. The servant had worked at the estate during the gala Sophie cited. Under questioning, she admitted Sophie paid her to obtain biological material from Lucas’s bedroom. She failed and secretly substituted a sample belonging to her own husband, hoping Sophie would never discover the difference.
The revelation left the room silent. Sophie’s pregnancy was real, but neither Lucas nor the servant’s husband had consented to conception. The unborn child had two innocent biological parents and a mother willing to treat both as supplies.
Lucas ordered a lawful DNA test from the servant’s husband. The man arrived furious and frightened, accompanied by an attorney. He had wanted children with his wife someday, not a child created without his knowledge and carried by a stranger.
Emily felt profound sympathy for him. The situation extended beyond her marriage and Anderson succession. Exposing Sophie would alter another family forever, and the baby would eventually inherit a truth built from theft.
At the hospital, Sophie refused a new test. She claimed the archive logs were fabricated to escape responsibility. Victoria, now determined to distance herself, told her the family would compel testing through court.
Sophie turned on Victoria, revealing the older woman’s orders to humiliate Emily and interfere with hospital payments. Victoria denied threatening Mrs. Davis’s care, but Mia’s statements and financial records supported much of Sophie’s accusation.
Grandfather Anderson said both women would face consequences independently. Sophie’s fraud did not absolve Victoria’s cruelty, and Victoria’s prejudice did not excuse reproductive theft. His judgment ended their final attempt to hide behind each other.
Lucas visited Sophie under guard. He told her the stored sample was untouched. For one moment, genuine shock replaced calculation. She had trusted the servant and technician to create the one bond Lucas could not reject.
Sophie accused Emily of ruining everything. Lucas replied that Sophie had ruined herself by refusing to accept his answer. Emily had not stolen him; he had never belonged to Sophie.
She threatened to terminate the pregnancy if the child could not secure her place. Lucas immediately called the attending psychiatrist and child-protection counsel. Her words demonstrated that the baby remained a bargaining tool in danger.
Doctors placed Sophie under observation for threats of self-harm and harm to the fetus. She screamed that everyone was imprisoning her. Emily, listening outside, understood that consequences could feel like captivity to someone accustomed to controlling every door.
The servant’s husband’s preliminary test excluded Lucas and indicated a strong paternal match to himself. Final legal results required additional verification, but the Anderson heir claim collapsed.
Noah delivered the news to the board. Directors who had pressured Lucas to recognize the pregnancy now retreated from their statements. Noah defended his brother publicly, refusing to use the scandal as a path to the CEO position.
Lucas thanked him afterward. The words were simple, but Noah understood what they represented. Years of rivalry did not vanish, yet the brothers had finally fought the same enemy without turning on one another.
Emily and Lucas returned to the garden after dark. The proposal decorations were gone, leaving only trees and quiet paths. Lucas apologized that her answer had arrived amid police and DNA reports.
Emily said their story had never respected elegant timing. She asked him again without kneeling or rings: did he still choose a life with her when rescue was unnecessary and drama finally ended? Lucas answered yes before she completed the question.
He placed the corn-leaf ring on her finger. From an upstairs hospital window across town, Sophie received a photograph of the moment from an unknown ally. The accompanying message read, I can get you out—but you must bring Emily to me first.