In the days that followed, the mansion felt like a cage. Ethan barely spoke, disappearing into his study. Around the servants, he continued the act — still pretending to be paralyzed.
One night, as I passed his office, I heard him on the phone.
Suddenly, everything made sense. He wasn’t hiding from me — he was hiding from them.
His father had died years earlier, leaving Ethan the heir to a vast fortune. His stepmother and half-brother had spent years trying to take it. The “accident” that had paralyzed him had given them the perfect excuse to control the estate.
Now, Ethan’s secret wasn’t about pride. It was survival.
The Dangerous Truth
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