Chapter 158 Gabrielle’s Baby Is Ryan’s!
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Summer stormed across the room in a few sharp strides, snatching the picture frame off Ryan’s desk. Her eyes locked on the image inside, then widened in disbelief.
Gabrielle?!
Why the hell was she in the photo?!
Summer’s breath hitched, her fingers tightening around the frame until her knuckles turned bone
white.
This was Ryan’s private study. And he had a photo of Gabrielle displayed front and center.
What did that mean? Was he secretly in love with her?!
For a moment, her mind blanked out, refusing to compute what she was seeing.
Gabrielle was Vincent’s wife. And Ryan, Ryan was lusting after his own nephew’s woman?
Summer’s entire body went rigid. Her jaw clenched. Her nails dug into the frame so hard she nearly cracked the glass.
She had only come in here to kill time, to poke around out of boredom. She never expected to stumble upon this kind of secret.
It was insane.
Her gaze swept the study, searching for more clues. But aside from that damn picture, everything else looked perfectly normal.
With a trembling breath, she set the frame back on the desk, albeit more roughly than she intended.
Her heels clicked quietly as she exited the study, her thoughts spiraling out of control.
Why Gabrielle? What the hell did she have that made Ryan so obsessed?
Did something happen between them?
Was that why Ryan had been acting so strange lately, why he was always around Gabrielle, hovering like some overprotective shadow?
The more she thought about it, the less sense it made. Or maybe… too much sense.
Just as her thoughts were spiraling, her eyes caught movement ahead, a slightly ajar door, and a man in a white coat stepping inside while speaking on the phone.
She frowned and instinctively stopped, quickly ducking into a shadowed corner to listen.
“The blood sample from Ms. May was sent in a while ago. How much longer until we get the prenatal paternity test results?”
The deep male voice was clear, and every word hit Summer’s ears like a thunderclap.
Her breath caught.
Paternity test?!
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Her mind reeled. Gabrielle had said she was pregnant. But now… now this?
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A sick, heavy feeling twisted in her gut. The timeline. Ryan’s behavior. The photo. The protectiveness.
It was all adding up, and not in a way she liked.
What the hell was that supposed to mean?
She stood frozen, her heart pounding so hard it felt like it might explode. Holding her breath, she leaned in, straining to hear more.
The man’s voice lowered as he continued the call, then clicked off.
A few seconds later, he stepped back into the hallway alongside Eric Lawson. The two men spoke in hushed tones, their faces etched with tension as they walked away.
Summer didn’t move. She waited until their footsteps faded down the corridor, then slowly crept toward the room they’d left.
She hesitated, then pushed it open.
The room was small, clinical, lined with equipment, papers, and a glowing computer screen.
Her eyes scanned the room, quickly locking onto a stack of medical reports on the desk.
She walked over and began flipping through them. Most were just standard health checkups, nothing
interesting.
Just as she was about to give up and leave, the monitor blinked, and a file popped up on the screen, transferring in real time.
Her heart skipped a beat:
[PATERNITY TEST REPORT]
The title blared across the screen in bold font, burning into her vision.
Summer’s eyes widened, and her breath caught sharply in her throat. Her mind flashed back to the doctor’s phone call just moments ago… and the words Eric had said when he went into the living room to find Ryan.
Was this the important thing Eric needed to talk to Ryan about?
Her heart felt like it was about to explode out of her chest. She hovered over the mouse, then clicked.
The report opened.
Her eyes flew across the data, skipping the medical jargon, scanning for the only part that mattered.
The words on the screen slowly came into focus as the paternity test results loaded in front of her.
It was a DNA comparison report between Gabrielle’s unborn baby and Ryan.
She stared at the screen, her eyes darting across the key data as fast as they could move, until they landed on the final conclusion.
“Results support that Ryan Hudson is the biological father of the fetus.”
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She slapped a hand over her mouth to muffle the scream rising in her throat. Her lungs burned. Her
vision blurred.
Ryan… is the father?!
A wave of nausea rolled through her.
The baby Gabrielle carried wasn’t Vincent’s.
It was Ryan’s.
She felt like her blood had frozen in her veins. Goosebumps erupted across her skin.
No way. No fucking way!
Gabrielle was Vincent’s wife! The baby she was carrying was supposed to be Vincent’s!
But this paternity report laid it all out in black and white, Gabrielle’s baby was Ryan’s?!
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