He Chose a Secret “Male Heir” Over the Daughter I Was Delivering. I Was the Sole Trustee of His Two-Billion-Dollar Empire

He was clinging to the one plank in the whole wreck that would not hold his weight.

Chapter 12 — Zero Percent

Roderick’s undoing was finished, in the end, not in a courtroom but in a quiet clinic.

Odette tried to stall the paternity test, claiming she was traveling.

It did not matter, because I already had the answer, and had had it for two weeks.

I am not going to lay out the particulars of how it was obtained, except to say that a discreet investigator I had retained months earlier had, in the course of ordinary and lawful work, come by what was needed to establish the truth — a sample from Roderick, a sample from the child — and that the laboratory did the rest.

The certified result was Exhibit B in my divorce filing, and it left no room at all for interpretation.