Ten years later, a lonely billionaire accidentally encountered the woman who had once worked for him on the street, and what he learned about the past ten years shocked him.
On that rainy day, he was rushing home from work when he saw a woman trembling with terror under a wet shirt, next to two children whose eyes were remarkably reminiscent of familiar features.
The billionaire’s heart seemed to stop. He looked up, studied the woman’s face, and thought to himself that he had been right – this was the same woman who had once worked for him as a housekeeper.
He had always had everything – power, money, influence. But no contract, no deal could fill the void left by the housekeeper’s departure, for from that moment on, he had become completely alone, and no enormous fortune could hide that fact.
The woman, deprived of family and resources, spent her entire life raising twins, hiding from the shameful world and the prying eyes of loneliness. The billionaire approached the woman, greeted her, and together they relived the past. But that was only the beginning. As he got closer, he noticed the twins—whom he’d had no idea existed when the woman worked in his home.
He’d never even known about them back then.
When the billionaire looked into the children’s eyes, everything around him seemed to freeze, and even the pouring rain no longer mattered, because he felt a strange sense of recognition in their gaze.
The billionaire asked the woman about the children, and the answer he received shocked him instantly.
Ethan froze, disbelieving what he’d heard. His mind tried to process Sophia’s words: these children were his own. His heart pounded wildly, and a mixture of horror, joy, and guilt rose in his chest.
He looked at the twins, and it seemed as if each glance from these little ones was a mirror of his past mistakes.
Sophia, barely holding back tears, spoke softly, but every word cut Ethan deeper than a knife: “You left then, never knowing that we…” She paused to breathe, then continued: “These are your children. I raised them alone, and now they are here, before you.”
The rain fell on them, mixing tears and drops, and time seemed to stand still. Ethan couldn’t move, couldn’t speak—all his years of loneliness and wealth collapsed in an instant. He felt both the fear of losing them and the desire to embrace them immediately.
The twins clung to their mother, not understanding the full weight of the moment, but intuitively sensing familiarity. Sophia looked at Ethan with eyes full of anticipation and hidden pain.
And in that moment, the billionaire realized: the past he thought forgotten had returned with a vengeance. Now before him was not just a woman, but the life he had missed out on…
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