Chapter 540

Mia stood frozen, pale as a ghost. Madeleine wasn't doing any better—her face drained of color as she sat stiffly in her chair. They both understood what Kimberly was implying. Back then, the reason Madeleine had been switched—was all part of Alicia' scheme. Alicia swapped out her own daughter and placed her beside Kimberly, planning to have her raised under the Hale roof, gaining legal claim to inheritance and shares. Smart move, Alicia probably never thought Kimberly would go for a mother-daughter DNA test. She likely assumed, worst case, Kimberly might test her daughter with Charles. And since Mia was Charles' biological daughter, that wouldn't raise any alarms. No matter how they checked, nothing would seem off. But everything changed the moment Mia fell ill. Kimberly had a hunch based on the blood type mismatch, and instead of using Charles, she went straight for a test with herself. After all, she carried that child for ten months—there's no bond deeper. It wasn't surprising that