Chapter 2064
“I wanted to wait until the time felt safe,” Sven said. “I didn’t expect everything to happen so fast.”
“If you’re truly a Lindberg heir, why did you become Boss’ bodyguard?” she asked, still bewildered.
Long seconds passed. “Because I’m an illegitimate son,” he finally confessed. “My father named me heir only after discovering my brother can’t have children.”
Another revelation slammed into her; she gripped the rail as though the night itself tilted.
“That’s also why I hid the truth,” Sven added. “I feared you would recoil from someone born on the wrong side of a scandal.”
The phrase “illegitimate child” had cut him like glass his entire life.
The Lindberg household tolerated neither his mother nor the boy she bore.
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