When the old milk stopped, he started to get better.
So there’s no rare disease.
Someone is deliberately making him sick.
That same night, Eliana was going into the kitchen when she heard a low voice coming from the side room.
She stopped.
It was Lara.
She was talking angrily on the phone. “How is the boy getting better?! You said the doses were small and no one would notice!”
Eliana’s heart stopped.
Lara continued, whispering, “If Baher suspects me, everything will be lost!”
Eliana rushed back before she could be discovered.
Her hands were trembling.
The stepmother was definitely involved.
But the more dangerous question was, “Who’s with her?”
Half an hour later, Eliana was trying to calm herself down in Ryan’s room.
She found the child awake, staring at the ceiling.
As soon as he saw her, he tugged at her clothes and whispered, “Don’t leave me.”
Eliana moved closer to him. “I won’t leave you.”
Ryan swallowed hard. “She comes at night.”
“Eliana, who’s frozen?”
The child looked towards the door fearfully. “The woman who smells sweet puts medicine in the milk and tells me if I tell Daddy, he’ll die.”
Eliana felt her blood run cold.
A three-year-old child living through all this terror alone.
The next day, she decided to face the truth more intelligently.
She went to a private lab, far from Baher’s doctors.
She gave them a sample of the old milk.
The employee was surprised. “Do you suspect something?”
Eliana replied calmly, “I want a full toxicology analysis.”
The results came back hours later.
When the doctor saw them, his face changed immediately.
“Where did you get this sample?”
Eliana’s heart pounded. “Why?”
The doctor held the paper closer to her. “The sample contains a toxic compound in small doses. A single dose won’t kill you,
but over time it damages the nervous system and liver.” Eliana gasped. “So the baby was dying a slow death?”
The doctor looked at her seriously. “Whoever did this wanted the baby to appear to be a normal patient.”
She left the lab feeling like the ground was spinning beneath her.
But the real shock came when she opened the envelope containing the test results.
The name of the toxic substance was familiar.
She’d seen it before in an old medical file in the office of the foreign doctor who had been treating Ryan!
So the doctors weren’t stupid.
The doctors knew.
At the same moment, back at the villa, Lara stood in front of Baher with a calm smile. “Eliana’s starting to cross the line.”
“Baher was focused on his work files, then?”
Lara moved closer and said in an innocent tone, meddling in everything, even the office.
Baher finally looked up.
Lara continued, “I’m afraid she’s here for another reason.”
But what Lara didn’t know was that for the first time in months, Baher had seen his son smile.
And for the first time, he was starting to suspect something. As for Eliana, she was rushing back to the villa, the lab results file in her bag.
But as soon as she reached the gate, the guard stopped her nervously. “Sorry, Miss Baher Bey, he ordered no one to enter.”
Eliana was shocked. “What?!”
The guard swallowed hard and said, “If you come back, they’ll take any papers you have immediately.”
At that moment, Eliana understood that Lara had gotten there first.
And that the game had entered a much more dangerous phase.
But what no one was prepared for was that Ryan himself would reveal a secret that night, a secret that would turn the whole house upside down.
Eliana stood in front of the villa gate, the light rain falling on her hair, her heart pounding.
The guard was nervous, clearly more afraid than she was.
He reached for the bag. “Yes, ma’am. I have to take any papers you have.”
Eliana clutched the bag to her chest. “If I take those papers, the baby inside will die.” The sentence came out so sharply that the guard froze.
At that moment, the headlights of a black car appeared in the distance.
Baher’s car.
It stopped abruptly in front of the gate.
Baher got out quickly, his face contorted with anger and tension. “What’s wrong?”
The guard was flustered. “Madam Lara said, ‘I asked you what’s wrong!'”
Eliana looked at him steadily and pulled out the lab report. “Your son isn’t sick, Mr. Baher.”
The air itself seemed to stop.
Baher approached her slowly. “What do you mean?”
Eliana opened the report with trembling hands. “Ryan has been poisoned for months, small doses every day.”
Shock hit his face hard.
The man the entire stock market feared had practically given way.
“Are you sure?”
Eliana handed him the lab results. “This isn’t the first sample.”
Baher read the papers quickly.
Every line was like a dagger to his heart.
Toxic compounds. Gradual neurological damage. Calculated doses.
So his son was being slowly killed while he stood by and watched.
He looked up at Eliana. “Who?”
She paused for a moment.
Then she said, “Your wife.”
The silence that followed was terrifying.
The guard stepped back in fear.
As for Baher, his face went completely pale.
At that very moment, a child’s scream shattered the silence inside the villa.
Eliana!
Ryan.
Baher ran as fast as he could.
He stormed up the stairs, flung open his son’s bedroom door, and froze.
Ryan was terrified, curled up in bed, his eyes on Lara, who was standing beside him with a glass of milk.
The moment she saw Baher, she was taken aback.
But she quickly regained her composure. “Ryan was tired, and I…”
Put down the glass.
His voice was terrifying.
Lara tried to smile. “Baher, you’re just nervous.”
But he snatched the glass from her hand and smelled it.
The same smell.
Bitter almonds.
Eliana quietly followed them inside. Ryan, the moment he saw her, reached out his small hand towards her. “I told you not to leave me,” he said, trying to hold back his tears.
Baher turned slowly towards Lara.
And for the first time in his life, they were genuinely afraid of him.
Why?
Lara swallowed hard. “You’ve got it all wrong.”
Why?!
His voice shook the room.
Lara suddenly broke down because everything was about to go to him!
Everyone fell silent.
Lara’s tears fell as she screamed, “Your entire empire! The companies! The stocks! Everything! And I’ll be a guest in your life for the rest of my life!”
Baher looked at her, unable to comprehend.
She continued, breaking down, “You haven’t even seen me since the day this child was born. I’m just a woman in the background!”
Eliana was even more shocked than Ryan.
As for Baher, he stood there in shock.
Not just from the crime.
From the stupidity.
How could someone like that get into his house? How could he entrust his son to her?
But the biggest shock was yet to come.
Ryan suddenly looked at Baher and whispered, “She’s not alone.”
All eyes turned to him.
The child swallowed hard in fear. The doctor who came at night was putting the medicine in with her.
Eliana looked up immediately.
The foreign doctor.
Baher grabbed his phone and called his men. “Close the airport immediately!”
Within hours, the police arrested the doctor before he could escape.
The investigation revealed the full extent of the disaster.
Lara had been in on it with him from day one.
And the doctor was giving falsified reports to make the disease appear rare and incurable.
All this for millions.
The media exploded with the news.
The heir of El Shazly was the victim of a slow-motion murder plot.
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