The businessman stared at the photograph.
His confident image was gone.
His voice barely came out.
“…where did you get that?”
The woman stepped closer to the stage.
“They’re your children.”
The audience erupted in shocked whispers.
The host looked back and forth between them.
“Sir… is that true?”
The businessman ran his hand over his face.
“No,” he said quickly.
“That’s not what this looks like.”
But the woman wasn’t finished.
She pulled another paper from her bag.
A birth certificate.
Then another.
And another.
Three documents.
All with the same father’s name.
The businessman’s name.
Gasps spread through the audience again.
The host leaned toward him.
“Do you want to respond to this?”
The businessman suddenly stood up.
Because what the woman was about to reveal next could destroy his entire empire.
She looked straight at the cameras and said:
“And if you don’t remember abandoning them…”
“…maybe you’ll remember why you had to disappear from that town 18 years ago.”