Chapter1
Alistair Crane watched the room of the Crane Mansion where Ethan was changing his daughter Jane. He was glad to see that Theresa wouldn't have any of her children. He was glad that EM was being raised in the Crane Mansion. And he was happy that EM's little sister was there, even though she wasn't a Crane. Then something catches his eye on Jane's left leg. Alistair zooms in and sees a very familiar birthmark on her leg. The Crane Birthmark. He then flipped to a room of the new Lopez-Fitzgerald home where Theresa was getting dressed and on her lower back, he spied something he had never seen before. Theresa bore the Crane Birthmark.
Alistair couldn't believe what he had just seen. Theresa, somehow, was a Crane! "But how?" he asked himself. How could she be a Crane?
He went to his files and pulled out Theresa's thick file and didn't even get far when he saw her birthdate and froze. The biggest clue was staring him in the face. Theresa and his dead daughter Therese Anastasia Crane had the same birthdate.
The revelation hit him at that moment. He realized that somehow, his child, the daughter he wanted more than anything, hadn't died. She wasn't stillborn. She was right in front of him. Theresa Lopez-Fitzgerald was actually Therese Crane, his youngest daughter!
"Bambi!" he yelled and the buxom blonde came into the room.
"Yes?"
"Call Dr. Saunders at the hospital and tell him to do immediate DNA tests on Theresa Lopez-Fitzgerald and on her son Ethan Martin. And get Angelica Minter on the line! I need to talk to her!"
"Yes, Mr. Crane," she said, giving him a flirtatious smile before she left.
Alistair smiled happily back. He felt the blood test on Theresa was a mere formality. She was his daughter. There was no doubt in his mind. But the blood test on EM was necessary. He hoped that it would prove that Julian was not his father. After all, he could stand his beloved daughter raising an out of wedlock child, but not a child of incest.
The intercom buzzed and Alistair hit the button. "Yes?"
"Ms. Minter on line 2 sir," Bambi's voice came through the intercom.
"Thank you," he said before picking up his phone and connecting to line two. "Hello, Angel."
"Hello, love. It's been a long time since I've heard from you," Angelica Minter said.
"Yes, it has. It has been too long. Angel, our little girl isn't dead. She is alive!"
"What? How? We were told…"
"I know, but we were lied to. Our little girl was switched with Martin's child. He and Pilar raised our daughter," Alistair told her.
"Are you sure? I mean, it could be a case of mistaken identity," Angelica said.
"She bears the Crane birthmark on her lower back. There is no doubt in my mind. Theresa Lopez-Fitzgerald is our daughter Therese Anastasia Crane. I'm having blood tests done so that I have proof for Martin and Pilar. And what's more, we also have grandchildren. Therese already has two children, Ethan Martin and Jane Maria," Alistair tells Angelica happily.
"Oh my god! Our beloved daughter is alive and we are grandparents. Alistair, I'm on the first flight I can get to Harmony," Angelica said.
"I'll meet you at the airport. Hopefully, by then, we'll have all the proof we need to reclaim our daughter," Alistair said.