Now he cared again.
“What donor?” he asked casually.
The administrator looked surprised.
“You don’t know?”
Then she smiled toward Noah.
“Mr. Noah Cole’s AI research prototype was purchased last month by Halcyon Technologies for 18 million dollars.”
The entire row went silent.
Tyler looked up from his phone.
Brianna’s mouth fell open.
And Adrian…
Adrian looked like someone had punched him directly in the chest.
I slowly turned toward him.
Toward the man who once looked at my newborn baby and saw disappointment.
Toward the father who abandoned his son for an eighteen-year-old because he thought youth mattered more than loyalty.
Then the administrator added one final sentence.
And that was the moment everything Adrian had built truly collapsed.
