The red light on the recorder kept blinking.

Rohan stood frozen beside the bed, staring at the open trolley bag as if his body had forgotten how to move.

A few minutes ago, he had been nervous for a completely different reason.

He thought this night was about trust.

About finally opening his heart to someone.

But now, looking at the things inside Vikram’s bag, Rohan felt something cold crawl up his spine.

There were no clothes.

No laptop.

Not even toiletries.

Only a thick brown folder.

Under it were several smaller envelopes, a digital camera, and what looked disturbingly like printed photographs.

Rohan’s throat tightened.

— “What… what is all this?”

Vikram didn’t answer right away.

Instead, he calmly picked up the folder, placed it on the table, and opened it like he had been preparing for this moment for a long time.

The first thing Rohan saw made his blood turn cold.

A photograph.

Of him.

Walking out of his apartment building two weeks earlier.

Another photo.

Rohan sitting alone at a café near his office.

Another.

Rohan buying medicine at a pharmacy late at night.

Then another.

Rohan standing outside his mother’s house, holding a grocery bag in one hand and his phone in the other.

His fingers began to shake.

— “Why do you have these?”

Vikram finally looked at him.

His face was still calm.

Too calm.

— “Because I needed to be sure.”

Rohan took one small step back.

— “Sure about what?”

Vikram slowly pulled one envelope from beneath the folder and pushed it across the table.

Rohan looked down.

His full name was written on it.

Not just “Rohan.”

His full legal name.

His date of birth.

His address.

Even his mother’s name.

Rohan’s breathing became uneven.

— “Who are you?”

For the first time that night, Vikram’s expression changed.

Not into a smile.

Not into guilt.

But something heavier.

Something almost painful.

He lowered his voice and said:

— “I’m not the man you think I am.”

Rohan’s stomach dropped.

Vikram opened the envelope and removed a single old photograph.

It was faded, slightly torn at the corner.

Rohan saw a younger woman in it.

Then a man standing beside her.

And in the woman’s arms…

was a baby.

Rohan stared at the photo.

His heart began pounding so hard he could hear it in his ears.

Because the woman in the picture—

was his mother.

And the baby…

was him.

Rohan’s lips parted, but no sound came out.

He looked at the old photograph again.

His mother.

The baby.

Him.

Then his eyes moved to the man standing beside his mother in the picture.

The man’s face was younger, thinner, almost unrecognizable at first.

But the eyes…

Rohan slowly looked up at Vikram.

His hands turned ice-cold.

— “Why do you have a picture of my mother?”

Vikram’s jaw tightened.

For the first time that night, his calm expression finally cracked.

He looked away, as if the answer itself was too painful to say out loud.

Rohan’s voice rose:

— “Answer me!”

Vikram closed his eyes for a second.

Then he whispered:

— “Because I was there the night you were born.”

Rohan stopped breathing.

The room seemed to tilt around him.

The blinking red light on the recorder suddenly felt louder than his heartbeat.

— “What are you talking about?”

Vikram reached back into the folder and pulled out one final document.

An old hospital birth record.

At the bottom of the page was Rohan’s name.

And beneath it…

was a signature.

His mother’s signature.

Rohan grabbed the paper with shaking hands.

Then he saw one line that made his knees nearly give out.

Father’s name: Unknown.

But under “emergency contact,” there was another name written clearly.

Vikram Rao.

Rohan looked up slowly, his eyes filling with terror and confusion.

— “Who are you to me?”

Vikram’s face went pale.

Before he could answer, a loud knock suddenly hit the hotel room door.

Both men froze.

Then a woman’s voice came from outside.

A voice Rohan knew better than anyone.

His mother.

— “Rohan… open the door.”

Rohan’s blood turned cold.

Because his mother wasn’t supposed to know he was there.

And she definitely wasn’t supposed to know Vikram.

But when Vikram heard her voice, he whispered one sentence that shattered everything Rohan believed about his life:

— “She found us too late.”

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