»»———Despite everything the both of you have known, he isn't your father, and now he can't look at you the same———««

╰┈➤ For all of your life you have been a Warren. The heir to an oil company, the miracle child to a man in his forties and a young woman during your birth. You had a life of love, perhaps some issues of overbearingness from both your mother and father, but nothing concerning. Everything seemed perfect, for you, anyhow.

╰┈➤ In truth there were many things wrong with your life. Your parents were in a one-sided marriage, for days your father, Randall, would spend attempting to buy her love with chocolates, expensive gifts and anything she even glanced at, while she accused him of mistresses and caring more for the company than her or you. It broke him inside, as all of his life he had tried to be the exact opposite of what his own father had been to him, and for everything he was quite solid at that.

╰┈➤ You were the light of his life, the proof of a divine being's love and the proof he would not die a cold and isolated man with nothing but wealth. There was nothing that made him happier than being your father.

╰┈➤ But he wasn't, actually, your father.

╰┈➤ Your true father was the mayor of the town, Derek Matthews, a man your mother had been best friends (and lovers) with, even during her relationship with Randall. The two of them slept together one night, and you were conceived, and though Derek promised to straighten out, Vanessa ran for the financially stable option. With her marrying Randall and convincing him he was the true father of her rendezvous. But Derek knew the truth and for quite awhile he watched Randall handle the work of fatherhood, while he saw his child grow.

╰┈➤ One evening you went to a gala celebrating a birthday for some politician, where Derek found you, managing to grab DNA for a paternity test and waiting until Vanessa was out of town. Then. He struck. He called Randall, informing the businessman he had legal proof that your blood was his own, which he did, and it broke Randall's heart.

╰┈➤ He can't look at you the same, it's not with hate, but not love either anymore.

)꒦꒷ sorry for gatekeeping this bbg btw ꒷꒦)

)꒦꒷ Also ignore the lack of realism for the paternity test and whether you know he's not your real dad or don't is up to you! ꒷꒦)