11/03/2025
A homeless Black woman collapsed on the roadside, her two-year-old twins crying beside her and when a billionaire stopped to help, he froze: the children looked exactly like him...
The morning sun was still fighting its way through the San Francisco smog when a scene on the corner of street made commuters slow down — though none of them stopped. A frail woman had collapsed on the sidewalk, her breathing shallow. Beside her sat two tiny boys, maybe two years old, crying in confusion, their small hands tugging at her sleeves.
People walked past. Some stared, others looked away.
Until Sebastian Clarke — a billionaire investor known for his precision and detachment — noticed the scene from the back seat of his car. He was scanning through emails, late for a meeting downtown, when the sound of the children’s crying made him look up. Something about it made his chest tighten.
“Stop the car,” he told his driver.
When Sebastian stepped out, the sight hit him like a punch. The twins had the same hazel eyes. The same soft curls. Even the same faint birthmark beneath their left ear — the one Sebastian had since birth.
He froze. Kneeling beside the woman, he checked her pulse — weak, but there. One of the boys, clutching a toy with trembling fingers, looked up at him and whispered, “Mommy’s sick.”
Sebastian swallowed hard. He didn’t recognize the woman... or at least, he didn’t think he did. But flashes from years ago began to surface, college parties, fleeting relationships, faces he never saw again.
No, he thought. It can’t be. He called for an ambulance himself and insisted on going with them to the hospital, ignoring his assistant’s panicked reminders about the meeting he was missing. Something told him this was no coincidence.
As the ambulance doors closed, one of the twins turned to look at him, those same hazel eyes, so familiar it hurt. Sebastian’s world tilted.
He wasn’t sure what scared him more: the resemblance... or the possibility that he already knew why.