Next of Kin

Nick, a thirty-year-old grifter who ran from an orphanage as a boy, overhears that the staff of a dying, paranoid billionaire are hunting for his long-lost heir. He builds a perfect fake claimant and bluffs his way past the old man's AI security, and the DNA tests keep coming back a match. He's sure someone is rigging them, until the fourth test leaves no doubt that he really is the son left on a church doorstep twenty-four years ago. Face to face, Mordecai Vanderhoff never apologizes, and Nick pulls up a chair and stays.