The doctors say he is exceptionally healthy.” I looked down at my son.

Rafferty.

He blinked against the light, and my heart stopped, because he had my eyes — which meant he had Lucinda’s eyes, the violet-blue of a family I had never known I belonged to.

Chapter 26 — Never Near You

“I did not let Dr.

Thane anywhere near you,” Lucinda said softly, reading the fear before I could speak it.