The Mark That Told the Truth
Chapter 9 — 99.99%
Seven days after I sent the swabs, the report arrived in my inbox as a PDF, and I sat at Romina’s kitchen table with my hands shaking and Romina’s hands on my shoulders and opened it.
Probability of paternity: 99.99%.
Matthias Selwyn cannot be excluded as the biological father.
He was Matthias’s son.
I felt relief for about three seconds — a clean sweet rush of it — and then a wave of something much hotter came up behind it and swallowed it whole.
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