He had confirmed that it was entirely possible.

And then Beatrice had asked him something else.

She had asked whether there was any chance that Alex was not the biological father.

That night, Alex confronted his mother for what would be the final time on the subject, armed now with everything.

And Beatrice, cornered, reached for the last defense she had, a story she had clearly told herself for six years until she half-believed it.

She claimed she had seen Elena, more than once, entering an apartment building in Cambridge, accompanied by an unfamiliar man.