My own blood.” A cold current went through me as the full shape of it came clear.

Until this moment, Christopher had possessed one reason to want his uncle dead, which was the fortune he expected to inherit.

But now, with a secret test, he had stumbled onto something that changed everything, something far more threatening to him than any caregiver’s scheme.

He had learned that Raymond had a true and living son, and through that son a grandson, two people whose very existence could shatter every inheritance plan Christopher had ever made.

The test he had run to find a weapon against me had instead handed him a catastrophe.