Outside the building, photographers were already gathering — because Cormac Ridley Cabot, the vanished heir, had finally surfaced to lead his family’s medical foundation.

By sunset, Cassian knew that I was pregnant.

By midnight, he knew exactly who the lonely sheriff across the road had been all along.

Chapter 15 — The Reopening

He came to the foundation’s reopening ceremony the next morning, shoving through the reporters with Sylvie’s paternity report crushed in his fist like a man who had confused the thing that ruined him for the thing that could save him.

I stood beside Cormac on the terrace with one hand resting over the small curve beneath my dress.