harge. No opening t
om the stranger and taken cheek swabs from her sleeping children. Now, she was driving to a disc
echnician, the vials feeling
dy despite the tremor in her gut. "Start with a prelimin
t a second thought. The cost was nothin
s of that night, searching for a face, a voice, anything. But there was o
hanged his IV bag, her fingers brushing against his skin. She couldn't stop herself from studying his face again, tracing the lin
he tried to distract herself, playing a board game with the k
n the afternoon
ave your prelimin
into her throat
lope. She didn't even wait to get back to the house. She tore it open in the car, her hand
a simpl
on Foster):
es Foster):
ly Foster):
ned down to t
her (John Doe
ed at the
they teach in high school biology, screamed the answer at her. Two parents with A and O blood types cou
ntifically
't thei
wave of something cold and hollow washed over her. Disappointment. It was
ntment came a different feeli
resemblance was a trick of the light, a projection of her own desperate desire for a
is is Chloe Foster. You can cancel the full DNA
, the kids swarme
son asked, his eyes search
g for the hope she was about to extinguish. "No, sweetie, he's not," she said ge
specially Miles and Lily's. But Mason, ever the pragma
anged. The intense, personal fear was gone, replaced by professional concern. He was no longer a mystery tied to her trauma; he w
de, sponging his forehead with a cool cloth, administering medication. In his fevered ramblings, sh
ver had broken. He
t and a promise of pizza for dinner and drove to a large department store in the next town over. She ne
her eyes were drawn to a wall of massive flat-screen t
screen: "STERLING ENTERPRISES CEO AIDAN STERLIN
orate headshot. A man with dark hair, a s
was
ying in h
ful music, the chatter of shoppers-faded into a dull roar. She had not saved some random car crash victim. She had saved
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