Henry

Three Days Later

“How is this possible?”

My voice came out shaking despite my best efforts to control it. I stared down at the document in my hands, the DNA test results that David had just delivered, and felt the world tilting beneath my feet.

Subject: Celeste Monroe. Relationship to Henry Parker: No genetic match found. Probability of paternity: 0%

“She’s supposed to be my daughter,” I whispered, more to myself than to David. “I could feel it. I was so certain—”

“Sir, are you alright?” David asked.

I couldn’t answer him. Couldn’t look away from those damning words on the page. Celeste wasn’t mine. That beautiful, kind, gentle...