“What does Camille have to do with this?”
His mother didn’t answer immediately.
Then she said:
“Ask Tessa who the boys’ doctor was the night they were born.”
Grant looked at Tessa.
She was already crying.
“Why?” he whispered.
His mother finally said:
“Because that’s when everything changed.”
The call ended.
Grant turned to Tessa.
“What happened at the hospital?”
Tessa’s hands began shaking.
“I was going to tell you.”
“Tell me now.”
She looked at the four boys.
Then she whispered:
“Grant… you weren’t supposed to be their father.”
Grant stared at her.
“What are you talking about?”
Tessa swallowed.
“The doctor told me there had been a mistake.”
Grant’s heart stopped.
“A mistake?”
She nodded.
“The hospital records were changed.”
“Why?”
Tessa looked directly into his eyes.
“Because someone wanted your mother to believe those boys weren’t yours.”
Grant felt the room spinning.
“Who?”
Tessa opened the envelope again and pulled out one final photograph.
It showed a young doctor standing beside Tessa’s hospital bed.
Grant recognized him immediately.
He was the same doctor who had treated Grant’s mother for years.
But that wasn’t the shocking part.
Written on the back of the photograph was a single sentence:
Your mother paid him to change the DNA results.
Grant looked at the four boys.
Then at Tessa.
Then back at the photograph.
For six years, he had believed his mother had protected his future.
Instead, she had stolen his past.
And now Grant had only one question left:
If she had gone this far to hide his sons… what was she so terrified they would eventually discover?
