Chapter Forty-One

**Rox**

I fidgeted nervously, watching Thorne’s face descend deeper into anger while Rylan read the DNA paternity report.

“The alleged father, whose known DNA was collected from Sample A (one cigar butt), cannot be excluded as the biological father of the tested child, Sample B (one buccal swab, Roxana Vance). Based on the analysis of STR loci listed above, the probability of paternity is 99.99999