Undeniable Proof

Heart pounding, she peeled the envelope open millimeter by millimeter. The stiff report sheet slid free, its sterile weight somehow heavier than stone.

Bold text near the top read: Findings support full-sibling relationship. Probability of a brother-sister relation more than or equal to ninety-percent.

She had told herself again and again that Silas could very well be Kieran, yet the finality of p