Paternity Test

Clara

I stood completely frozen, the summer courtyard spinning as those four fatal words slammed into my chest. *Leo's mine, isn't he?* The air instantly evaporated from my lungs.

How had he arrived at that? Where exactly had my cover cracked? Pure terror threatened to buckle my knees right there on the manicured grass. But the sheer, blinding instinct of a mother fighting for her child's surviv