were still in neonatal care.
Through her connection with Dr. Vance, she had obtained discarded biological samples and arranged private testing.
She claimed she wanted certainty before telling Alex anything.
The results came back.
All four children were connected to the Vance family.
They were Alex’s.
And Beatrice still said nothing.
For five years.
Alex’s voice cracked.
“Why?”
His mother looked down.
“Because by then I had already gone too far.”
She admitted that revealing the truth would also expose everything she had done.
Alex would know she intercepted the
