Not Dying for Her Lie Again novel · Chapter 21 of 24

Chapter 21: Whose Child

Carson's thumb shook as he opened the email.

He read it to himself first, and his lips moved.

"Read it out loud," said the board chair.

"Probability of paternity," Carson said. His voice cracked. "Ninety-nine point nine nine percent."

Nobody spoke.

"That's me," he said, and for a moment he looked like a boy who had won a prize at a fair. "It's mine. I told you all it was mine."

Then he looked down at the woman sitting on the tar in her ruined white dress, with a paramedic's blanket around her shoulders.

He looked at the seven men standing around her.

I watched the prize turn into a bill.

"Delaney," he said slowly. "You said nobody but me."

"I did," she whispered.

"You've been with a hockey player, a hotelier, and a man whose wife is standing right there."

"They don't matter. I wanted you."

"You wanted my name."

"Carson."

"You're going to be the mother of my child for the rest of my life," he said, in a flat, dazed voice. "And I know exactly who you are."

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