PART 2: THE REVELATION ON THE SCREEN
Leo slid his phone across the kitchen table, the bright screen reflecting off the glossy surface between us.
My heart hammered against my ribs as I looked down at the official notification from a prominent genetic genealogy website.
Instead of the empty profile or distant cousin matches I had expected, a bold 99.9% parent-child match sat at the top of the page.
The name associated with the profile wasn’t my high school sweetheart, Marcus, who had vanished eighteen years ago.
It was the name of Marcus’s older brother, Julian—the very man who had helped me pay for diapers and rent during my hardest years.
(The dark secret behind his disappearance is about to surface! Click “Next Page” to continue reading…)
