Chapter 49

He handed me a file—just a few thin pages of paper, the header bearing the name of a paternity testing lab. I flipped past the first two pages. It was a paternity test report. The subjects listed were Gideon and a four-year-old boy named Milo. The conclusion section was stamped with a line of bold black text: "Based on the available data and genetic analysis, Gideon is not the biological father of Milo." The report was dated the day before yesterday. "Gideon personally picked up the results...