Divorced by Dawn, Queen by Dusk — Book Two: The Blood Crown
Chapter Four: Architect of Heirs
Tyler ran the full genetic panel overnight.
He used three independent labs — the same protocol Lila had used for her own paternity tests, the standard she had set during the Sophia DNA fraud incident when one lab had been insufficient. By six the next morning he had results from two of the three, and both said the same thing, and by the time the third result arrived at eight he called her not with the news but with the silence that preceded it, the silence that said: I have something and I've decided how to deliver it and I'm still adjusting the delivery.
"Say it," she told him.
"Damian is the biological father," he said. "That part holds. But the maternal line—" He paused. "Sophia Lang shares
