Chapter 54

• CLAIRE LEBLANC
• I was sitting at the kitchen table, my trembling hands holding a cup of tea that had long since gone cold. My gaze was fixed on the window, but my mind was elsewhere. Soon, I would have the answer I so feared. The doubt about the baby’s paternity was becoming an unbearable burden, eating away at every part of me, depriving me of sleepless nights and any trace of peace.
• Alexis was in the living room, talking on the phone with a client, always kind, always calm, but I knew that inside, he was suffering too. He didn’t say it, but I could see it in his eyes. The uncertainty about the baby was casting a shadow over us, over the future we wanted to build together. We needed the truth, and I knew that only the DNA test could bring that.