Chapter 128

Rhodes POV

“Tell him I’ll be out in a moment,” I said. “I need to check on Troy first, and then I’ll speak with him.”

The nurse nodded and left, and I stood there alone with Ollie for a moment, trying to figure out how I was going to explain this situation to Lake. To Ramon.

AB negative.

The blood type didn’t lie. But it raised so many questions. Questions about Ollie’s parentage, about Lake’s past, about who had fathered this child and why Lake had never mentioned it.

Or maybe Lake didn’t know. Maybe in all the trauma and chaos of giving birth at fourteen, of raising a child while running from Samuel, Lake had never thought to question the biology. Had just assumed Samuel was the father because—because why? Because Samuel had told him he was? Because it was easier than confronting other possibilities?

I needed to talk to Ramon first. Before I talked to Lake, before I said anything to anyone else, I needed to tell my brother what I’d discov