The hospital was efficient when it needed to be, and Julian made sure it needed to be. He knew how to walk into a room and compress the timeline of things.
Within the hour, the DNA samples had been taken, Julian's own, a sample he had brought of Josh's, and a reference sample for baby Divina taken from the item his investigator had collected weeks ago for exactly this purpose.
Then they waited.
Yvette sat beside him in the private waiting area with her legs crossed and her bag in her lap, unusually quiet for a woman who was rarely quiet. She watched the wall. She watched the door. She watched Julian, who sat with his elbows on his knees and his eyes focused on something she couldn't see.
The results came back faster than standard. Julian had made sure of that too.
He read them first. He sat with the paper for a moment. Just a moment. Let it settle into certainty. Baby Divina and Yvette's daughter were a match. Siblings. Same mother.
