# MINE IN EVERY LIFETIME
## Chapter Twenty — *Edmund*
The man in the doorway was not what she expected.
She had built a picture in her head during that phone call. During the two minutes of silence before she dialed. During twenty two years of not knowing.
She had expected someone who looked like power. Someone who looked like the man who had loved Clara Voss enough to disappear for her daughter.
He looked like a man who had been living carefully for twelve years.
Thin. Grey at the temples. Eyes that were the same color as Caius's which was the first thing she noticed and the thing that made everything real in a way the phone call had not quite managed.
He stopped in the doorway.
He looked at her.
She looked at him.
Neither of them moved.
Then Caius said very quietly from beside
