~Caden's POV~ Rhys arrives without knocking, which is his established method when the thing he is carrying cannot wait for the formality of a knock. He sets a piece of paper on the desk, not the medical document, not Conrad's reports, something he has clearly written himself, and he stands with it between them and says: "She's had them by now." Caden reads the paper. It is arithmetic. Clean, simple, undeniable. Fourteen weeks at the rejection. Standard twin gestation. Rhys has written it out in the spare notation of a man who does not enjoy what he is demonstrating but believes the demonstration is necessary; gestational weeks, approximate birth window, the resulting date range that places the birth between six and ten weeks ago. He has known this. This is the thing about Rhys's four

