RAPHAEL The test result is on the corner of my desk,I hadn't touched it. I walked to the window, came back, sat down, stood up again, walked to the window a second time, and the numbers on that paper didn't change no matter how many times I looked away from them. 99 percent? How? I pressed both hands flat on the desk and stared at it. Eli had my eyes. I noticed it weeks ago and told myself it was nothing, told myself dark brown eyes were common, told myself I was reading into things that weren't there because the alternative was something I couldn't even begin to wrap my head around. But then the birthmark. That specific crescent shape, that same spot, I had carried that mark my entire life and I had never met another person who had it in the same location until I pushed b

