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David Bedwen stared at his drawer, the one that contained the blood test he did months ago, when he suspected Dana. The one that said she wasn't his blood relative.
He'd confronted Claire, his daughter, about it, figuring out she was her husband's daughter. Except she wasn't his son-in-law's daughter, either. That comment Dana made meant something different with the background information he knew.
She really was a princess, an Yllamese princess.
And knowledge of her real parentage could destroy his family. If he revealed these documents to her — despite Claire's wishes — he could get her to disappear from his family.
He was an Inquisitor (there's no such thing as an ex-Inquisitor: members of families like that always used to return to the family trade). Even without mental magic, h
