The silence that followed Evelyn's revelation felt alive.
Every person in the apartment seemed frozen inside the same moment.
Agent Cole.
Marcus.
Jaxon.
Me.
Even Evelyn herself.
The words lingered in the air long after she spoke them.
**The condition wasn't inherited from the Kane family.**
**It came from Rory's bloodline.**
I stared at her.
My mind struggled to process what she had just said.
Hours earlier, I had believed my biggest problem was a leaked pregnancy.
Then I discovered my father had been murdered.
Then I discovered a federal investigation was unraveling around the Titans.
Then I learned Jaxon's father had spent years secretly protecting me.
Now someone was suggesting that whatever genetic condition had haunted the Kane family wasn't actually connected to the K
