Vivienne's POV
I sat with it for a long time after Ella put the phone down.
Not the phone call version of the phone down. The actual version. She had ended the call and then looked at me across the table and I had looked back at her and we had sat in the specific quiet of two people who had just arrived somewhere significant and needed a moment before the next thing.
The coffee had gone cold.
Outside the city was doing its morning.
I looked at the table.
At the formal paternity claim still sitting where Charles had put it yesterday.
And I thought.
....
Identical twins.
It was the kind of thing you knew in the abstract. A fact about biology that lived in the general knowledge section of your mind alongside other facts that you had absorbed somewhere along the way without particula
