Chapter 75
“I see the leverage you have over me,” John finally managed to say. “Let’s imagine I do decide to do this. How can I know we’re safe then?”
“Several ways. If you help us figure out which embryos are the right ones, we can use either cloning or surrogates to make all the heirs we need. We’d have no need to bother you and your family.”
“Go on.”
“We’re not the only ones watching Branwen,” the doctor said. “You have no idea what’s going on around her. Quick as you are, by the time you figured it out you’d be too late. We can protect her, and you, from the rest of them.”
“So we would never be free of you,” John said, certain he knew who Faolin was talking about.
The priest. It had to be. Father Simmons had known about all of this back when Hugh and Carolyn married, and his inte
