POV: Lewis | Location: Edinburgh
Marcus had deleted the original.
But Lewis had read it.
He sat in the George Street office at nine PM with the city going quiet outside and the four sentences running on a loop the way things ran when you couldn't unknow them.
Subject gave birth this morning at the Royal Infirmary Edinburgh. Female infant. Birth registered under the name Rose Elaine Hart-Sterling. Father listed on the birth certificate: Lewis Andrew Sterling.
He had a daughter.
Born this morning. Named. His name on the certificate — Yessica had put his name on it without telling him, without any agreement, without anything from him except a text that arrived while she was in labour and which she had read at four fifty-seven PM and replied to with one word.
Noted.
He looked at the Ed
