35
Emery
“There’s one thing I don’t understand,” I said as we left the lawyer’s office behind.
“Just one?” Jensen asked.
“Well, probably a lot of things but one in particular.”
“What’s that?”
“Why didn’t you ever get a paternity test done?”
“You mean…if I thought that Colton was Marc’s all along, why didn’t I confirm it?”
“Yes.”
That had been bugging me from the start. He had just let that stand without confirmation. It would have driven me crazy.
“For a couple reasons. Proof could have only hurt me. Proof could have taken him away. Proof could have shattered our reality. If I got a paternity test, and it said, as I suspect it will in a couple days, that Colton is Marc’s son, then I could lose him. But if I never got one done, then Vanessa only had the threat to hang over my head
