Chapter 136RAMONBut that didn't feel true. Lake had been fourteen. A child. And I'd been twenty. An adult. Even drugged, even confused, I should have known better. Should have recognized that he was too young, too vulnerable.If I'd hurt Lake that night, even unintentionally—I didn't know how I'd live with that knowledge.A nurse knocked and entered with the testing kit. Rhodes took it and turned to me. "This won't hurt. Just a quick swab of your cheek, and then I'll do the same with Ollie."I opened my mouth and let Rhodes swab the inside of my cheek, the cotton feeling strange and invasive. He sealed the sample in a tube, labeled it carefully, then stood."I'll go get Ollie's sample now. Marcus, can you arrange for these to be sent to the lab? Mark them urgent, priority processing.""On it," Marcus said, taking the tubes.Rhodes left, and I sat there in his office, surrounded by my brothers and my security team, trying to process the possibility that my entire life was about to ch
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