Chapter 47

"Yeah. Sell it," I answered without hesitation. I used to think Steve's love for me was like that necklace—one of a kind. But Steve had changed. Our marriage had rotted from the inside out. Now, even looking at that so-called token of love felt like pure irony. Juliet sold the jewelry for me, paid my mother's medical bills, and then sent the samples from Steve and Dorothy to a well-known DNA testing center in Hevark. … Two days later, the results came back. The biological relationship between Dorothy and Steve was 99.99%. They were indeed father and daughter. I'd known this would be the result. Yet when I stared at the dense lines of text on the paternity report, memories of everything Steve and I had been through from childhood until now flashed through my mind. We used to be such a loving couple. But everything changed three years ago, the moment Dorothy was born. I was no longer the most important person in Steve's life—just someone he could cast aside without a second tho