Chapter 189

Calvin's POV The envelope trembled in my hands as I stared at the test results. My heart hammered against my ribcage while my vision blurred with tears. "DNA PATERNITY TEST RESULTS: 99.9999% PROBABILITY OF PATERNITY" I collapsed onto the leather sofa, the paper clutched to my chest. Alexis was mine. My daughter. My flesh and blood. "She's mine," I whispered, my voice breaking. "She's actually mine." Cyra roared within me, a sound of both triumph and anguish. "Our cub. Our daughter. We missed everything." Counting back from Alexis's birth date, the truth hit me like a physical blow. Evelyn had been pregnant when she left me. When I had rejected her. When she had stood before me with tears in her eyes. My God. She had been carrying my child while my mother desperately pushed Clara to be my Luna. The memory of the security footage from that day crashed through my mind. Evelyn, alone, dragging her suitcases through the pack house. How she had paused in the foyer, one hand pressed to her st