Chapter 14 - SAMUEL VALE LEFT A LETTER TOOAmong Adrian’s papers was a letter from Samuel.
Written shortly before his death.
Addressed to Elaine.
Not Grant.
Samuel wrote:
Tell him when he is old enough.
Elaine never did.
Then:
Richard may be his legal father, but Grant deserves to know where his body came from.
That sentence made Grant angry.
Not because Samuel claimed him.
Because every adult knew except him.
Samuel also wrote:
Do not let Adrian turn this into one of his bloodline theories. He talks as if genetics are destiny. They are not.
That stopped everyone.
Samuel had warned her.
Decades earlier.
Adrian had already been obsessed with genetic continuity.
Elaine had dismissed it as eccentricity.
Then years later she chose Adrian’s clinic for Grant and me.
Why?
Familiarity.
Prestige.
May you like
And maybe some unconscious loyalty to the family secret.
Her silence helped put us directly in Adrian’s path.
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