“No.”
“Does Tom?”
“Yes. We agreed not to tell Ellie anything until we have confirmation.”
I looked at the report again.
“Are these results certain?”
Nora shook her head.
“They’re preliminary. They want another independent test and a complete review of the hospital records.”
I exhaled shakily.
“Then we don’t know for sure.”
“No,”
she admitted. “Not yet.”
I looked at her.
“How could this happen?”
“We don’t know.”
“Who told the adoption agency that her parents couldn’t be identified?”
“That’s being investigated.”
“And who told me Lucy had died?”
Nora had no answer.
The room seemed to spin.
I wanted to believe the report.
More than anything in the world.
