The Axis Legacy by A.J. Scudiere

Author:A.J. Scudiere [Scudiere, A.J.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Griffyn Ink

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Donovan couldn't even process his surprise. There were a number of names on the list that he didn't recognize, but the fact that there were names that he did know made it all the worse.

“Christina?” Eleri asked, almost incredulous. She took a few steps as if walking would make the pieces fit. “Christina was adopted?”

“Yes, but this isn’t just a list of people who were adopted. It’s people who were adopted through the Weatherby Agency,” Donovan said, feeling his stomach roil.

He knew that Eleri was reacting the same as he had, her thoughts tumbling as she tried to find a workaround for why this couldn’t be true.

“Christina is on the list the analysts put together of people who were adopted out as children from the Weatherby agency.”

“It was only open for just over a decade. It didn’t occur to me that we would know people who’d been there.” She looked out the window for a moment, her gaze not focusing as she muttered, “small world.”

Donovan didn’t think that was it. “Well, that’s because there are two other Weatherby agencies. Christina’s adoption wasn’t in Corcoran. The analysts found another agency in Kentucky—”

“Why does that last name look familiar?” Eleri had leaned forward, sharpening her gaze and her brain and was reading the list off his laptop.

“Because that's Noah’s father,” Donovan said.

“Noah?” She pulled out the hard chair at the little table and plopped unceremoniously down into it. The expression on her face showed that she didn't care what her body did, she just needed to let her brain turn it over for a moment.

However, Donovan had a while with the material before she came out and he was a few steps ahead of her. “We can tell Noah what we learned.”

He tossed it out like a gambit, to see how she would respond.

She didn’t move, her thoughts taking over the whole of her being.

“And Christina.”

“We can't until she checks in,” Eleri pointed out the obvious, showing she was still listening.

“You’re right. If we write back to the email she sent, it will probably compromise her.”

“I guess there's no need to tell her now. Not right now,” Eleri said. “She's either known already or hasn't for the whole of her life. A couple of weeks isn't going to make a difference.”

Donovan liked that Eleri simply assumed Christina would be back in touch within a couple of weeks. That this would all just blow over. He wasn't sure he assumed the same.

“But with Noah . . . it was his parents who came from the Weatherby Agency?” She jumped back in, still trying to put the pieces into their right places. Donovan wasn’t sure there were right places for this kind of shit information.

“Let's ignore that we know some of these people right now.” It was a decision he’d come to while she showered. What would be the best way to break it to them? Should he and Eleri even be the ones to do so? He didn’t think he was really qualified to give that kind of news.

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