Page 452 of Black Reign

Across the table, Jade is already asking Sabine what I was like when she discovered Ghost was me.

I catch only part of the answer.

“...thought he might be Leo's father.”

Leo chokes on wine.

I turn.

“What?”

Sabine's eyes widen.

The women start laughing.

“Nothing.”

“What did you say?”

Hannah is covering her mouth.

Stella has tears in her eyes.

Jade looks delighted.

“Sabine briefly thought Ghost might be Leo's divorced father.”

I stare at my wife.

She looks guilty.

“It was a working theory.”

Drew falls sideways against Isa.

I close my eyes.

“Why?”

“Age profile.”

“I was in my twenties.”

“I did not know that.”

“The photographs.”

“Men lie.”

“You had photographs of me.”

“Fragments.”

Drew wipes his eyes.

“Blackwell, she thought she was cyber-dating somebody's dad.”

“Stop.”