Difficult Choices

Chapter 87

James stood his face wide concerning the bomb Chloe had just dropped on him. Not his daughter, Ava? It felt like a bad dream.

"You lie," he said, shaking. "This can't be true."

Chloe's smirk stretched even further apart. "Oh, but it is, James. The result shows that indeed, your darling little girl isn't from you after all."

James felt his stomach turn. He looked again, hoping to find anything at all that could prove all of this to be some sort of silly mistake. The further he read, the more and more real it became.

"How?" he managed to finally ask. "How is this possible?"

Chloe shrugged again as if she could have been bored. "Does it really matter? The real fact is, that Ava isn't your real daughter. And I'm sure the press would love every last detail of it."

James's head snapped up. "You wouldn't dare," he growled.

"Try me," Chloe shot back. "I have nothing to lose, James. You, on the other hand…" She let the sentence hang in the air.

James's mind ran wild with thoughts of