Next to them were the official birth certificates of Lucas and Noah.

But that was not all.

The article also featured a leaked PDF of the original medical report Victoria had used.

It was stamped with a red watermark: *FALSIFIED*.

The journalist had laid out both documents side by side.

The signature of the doctor who had signed the sterility report was highlighted.

Below it was a quote from the doctor’s former assistant, admitting the records had been altered.

“Look at this,” Alexander said.

He held his screen out toward his mother.

Victoria did not look at the phone.

She didn’t need to.

Her own phone was ringing inside her purse.

“What did you do?” she whispered, looking at me.

“I didn’t do this,” I said.

“I didn’t leak anything.”

“Then who did?” Victoria demanded.

“The press has been outside my building all morning,” Alexander said.

“They must have gotten a tip from the clinic.”

“Or from someone inside our own company,” he added.

He looked at the papers in his hand again.

The public sympathy was already shifting.

I scrolled down the article on my phone.