11
Reine
I followed Micah out of the room, which was the last thing I wanted to do. My head swirled with questions and the many secrets I found myself having to keep from Agnes. Ugh, why wouldn’t she accept me? She didn’t need to like me. I could argue that I’d never cared what people thought of me, but I now questioned the reason for that.
Micah’s deep voice gently plucked me from my mental tornado. “Penny for your thoughts, Doctor River?”
I smiled up at him. “Oh, you know, there’s been a lot to take in this morning.” Now that I knew of the genetic relation, I couldn’t help but notice the resemblance and differences between him and Lawrence. They both had the same wavy dark hair and stone-gray eyes, but Lawrence’s face was more chiseled, his bone structure more pronounced, especially
