Chapter 2: Someone in This Family
Part 2 ⬇️
The baby had a large birthmark on her back.
Dark, irregular, spreading across her left shoulder blade.
Ryan was shaking.
"That mark," he whispered.
"I've seen it before."
"What are you talking about?" Melissa grabbed his arm.
"Ryan, she's a newborn.
It's just a birthmark."
"It's not just a birthmark." His voice dropped so low I had to lean in to hear him.
"My father had that exact mark.
In the exact same place."
The room went completely still.
"Your father has been d*ad for twelve years," I said.
"I know." Ryan looked at me, and his eyes were filled with something I'd never seen in them before.
Not grief.
Not shock.
Fear.
"That mark only appears in one bloodline," he said.
"And it skips generations.
My grandfather had it.
My father had it.
I don't have it." He paused.
"But someone in this family does."
Melissa had stopped crying.
She was staring at Ryan with an expression I couldn't read.
"Ryan," she said quietly.
"What are you saying?"
He didn't answer her.
He looked at me instead.
And the way he looked at me made my bl00d run c0ld.
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What Ryan said next tore this family apart.
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