Chapter 10 - HOW MARGARET GOT SOPHIE’S DNAMargaret finally admitted collecting Sophie’s sample.
She called it:
“Family genealogy.”
When Sophie was fourteen months old, Margaret had bought several consumer DNA kits.
She swabbed herself.
Asked Daniel.
He refused because he hated genetic-data companies.
Robert already had an older genealogy profile created years before his death through a different service.
Margaret retained access to his account.
Then she swabbed Sophie.
Without asking me.
She told the toddler they were “doing a family tree.”
A private kinship-testing service later accepted exported genetic data and a fresh cheek sample for an informal grandparent analysis.
Not court-quality.
Not medically necessary.
Still enough to frighten her.
The result excluded Robert as Sophie’s biological grandfather.
“What did you think?”
Her attorney advised her not to answer initially.
Months later, during civil discovery, she did.
“I thought Claire had lied.”
Only that?
I did not believe her.
Neither did Daniel.
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Because Margaret knew one fact the laboratory did not.
She knew what had happened around the time Daniel was conceived.
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