"The DNA."
"Yes."
I set my tea down. "What does Emory know? Right now, today."
"He knows the marker was found. He knows a sample has been submitted for comparison." Eleanor's eyes stayed on mine. "He does not know about the lab breach. I learned that from Okafor this morning and I haven't told him yet because I wanted to speak to you first." A pause. "He also doesn't know that Dax is involved."
I went very still.
"He doesn't know," I said carefully, "that the woman who may be his daughter is living with Dax Wolfe."
"No."
"Why not?"
Eleanor was quiet for a moment. When she spoke, it was with the specific weight of someone saying something they have been turning over for weeks.
"Because Emory Vane and the Wolfe family have a history," she said. "Not a hostile one. A complicated one.
