Fifty-Four

ELLIOT'S POV

"They are mine," I said to myself as I drove home.

My suspicions were confirmed as I had already seen what I had set out to see. There was no question of a mistake. Finn and Freya were mine. I had been such a blind fool not to have noticed it before.

I had gone to the house just to see the kids and to clear my doubts. I had seen them several times before, of course. I was even physically closer to them than I had ever been when I had taken them home after they had been kidnapped.

Then, I had mostly been in shock after getting information that I was a father and that I had barely given them much attention. This time, I had been calmer and more observant. I saw that they both had my thick dark hair and my blue eyes.

When I squatted in front of Freya, I could see a ghost of my own smile on her lips. The timing was right too. Zora had given birth to them some months after we parted ways.

The knowledge had hurt me more than I thought it would. I had not been present in th