Silence. Then Priya, the group’s quietest member, spoke up. “That changes everything. Two type A parents can have a type O child. But an A and an AB cannot produce a type O child. Ever.”
Leo frowned. “But what if the old record is wrong? Blood typing isn’t perfect. Or what if Ana’s type changed? No—that doesn’t happen. Or what if—” He stopped. “Wait. What if Julian knows that? What if he’s counting on us not checking Ana’s historical type?”
Maya tapped the tray. “So we need to test Julian’s actual blood against Ana’s archived sample and the father’s hypotheticals. But the family won’t release the father’s info.”
Carlos was type A (AO)—so he could have been Julian’s father biologically, but the timing was wrong. The real shock came when Marco secretly submitted a DNA test: he and Julian shared a Y-chromosome marker that Carlos didn’t have. Julian’s father was not a stranger—he was Carlos’s own brother, long presumed dead, who had a brief relationship with Ana before she married.
“But that’s not the only clue,” Dr. Reeves added. “Carlos’s blood type was confirmed type A—but Ana’s medical record from decades ago shows she was typed as type AB.”
“If Julian is truly Ana’s son,” Maya said slowly, “and Ana was AB at the time of his birth, Julian cannot be type O.”
“Found in the estate papers,” she said. “Turns out Ana wasn’t AB at all. She was O negative her whole life. The AB was a transcription error made decades ago.”
Silence. Then Priya, the group’s quietest member, spoke up. “That changes everything. Two type A parents can have a type O child. But an A and an AB cannot produce a type O child. Ever.”
Leo frowned. “But what if the old record is wrong? Blood typing isn’t perfect. Or what if Ana’s type changed? No—that doesn’t happen. Or what if—” He stopped. “Wait. What if Julian knows that? What if he’s counting on us not checking Ana’s historical type?”
Maya tapped the tray. “So we need to test Julian’s actual blood against Ana’s archived sample and the father’s hypotheticals. But the family won’t release the father’s info.”
Carlos was type A (AO)—so he could have been Julian’s father biologically, but the timing was wrong. The real shock came when Marco secretly submitted a DNA test: he and Julian shared a Y-chromosome marker that Carlos didn’t have. Julian’s father was not a stranger—he was Carlos’s own brother, long presumed dead, who had a brief relationship with Ana before she married.
“But that’s not the only clue,” Dr. Reeves added. “Carlos’s blood type was confirmed type A—but Ana’s medical record from decades ago shows she was typed as type AB.”
“If Julian is truly Ana’s son,” Maya said slowly, “and Ana was AB at the time of his birth, Julian cannot be type O.”
“Found in the estate papers,” she said. “Turns out Ana wasn’t AB at all. She was O negative her whole life. The AB was a transcription error made decades ago.”
