Before Lucy arrived at Tom's office, Eric was given strict instructions by Tom to hold his calls and not to let anyone in apart from Lucy and Harry until he was instructed otherwise.
Lucy now stood behind Tom, with her hands on his shoulder as she leaned forward, both holding their breaths to see what the result was after he had downloaded it.
They both felt like students awaiting an admission result into a school of their choice or someone being handed the prognosis of a terminal disease.
"It won't click on itself. Go on and click on it, let's see," Lucy urged Tom, and he shut his eyes as he tapped on the document.
When Lucy gasped softly, he opened his eyes and felt like his heart was going to explode when he saw the test result.
Dawn was not his daughter.
Even though they had both been hoping for it, they still were stunned by the result, and neither of them said a word.
