Cedric Grant froze, seemingly not expecting the usually gentle Skylar Hayes to be so sharp.
"I admit it, we were wrong for the twenty-odd years that followed. But we never truly meant to hurt you. At the time, I didn't know what had been done to you... so I had no reason to hurt you on purpose."
"Besides, Jean was the first one to find you. Your clothes were a mess when she did. She was suspicious, but she didn't say much about it, and she never mentioned it to me again afterward."
"It wasn't until a year ago, when by a strange twist of fate I had a paternity test done with Clara, that I discovered she wasn't my biological daughter. That was when Jean finally recalled why your clothes were in such a state when she found you all those years ago..."
"If Jean had really wanted to hurt you, she could have easily voiced her suspicions more than twenty years ago."
"And she and Chloe wouldn't have been left to wander for over twenty years."
