He did not answer directly, and instead he warned me about speaking to detectives, which told me more than any confession could have.
Later that night I found an old parking receipt from the hospital dated the night Mason died, and it showed Ryan’s car was still there long after he claimed he had left.
The next morning I brought it to the police, and they pulled surveillance footage showing Ryan meeting Brooke in a stairwell shortly before the poisoning.
When detectives questioned him, he claimed he had forgotten the meeting, and when they showed him the footage of Brooke in the NICU, his reaction was not shock but something closer to resignation.
I watched through the glass and realized he was not discovering the truth, he was recognizing it.
The investigation uncovered an affair between Ryan and Brooke that began while I was pregnant, along with emails where she suggested Mason might not be his child and implied his life would be ruined if the baby survived.
They also found evidence that hospital records had been altered, including a deleted toxicology order and falsified genetic reports.