She gently covered the babies’ heads with her hands to shield them from the dust cloud and then picked up her bag of cans before continuing down the road without speaking.
Theodore felt something inside his chest tearing apart.
He wanted to run after her and beg for forgiveness yet Brianna kept talking loudly beside him, filling the car with her poisonous voice, and in that moment Theodore realized that if he confronted her immediately without evidence she would simply destroy every trace of the truth.
So he drove away while silently swearing that he would uncover everything.
He dropped Brianna at an expensive fashion boutique in Beverly Hills later that afternoon and he never returned home afterward. Instead he drove directly to the headquarters of his company in downtown Los Angeles where he occupied the top floor of the Callahan Tower. Once inside his office he locked the door and contacted the only person he trusted to investigate sensitive matters.
His name was Victor Delgado, a former federal investigator who now worked privately.