“I need you to find out everything about Gabrielle Sutton,” Theodore said once the secure line connected. “Where she has been living, how she survived this past year, and who those babies are although I believe I already know the answer.”
He paused before continuing. “I also want a complete investigation into my divorce. Examine the transfers, the photographs, and the necklace. I want proof of every lie.”
Victor answered calmly. “Give me forty eight hours.”
Those two days became the longest hours of Theodore’s life because he barely slept or ate while the image of Gabrielle walking along the dusty road with the babies replayed endlessly in his mind.
On the second evening Victor finally arrived carrying a thick folder.
“I found everything,” he said.
The investigation began with birth certificates from a rural clinic in Texas. Two boys had been born prematurely to Gabrielle Sutton while she suffered from severe malnutrition. The children were named Dylan and Parker Sutton. The date of conception matched perfectly with the final month Theodore and Gabrielle had still been living together.