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.
“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.
Victor then revealed the digital evidence proving that the bank transfers had been created through a cloned network connected to Brianna’s personal phone. The photographs of Gabrielle with another man had been staged using a struggling actor Brianna hired to pose with her at a hotel entrance. The diamond necklace had been secretly planted in Gabrielle’s luggage by a housekeeper who later confessed she was bribed.
Victor then placed another photograph on the desk.