“Our?”
“Mine and Simone’s.”
“Did you tell Simone you wondered whether the switch was fate?”
Darius’s face reddened.
“Yes.”
The room blurred.
Rachel waited.
Then asked the question that changed everything.
“Mr.
Reed, by that point, you possessed evidence suggesting Simone herself may have intentionally caused the switch.
Correct?”
He swallowed.
“Yes.”
“Yet rather than tell your wife, report Simone, or contact authorities, you took Simone and your biological daughter to Miami and discussed whether you and Simone might belong together.”
Darius’s attorney objected again.
Rachel ignored him.
“Why?”
Darius looked at me.
And finally told the truth.
“Because I didn’t want the investigation to take Leah away.”
I frowned.
“What?”
His eyes filled.
“If Simone had done it, she could be arrested.
Leah would lose the only mother she knew.
Then everything would become a legal disaster.”
“It already was.”
“I know.”
“No.
You don’t.”
