Page 34 of No Turning Back
I follow his gaze to a woman in a cropped top near the monkey bars. “Yeah?”
“My client thinks she’s either sleeping with her husband or her son.”
I must make a face because he quickly adds, “Her adult son. He’s in college.”
I tilt my head. “That’s not so bad. I mean… if it’s the son and not the husband. She’s cute.”
Sam groans.
I grin. “So, what’s the news?”
“I’ve been looking into the cousin-slash-half-brother. I know he was adopted by the ADA on his mother’s case, but I haven’t tracked him down yet.” He reaches into a folder and hands me a file. “But in good news, I found the woman who approached your parents at the restaurant.”
“How?” I ask, flipping it open.
“I had to flirt with the manager to get the security footage.”
“Whore.”
“Male manager.”
“Aww.”
“Anyway,” he says, deadpan, “this woman does have a pregnant daughter. But I got a copy of the birth certificate, and there’s no father listed.”
I glance up, brows raised.
“Don’t ask me how,” Sam says, “but I also got DNA samples from both the daughter and, well… you. They’re not a match. There’s a copy of the report in there.”
My mouth falls open. I can’t even begin to imagine how he pulled that off.
Sam watches me closely. “I thought you’d be happy. It was a fraud.”
I shrug, closing the file. “I lost a husband this week. Would’ve been nice to gain a sister.”
He leans back. “What happened to… Mark, was it?”
He damn well knows it’s Markus.
“We’re getting divorced.”
Sam nods slowly. “Want me to frame him for something?”
I smile. “If you could help me find a place to live, that’d be nice enough.”
Sam takes more interest in that than I expected. “Actually,” he says, “I might have a place. If you’ve got time now, I can take you.”
I squint at him. “You’re not gonna take me somewhere and make me disappear, are you?”
He smirks. “Nah. You’re too pretty for that.”
Smiling like an idiot, I buckle up as he sets his coffee in the cup holder.
“Don’t you have to, you know…” I gesture toward the park with both thumbs.
He shakes his head. “Doubt they’ll rendezvous here.”
I smirk. “Stranger things have happened. So, what’s this place?”
