Page 67 of Wilde In His Arms

“You are facing multiple counts.And we’re sure this isn’t your first offense.What will we find when we go through your phone records, your laptop at home and at work, and start talking to your contacts?We’ve just begun.”

“You don’t know that Mr.David ever saw the child who was hurt.”

Mason growled under his breath.“The child identified him in a photo lineup.He’s prepared to do it again in person if your client requests it.”

“Will I get to see him?”Gilbert’s too anxious and excited question made Nick want to punch him in the face.

“No,” he and Mason snapped at the same time.

“But I want to talk to him.To explain why we can’t see each other anymore.”

It took everything Nick had not to pull his gun and shoot the fucker.Instead of talking to the dickhead, he turned to the lawyer.“Advise your client that when he says shit like that, I feel less inclined to take things off the table and not just throw the book at him.”

“Toby is special.”Gilbert, at six feet, one hundred and seventy pounds, almost looked like a child himself when he said that.But he was an adult, talking about a child he’d abused over and over again.

Nick slammed his hand on the table.“Don’t ever say his name again.”

The lawyer turned to his client.“You’re just helping them convict you.”

Gilbert finally seemed to be coming to terms with what he faced.“It’s over.I’m ruined.”He looked to Nick.“You’re not going to tell my wife, are you?”

“I think she’s going to find out when you don’t come home tonight and you’re in prison.”

Tears welled in his eyes.“She’ll never let me see my kids again.”

“I’d worry more about the damage this is going to do to your kids when the FBI interviews them about what you did to them.”

His back hit the chair as he scoffed.“I would never hurt my kids.I love them.”

“So it’s just other people’s kids you want to ruin and harm and steal their childhoods from.”Nick sneered, disgusted by this so-called man.

“I cared for them.I loved them.”

Not just Toby, butthem.

“Gilbert, please, stop talking.”The lawyer looked stricken that his client had just copped to hurting more than just Toby.There were more.

Them.

How many?

He hoped they all came forward once Gilbert David was outed as a pedophile.

Nick stood and stared down at the lawyer.“Get your client to cooperate and write down what he knows.Because it is over.We aren’t going to stop until we find every single one of his victims.”

Gilbert laid his head on his arms on the table and broke down crying.

Nick had zero sympathy.

Mason even less it seemed as he spat out, “You’re a pathetic excuse for a man, let alone a father.”

Nick walked out of the room, hoping he’d done enough to get Gilbert to cooperate so that he didn’t have to bring in Toby to ID the guy in person.He didn’t want to put the little guy through that.Toby deserved to put this whole thing behind him.But Nick knew it was going to be a long road to get justice for him and the girls.

Chapter twenty-six

Nickclickedthevideocall through to Aria and waited for her to pick up.The second he saw her face, he smiled.

“Did you talk to her?”

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