Page 110 of Missing Justice
A gasp exploded. “Are you kidding?”
“Nope. He’s standing right next to you, babe.”
Her eyes turned into saucers and Matt cracked up. “Special Agent Sinclair, meet Matt Stephens, Sr.”
She dropped her hands, made a show of throwing her shoulders back and held her hand out. “Sir, so nice to meet you. I apologize for my rudeness.”
“Didn’t seem rude to me. Hell, I was hoping I was next.”
“Dad,” Matt said. “Shut. It.”
Taylor ran her hands through her hair, attempting to straighten the windblown tangles. God, he was crazy about her.
“I’m glad I caught you,” she said. “You need to come with me.”
“Where?”
“Press conference.”
“Honey,” Dad said, “my son got shot last night. He’s going home.”
Taylor, being Taylor, ignored him and her face lit up again. “We found him.”
“The baby?”
“Yes! Baby Jarvis.”
“No way.”
What the hell was wrong with him? Could he not manage more than a one or two word sentence?
“Yes way. After I left here, I hightailed it to Ros’s apartment. That filing cabinet we saw when we were there? Total treasure trove. I told them not to touch it until I got there and we went through every damned file. She’s got stuff in there from ten years ago.”
“Taylor?”
“Yes.”
“Baby Jarvis?”
“Right. Sorry. By the time I got to the last drawer of files I was losing hope and then—voila—I found a file dated six weeks after Felicity went missing. Inside was a birth certificate. Beck and Teeg ran the names of the biological parents. Guess what?”
Matt rolled his eyes. Seriously? She wanted to play games right now? “What?”
“Dead.”
“Just like the other birth certificate.”
“Yep. And there’s more. The bottom drawer had a binder in it. Each page had photos of couples and all kinds of interesting information. Income, family history, the works. It’s a damned catalog of upper crust parents.”
In two minutes, she brought him up to speed on what had happened overnight with Rosalind, Dottie, Glaw, and Kristina. “We even found the scalpel Glaw used on Felicity at his place. They’re all going down and we now know who has James—the name Ros gave Walt’s son.”
“What’s this press conference about?”
“The director is going to update the media on the Jarvis case and what we discovered about Ros’s illegal adoptions. I told Mer you had to be there.”
“She must have loved that.”
Taylor waved that off. “Ask me if I care? You worked this case longer and harder than everyone. You deserve the credit.”
