Ethan’s POV
By the time I walked into the bookstore that afternoon, I was no longer interested in guesses, coincidences, or half answers. For the past few days, I had been digging quietly into Nina’s life and every single thing I found only made me more certain that something about this situation had been hidden from me deliberately.
The reports were detailed.
Addresses, hospital visits and employment records.
Even the school documents connected to Leo.
Five years of information laid out in front of me, and somehow Julian Cross appeared everywhere around Nina’s life without ever officially belonging inside it. He paid bills sometimes, picked Leo up from school occasionally, showed up during emergencies, but there was nothing tying him legally to the child.
No birth registration conne
