**Agent Martinez's POV**
The Blake Matthew interview had ended twenty minutes ago, and I was still staring at the stack of illegally obtained evidence he'd handed over. Medical records, financial documents, surveillance footage—enough to put Wakes Savage away for decades, if any of it could be used in court.
Which it couldn't.
"Fruit of the poisonous tree," Assistant U.S. Attorney David Chen said from across my desk, echoing my own thoughts. "Everything they touched is contaminated. We can't use any of it directly."
I picked up the ultrasound image from Aloe Savage's medical file—eight weeks, two days, according to Dr. Chen's notes. A baby who would either grow up visiting their father in federal prison or watching their mother waste away in a gilded cage.
"What about parallel constru
