I showed Adrian the message in the car.
He read it. Read it again. Then he placed my phone very carefully on the seat between us with the precise deliberateness of a man managing his hands because what they wanted to do was something else entirely.
"They're going after the pregnancy," I said.
"Yes." His voice was even. The evenness that cost him something. "They can't win on the evidence. They know it. So they're going after the one thing that has nothing to do with the evidence and everything to do with making this look like something it isn't."
He looked straight ahead. "A paternity motion in a federal proceeding is procedurally weak; the court has no compelling interest in compelling a paternity test for a civil or even criminal matter where parentage isn't at issue. Reyes will arg
