000.
My supposed electronic signature appeared on it.
I had signed nothing.
Then I found the strangest email.
It came from Tyler’s airline benefits department.
DEPENDENT STATUS CHANGE CONFIRMED.
Mason had been removed from Tyler’s benefits six weeks earlier.
A different child had been added.
Elliot Cole.
Age five.
Vanessa’s son.
I stared at the screen.
Tyler hadn’t simply been having an affair.
He had been quietly replacing his family.
But the final attachment changed everything.
Elliot’s birth certificate listed his father as unknown.
Yet Tyler had submitted a private DNA report to the airline.
Probability of paternity: 99.99%.
The test was dated five years earlier.
Meaning Tyler had known about Elliot almost our entire marriage.
When the cockpit door finally opened, Tyler walked into the terminal holding Vanessa’s hand.
Then he saw Mason.
His face went completely white.
“Claire?”
Vanessa stopped beside him.
She looked at my son
