Theo was twenty-five when he discovered something that would change his life -- his adoption certificate, with any information about his birthmother other than her given names, Lilliana Nichole, blacked out. His father is dead and his mother away on business, so he can't ask them why they hadn't told him he was adopted ... and why the certificate had been defaced. He decides his only recourse is to hire a private detective agency to search for Lilliana.<br><br>It doesn't take long for Ric Baron of Moore Investigations to determine that locating Lilliana might be impossible. But he's more than willing to give it his all for the interesting young man who asked for the agency's help.<br><br>Soon after Ric begins his search, he receives a threatening email from someone who wants him to stop looking for Lilliana. From there, things escalate as Ric and Theo deal with the aftermath of the threat and their growing interest in each other. Can they learn the man's identity before he discovers Theo is Lilliana's son and goes after him? Only time will tell.

A Secret Uncovered

They were going to take a cab to Theo’s apartment building, at which point Ric would get his car from where he’d left it, before going to hospital to check on Ethan and then on to work.


“What’s wrong?” Ric had asked, coming into the living room.


“That.” Theo had pointed to the TV, and the reporter who was in the midst of telling the audience about a police-involved shooting the previous evening. “Now everyone’s going to know.”


“Know what?” Ric had said when the story ended. “They didn’t say where it occurred, for starters, and your name wasn’t mentioned. You’re ‘the man’ that Mr. Chadwick was about to kill when the cops intervened.”


“There aren’t any pictures of your building, which is a good thing. My guess would be Kane or Lieutenant Archer had something to do with that. Probably a trade-off for Kane’s being interviewed about what happened.”


“So I guess Mom won’t find out unless I tell her.”


Chapter 38