Latham's face contorted in absolute humiliation.
He felt like a monumental fool.
Wasn't Octavia's mess enough?
Now even his mistress had betrayed him, sneaking around with another man right under his nose.
If the other guy had been a total loser, Latham wouldn't have felt so deeply insulted.
But the painful reality was that Wheeler was young, sharp, and highly capable.
"If you want to sue her, I have no objections." Latham changed his tune almost instantly.
He couldn't stomach the thought that Fallon never loved him and had only crawled back into his bed to destroy his life.
But the cold, hard facts were staring him right in the face. He had no choice but to believe it.
"Latham, my schedule is packed, so I won't waste any more of your time."
Claire figured that unless Latham was an absolute idiot, he wouldn't dream of tipping Fallon off now.
Sure enough, after parting ways with Claire, Latham gripped his phone tightly but never made the call to warn her.
Actually, he did make one call—to the police.
Wheeler had committed severe corporate espionage. How could Latham not report him and have him locked up?
Since Claire and Latham had contacted the authorities around the same time, the police moved swiftly.
Fallon and Wheeler were arrested simultaneously.
They were even together when the cops kicked the door down. Wheeler had been standing in Fallon's kitchen, cooking her dinner.
Fallon had planned to go on vacation right after their meal-which was just a thin veil for fleeing the city.
Unfortunately for them, the handcuffs clamped down before they could pack their bags.
"Why are you arresting me?" Fallon demanded, assuming her sabotage of the James Group had been exposed.
But the charge the officers read out was for the kidnapping and swapping of an infant eighteen years ago.
"That was eighteen years ago!" Fallon protested fiercely.
Legally, the statute of limitations should have expired long ago.
She had practically raised Cindy and knew the girl's temperament inside and out.
Why on earth would Cindy suddenly call the cops on her?
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"It may have been eighteen years, but since the victim filed a report we're obligated to investigate." The officer was mildly surprised by her egal knowledge
Then again, as a high school teacher, her understanding of the law was naturally sharper than the average citizen's.
Plus, anyone brazen enough to steal and swap babies almost two
decades ago clearly possesseel.ne
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Wheeler was taken into custody alongside her, charged with leaking corporate secrets. He didn't even put up a fight.
He knew he was guilty. He had done it all for his beloved mentor.
He had wrestled with his conscience at first, but a piece of trash like Latham deserved absolutely no sympathy.
What Wheeler hadn't expected, however, was for his teacher to be wrapped up in some deranged baby-snatching scandal.
"Fallon, what is going on?"
The woman he respected and adored the most was suddenly exposed as a child kidnapper. It was too much to process.
If there was ever a moment his entire worldview shattered, this was it.
Wheeler looked utterly devastated.
"It's true. I swapped the James family's baby."
Fallon had no intention of lying to Wheeler anymore.
"Wheeler, you know how much I hate Latham and Octavia. Swapping their child was
a momentary act of sheer impulse."
"I regretted it later, which is why I constantly checked on Cindy. I even became her
teacher. I treated her incredibly well."
"Of course, I know that doesn't erase my sins."
"I was just blinded by my own hatred."
Tears welled in Fallon's eyes, and just like that, Wheeler's resolve melted.
He reasoned that she might be telling the truth. Her hatred for that couple was profound and justified.
Swapping the babies must have been a chaotic act of desperation.
He had always known she had a goddaughter she doted on.
If that was her way of atoning for her mistakes, it made perfect sense in his love- struck mind.
As they were escorted into separate patrol cars, Wheeler valiantly took the fall confessing to every single act of corporate espionage to protect her. FindNovel.net