A Secret Uncovered

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.

Edward Kendrick · LGBT+

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48 Chs

Chapter 23

“I’ll talk to you soon,” Ric said, and hung up.

Theo shoved his phone back in his pocket, turned around, and headed back to work. He was still uptight, the tension in his shoulders was proof of that, but now it was because of the thought that the man might know who he was. Ric’s right, he can’t know. I haven’t been by the agency since they got that threatening message. He rolled his shoulders, trying to relax—or at least make it seem as if he was. He didn’t need his mother questioning him again about why he was so jumpy. By the time he walked into the travel agency he’d succeeded. He greeted her, told her it was her turn to go to lunch—which she did—and settled down at his computer to begin planning the vacation of one of their regular clients.

* * * *

The brother scowled when he discovered that someone from the detective agency was still searching for Lilliana. Did you think I was making an empty threat? If you did, you were wrong.

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