The first investigator was no longer enough.His reports had become careful, qualified, frustratingly empty of the confirmation Gregory required. *No concurrent relationship established. Sealed medical records require formal process. Timeline remains consistent with post-divorce conception.* Each sentence arrived like a refusal. Gregory read them standing up, jaw locked, then set the phone face down as if the device itself were complicit.Diligence had not delivered the story he needed. So he escalated.He found the second investigator through a different channel — a recommendation from a man who had once handled a boardroom leak with methods the first firm preferred not to name. This one did not meet in cafés. He met in a parked car behind a logistics warehouse, accepted cash for the initial retainer, and listened without the polite skepticism of the previous hire.“I don’t need another soft pass,” Gregory said. “I need everything. Cathrene Ward, formerly Ashford. Her husband, Benj
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