Desmond’s security team met us before we entered the terminal. The person asking about me was not a reporter. It was a private investigator hired by Garrett. Somehow, my ex-husband had discovered which flight I was taking and wanted confirmation that Wren and I had arrived in Chicago. Desmond immediately offered protection, but I refused anything dramatic. I simply wanted to understand why Garrett was suddenly so interested in finding us.
The answer came from my divorce attorney an hour later. Garrett had filed paperwork claiming I had taken Wren without informing him, even though my attorney had emailed him our Chicago address three days earlier. More importantly, Garrett was trying to challenge our temporary custody arrangement while still controlling money from our frozen joint account. The investigator had apparently been hired to gather photographs that could make it appear as though I was hiding with another man.
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