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He pinched the bridge of his nose. “What’s the problem?”
“The passport applications for Freya and Madison were both returned,” Josh explained.
“Why? She provided everything you needed.”
“The explanation the passport office provided is that there is no person by the name Freya Meyer with this social security number in existence. It’s the same thing for her daughter, Madison Meyer. It states, and I quote, there is no known individual with this social security number who exists.”
Dread settled into the pit of his stomach. “It has to be a mistake.” And he knew how his denial sounded, even to his own ears.
“I’m afraid it’s not. And there’s more.”
“Christ, what more could there be?”
“I had Asher run a search on those socials, just to be certain, and Jasper, I heard from him today as well.”
“And?” He didn’t want to know the answer. He wanted to hang up on his cousin and revert to not knowing the woman he’d fallen in love with had lied to him.
“Just like the passport office. We should have had him run her name and social before we sent the application in.”
“She likely just transposed a number or something.”
“Jasper, if she’s hiding something like her real identity, it’ll be rather simple for me to get the marriage annulled and for the terms of the contract to be voided because of the false information she submitted.”
“We don’t know that it was on purpose,” he denied while his brain blared code red.
Josh hesitated. “There’s more.”
What more could there possibly be? “What?”
“Let me patch Asher in so he can tell you. Asher, you’re on the line now too. Go ahead with what you’ve found.”
“So I ran her ex’s name, Ian Gerritson, through the database. He is a cop out of Macon, Georgia, just like she said. Whose wife and daughter went missing seventeen months ago after the wife shot him in the leg. There’s a warrant that was issued for a Freya Gerritson. I pulled the warrant and information. It’s your Freya. She’s wanted for attempted murder and kidnapping their daughter,” Asher explained.
“No.” He rejected it. Because it couldn’t be true.
Asher sounded grave as he said, “I just emailed you a copy of the information, Jasper. I’m sorry. I know this is a blow.”
A rushing sound filled in his ears as Asher and Josh spoke. He located the email, opened it, and searched through the attached documents. When he reached the warrant, he blanched. It had her picture.
FUCK!
He wanted to roar. He wanted to throw things and destroy everything in his path. How could this be? How could his sweet lass be wanted for attempted murder and kidnapping? “I’ve got to go.”
Josh said, “Now Jasper, don’t—”
He hung up on his cousin and cousin-in-law. The buzzing in his ears grew louder as he read through all the documents. Asher had found reports in the police department that had been suppressed internally, and disciplinary actions were taken against her husband.
Her. Husband.
Their marriage was a complete and total sham. Their marriage wasn’t even legal. She didn’t belong to him. She belonged to a cop in Georgia.
And now he knew for certain he loved her because his heart was breaking. It shattered upon the summit of her lies.
Was anything she’d told him the truth?
Slamming out of his office, he followed the sound of her voice talking to Maddie. Jesus, he loved her kid too. He wanted to be the father Maddie looked up to, the father she went to with her problems.
But none of that would happen now.
