Within thirty minutes a black luxury sedan pulled into the long concrete driveway outside the house.
A sharply dressed man wearing an expensive gray suit stepped out and walked quickly toward the front door.
Sarah watched through the tall window as Arthur Vance, the family's senior estate lawyer, arrived with a briefcase.
Mark opened the front door immediately and ushered the older man into the private formal living room.
Arthur: Mark told me what happened at the pool, Sarah, and we need to remain completely calm.
Sarah: Don't tell me to be calm when my husband is hiding a child's true identity!
Arthur sat down on the leather sofa and opened his dark leather briefcase with a quiet click.
Arthur: The Miller estate is owned by Arthur Miller Senior, a wealthy real estate CEO in Houston.
Sarah: What does a Houston billionaire have to do with the little boy playing in my house?!
Arthur: Three years ago, his daughter passed away after a long private fight with a terrible illness.
Arthur: Before she died, she gave custody of her newborn baby to Mark under a legal trust.
Sarah looked at Mark who was staring out the window with his arms crossed tightly across his chest.
Sarah: Why hide it from me, Mark? Why cover the poor boy's face in thick makeup every day?!
Mark: Because her father tried to use his massive wealth to take the boy and lock him away!
Mark: He wanted to raise Leo as an heir inside a giant cold mansion without any real love!
Arthur pulled out a set of official custody papers stamped by a state judge three years prior.
Arthur: The birthmark is identical to the Miller family legacy mark that appears on all their public photos.
Arthur: If anyone saw that mark on Leo in public, his grandfather's private investigators would locate him immediately.
Sarah ran her fingers through her hair while trying to make sense of the wild legal story.
Sarah: So you lied to me for three whole years because you were afraid of a grandfather?!
Mark: I lied to protect our family, Sarah! I couldn't risk you getting scared and walking away!
A heavy silence fell over the living room while the tall clock ticked loudly against the wall.
Sarah looked up toward the ceiling where she could hear the faint sound of Leo's toy trucks rolling.
Sarah: That doesn't give you the right to make me a accomplice to a giant lie, Mark.
Arthur: The grandfather has been looking for this child across three different states for thirty-six months.
Arthur: And five minutes ago, his lead investigator registered a match on a public database query nearby.
Mark spun around from the window with pure horror showing in his dark blue eyes right then.
Mark: What database query?! What are you talking about, Arthur?!
Arthur: Sarah's phone searched the estate name on a public legal registry twenty minutes ago from this IP address.