Dylan Dawson froze. Arabella Donovan's words were a clear indictment: his best friend had suffered an unforgivable betrayal.
It wasn't a betrayal because Dylan was old-fashioned, thinking that after his friend died, the man's wife should remain a chaste widow for the rest of her life and never remarry.
Rather, it was because when he first met his late friend's supposed widow and daughter, the birth date she had provided for the child was about six months after his friend had passed away.
Afterward, to be cautious, he had sent someone to the hospital where she claimed to have given birth. The retrieved records confirmed the date she had given, which was why Dylan Dawson had naturally assumed the woman's child was his friend's child.
But now, hearing Arabella's explanation, if they ruled out the possibility that someone inside the hospital had helped her tamper with the records, it meant the woman had cheated on his friend while he was still alive!
