“It was not a false test, but it was a necessary precaution to protect my son from being cheated,” Adelaide interjected. “I simply took the boy’s hairbrush and one of Scott’s brushes from your bathroom to settle my own doubts,” she confessed.
“You stole personal items from my home and used them to create a weapon against me,” I said while feeling a wave of nausea. Scott remained silent, and his inability to speak up for our marriage hurt me more than the initial accusation from his mother.
Lawrence Beckett cleared his throat to regain our attention and pointed to a specific line on his report. “When we ran the final audit, we discovered that the sample labeled as Scott Preston did not match the genetic profile we already had on file for him,” he revealed.
Scott raised his head in confusion and asked how it was possible for his own DNA not to match himself. “It did not match because the sample provided by the third party did not actually belong to you, Mr. Preston,” Lawrence explained.
