Based on lies

Five years. Every single day, I' d hunted for her. My fiancée, Ava, vanished without a trace, leaving me a ghost of my former self after my career-ending injury.

Then, at my nephew's first birthday party, she reappeared.

But seeing her wasn't the reunion I'd dreamed of. She stood beside my older brother, Mark, holding a baby, another child clinging to her leg – their children.

The world shattered. My parents, my old teammates – everyone was smiling, and they all knew.

They had known for five years. I was the only fool in the dark.