Demand a Divorce, Then Hide His Unknown Daughter

L

e preg

vans's moving mout

droning voice, but it was now that my brain was almost r

orry,

ng him a readable reaction to work with. Was he supp

epeat the sam

pregnant

and I looked past all the medical

iti

y test results for my r

antom pressure settl

e me right now. Even though I shouldn't be so

reak the news. He would freeze for a second or two before exploding into immense joy, sweeping me of

idn't come with t

d five months earli

se his grandfather wanted me in his family. In his word

hur Vandermere loved me like the parents I never had, and

looking for a fantasy. I just hoped

ntil I marry you," Cedric told me on our wedding night, his gentlemanly

even my simple dream of

oted. "If things are complicated, or if

" The paper trem

when Cedric stumbled into my room dr

to process

he father? Is

st tightened with a

t's

ving it was. I placed a s

on our wedding night, but holding that posi

ittle

d. Everything was going to change and my hus

ng, nervous about how he would take the news.

d headed to his bedroom, the positive test result folded securel

magined his silence, his shock, and more direly, the look on his face th

the sudden noise that brok

The noise s

tep forward to t

d time. It was echoing from t

rted walking towards the rarely used guest room

alfway open, so I held my breath a

im felt like staring at a stranger. He was cradling an infant, dangling a plastic rattle while making cooing noises.

easily five or

y. We had only been m

s while exchanging a soft look with my husband. There was no doubt she was the mother. She was the

and that baby could be to Cedric. I had options. Too many option

my temples, and I

ed. The woman used the napkin she was already holding to wipe the m

alance deserted me. It felt as if blood was bei

e sight,

ked a

adiated with malice. She was relishing the look on my face like it was a

? That's exactly how things should have be

fingers further crus

edric was going to marry. But then you had to use your little tricks

yourself from this family? Undo whatev

or as I heard her footsteps retreat behind

ia, she was speaking the truth. I had wal

t starved of

told you not to ha

res a warning just becaus

irs like a fool? Like I finally found the

All that love, and there

door, and by then, the paper in

ider here, and the earlier I let that get st

palm flat on

nly on what was

o me, that no false arrangemen