When His Past Met Present

ily ringing in my ears. I drove to our old, tiny apartme

realized was a lie, mocked me. My Jake, the bo

we' d once helped, and then the ultimate betrayal: Emily appe

dy betrayed me. A miscarriage. Our baby, gone before I

ars ago, after an illness, I' d been told conceiving might be difficul

d raise the child as our own. He thought I' d be ha

y entire life with him was

rom the bedroom jolted me. There he stood. Not the ma

. The boy who was once my lifeline, now a stark, impossible remind