After Four Daughters, My Husband Finally Had the Son He’d Always Begged For – But When He First Held Our Newborn Boy, His Words Made My Stomach Sink

when he wasn’t home.

I’d laughed then, too. I hadn’t thought there was anything underneath the question.

I thought of him suddenly at a pool party two summers ago, climbing out of the water while Lily shrieked from his shoulders. His shirt had ridden up as he bent to set her down, briefly exposing the pale crescent-shaped mark near his lower back.

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