After our divorce, I faced labor alone with his child—until the doctor revealed a truth, and his mother tried one last time to tear us apart

still remembered him as comfort.

I pushed hard, my throat burning afterward.

The room blurred again.

And suddenly, memory pulled me back.

Three winters ago.

Snow falling outside our apartment while Mason stood in mismatched socks at two in the morning making grilled cheese because I’d had a terrible day.

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