After the divorce, I kept his baby a secret. On the day I gave birth, the doctor lowered his mask, and I couldn’t breathe. It was my ex-husband. He smiled coldly and whispered, “I knew about the pregnancy all along, and now that the baby is here, you will never see him again because…”

We are leaving. The lawyers are waiting.”

Zachary slowly walked across the room, placing himself deliberately between his mother and the crib. He crossed his arms over his chest.

“No one is going anywhere, Mother. Except you.”

Patricia blinked, genuinely disoriented by the defiance. “Have you lost your mind? She hid this child from you! She is a liar—”

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