At 10:03 p.m., the hospital called—my ex-wife was unconscious, pregnant, and dying… and the child she’d been hiding was mine

for the water, but she flinched when my hand moved too fast.

The flinch killed me.

Slowly, I lifted the cup and held the straw near her mouth.

She hesitated, then drank.

Afterward, she whispered, “My accounts were frozen the next day.”

I set the cup down.

“What about the bruises?”

She looked away.

“Liam grabbed me.”

The room became very still.

“When?”

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