My MIL shoved me into the pool, screaming, “Her pregnancy is fake!” I couldn’t swim and blacked out. At the hospital, the doctor whispered, “Your baby is fine, but your husband filed for divorce while you were asleep.” Before I could speak, my husband walked in arm-in-arm with my sister…

of the life that had just spectacularly imploded.

Finally, I shattered the quiet without granting him the dignity of my gaze.

“Get my brother on the phone.”

He shifted uncomfortably. “Ava, sweetheart—”

“Call Noah Bennett.”

“You need your husband right now.”

I snapped my head toward him, my eyes burning with a terrifying intensity. “I do not need you. I needed continue reading …