CHAPTER 3 — The Truth He Didn’t Expect
CHAPTER 3 — The Truth He Didn’t Expect
We didn’t speak on the way out of the clinic.
Ethan followed me outside like a man walking behind a life he no longer understood.
Finally, he spoke.
“You should have told me.”
I stopped walking.
I turned to him.
“Told you what? That you humiliated me? That you replaced me in a week? That you didn’t even ask for the truth?”
His jaw tightened.
“I thought—”
“You didn’t think,” I cut him off.
“You assumed.”
Silence.
A long one.
Then the truth he wasn’t ready to say out loud:
“I was scared,” he admitted quietly. “I thought I wasn’t ready to be a father.”
I laughed once.
Cold.
“Then you should’ve said that before destroying me.”
I walked away.
And this time, he didn’t follow.
ENDING — IN ENGLISH
Weeks later, I went back to the clinic alone.
The screen showed two heartbeats again.
Stronger now.
Clearer.
Alive.
The doctor smiled gently.
“Everything looks good,” he said.
I placed my hand on my stomach.
And for the first time since that day…
I didn’t think about Ethan’s anger.
I didn’t think about his betrayal.
I only thought about the two lives growing inside me—
May you like
And how sometimes, the truth doesn’t destroy you.
It frees you.
