My husband kept making solo visits to our surrogate, insisting he only wanted to “check on the baby.” But the night I secretly slipped a voice recorder into his jacket and later heard what he was telling her when I wasn’t there, my heart nearly stopped. He wasn’t merely hiding things from me—he was plotting something that could shatter everything.
I can’t have children.
When we first began trying, my husband, Ethan, stayed by my side through every disappointing pregnancy test. He would gather me into his arms, kiss my forehead gently, and whisper, “We’ll try again,” as if hope were the most natural thing in the world.
But after the fourth failed treatment, something changed.
