I pointed toward the nursery.
“We prepared this house for you. We bought two cribs. Nathan is working himself exhausted because he believes he is about to become the father of twins.”
Rose lowered her head.
Then she said the sentence that made my heart sink even further.
“Please don’t tell Nathan.”
I stared at her.
“So now you want me to lie to him too?”
She stepped toward me.
“Mom, I’ll fix everything. Please. I love him.”
“If you love him, why did you do this?”
She had no answer.
I walked into the living room and sat down.
A thousand thoughts were racing through my head.
I wasn’t thinking only about the betrayal anymore.
I looked at my daughter’s pregnant belly and, for the first time, asked myself a question that terrified me.
What if the twins weren’t Nathan’s?
The thought made me feel sick.
