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Chapter 19

Author: Mummy zimchi
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There’s something cruel about growing a lie inside your body—and watching the man you love kiss your belly every morning like it’s a blessing, not a betrayal.

My baby bump had finally made its grand appearance, impossible to ignore now. Even beneath the thick robes and oversized shirts I clung to like armor, the roundness of new life pushed through. Strangers smiled at me in the street. Mothers nodded knowingly. Store clerks asked how far along I was with warm eyes, always saying the same thing:

“You’re glowing.”

They didn’t know that glow was guilt. It wasn’t peace or joy or maternal bliss. It was shame, burning under my skin, pressing against my ribs, hiding in my throat whenever I laughed too easily. I glowed because I was lying every second I breathed.

Derrick still didn’t know the child growing inside me didn’t belong to him.

And he still treated me like I was carrying something sacred—something we had made together, with love and promises and hope. Every time the baby kicked, he
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