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CHAPTER 74

Author: Ashley Cole
last update Petsa ng paglalathala: 2026-04-17 22:55:59

ALEXANDRA

Five months into our marriage, life had settled into a rhythm.

Mornings with Ella, who was now walking everywhere and saying new words every day. Afternoons in the garden or by the lake. Evenings on the porch with Liam, watching the sun set over the water. Nights tangled together in sheets that smelled of salt and us.

It was ordinary. It was perfect.

But something had been sitting in the back of my mind for weeks. A question. A possibility. A choice we had made months ago, then set a
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    ALEXANDRA In the morning, Dr. Harris came to check on us."Everyone's healthy," she said. "Leo is perfect. You're healing well. You can go home tomorrow.""Thank you," I said. "For everything."She smiled. "It's my job. But you made it easy."After she left, Liam handed me Leo. Ella was already awake, demanding breakfast."Look at you," I whispered to my son. "One day old. Already causing chaos."He yawned."That's right. You're exhausted from all that being born."Liam laughed. "He has your sarcasm already.""He has your stubbornness. He came three weeks early because he felt like it.""Fair point."I looked at him. At the man who had given me two children. At the family we had built from broken pieces."Thank you," I said."For what?""For this. For him. For her. For us."He leaned down and kissed me. "Thank you for choosing me.""Best choice I ever made."Ella appeared at the bedside. "Mama! Food!"I laughed. "Yes, baby. Food."LIAM We went home the next day.Kaela had prepared t

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    ALEXANDRA The contractions started at dawn.I woke to a dull ache in my lower back, familiar from Ella's birth but softer somehow. Less urgent. I lay still for a moment, counting. Three minutes apart.Liam was still asleep beside me, one arm thrown over my pillow, his face relaxed in a way it never was during the day. I watched him for a moment. The gray at his temples. The lines around his eyes. The man who had given me everything.Another contraction. Stronger this time.I touched his shoulder. "Liam."He was awake instantly. A lifetime of vigilance never fully slept."What's wrong?""Nothing's wrong. It's time."He sat up. Looked at me. "The baby?""The baby. Contractions are three minutes apart."He was out of bed before I finished the sentence. Pulling on clothes, grabbing the bag we'd packed weeks ago, calling Dr. Harris.I sat on the edge of the bed, breathing through another contraction. It hurt, but it was a good hurt. Purposeful. Ella appeared in the doorway, sleepy and con

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    That night, after Ella slept, we sat on the porch.The lake was dark. The stars were bright. The world was still.Alexandra leaned against me, her hand on her stomach."Do you think she'd like me?" she asked. "My mother. If she could see us now."I thought about it. "I think she'd be proud. Of the woman you became. Of the choices you made.""She chose love. Even knowing it might kill her.""Yes.""I'm choosing the same thing.""I know."She was quiet for a moment. "Carlo is my uncle. My blood. And he tried to kill me. Tried to kill our children.""Yes.""That's not family. Blood isn't family.""No. It's not."She looked up at me. "You're my family. Ella is my family. This baby is my family. Marcos. Kaela. Jenna. The people who chose us, who stayed, who loved us.""That's family."She nodded. Then she smiled. Small, but real."I'm okay," she said. "I didn't think I would be. But I am.""Good."We sat there, watching the stars. The past was in the trash. The future was unwritten. And we

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    LIAMThat evening, after Marcos and Kaela left, after Ella was asleep, Alexandra and I sat on the porch.The lake was calm. The stars were bright. The world was still."I keep reading it," Alexandra said. She held the DNA results in her hands. "Every few minutes, I pick it up and read it again.""Does it help?""It makes it real. After two years of not knowing—" She shook her head. "I can't believe it."I took her hand. "Believe it."She looked at me. "You never doubted. Even when you thought she wasn't yours, you never doubted.""I doubted. Every day. I just didn't let it change how I loved her.""That's the same thing.""Maybe."She leaned against me. "We have a son coming. And a daughter who's yours. Really yours.""We have everything.""We do."We sat there, watching the stars, holding the truth that had finally set us free.Ella was mine. It has always been mine.And now we know.ALEXANDRAThe next morning, I woke early.Liam was still asleep. I slipped out of bed and went to Ell

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    ALEXANDRA The lab was in a quiet office park. Discreet. Professional. We waited in the small waiting room, Ella on my lap, Liam beside me.Two to three hours, they'd said.Ella grabbed my nose. "Mama nose!""Yes, baby. Mama's nose."She laughed. She had no idea that this visit would answer questions we'd carried since her birth.Liam checked his watch. Then his phone. Then his watch again."You're pacing internally," I said."I'm not pacing.""Your knee is bouncing."He looked down. His knee was, in fact, bouncing. He stopped."I don't like waiting," he said."I know.""I especially don't like waiting for something that will tell me if my daughter is actually my daughter.""She's your daughter. That test won't change that.""I know. But I want to know. I need to know."I squeezed his hand. "We will. Soon."LIAMMarcos called at the one-hour mark.I stepped outside the waiting room. "Tell me.""The lab that did Ella's test. Regional Diagnostics. It was owned by a shell company. That s

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    Dr. Harris set down my chart. "Alexandra, based on your file and some things I'm noticing, I'd like to run a quick blood test. Just to be sure.""Sure of what?""Humor me." I shrugged. "Okay."She ordered the test. A nurse came in, took blood, left. I sat on the table, waiting.Ten minutes later, Dr. Harris came back.Her face was different. Careful. Professional."Alexandra," she said. "You're pregnant."The words didn't make sense."What?""You're pregnant. Approximately five months along, based on the hormone levels."I stared at her. "That's impossible.""The test is clear. You're pregnant.""But we've been trying. For months. Nothing happened.""Something happened." She sat down across from me. "About five months ago, apparently."Five months ago.That was when we started talking about it. When Liam first brought up the sample. When we decided to try naturally first. All those conversations, all those nights, all that hoping—and the whole time, I was already pregnant."I don't un

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