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With My Son Near Death, I Choose Divorce Chapter 11
My hands shook so hard that I could barely hold the documents steady. I stared at the picture of the girl clipped to the page.She was seven years old now. Her hair was pulled back into two little pigtails. When she smiled, two shallow dimples graced her cheeks.I could see the clear resemblance between us.Tears I thought had long dried up came surging back.My Millie.My daughter. She was alive.She was actually alive.The lawyer and I traveled for over ten hours by train and several more by car before we finally arrived at a remote suburb.In the front yard of a modest farmhouse, I saw my daughter. She was feeding chickens in the yard while humming a song that wasn't quite in tune. When her adoptive parents saw us, they tensed up, pulling the girl protectively behind them."Who are you, people? What do you want?"The lawyer stepped forward and spent a long time explaining the situation. At first, they resisted and were in denial. Later, they fell silent and began to
With My Son Near Death, I Choose Divorce Chapter 10
A woman who could sacrifice her own son and stand by while another innocent baby died would spend the rest of her life trapped by guilt and nightmares. She would never know another peaceful day.As for Matthew, he was sent to an orphanage, for Sienna was deemed mentally unstable and unfit to raise him.I went to see him once. He had lost a lot of weight and had become much quieter.When he saw me, he called out to me timidly, "Ms. Hart…"He no longer called me Mommy.He already knew that his birth had been part of a conspiracy. He also knew that his biological parents were the people responsible for my daughter's death.Between us stood the life of an innocent child."Will you… come see me again?" Matthew whispered. His eyes searched mine with a flicker of a plea.I looked at him, the boy I had poured my love into for seven years, and I couldn't bring myself to hate him.He was a victim in this, tooHowever, I found that I could no longer love him either. Every time I looked
With My Son Near Death, I Choose Divorce Chapter 9
The verdict came through.For the combined charges of intentional injury and child trafficking, Samuel was sentenced to life in prison. Evelyn, as his accomplice, was sentenced to 15 years.Even the doctor in question was being pursued internationally and would face legal prosecution.In the wake of the scandal, the Hayes family's business collapsed. Stock prices plummeted, and the company hovered on the brink of bankruptcy before it was sold to competitors for pennies on the dollar.The once-glorious Hayes family had all but collapsed.Sienna, however, was not prosecuted.Samuel took all the blame and insisted that Sienna had known nothing about the baby switch.He claimed he had lied to her, telling her that her own baby had died, only to return later with Matthew and claim the boy was the product of a surrogate.He painted her as a poor woman who had been kept in the dark, but I knew he was lying.How could a mother not recognize her own child?Unfortunately, I had no evid
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All of a sudden, Evelyn scrambled up from the floor and jabbed a finger at me. "It was you! You're the one who swapped my grandson! You were jealous because we finally had a boy, so you stole him! Give me back my granddaughter!"I watched her twist the truth so effortlessly and found it rather ridiculous.However, Caroline fixed her with a glacial stare. "Don't get ahead of yourself, ma'am. We aren't finished with the evidence."She pressed play on a recording. A man's voice crackled through the speaker, laced with terror and remorse. "It was Mr. Hayes and Ms. Shaw who approached me. They gave me a huge sum of money and told me to switch the babies during the procedures. They said the girl wasn't part of their family and had to be sent away."Ms. Hart's hemorrhage wasn't an accident. On their orders, I deliberately nicked a vessel during surgery, so she wouldn't have the strength or focus to notice what happened to the baby..."The voice belonged to the OB-GYN who had performe
With My Son Near Death, I Choose Divorce Chapter 7
As I couldn't afford what it would cost me if I stopped believing him, I buried that secret deep in my heart and kept telling myself that I was overthinking it.After that, I treated Matthew even better than before, as if being good to him could make up for that tiny sliver of doubt I carried inside me.Then came the car accident.When Samuel blurted out that he was calling someone else, and when he held me down and refused to let me donate blood to Matthew, I knew I couldn't keep lying to myself anymore.He hadn't been afraid that my body couldn't handle it.He had been afraid the hospital would run a cross-match before the transfusion and discover that Matthew's blood and mine didn't match at all.We were both Rh-negative, but we didn't have the same subtype. If my blood had gone into Matthew's body, it would've killed him.Samuel had kept that secret for seven whole years.…When the court reconvened, the air in the room had shifted entirely.The gallery was packed, and ev
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"Mommy, do you not want me anymore? Mommy!"His wails pulled at the heartstrings of everyone in the gallery. My parents had already risen from their seats. Dad pointed a finger at me. His lips were trembling with anger. "You ungrateful girl!""Naomi, what are you doing? Have you really lost your mind?" Mom shrieked.I ignored them and kept my eyes on the judge. "Your Honor, I stand by my request. If Matthew is my biological son, I'm willing to accept full legal responsibility and forfeit my share of marital assets. Moreover, I'll also issue a public apology to Mr. Hayes and Ms. Brooks."Samuel completely lost his composure. He clutched Sienna's hand so tightly that his knuckles turned white. "Sienna, tell them! Tell them Matthew is her son."Sienna was shaking. Her eyes were fixed on me. There was fear in her eyes, but beneath it was a flash of pure, unadulterated malice."Naomi, why are you doing this? Why are you pushing us like this?"In the eyes of the onlookers, her reluc
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