All Chapters of With My Son Near Death, I Choose Divorce: Chapter 1 - Chapter 10

The doctors and nurses all turned to look at us. Their hands were frozen in place.Outside the operating room, the air seemed to freeze. The only sound left was the faint hum of medical equipment.My husband, Samuel Hayes, pointed at me. His eyes were bloodshot. "Naomi Hart, what did you just say?""I said, stop the surgery," I repeated.My voice wasn't loud, but in the quiet hallway, every word landed clearly.My mother-in-law, Evelyn Shaw, finally snapped out of it and lunged at me, ready to strike me again. Samuel grabbed her around the waist before she could reach me.She thrashed in his arms, clawing at the air as she screamed, "You heartless bitch! Matthew is still in there! He's your son! How could you say something like that?"I looked at her and said nothing.Samuel held Evelyn back as she struggled, then snapped at me, "What are you trying to do? Is this because I called Sienna over? Are you mad about that? "Nothing is going on between us. She just happens to have R

The call ended. I stared at the blackened screen, feeling as though something had seized my heart.It was true. I had nearly died giving birth to our son, Matthew Hayes, but none of them knew the real reason I had haemorrhaged that day.I didn't go back to the hospital.The next morning, Samuel showed up at my doorstep with my parents in tow.The second I opened the door, Dad slapped me across the face. "You ungrateful brat! How dare you come back here?"His hand trembled with rage as he pointed a finger at me. "Matthew was running a high fever in the middle of the night, screaming for his mother! But where were you? Is your heart made of stone?"Mom held onto his arm as she cried, "Naomi, come to the hospital with us. Matthew is innocent. No matter what happened between you and Samuel, you can't take it out on the kid."Samuel stood behind them. His expression was pained. "Honey, I messed up. I shouldn't have called Sienna over. Please, just come back with me. Matthew needs you

Everyone in the courtroom turned toward Sienna. Her face went pale, and she instinctively reached for Samuel's arm.Samuel's lawyer immediately shot to his feet. "Objection. This question has nothing to do with the case!"Adjusting her glasses, Caroline said evenly, "It has everything to do with the case."Then, she turned back to Sienna and repeated my question. "Ms. Brooks, answer the question, please. Seven years ago, on October 12th, did you have a C-section at the Royal Women's Hospital?"Sienna's lips trembled. For a long moment, she couldn't get a single word out.Samuel surged to his feet, stabbing a finger at Caroline. "What kind of absolute garbage are you spewing? This is defamation!"The judge struck the gavel. "Order! The plaintiff will control himself!" he demanded before turning toward Sienna. "Witness, answer the question."Sienna's tears spilled over. She looked over at Samuel with pleading eyes. "I-I don't remember… It was a long time ago…""You don't rememb

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

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