Todos los capítulos de He Lost Me Before He Knew About Our Triplets: Capítulo 1 - Capítulo 10

Ava Blackwood had imagined the moment she would tell her husband he was going to be a father a hundred different ways.In none of them did she imagine standing outside his study with tears burning behind her eyes, listening to him discuss the end of their marriage.The pregnancy test trembled between her fingers.Two pink lines.Ava looked down at them again, as if the result might somehow change if she stared long enough.It didn't.She was pregnant.For nearly ten minutes, she had sat on the edge of the bathroom counter, unable to move, her heart racing between disbelief and a happiness so fragile she was almost afraid to touch it.Three years.For three years, she had secretly wanted a child with Ethan.She had never dared to say it aloud. Their marriage had never been the kind where dreams were discussed over breakfast or whispered beneath the sheets. Ethan was a private man, controlled and distant, the sort of man who could sit across from her at dinner and make her feel as thoug

Ava couldn't take her eyes off the ultrasound screen.Three tiny shapes moved across the monitor, almost too small to comprehend. The image was blurry to her untrained eyes, but the doctor seemed to understand exactly what she was seeing.Three lives.Three tiny heartbeats.Three babies.Ava's fingers trembled as they settled over her stomach.She was carrying triplets.“Everything looks good so far,” the doctor said gently. “You're still very early in the pregnancy, but all three babies appear to be developing normally.”Ava swallowed.“Three?”The doctor smiled.“Yes. Three.”The word barely left Ava's lips.“Triplets.”Ava stared at the screen again.Only a few hours ago, she had stood outside Ethan's study clutching a pregnancy test, her heart filled with nervous excitement as she imagined telling her husband he was going to be a father.She had expected one baby.She had imagined one tiny heartbeat.Instead, there were three.Three children.Three lives that had somehow already b

Ava didn't answer.She couldn't.Ethan stood in front of her, his eyes fixed on hers, waiting for a confession that would change everything between them.“Are those my children?”The question hung between them.Behind Ava, the three children had fallen strangely quiet. Even Noah seemed to sense that something important was happening.Ava tightened her grip on Lily's hand.“It's complicated.”Ethan gave a humorless laugh.“Complicated?”His gaze moved toward the children again.“They're five years old, Ava. They have my eyes, my features, and one of them has the same birthmark I was born with.”He looked back at her.“What part of that is complicated?”Ava's throat tightened.“Ethan, this isn't the place.”“Then tell me where.”His voice wasn't loud, but the desperation beneath it was impossible to miss.“Tell me where you want to have this conversation, and I'll follow you there.”Ava stared at him.Five years ago, she had dreamed of hearing him say something like that.She had wanted

The message remained on Ava’s screen.Ask Ethan what happened to Baby Three.She had read it so many times that the words had begun to lose their meaning.Yet one thing refused to disappear from her mind.Baby Three.Ava looked toward the bedroom.Three small bodies were sleeping beneath the blankets. Lucas had somehow taken up most of the mattress despite being the smallest of the three, Noah was hugging his dinosaur, and Lily was curled on her side with one hand beneath her cheek.Three children.Three lives.Three babies she had carried beneath her heart.So why had someone spent five years making her question whether there had ever been three?“Ava.”Olivia’s voice pulled her back.“You're staring at them again.”Ava slipped the phone into her palm.“I keep thinking about the night they were born.&rdq

Ethan stared at the document until the letters blurred.Mother requested immediate release.Beneath it was Ava's signature.He knew that handwriting.He had watched her sign birthday cards, hotel documents, checks, wedding papers.He had once watched her sign his name beside hers on their marriage certificate.There was no mistaking it.Ava had signed this.But why?Why would a woman who had just given birth to triplets request the immediate release of one child?And why had she never told him?Ethan closed the file.“Marcus.”“Yes, sir?”“Send me everything.”“Everything?”“Every document from that night. Every admission record, discharge form, transfer request, physician note, security recording, payment, signature, phone call, visitor log.”He paused.“And don't leave out anything because you think it isn't important.”Marcus understood.“I'll have it within the hour.”Ethan looked again at Sophia's image on the security footage.Then at Ava's signature.Two women.Two secrets.One