His Boss, Her Secret
"You're right I'm just... I don't know. I'm stressed about other things."
"It's fine." But it wasn't. The coldness in his voice lingered long after he went back to the living room, leaving me alone in the perfect kitchen with my swirling doubts.
The perfect life was built on a perfect lie, and I was starting to see the cracks everywhere.
4 months ago,
I had a secret.
Well, two secrets, technically.
The first: I was ten weeks pregnant.
The second: I knew my husband was cheating on me.
I sat in my car in the parking lot of my OB's office, staring at the grainy ultrasound photo on my lap. A tiny blob that barely looked human but was, according to Dr. Martinez, a perfectly healthy fetus with a s