When the authorities confronted Angela with the DNA results and hospital records, the truth unraveled quickly. She admitted everything. The case became a criminal investigation involving child abduction and falsification of medical records.
Two weeks later the court placed both girls temporarily under my legal custody while the situation was resolved. The first time the twins stood beside each other in our living room, the resemblance was so perfect it felt unreal. Hazel stared at her sister with curiosity before quietly taking her hand.
Watching them together filled me with both relief and grief. We had lost four years, but at least the truth had finally surfaced.
As for Garrett, the damage between us could not simply disappear.
One evening he tried to speak.
“I never meant for things to go this far.”
I looked at him calmly.
“You already let it go too far.”
A month later I filed for divorce.
Some betrayals break a marriage. Others reveal that it was never as strong as we believed.
