— A sterile woman shouldn’t be surprised when her husband finds someone capable of giving him a real family.😮😮😮
Marc’s words echoed through the hospital corridor and attracted the attention of several nurses.
I looked at the man I had divorced a year earlier. Beside him stood Sophie, my former best friend, pushing a stroller where a little blond boy was sleeping.
For seven years of fertility treatments, Marc had blamed me for every failure. Now he was showing off that child like a trophy.
— Leaving you was the best decision of my life, he added. Paul is already one year old. Sophie was able to give me what you never could.
I remained silent.
I looked at the child, then at Sophie. Unlike Marc, she seemed terrified.
Yet I remembered everything she had done for me during my treatments. She had accompanied me to every appointment, comforted me after every failure, and sworn that she would never let Marc hurt me.
— Really? I asked with a slight smile.
At that moment, my phone vibrated. It was Jean, my lawyer.
“I’m downstairs. The documents have arrived. Don’t talk to anyone.”
A few minutes later, Jean arrived with a sealed folder. As soon as Sophie saw the lawyer, she turned pale. Her fingers trembled, and her baby bottle fell to the floor.
— Claire, Jean told me, the Reproduction Institute gave us the original records. One embryo is missing from your last cycle, and we now know who authorized its removal.
I saw Marc’s face lose all its color.
— You have no right to talk about this here! he shouted.
But I didn’t answer. I simply looked at Sophie. She stepped back, her eyes filled with panic.
— Marc… she whispered, you told me she had signed.
And what was discovered was simply unexpected, impossible, and completely unbelievable.😮😮😮
↪️ The rest in the first comment. 👇👇 ⤵️⤵️
I immediately understood that Sophie had never been pregnant by Marc.
Jean opened the folder and placed the documents in front of us.
— The embryo removed from the laboratory was implanted in Sophie without your consent. But that’s not all: the child is not Marc’s.
Marc turned pale.
— That’s false!
Jean then pulled out a second report.
— The DNA test confirms that Paul is Claire’s biological son.
Silence fell over the corridor.
I stared at Sophie, unable to speak. She burst into tears.
— I’m sorry… Marc told me that you had abandoned your embryos. He convinced me to carry your child for him. I didn’t know he had forged your signature.
I turned toward Marc.
For seven years, he had humiliated me, blamed me, and made me believe that my body was incapable of giving life.
But the truth was even more cruel: he had stolen my own embryo and entrusted it to my best friend.
Jean calmly added:
— And we have already filed a complaint.
For the first time, Marc had nothing to say.
