That night, I couldn’t sleep. I wrote Chloe a long letter explaining what the nurse had told me and reminding her how much I loved her. I left it in their mailbox at dawn.
Four days later, I opened my door — and there she was. Chloe stood crying, Ava in her arms.
“Can we talk, Mom?”
She told me Ryan had lied about everything — that I’d supposedly insulted her at the hospital and told doctors she couldn’t handle motherhood.
“Mom, I know now it wasn’t true,” she sobbed. “He kept saying you were trying to control me. I was exhausted… and I believed him.”
We held hands and decided to confront Ryan together. When he walked in and saw us side by side, his face went pale.
“Claire heard your phone call,” Chloe said. “You promised your mother you’d turn me against mine.”
He tried to deny it, then shrugged.
“It was for the best,” he muttered.
Chloe’s voice shook. “Get out. You don’t get to decide who’s in my life.”
She filed for divorce the next day. Ryan went to live with his mother — the woman who started it all. Within months, they’d both lost everything.
Chloe and I rebuilt our bond piece by piece. The day she placed Ava in my arms again and whispered, “I’m sorry, Mom,” I knew we were finally healing.
Because no matter how deep a lie runs — the truth always finds its way to the surface.
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