Chapter 2: The Secret Linda Buried
Chapter 2: The Secret Linda Buried
The moment everyone left the room to search for me, Emily knelt beside the bed.
"You can come out now."
Every movement felt like knives tearing through my body, but somehow I crawled onto the mattress.
Ryan burst back inside before I could sit up.
When he saw me alive and conscious, tears instantly filled his eyes.
"Sarah..."
I slapped him.
Hard.
"Did you sign papers behind my back?"
He looked genuinely confused.
"What papers?"
"The papers giving away our baby!"
Ryan stared at me as if I'd gone insane.
"What are you talking about?"
Before he could answer, Linda walked in.
She froze.
She hadn't expected to see me awake.
"You should still be sleeping," she whispered.
Ryan turned toward his mother.
"What did you do?"
Linda finally smiled.
Not kindly.
Not lovingly.
But like someone who had been waiting years for this moment.
"I was protecting our family."
Then she reached into her handbag.
She removed a thick envelope.
Inside were legal documents.
Birth certificates.
DNA reports.
Adoption agreements.
Ryan flipped through them...
Then his face lost every trace of color.
One document had his father's name.
Another had mine.
The final report explained everything.
Eight years earlier...
The day Emily was born...
There had been a mistake in the maternity ward.
Emily wasn't biologically mine.
She wasn't even biologically Ryan's.
Linda had discovered the hospital's error years ago.
Instead of telling us...
She secretly found Emily's biological family.
A wealthy couple who had searched for their missing daughter for nearly a decade.
They had offered millions to settle everything quietly.
Linda accepted.
Without asking us.
Without telling Emily.
And now...
She intended to do the same with my newborn son by convincing everyone I was mentally unstable after childbirth.
Ryan slowly looked at his mother.
"You sold our daughter?"
Linda answered without remorse.
"I secured everyone's future."
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Ryan whispered one sentence that ended their relationship forever.
"You're no longer my mother."
