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Emma drove straight to her sister Claire’s townhouse. As soon as she walked in, the weight of it all came crashing down. She collapsed on the couch, trembling as she repeated the doctor’s words.
Claire listened, stunned. “Em, maybe he just misread something. Maybe it’s not what it seems.”
Emma shook her head. “You didn’t see his face. He wasn’t guessing.”
For two days, she ignored Michael’s calls. His voicemails swung between pleading concern—“Where are you? I’m worried about you”—and sharp frustration—“This isn’t funny, Emma. Call me back.”
The shift in his tone made her stomach knot.
A Hidden Pattern
Claire suggested looking deeper. Using her hospital credentials, she checked into Dr. Cooper’s background. What she found made Emma’s heart stop: years earlier, he had quietly intervened in another case where a pregnant patient’s safety was at risk at home.
The puzzle pieces began to fit. Emma remembered small things she had brushed off: bruises she blamed on her own clumsiness, Michael’s insistence on pressing his hand firmly against her stomach, the strange tightness in his voice when he said he wanted the baby “close.”
Memories that once seemed harmless now took on a darker meaning.
The Turning Point
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