As she stared at the invitation, memories of another life crept back.
She remembered the man he used to be—the one who sketched app ideas on napkins and promised he’d change the world. The man who held her hand through the fear of labor—before they lost their first baby.
That mis.carriage had broken them more than either would admit.
When she discovered she was pregnant again, Nathaniel had just signed a huge deal and started vanishing for days at a time. Every call she made was answered with “in a meeting” or “on a plane.” Then one night she saw him on television, kissing another woman at a launch event.
That was the breaking point. She never told him she was pregnant. She simply packed up and walked away with nothing.
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