His eyes locked onto something.
I couldn’t see what it was.
“Mark… what’s wrong?”
He didn’t answer.
His fingers began to tremble.
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“Mark.”
This time, he lifted his head and looked at me.
I will never forget that expression.
There was no happiness in his eyes anymore.
Only shock and fear.
“This is impossible,” he whispered.
Read the continuation—it’s truly shockingFor several seconds, the hospital room became so quiet that I could even hear Luke’s soft breathing.
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I stared at Mark.
“What have you never told me?”
Instead of answering, he looked down at the baby again. Then, very carefully, he moved the hair behind Luke’s left ear aside with his finger.
There was a small, crescent-shaped birthmark.
I looked at him in confusion.
“This? This is what scared you so much?”
Mark nodded.
“Tyler had one in exactly the same place. Exactly the same shape.”
“Who is Tyler?”
Helen suddenly walked over to the door and closed it.
That movement frightened me more than anything she had said.
Mark sat down in the chair beside my hospital bed.
“When I was eighteen, there was a girl. Her name was Rachel.”
I froze.
In eight years of marriage, Mark had never once mentioned that name.
“We were together for almost two years. Then Rachel got pregnant.”
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I felt something tighten inside me.
“Are you saying you had a child?”