I exhaled slowly.
Maybe I had been imagining things. Maybe I was just paranoid. Maybe I was losing my mind.
Then Claire said something that made my entire body go rigid.
“Are you sure your wife is okay with all this?”
Ethan’s reply made my jaw drop.
I stayed there on the bathroom floor, one hand covering my mouth, listening to the rest of the recording.
By the time it finished, I understood exactly what Ethan had been doing each time he said he was “checking on the baby,” why he had been collecting all those folders, and what he intended to do after the baby was born.
He believed I would never see it coming.
Well.
Two could play that game.
Right then I decided I would reveal his betrayal by playing that recording for everyone we knew.
All I needed was the right moment.
That’s when I decided to host a baby shower for Claire.
The following morning, I came downstairs wearing a bright smile and told Ethan that I wanted to organize a baby shower for Claire. “She’s doing something incredible for us. She deserves to be celebrated.”
He smiled back. “I think she’d like that.”
I spent the next two weeks arranging every detail. Ethan watched the preparations with quiet approval.
He thought he was seeing his plan progress.
He had no idea that the recorder was hidden inside my desk drawer, sealed in an envelope alongside documents my lawyer had prepared for me.
Soon the day of the baby shower arrived. The living room filled with guests. Claire sat at the center, smiling nervously as people told her what an extraordinary gift she was giving Ethan and me.
