---- Chapter 1 The day my pregnancy was officially confirmed, I visited the estate Levi Ezra had prepared for my maternity care seven years earlier. I never imagined I would stumble across a scene that would shatter me so completely: my husband, still dressed in the outfit I had so carefully selected for him, was walking side-by-side with another woman. Her belly was swollen, heavy with child. Levi reached out tenderly, his palm resting against her rounded stomach. His face was illuminated with an expression so soft, so full of adoration, it was as if the world around them did not exist. ---- There was a deafening roar inside my head. I froze, rooted to the spot, feeling the ground tilt under me. When Levi finally noticed me standing there, his face turned deathly pale in an instant. The woman, too, lifted her head in confusion, only for panic to sweep across her features when she saw me. Levi recovered first. He quickly gestured for her to return inside the house, then hurried over to me, grasping my hand in his. "You're wearing too little - your hands are freezing," he said. But the tremble in his hands betrayed the fear he was desperately trying to conceal. After three years of dating and seven years of marriage, I knew exactly what such a reaction meant. ---- I tore through the fragile facade he had tried so hard to maintain, my voice quivering as I forced the question out, "When did this happen?" He flinched, a flicker of guilt crossing his face, before he struggled to speak. ''Last summer... when your grandmother passed away... you returned home for the funeral-"" It felt like a bolt of lightning had struck me. My mind blanked; it took a long moment before I could even find my voice again. "So, when my grandmother died, and you said you had to go on a business trip... it was a lie?" I whispered hoarsely. "At the very moment I was grieving, at my lowest, you chose to sleep with someone else?" No wonder he had returned earlier than planned, managing to attend the funeral after all. Thad foolishly believed he had come back because he was worried about me.