After 10 Years of Trying, a Woman Finally Gave Birth to Twins – But When She Woke up After Her C-Section, Her Husband Was Gone, and the Doctor Asked, ‘You Really Don’t Know Why He Left?’

    “You’ve cut him out.”

She scrolled, then held her phone toward me. There was Andrew, holding the birthday cake.

Then I picked up my phone and called Daniel.

It rang once.

“Em? Andrew’s here,” Daniel said.

    It rang once.

“Bring him back. His mother is here, and I have something he needs to see. She’s going to explain it in front of both of us.”

    “We’re on our way. Twenty minutes.”

I set the phone down.

My mother-in-law’s smile had gone thin.

    “Bring him back.”

“Honey, you’ve had a terrible day,” she said, in her best soothing voice. “Why don’t you rest first? We can sort this out tomorrow.”

    “No.”

“You’re exhausted.”

    “Why don’t you rest first?”

“I am,” I said. “And we’re doing it now.”

***

Andrew came in first, with Daniel a step behind.

His eyes were red.