I adjusted Sophie’s blanket and looked at her calmly. “This is Sophie. She was born twelve days ago.”
Vanessa turned slowly toward Brandon.
“You told me you and Natalie hadn’t lived together for over a year.”
Brandon’s jaw tightened. “This isn’t the time.”
I let out a small laugh. It was not because anything was funny. It was because the lie was so shameless that my body did not know what else to do.
“No,” I said. “The perfect time would’ve been when you left me alone in the emergency room because you supposedly had an important business meeting in Denver.”
Vanessa stared at him, confused.
Brandon looked irritated, not ashamed.
And that was when I noticed it.
They had both been lied to.
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