My Husband Forgot Our 4-Year-Old Daughter to Surprise His First Love—By the Time He Reached the Hospital, It Was Too Late

Dominic was silent.

“Do you know what she told me after Sophie’s funeral?” Margaret asked.

He shook his

head.

“She said she couldn’t remember the last time you had chosen her without someone else telling you to.”

The words hit him harder than he expected.

He looked toward the window.

“She should have told me.”

Margaret closed her eyes.

“She did.”

For several minutes, neither spoke.

Finally, Dominic whispered, “What am I supposed to do?”

His mother reached for his hand.

“Start by accepting that you cannot force Lauren to come back.”

He looked at her.

“And then?”

“Become someone who doesn’t keep running away from the truth.”

Toronto greeted me with cold rain.

The morning after I arrived, I stood beside the window of my rented apartment and watched gray clouds gather above the city.

It was a modest two-bedroom apartment in a quiet neighborhood near my new office.