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Part 4
The irony, of course, was that I couldn’t give her a child because I was the infertile one. The realization hit me like a ton of bricks. All those years of blaming Amelia, all those wasted tears and accusations, and it was me all along.
Chloe’s true colors came out after the divorce. She was manipulative, demanding, and completely indifferent to the turmoil she’d caused. My mother, initially ecstatic about becoming a grandmother, saw through Chloe’s facade.
The truth about the baby came out shortly after. It wasn’t mine.
I watched in stunned silence as Chloe’s lies crumbled around her. The woman I’d left my wife for, the child I’d believed was mine – it was all a lie.
I was a fool.
I spent the next few months lost in a haze of regret and self–loathing. I drank myself into oblivion, hoping to numb the pain. I showed up at Amelia’s doorstep, desperate for another chance, but she wouldn’t let me in. She right. I didn’t deserve her forgiveness.
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The news of Chloe’s real baby daddy spread like wildfire. She disappeared from our lives as quickly as she’d entered, leaving a trail of destruction in her wake.
I poured myself into work, trying to rebuild what I’d lost. But the guilt and regret followed me everywhere. I’d made a terrible mistake, and I had to live with the consequences.
One day, I heard Amelia was moving. I went to her apartment, hoping for a chance to apologize, to tell her how sorry I was.
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But it was too late.
She was already gone, moving on with her life, leaving me behind with the bitter
taste of regret.
I had lost her forever.
