“She found out we were having a boy.”
“How?”
“I told her.”
Lauren closed her eyes.
“Of course you did.”
“She became upset.”
“Why?”
Mark swallowed.
“She thought once I had a son with you, I would stop seeing our daughter.”
Lauren looked at him sharply.
“You see her?”
“Sometimes.”
Another lie exposed.
“How often?”
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Lauren’s eyes filled again.
“You told me those were work trips.”
Mark said nothing.
Lauren nodded slowly.
“Of course.”
I almost couldn’t keep track anymore.
One betrayal opened into another.
Then another.
Like doors in a hallway.
I pointed toward the cake.
“So why pink?”
Mark spoke quietly.
“Tania said if today’s cake was blue, she was coming here and telling Lauren everything.”
Lauren stared at him.
“And your solution was to fake the gender.”
“I panicked.”
“You paid five hundred dollars to lie to everyone.”
