My Husband Doesn’t Think Our Baby Is His (Her Marriage in Crisis #103)

She comes home to tell her husband she’s pregnant, ultrasound in hand, and finds him waiting by the door-

with a packed suitcase.

“Is it mine?”

Nina and Adrian spent years trying for a baby. They lost five. Now she’s finally pregnant - and her husband looks at their baby’s first photo and calls it a lie.

He thinks she’s cheating. He has his proof: the money leaving their account, the afternoons she won’t explain, the man he watched her hold in the rain.

But there was

never

an affair.

That man is Cole - her best friend since she was nineteen. And he’s dying. Cancer.

His insurance ran out, so Nina has been paying for his treatment and sitting with him through the 3 a.m. hospital runs - keeping it quiet, because she promised she would.

That’s the whole secret.

The baby is Adrian’s.

It was

always

Adrian’s.

He didn’t ask. He accused. And then he packed a bag.

So Nina is done.

She walks away from the marriage, the money, and the Newport mansion, and starts over in a small cottage by the sea - a life that finally belongs to her.

Then Adrian starts showing up.

No lawyers. No excuses. He fixes her porch step. He’s there for every appointment. He asks the questions he should have asked the first time, and he waits for the answers. Ten years of marriage buy him nothing now. If he wants her, he earns her back one honest day at a time.

And slowly - God help her - it’s working.

But the baby is almost here, and Nina has to choose: hide behind the walls that kept her safe, or trust the man who broke her and finally learned to ask.

He chose his doubt over his wife.

This time, Nina chooses herself.