Chapter 2: She Has His Eyes
Claire looked down at our daughter and whispered, "She has his eyes."
I didn't understand at first.
I leaned in closer, thinking I'd misheard her.
"Whose eyes?" I asked.
She wouldn't look at me.
Her arms tightened around the baby, but her face had gone pale.
"Claire.
Whose eyes?"
The silence in that room was the loudest thing I'd ever heard.
The nurse quietly stepped out.
It was just the two of us — and our newborn daughter — and a question hanging in the air that I suddenly wasn't sure I wanted answered.
Then Claire said his name.
A name I recognized.
A name I hadn't heard in almost two years.
My chest went cold.
"What did you just say?" I asked, my voice barely holding together.
She finally looked up at me, and I saw it then — not joy, not exhaustion, not the happiness I'd expected after years of waiting for this moment.
It was guilt.
Pure, undeniable guilt.
And in that moment, I realized the daughter Claire had dreamed of her whole life…
might not be mine.
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