For Three Years, I Believed My Wife Had Abandoned Me After My Accident—Then I Found Her Holding Our Son and Learned My Mother Had Told Her I Was Dead

“I’d bought tiny shoes.”

I couldn’t speak.

“Then they called about the accident.”

She looked at me.

“I spent days trying to reach you.

Your mother said the pregnancy was another attempt to trap you.”

I clenched my hands.

Chloe lowered her eyes.