He Said I Could Never Give Anyone a Family — Six Months Later I Was Pregnant With Twins, and He Turned White When He Learned Who My Neighbor Really Was

I can file whenever you give the word.”

I looked at the monitor, at the two tiny flickering hearts that a man had tried to convince me I would never have, that he had forged a version of my own body to deny me.

I wiped my face.

“File everything,” I said.

“Now.”

Chapter 12 — The Courthouse