My Mother Hid My Ex-Wife’s Pregnancy. My Fiancée Forged the Payoff. I Didn’t Find Out for Five Years

My heart had already started to go.

My mother’s face drained.

“Renee.

Keep your mouth shut.”

But my aunt was looking at me now, her eyes widening as something dawned on her that she had plainly assumed, all these years, I already knew.

“I thought you knew about the pregnancy, Elliot.”