When I learned that Sarah was Jarvis’s first love, even though I had mentally prepared myself, it still seemed absurd.

They were once the perfect couple in college, but broke up after graduation due to differing life goals—one wanting marriage and children, the other wanting to pursue dreams abroad.

So it’s hard not to suspect that Jarvis doesn’t truly love me; he might have just used me to have the child he and Sarah couldn’t have together.

“When the embryo transfer was being done, that Sarah was also at the hospital,” the detective’s voice held a note of certainty. “She had just returned to the country and was reported to...