Then, while everyone was eating, he looked directly at me.
“You know, Claire always ran a household better than you.”
Several guests stopped eating.
Claire smiled triumphantly.
I felt my face burning.
I was carrying his child, serving his birthday dinner, and being humiliated in my own home.
But I didn’t cry.
I simply smiled.
Because I had been waiting for dessert.
When the cake arrived, I stood up and placed a small sealed envelope beside every guest’s plate.
“One last birthday surprise,” I announced.
Mark grinned.
“Finally! Something special!”
He opened his envelope first.
His smile disappeared.Then his face turned bright red.
“HOW DARE YOU DO THIS IN FRONT OF EVERYONE?!” he screamed.
Claire opened hers.
And suddenly, she stopped smiling.
Because inside those envelopes was something neither of them had expected me to discover.
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Mark stood so suddenly that his chair struck the wall.