Chapter 3 - Room 814 Wasn’t an Affair
Emma stayed with her sister Claire.
Daniel called repeatedly until Emma finally answered.
“Were you sleeping with Vanessa?”
“No.”
“Then why were you at a hotel with her?”
Daniel admitted Margaret had arranged a meeting with a fertility
attorney.
For two years, Emma and Daniel had struggled to have a child. They had
considered adoption and surrogacy before agreeing to stop discussing
both for six months.
“Why was Vanessa there?”
Daniel hesitated.
“My mother brought her.”
Emma went still.
Vanessa had offered to become a surrogate.
Daniel claimed he rejected the idea immediately.
“Then why didn’t you tell me?”
“Because I knew how it would sound.”
Emma laughed bitterly.
“You were right.”
It was not an affair.
In some ways, it felt worse.
Margaret had quietly invited another woman into the most painful part of
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Emma’s marriage.
And Daniel had protected the secret with silence.
