My Husband Canceled Our Anniversary Dinner Because His Mom Was ‘Sick’ – Then I Froze When I Saw Who She Was With

A DNA report from the legal paternity test Nathan and Yvette had taken afterward.

My lawyer said quietly, “Yvette contacted Diane when she suspected that Nathan was her father.”

“You contacted Diane?”

She nodded.

“Why her?”

“I found her online first.”

Yvette explained.

After Hannah died, Yvette went through boxes in her mother’s apartment.

There were letters, photographs, and old journals.

One envelope had Nathan’s full name on it.

Inside was a letter Hannah had written but apparently never sent.

Yvette handed it to me.

The paper was old. It had been folded several times.

But the handwriting was neat.

I read.

Hannah wrote that she had discovered she was pregnant shortly after ending things with Nathan.

She had considered telling him.

Then another man, Aaron, came back into her life.

Someone she had known for years.

Aaron wanted to raise the baby with her.

Hannah chose that life.

She wrote that Nathan was young and that their relationship had already ended.

So she did not want to pull him back into something he wasn’t even aware of.

She had also decided to build a family with someone else.

The final line made my chest hurt.

“Nathan never knew. That was my choice, not his.”

I asked Yvette, “Did Aaron raise you?”

“Yes.”

“Did you know?”

“Not until Mom died.”

“Where is he?”

“He died when I was 17.”

I sat down. Everything inside me felt unstable.

“Why didn’t Nathan tell me?”

Yvette looked ashamed.

“This part is my fault.”

“No. I don’t think I gave him a chance to tell me.”

“It kind of is.”