When my sister announced her pregnancy months after my miscarriage, I thought the worst pain was behind me. I was wrong. At her gender reveal party, I discovered a betrayal so deep it shattered everything I thought I knew about the people I loved most.
My name is Oakley, and six months ago, I lost my baby at 16 weeks.
They don’t tell you what this kind of grief feels like. How it hollows you out from the inside, leaving you walking around like a shell of a person. How every pregnant woman you see on the street feels like a personal attack. And how your body betrays you by still looking a little pregnant even though there’s nothing there anymore.
My husband, Mason, was supposed to be my rock through it all. For the first week, he was. He held me while I cried. He made me tea I didn’t drink. God, he said all the right things about how we’d try again and how we’d get through this together.
Then, slowly, he started pulling away.
“I’ve got a business trip to Greenfield,” he said once, throwing clothes into a suitcase.
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