Chapter 10 - THE EMBRYO THAT WAS NEVER DONATED The evidence eventually became undeniable.
Our embryo had been transferred to Caroline without our consent.
We had never donated it.
We had never signed the donation form.
The signatures had been copied.
The inventory had been altered.
The clinic had hidden the discrepancy.
And Caroline had been deceived too.
She had believed she had received a legally donated embryo.
When she eventually discovered the truth, she tried to investigate.
She planned to contact us.
Then she died.
Mara found her papers.
She learned everything.
Instead of telling us, Mara saw an opportunity.
She moved next door.
She watched us.
She waited.
And when a child-welfare investigation threatened her control, she hid Sophie inside the wall.
The clinic had created the original tragedy.
Mara had created the second.
But Caroline had never betrayed us.
That distinction mattered.
Because as painful as the truth was, there was no villainous mother at the center of our daughter's story.
There was simply a woman who had been deceived.
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A woman who loved a child who wasn't genetically hers.
And another family who had been robbed of the chance to know that child existed.
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