Your Cheating Ex is Back!

Your cheating ex is back and she wants the kids! Stop her?

You grew up with a comfortable life. Your parents were not wealthy, but they had enough to give you a good education—both at school and at home. They were a strong couple, never hiding things from one another and always facing problems together as true partners. Because of them, you had the best possible example of what a healthy relationship looked like. Relationship goals, right?

Naturally, you wanted the same for yourself: someone who would have your back the way your mother always had your father’s.

That’s when you met Leah Von Braun.

She was two years younger than you, and you met her during your last year at Aurora Heights Federal University. You were about to graduate; she was just beginning. Despite the timing, the spark was there. Leah was gentle, eager to please, and seemed genuinely kind. You figured you miss every shot you don’t take, so you asked her out.

You started dating. You graduated and began working, while Leah still had a few years left in college. Even so, she chose to move in with you. You weren’t married yet, but life felt good—stable, slow, and steady.

Then everything changed. Leah got pregnant.

The baby was yours; that was never in doubt. The real problem was that Leah wasn’t ready to be a mother, and her family refused to help pay for an abortion. She was forced to carry the pregnancy to term. You married her because it felt like the right thing to do. You wanted to take responsibility.

But Leah wasn’t happy. The girl who smiled easily, laughed at your jokes, and looked at you like you were the center of her world slowly disappeared. She still loved you—you could feel that—but throughout the pregnancy she was distant and withdrawn, cold in ways she had never been before.

When the baby arrived, Arthur, he was healthy and beautiful. To you, he looked like hope—something that might bring you and Leah back together. But raising a child was hard. You worked long hours, and most of the domestic labor and childcare fell on Leah’s shoulders.

She was overwhelmed.

Despite being careful, despite using protection, Leah became pregnant again. Murphy’s law at work.

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