I Raised My Best Friend’s Son – 12 Years Later, My Wife Told Me, ‘Your Son Is Hiding a Big Secret from You’

“Something about his father. About his past. And Ollie, I’m scared.

I don’t know if we can… if we should…”

“Should what?” I demanded, sitting up, confused.

The words gutted me completely. I grabbed the flash drive from her shaking hands and followed her downstairs to the kitchen.

Amelia opened her laptop with trembling fingers and I inserted the drive. There was only one file: a video.

My breath caught.

She looked tired, her hair messily pulled back, dark circles under her eyes. But her smile was gentle, and when she spoke, I realized immediately she wasn’t talking to me. She was talking to Leo.

“Hi, my sweet boy,” Nora whispered.

“If you’re watching this someday, I need you to know the truth. And I need you to forgive me. There’s something about your father I never had the courage to say out loud.

Baby, your father is alive. He didn’t die, like I told everyone. He knew I was pregnant with you, knew from the very beginning, but he didn’t want to be a father.

He didn’t want you, didn’t want me… didn’t want any of it.

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