My Wife Waited Years to Become a Mother – but Just Four Weeks After the Adoption, I Came Home and Found Her Crying: ‘We’re Not Parents Anymore!’

She wanted the baby — our baby — back!

I read it twice. Maybe three times.

My eyes wouldn’t move fast enough. My knees almost gave out.

I walked back to the living room like someone wading through water.

Megan looked up at me, and I could already see that she knew the answer. She was bracing for it.

“Where’s Rhea?” I asked, though I already guessed.

“She’s upstairs,” Megan whispered.

“Sleeping. The monitor is on. I’ve got the receiver here.”

She clutched it as if it were her last lifeline.

I sat beside her and wrapped my arms around her.

She was trembling. I felt powerless.

“They can’t just take her,” Megan said through tears. “She knows us.

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