We Moved In with My Husband’s Grandmother to Care for Her – Before She Died, She Told Me About a Buried Chest That Would Reveal the Truth About Him

“You didn’t go digging under the apple tree, did you?”

I didn’t answer.

“Layla, I mean it,” Caleb said, his voice becoming lower and sharper.

“Whatever you think you found —”

“I found the truth, Caleb!

We’ve been together for five years, and you never thought about telling me the truth?”

“You don’t understand what she protected me from, Layla.”

I held up the birth certificate. “You’ve known about this? You’ve known this all along?”

His silence said enough.

“You’ve lied to me for five years,” I said.

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