My Husband Said He Gifted Me a Child, So I Gifted Him a Exit

My husband, Liam, got his terminally ill ex-girlfriend, Chloe, pregnant. He said it was to grant her dying wish of becoming a mother.

On the day she gave birth, Liam's sister, Isabella, hired a security firm to guard the hospital, claiming it was to prevent me from causing a scene.

Isabella stood by Chloe's bedside. "Don't worry, I have people posted at the entrance. If Ava dares to show up and make trouble, we'll have her thrown out immediately."

Liam, seeing I hadn't come, breathed a sigh of relief. "Chloe, just focus on delivering our baby safely. Don't worry about anything else."

He truly believed that since he was only fulfilling his dying ex's last wish, I would never be so unreasonable as to make a fuss.

Looking at the tiny, rosy infant in his arms, he sent me a text: "Darling, I did this for you. I had her carry a child for us, so you could finally be a mother."

He thought that as long as I accepted it all, this child was my ultimate reward.

But what he didn't know was that I had just surrendered my residency.

In one week, I would be in Kenya, working as a volunteer on a project of biomedical research.

It was meant to be a final goodbye—a world away from Liam, forever.

But he was searching for me like a madman, pleading for me to return.

My husband, Liam, got his terminally ill ex-girlfriend, Chloe, pregnant. He said it was to grant her dying wish of becoming a mother.

On the day she gave birth, Liam's sister, Isabella, hired a security firm to guard the hospital, claiming it was to prevent me from causing a scene.

Isabella stood by Chloe's bedside. "Don't worry, I have people posted at the entrance. If Ava dares to show up and make trouble, we'll have her thrown out immediately."

Liam, seeing I hadn't come, breathed a sigh of relief. "Chloe, just focus on delivering our baby safely. Don't worry about anything else."

He truly believed that since he was only fulfilling his dying ex's last wish, I would never be so unreasonable as to make a fuss.

Looking at the tiny, rosy infant in his arms, he sent me a text: "Darling, I did this for you. I had her carry a child for us, so you could finally be a mother."

He thought that as long as I accepted it all, this child was my ultimate reward.

But what he didn't know was that I had just surrendered my residency.

In one week, I would be in Kenya, working as a volunteer on a project of biomedical research.

It was meant to be a final goodbye—a world away from Liam, forever.

But he was searching for me like a madman, pleading for me to return.

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I landed in New York after a long flight from a research project based in Heidelberg, only to find Liam had brought Chloe back to our Fifth