The Test That Shattered Everything

When my husband Caleb discovered he wasn’t our son Lucas’s biological father, our world tilted. I knew I’d always been faithful, so I took a DNA test myself—fully expecting to clear everything up. But the results left us both speechless: I wasn’t Lucas’s biological mother either. For a moment, everything we knew about our family felt like it was slipping away.

Caleb and I had been together for fifteen years, married for eight. Lucas had been the heart of our world from the day he was born. Caleb’s mother, however, had always whispered doubts—comments about how Lucas didn’t quite look like her son. Her suspicions led to the test that changed our lives forever. Still, amid the shock and heartbreak, one question echoed louder than all others: if Lucas wasn’t ours biologically, then whose child was he?

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