A Mother's Gambit

Summary

At my daughter's one-month celebration, I caught my best friend in my husband's arms.

"Edward," she whispered, "your idiot wife still doesn't know I switched our babies?"

"Not a chance," he chuckled. "She dotes on our daughter daily. Where's the child she actually bore?"

"Got bored after a month," she shrugged. "Drowned it. You're not angry?"

"Married her for the money," he scoffed. "Who cares?"

I wiped a tear and pretended not to hear.

For twenty years, I raised their child as my own.