The hospital hadn't invented this scheme. Someone had wanted it and had benefited from it.
"Who?" Olivia asked again.
Nora lowered her eyes.
Then she answered.
"Your husband."
Olivia looked like she had been struck.
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"No."
The denial came instantly, instinctively.
But Nora nodded.
"He arranged everything."
The room seemed to tilt around us.
For years, Mark had attended birthdays, graduations, family reunions, and holiday dinners.
For nearly two decades, he had watched two sisters grow up believing they were cousins.
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And he had known.
Every second of it.
When Olivia confronted him later that week, the truth finally came out.
At first, he denied everything.
Then the evidence became impossible to ignore.
Piece by piece, the story unraveled.
He admitted that after learning their daughter was stillborn, he panicked. One of the doctors had warned him that Olivia's delivery complications might make it difficult for her to have another child.
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