Chapter 101

Kelly POV

I stared at Aiden, my heartbeat pounding in my ears. Evelyn told him what?

Aiden’s word echoed again in my head.

“Grandma told me I was adopted. That you’re not my real mom."

For a moment, I couldn’t even breathe. In what cruelty would make someone stoop this low to orchestrate something cruel like this. The weight of his words crashed down on me, suffocating and unbearable. I couldn’t bear with the pain of knowing that my son had spent years believing a lie. A cruel, twisted, manipulative lie.

My entire body went completely cold all at once, and I could feel my heart stuttering, stumbling, and catching inside my chest. Not because I believed it for even a second—God, no, never. I know with every part of me that I gave birth to Aiden. I was the one who carried him for nine long months, who felt every kick and every turn, who held him in my own arms when he was barely minutes old and still new to this world, who nursed him through e