HE LIFTED THE BLANKET EXPECTING TO FIND PROOF HIS PREGNANT WIFE HAD BETRAYED HIM

say whatever they want.”

At Northwestern Memorial, the emergency team moved quickly.

Too quickly for comfort.

Doctors appeared around Emma in a blur of white coats and urgent questions. Nurses carefully cut away her nightgown. Machines beeped. A fetal monitor was secured around her belly, and for thirty terrifying seconds, Lucas heard nothing.

Then a heartbeat continue reading …