My Husband Gave Our Baby's Kidney To His Mistress

Countless experts worked late into the night to ensure Marleigh Wagner's health was perfect. They even conducted a routine urine test before Tobias Ryan arranged for a helicopter to escort her back.

Invisible to everyone, I dozed on a garden chair until midnight, shivering from the cold, completely overlooked.

Hoping for a ride home, I headed upstairs to ask Tobias to arrange a driver for me.

To my shock, I overheard Marleigh’s playful voice coming from the bedroom.

"Toby darling, I really want it, just for a little while, please?"

Tobias hesitated, "Marleigh, let's not. You've just had a kidney transplant; if I'm too rough, it could harm you..."

"Don't worry about me, Toby! Aren't you frustrated that Kinley is pregnant? I want to make you happy. Don't you want me, Toby?"

"And don't worry about the kidney failing; Kinley can just have another baby for a new one, right?"

Tobias eventually relented, "True, she’s in great health. She could definitely have more kids."

"Then I'll start getting undressed, just to be respectful."

Feeling sick to my core, I couldn’t listen anymore and fled downstairs, tears streaming uncontrollably.

Tobias, that was our bedroom! Our wedding photo still hung above the bed. How could he betray me like this with Marleigh right there?

How could he live with himself, turning our child into her life-support system?

I sat in the garden, heartsick and lost, until suddenly a bucket of cold water was dumped over my head.

Marleigh appeared with a mocking smile. "Kinley, you look just like a drowned rat now."

“Your husband’s very handy. Your daughter’s kidney was quite handy too.”

"But your daughter was so unlucky. Toby was worried the anesthesia would harm the kidney, so he told the doctor not to use any. The little girl cried so much during the surgery."

"They said she was still gasping when they cremated her."

Every part of me felt as if it was being torn to shreds, a pain so intense I wished for death.

My sweet Emma must have been so terrified, so hurt.

She was a living, breathing soul, my precious child whom I carried for ten months, Tobias’s own daughter. How could they so callously strip away her life and speak of it with such indifference?

They are murderers, every one of them!

I lunged at Marleigh, wanting to throttle her for my Emma’s sake.

But Marleigh slammed herself against a stone pillar and screamed, "Help!"

Suddenly, a brutal force hurled me to the ground.

Tobias cradled Marleigh and turned to me, furious. "Kinley, how dare you harm Marleigh? Do you think I’ll let you leave this estate alive?"

Marleigh sobbed in his arms, breathless between sobs. "Toby, I just wanted to keep Kinley from catching a chill, and she tried to kill me."

"I should never have intruded on your family. Toby, send me away. Don’t be so good to me anymore."

Tobias held her close, glaring at me with ferocity.

"Kinley, if you’re going to lose it, do it elsewhere! You can’t act like this here!"

"Marleigh’s been part of this family longer than you. She’s my family. You have no right to bully her or chase her out!"

To my surprise, the numbness shielded me from the heartbreak that should have consumed me.

"She's your family? Then what am I?" I said, a bitter smile on my lips. “Tobias Ryan, what do Emma and I mean to you?”

For a moment, panic flickered in his eyes, but he hardened his gaze and warned me, “I know you’re upset about Emma, but you shouldn’t take it out on Marleigh. She's just had an appendectomy, she doesn’t need this.”

“An appendectomy?” I laughed so hard tears welled up, "Tobias Ryan, doesn’t your conscience hurt? Aren’t you afraid of justice?"

Julie Ortiz stormed forward, slapping me hard across the face, "You wretched thing, cursing my son! Someone drag her to the cellar. She needs to learn a lesson."

“Mom, leave it. She’ll just disrupt Marleigh's rest here. Throw her out — it’ll serve as her punishment.”

Tobias scooped Marleigh into his arms and left without a backward glance.

Every tender moment we shared evaporated instantly, as if they never existed.

Rain began to fall. I was cast out of the estate by the butler.

Under the leaden sky, I was alone, struggling onward.