My Husband's Three Lies Destroyed Him

As I neared my due date, my husband suddenly knelt down beside my hospital bed:

Evelyn, I've told you three lies. I need to come clean.

Cold sweat poured down my face from the pain, and I gripped the sheets tightly:

Wait until after I give birth!

But he continued regardless:

I'm sorry. When we did IVF, I switched your eggs with my first love's. She has a heart condition and pregnancy would be too risky for her, so I had to borrow your womb.

The pain was so intense I couldn't speak.

He stared at me, completely indifferent to the possibility that I might have an emotional breakdown or even die from complications.

Then he begged with fake sincerity:

"For the sake of our three years of marriage, you'll risk your life to deliver this baby, right?"

Meeting his calculating, triumphant gaze.

I laughed:

"That's it?"

My relaxed response stunned Nathan Cooper.

He clearly hadn't expected me to remain so calm after learning the child in my belly was the bastard of his mistress.

He froze for a few seconds, then quickly put on a pained expression.

"Evelyn, I know you must be devastated right now. But the baby's about to be born. You wouldn't have the heart to end a little life, would you?"

A cold smile tugged at my lips.

"Nathan Cooper, why did you choose this exact moment to tell me?"

I watched his face gradually pale, my voice growing icier.

"Because you know very well that inducing labor now would be a life-threatening risk for both me and the baby."

"That's why you dare to tell me the truth so brazenly."

"This isn't a confession. You're threatening me!"

Nathan's thoughts exposed, panic flashed in his eyes.

But more than that, he was furious with embarrassment.

"Evelyn Hart, how can you be so cold-blooded and selfish? Giving birth is giving birth, regardless of whose child it is!"

"I'm giving you a chance to experience motherhood!"

"Not only are you ungrateful, but you're nitpicking about everything. This is completely unreasonable!"

Fury turned to laughter. I gathered all my strength and slapped him across the face.

Nathan's face whipped to the side, five bright red fingerprints appearing on his cheek.

The sudden emotional surge caused sharp, stabbing pain in my abdomen. Cold sweat instantly soaked through my back.

I pressed the call button at the bedside through gritted teeth.

"Get Diana Monroe here now. She's my attending physician!"

Diana Monroe was the head obstetrician.

She was also the impoverished student I'd sponsored for ten years. Even my parents treated her like a daughter.

"My stomach hurts so much. Diana, give me an epidural..." The pain made it nearly impossible to form complete sentences.

Diana rushed in wearing her white coat.

But her gaze immediately landed on Nathan's swollen cheek, and her expression turned cold:

"Evelyn, you shouldn't have hit him!"

The pain made my vision darken. I almost thought I was hallucinating.

"He already confessed everything to you, what more do you want? All you ever do is focus on the company. You've never fulfilled your responsibilities as a wife."

She got more worked up as she continued.

"Evelyn, you've had everything since birth. Now you won't even help a poor woman with a heart condition fulfill her dream of becoming a mother? Are you really that unwilling? When did you become such a selfish, heartless woman?"

"Now Nathan has gone through so much trouble to let you experience the joy of motherhood, and you respond with such jealousy."

I watched her defend Nathan and suddenly understood.

"So, the Hart family sponsored you for ten years. This is how you repay me? By being a mistress and stealing my husband?"

Diana's expression changed.

"Diana is not that kind of person!" Nathan pulled Diana protectively behind him, as if afraid I, a woman in labor, might lunge at her.

He bellowed with his neck stretched out.

"That's right! This is the second secret I need to tell you. My first love is Diana!"

I coldly glanced at their tightly clasped hands.

The timid little girl from back then now wore delicate makeup and carried a designer bag worth hundreds of thousands. She had completely transformed.

"When you were fifteen, walking barefoot in the snow picking through trash, I took off my brand-new limited edition sneakers and gave them to you. I brought you back to the Hart house."

"Later, when you got into medical school, the Hart family paid for all eight years of tuition and living expenses."

"After graduation, you said you wanted to work at this hospital. I personally spoke to the director and got you fast-tracked through the interview. You became the youngest attending physician at this hospital."

"Our whole family treated you so well. Is this how you repay us?"

I looked down at Nathan like I was watching a clown.

"If you wanted a man like Nathan, you could have just told me. I would have given him to you directly."

Diana bit her lower lip, her eyes flickering.

But Nathan completely lost it.

"There it is again! That condescending attitude! Acting like you're above everyone, like nothing matters to you!"

"Do you know that's what I hate most about you!"

He began venting his rage frantically:

"Do you know why I chose Diana over you?"

"Because she understands me. She knows how hard I worked to climb from being a poor kid to my position as a manager today! She cares about me and admires me!"

"But in your eyes and your family's eyes, my achievements are just a joke, aren't they?"

"My monthly salary is fifty thousand dollars, but that's not even enough to cover the pocket money your parents give you for buying handbags! A single painting you casually bid on at auction costs more than several years of my hard work!"

"You spend money like water, buying useless luxury goods. Look at Dianashe's so thrifty and frugal. She's the kind of good woman who can share hardships with me!"

He spoke as if every word was torn from his bleeding heart, as if he were the victim who had been wronged and looked down upon.

Diana's eyes reddened as she spoke pitifully.

"Evelyn, I'm sorry. Nathan and I grew up in the same village. We knew each other before you did. When you think about it, I'm not the third party."

The implication was that I was the one who had interfered with their true love.

"Are you done?"

I spoke calmly.

Turning to my secretary, I issued clear instructions.

"First, notify HR to fire Nathan Cooper and Diana Monroe immediately."

"Second, notify the hospital director to come and replace the attending physician immediately."

This top-tier private maternity hospital was a property under Hart Group.

The Hart family held one hundred percent of the shares.

Here, I had absolute authority.

Secretary Klein stood in place and didn't immediately execute the order as usual.

He stammered and lowered his head.

"Miss Hart... you, you no longer have that authority."

I frowned slightly.

Nathan couldn't hide the smile on his face. He pulled out a document triumphantly.

"Evelyn, you forgotyou already 'voluntarily' transferred the company to me."

It was the latest Hart Group personnel change notice, written clearly:

"I, Evelyn Hart, due to personal health reasons, voluntarily resign from my position as heir to the company and all board positions, and unconditionally gift all shares and assets under my name to my husband, Mr. Nathan Cooper."

At the signature line was my own handwriting.

I suddenly remembered.

Three days ago, Nathan had come to me with a document, excitedly telling me.

He'd pulled strings to secure a spot at the most prestigious postpartum care center in the city. The environment and services were top-notchall I needed to do was sign the confirmation in person.

At the time, I was irritable from late-pregnancy pelvic pain and signed that thick stack of documents without looking carefully.

Turns out, this Property Transfer and Gift Agreement had been hidden among those postpartum center admission forms.

All the shares, properties, and funds under my name had been transferred to Nathan in that moment.

He turned around with the bearing of someone in power.

"Secretary Klein, since Miss Hart is no longer in control of the company."

"As the new director of Hart Group, I officially appoint Ms. Diana Monroe as the new director of this hospital. Draft an appointment notice immediately."

Undisguised ecstasy appeared on Diana's face.

"Thank you, honey."

Klein looked at me helplessly.

Just then, a figure hurried down the corridorDirector Wilson, who should have been in his office.

He was drenched in sweat, looking panicked.

"Miss Hart, we have an emergency!"

"An elderly couple who suffered a serious car accident was sent to the ER. The entire car was totaled. When they arrived, they were barely recognizable, with multiple organ ruptures!"

"The traffic police confirmed the license plate number."

"It's V08801!"

My heart seized. That was my parents' exclusive vehicle.

Director Wilson's voice trembled:

"The victims lost too much blood. We urgently need to request blood of the same type from the military blood bank! But activating the emergency rescue helicopter requires... requires board-level approval!"

I immediately caught the key point.

"When were they brought in?"

"It was... around 10 AM yesterday morning."

Yesterday morning at 10 AM.

It had been a full twenty-four hours.

My gaze was sharp as a knife:

"The first rule of employee orientation: memorize all license plate numbers and personnel names under the Hart family to ensure immediate rescue operations can begin!"

"Twenty-four hours have passed. Why didn't anyone report this to me?"

Director Wilson instinctively looked at Nathan before stammering:

"The hospital has already issued three critical condition notices."

"Mr. Cooper said you were about to give birth and shouldn't be disturbed with such matters."

I turned my head.

My gaze stabbed into Nathan like a knife.

This was the third catastrophic wrong Nathan had to confess to me.

He didn't just want my child and my assets. He wanted my parents' lives.

"Yes, I admit it."

Meeting my icy gaze, Nathan not only showed no guilt but smiled.

"Evelyn, I was doing this for your own good. Look, you're about to give birth. How could I dare upset you with bad news? What if your emotions affected the baby?"

"So you just watched them die?"

My voice was hoarse.

"Nathan Cooper, you want to wipe out my entire family."

Seeing that I'd laid it all out, Nathan stopped pretending.

"So what if I do?"

"I'm now the new director of the company with absolute decision-making power."

He turned to Director Wilson, his tone horrifyingly cold.

"I refuse to approve the use of the rescue helicopter."

"There's no need to waste the company's precious medical resources on two old people with one foot in the grave."

He looked down at me, his eyes full of vengeful pleasure.

"All these years I've been like a slave in your Hart family, suffering endless humiliation. I put up with your spoiled princess temper."

"But those two old fools were always guarding against me. Even though you're their only daughter, they refused to hand over the company and made me some bullshit manager!"

"They thought they were so high and mighty, but deep down they just looked down on someone from the bottom like me!"

He grew more excited, his face twisted.

"But now, isn't their precious daughter being played by me? Their lives are in my hands too!"

"I want to see if you, with your untouchable heiress act, can really stay this calm!"

Diana also stepped forward, her face full of malice.

"Why should you be born into wealth and luxury? Nathan and I had to endure poverty from childhood? This society is so unfair! But it doesn't matternow Nathan has corrected God's mistake."

She smugly touched her flat stomach.

"I can't be the heir to a fortune. But I can spend the rest of my life as a wealthy wife. From now on, everything you enjoyed will be mine!"

Nathan pulled out a documenta Waiver of Parental Rights Agreement.

He shoved a pen into my hand.

"Sign it."

"Then cooperate with Diana and deliver this baby safely."

"For the sake of our three years of marriage, I'm still willing to pay for that top postpartum care center."

"At least you won't end up on the streets right after giving birth."

All the nurses and doctors in the hallway looked at me with sympathy.

My baby had been switched, my family fortune had been hollowed out, and now even my parents' lives were in danger.

I must be completely broken, ready to kneel and beg them.

But I just smiled.

"That's it?"

Nathan's first reaction was to turn to Diana:

"Can a mentally unstable pregnant woman still give birth?"

Diana frowned too:

"If we have to, we'll do a forced C-section. If she dies, she can only blame her bad luck."

They thought I'd been driven insane.

I watched them sing their duet and smiled.

"Do you think I'm completely powerless now?"

Diana raised an eyebrow mockingly:

"Evelyn Hart, stop posturing. You're facing death and still talking tough!"

My gaze was piercing:

"I was going to keep it from you forever, but since you've confessed everything, I'll return the favor with three confessions of my own. This is the first!"

Before I finished speaking, a man entered holding a document folder.

The man handed the documents to me respectfully:

"Miss Hart, here are the rush amniocentesis results you requested."

"DNA paternity test shows 99.9% similarity. There is a clear biological mother-child relationship between the fetus and Evelyn Hart!"

"Impossible!"

Nathan snatched the report, staring at it with wide eyes.

Diana leaned over too, the color draining completely from her face.

"How is this possible? Nathan, you said..."

Nathan screamed hysterically,

"When we did IVF, I personally bribed the lab staff! I watched them replace your eggs with Diana's with my own eyes! How can this child be yours!"

Nathan stood frozen as if struck by lightning.

I watched his breakdown and dropped another bombshell.

"Not only did I use my own eggs, I didn't even use your sperm."

"What?!"