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On the night of our tenth wedding anniversary, I arrived at the celebration cradling the baby I was about to adopt. Everyone believed I was finally getting my wish to become a mother. Then I overheard my husband's assistant asking him how much longer he planned to let his wife hold their son. It turned out that all the prenatal expenses I had paid and the nursery I had lovingly prepared were part of an elaborate lie. Yet my husband was convinced I could never give up the baby, much less find the courage to leave him. Just like always, he slid two documents across the table toward me. One would make me the adoptive mother of his love child. The other would allow him to retain control of the company my father had left me. This time, I didn't sign.