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At twelve weeks pregnant through IVF, I stumbled across a blogger named Sophie who looked almost exactly like me. She casually revealed a man's pajamas in one of her videos, and embroidered on the cuff were the initials of my husband's name. I kept scrolling. In another video, she gently stroked her still-flat belly and announced sweetly, "It's Charlie's baby." Trembling, I made an appointment for chorionic villus sampling. The results left me stunned. The baby had absolutely no biological relation to me. It turned out my husband had secretly switched the embryo samples from the very beginning. He planned to use my womb to carry a child for himself and his mistress. I rested a hand on my belly, feeling the life that was supposed to be the fruit of someone else's love. After a long silence, I laughed. If the two of them wanted this baby so badly, then we'd all go to hell together.