Emily was taken aback. She sent a simple text to her husband about fixing the decorative bathtub panel, only to receive a panicked reply. She couldn’t help but wonder what he was hiding. She had to find out.
Have you ever heard those tales of people stumbling upon unexpected things in their homes? Well, something similar happened to me not long ago. And what I uncovered completely transformed my life.
A few weeks ago, one of the decorative wooden panels on our bathtub fell off. Seemed like a minor issue, right? My husband, David, was on a business trip at the time, so I snapped a picture and sent it to him.
“Hey babe, can I fix this?” I messaged along with the photo.
I anticipated a normal response like, “Sure, go ahead,” or perhaps some detailed instructions. But the reply I got nearly made me drop my phone.
“NOOO! Don’t you even think about touching it or looking inside? Never!”
I stared at his message in disbelief. David is the most laid-back person I know. We’ve been married for ten years, and he’s never reacted like this to anything.
This only piqued my curiosity further. There didn’t appear to be any obvious danger in fixing a panel, so why was David reacting as if his life was on the line?
I knelt beside the tub and peered into the dark space behind the other panels. That’s when I noticed an envelope hidden back there.
My fingers trembled as I reached in, retrieved the envelope, and opened it. Inside, I found an ultrasound picture of a tiny fetus. It was just a small bean-shaped form surrounded by darkness. And scrawled at the top were the words, “Daddy, I’m coming soon.”
Tears welled up in my eyes and blurred my vision. Infertility. That word had been haunting me for years. David and I had come to terms with it, or so I thought.
How could he do this to me?
