Chapter 3 - THE FALL WAS AN ACCIDENT
Grief looks for causes.
That was what Natalie’s doctor told her the next morning.
Dr. Helen Park sat beside the bed and explained the medical findings carefully.
The miscarriage was not caused by Natalie slipping.
Most likely, the pregnancy had already stopped developing before the fall.
There were signs the loss had begun earlier.
The fall may have intensified bleeding.
It did not create the underlying problem.
Natalie listened.
Then asked:
“So I didn’t kill my baby?”
Dr. Park’s face softened.
“No.”
Natalie cried for ten minutes without speaking.
Because somewhere beneath betrayal, she had already begun blaming herself.
The broken glass.
The wet tile.
The stupid rush to answer the doorbell.
The one second she did not watch where she stepped.
None of it had caused the loss.
That mattered.
Then the doctor added:
“We did find something else.”
Natalie looked up.
Her blood pressure had been unusually high at two prenatal visits.
Not dangerous enough to explain the miscarriage.
But high enough that the practice had recommended follow-up.
Natalie frowned.
“No one told me.”
Dr. Park checked the chart.
“They documented a call.”
“To me?”
“The contact number listed was your emergency contact.”
Ben.
Natalie went still.
“The nurse spoke to him?”
“It appears so.”
“What did he say?”
Dr. Park hesitated.
“The note says he would make sure you scheduled follow-up.”
Natalie closed her eyes.
She never heard about it.
The high blood pressure did not cause the miscarriage.
The doctor was clear.
But Ben had intercepted medical information and never told her.
That fact did not change the loss.
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It changed the relationship.
Again.
