He Let Me Bleed While He Loved Another

The story

Eight months pregnant, Lydia Bennett finds Captain Gareth Weston cradling Hazel Reed's newborn son and hiding a three-year affair behind loyalty to a dead comrade. Gareth plans to reveal everything only after Lydia gives birth, when he thinks their child will trap her. Then Hazel frames Lydia, and Gareth lets his pregnant wife bleed in a freezing pond. Lydia's quiet exit becomes a mother's revenge.