His petition portrayed me as confused and emotionally unstable, omitting the original laboratory evidence, altered records, and impossible contract dates. Seeing my own circumstances described that way was exhausting. I was fighting premature labor while another version of me, invented on paper, was being presented to a court. I couldn’t finish reading.
“He’s trying to make it sound as if I don’t know my own life,” I said.
“Then we keep the record factual,” Naomi replied. “We don’t let him pull you into a fight that belongs in evidence.”
Another woman, Harper, soon called Naomi. Peter had assured her that one transferred embryo contained her genetic material and she’d receive a baby after delivery. He’d collected money from her for purported legal and administrative costs. Harper had also received a clinic notice saying an embryo associated with her was transferred under my name.
“I never wanted to take a baby from another woman,” she told me, close to tears.
