My husband’s ex told him I cheated with my stepbrother, claiming our baby isn’t his. We eventually divorced. Years later, he returns and wants the baby, but he never expected the bad news.

Logically, I should have realized that it wouldn’t be that easy to get rid of Ezra. Not after he followed me across the country desperate to see a child who doesn’t exist. To be honest, when I called him a stalker in the earlier updates, part of me was joking, trying to feel better about his sudden reappearance in my life. Yes, he had followed my every move on social media where I had an account, but there’s a big difference between being a passive observer and becoming an active stalker. Apparently, Ezra was more than willing to make that leap.

I don’t know why I thought he’d believe me when I told him Spencer wasn’t his son. To be clear, he isn’t. Spencer doesn’t even have a biological connection to me beyond my marriage to his father and my adoption of him. We don’t share blood. The coincidence that we both have the same red hair was something Grant and I call destiny when I decided to adopt Spencer as my own. However, expecting Ezra to believe me when the main reason for our divorce was precisely that he refused to believe me was foolish on my part.

Honestly, I don’t know exactly what I expected from him. Maybe I thought he would simply accept what I told him and disappear forever, that I’d never have to see him again. After that day at my mother’s house, I started noticing his car everywhere. At first, I thought it was parked near my street but only for a moment, so I assumed I was being paranoid. The second time I thought I saw his car, I mentioned it to Grant. From then on, we both started being more vigilant, and sure enough, his car kept appearing. Every time we noticed it, he would speed off before we could do anything.

Two weeks of that was enough for us to go to the police. We had taken some photos of his car in different places, mostly near my mother’s house and ours. I thought surely the police would take seriously the fact that we were being watched and followed by my ex-husband who was convinced that my child was his. Surely they would take some action. Apparently not. Although what we presented might seem suspicious, the police told us they couldn’t arrest someone just for being near us. We had no proof that he intended to harm us, and he hadn’t done anything directly against us. So we’re on our own in all of this.

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