Delivery Room Ultimatum: Raise Her Lover's Child

In the delivery room, Ashley Chase is fully dilated but refuses to give birth until her husband, Henry Madden, swears to raise her lover's child as his own. The medical staff urge him to accept it, and Ashley's mother slaps him, calling him a loser who married into their family. Henry writes "do not agree" on the consent form. When blood pools beneath Ashley, he finally signs. The child he spent nine months preparing for belongs to another man.

Days later, a call from the photo studio pulls Henry back to the hospital. Ashley coaxes him, promising to send the baby away and have a child of their own. He gives her one last chance and lets the baby stay. But when he returns home with flowers and balloons, Nathan Jones, the baby's biological father, is already there, criticizing the decorations and kissing the infant. Ashley invites Nathan to join the photoshoot, and the photographer captures the three of them as a happy family, directing Ashley and Nathan to lean closer together.