Chapter 751

• Ria and Tara were leaving the clinic where they had been attending a surrogacy session. Tara had been through a battery of initial tests gamely. She had made it clear to the doctor they met that she was fully prepared for the role of a gestational surrogate, who as the doctor fastidiously pointed out, is called the "birth mother."
• Doctor Evans, a woman with a head of white hair, had seemed critical of the fact that Tara had never been pregnant in her life.
• “Wouldn’t you prefer to choose a person who has already given birth to at least one healthy baby, Mrs Gomez?” her eyes flitted over Tara’s stocky frame disparagingly as she went on, speaking to Ria,