Chapter 51

• She smiled. “I’ll be right back with the consent forms. You can look them over at your convenience. I believe Lucas is waiting in the waiting room, too. I’ll get him, you both can talk things over, and when you’re ready to continue the preliminary exam I’ll be waiting.”
• She left me in the doctor’s room. I sat on the cushioned table, swinging my legs side to side, thinking. Was I ready for this? If—I checked the pamphlet. Alright, so, if I followed this chart, and everything went as planned, I’d be pregnant in about three weeks. They did pregnancy tests in office a couple weeks after the second egg transplant, and anything after that was too late. About a month, then? In a month I might become a mother.
• Or, not really. Technically, yes, but I couldn’t keep the child. It was for Lucas and Lucy, except…