“She was crying.”
Alex gripped his phone tighter.
“She said she was pregnant.”
A pause.
“With twins.”
Alex sat down.
At that point, nobody yet realized Elena was carrying four babies.
Lucia had called Beatrice immediately after the conversation.
Beatrice knew.
And she said nothing.
Elena eventually agreed to meet Alex for twenty minutes at a small coffee shop near her office.
She kept both hands wrapped around her paper cup while she explained what happened next.
“At the next ultrasound, they realized there were four.”
Alex’s eyes widened.
“I
