correct?”
Elena nodded.
“Five years and two months.”
Alex immediately began counting backward.
He and Elena had separated five years and eleven months earlier.
His chest tightened.
Years ago, they had spent nearly three painful years trying to have a baby.
At first, they had been hopeful.
Then came specialists.
Blood tests.
Appointments.
Waiting rooms.
Disappointment.
Eventually, one fertility doctor explained that several of Elena’s reproductive markers were concerning.
The doctor never said pregnancy was impossible.
But that wasn’t what Alex heard.
He heard one terrifying possibility:
He might never
