Chapter 85

“No. That’s not possible.”

He quirks his head. “Stop me if I’m wrong, but I’m pretty sure your former husband would have s*x with you.”

Yes. All the time.

Sometimes multiple times. Daily.

I gulp.

My hands instinctively go to my stomach.

Adam’s gaze goes to the cooler across the room where he’s storing my chemotherapy then back to me.

“I, uh, can’t take the drugs to ki ll the ca ncer without k illing my baby.”

He frowns. His eyes are so kind. But the pity I see there… it ki lls

“This particular ca ncer…no.”

tie and twist my hair.

his lip.

I put off treatments. If I can carry the baby to five or six months, the child could survive then, right?”

have to keep the baby in NICU. But the statistics for premature births are quite good.” Adam frowns. “But if you forego treatments that long… the ca ncer

I feel like I’m going to pu ke again.

a stack of papers. I’ve clearly unnerved him.

table and still his hand. “Hey. We both knew this was a longshot. Can we transfer the embryo?

I’m going to di e, but I can’t bury the compulsion to try and save

transfers of a fetus or embryo are

uterine procedure can complicate or terminate that. There isn’t

I’m high risk to the nth degree.

time?”

delay your treatments that long, your

be any

at 5% if I started aggressive chemo and radiation immediately. And that was before the transfer of my father’s powers that have also boosted the aggressiveness of the ca ncer, it

you need to abort. We can start treatments. There is still a chance that

“No,” I whisper.

“Please.”

questions, but Adam looks positively frazzled, and

“Hey, Adam, can we keep

draw together. Not for the first time, I wonder what my life would be like if I’d grown up here. Would Adam be the father of this child? Would I be si ck

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